Quotes
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Michael Vaughn : We have to keep the bomb at altitude, right? So why... why don't we just land at a high-altitude airport?
Marshall Flinkman : No, the highest altitude airport is in Bangda, Tibet, and that's only 14,000 feet.
[a thought strikes him]
Marshall Flinkman : Wait a minute. Wait, wait a minute. Wait a minute. We can't get rid of the bomb, right? We can't diffuse the bomb, but... we can trick it. Air pressure is the force exerted on a surface by the weight of the air above.
Michael Vaughn : Okay, English, please.
Marshall Flinkman : We need to encase the bomb in an airtight, temperature controlled bubble.
Michael Vaughn : To fool the bomb into thinking we're still at altitude.
Marshall Flinkman : Right, but the thing is, in order to do any of that, you need to remove it from the fuselage and deactivate the motion sensor.
Michael Vaughn : Which is what the bomb squad in Belfast was doing when they died.
Marshall Flinkman : Well... yeah.
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Michael Vaughn : I see four wires leading out from the motion sensor. Red, green, yellow, and black.
Marshall Flinkman : Uh, can you see which one is looped to the power source?
Michael Vaughn : Yeah. The red one.
Marshall Flinkman : All right. Red one. Okay. Go ahead and cut that.
[Vaughn moves to cut the wire]
Marshall Flinkman : No, no, no! Wait. Wait, wait, wait.
Michael Vaughn : I hate it when you do that.
Marshall Flinkman : Is there a suppressor on the filament?
Michael Vaughn : Yeah.
Marshall Flinkman : Then don't cut it. It's a false lead.
Michael Vaughn : Marshall!
Marshall Flinkman : My bad. Sorry. What you need to find is the antistatic wire that runs to the plasma relay. It's probably wrapped in degaussed ceramic fiber.
Michael Vaughn : No, you have to explain this to me in words I can understand.
Marshall Flinkman : Well, it... could look like anything. I mean, there are a million variations. You need to tell me what you're looking at, Vaughn.
Michael Vaughn : Well, I... I don't know what I'm looking at.
Marshall Flinkman : Well, you'd better find somebody that does.
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Michael Vaughn : He wanted the bomb squad called in?
Marshall Flinkman : Well, maybe because he knew there was nothing they could do.
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Marshall Flinkman : Okay, first of all, I didn't touch anything, I swear! But the bomb's been activated!
Jack Bristow : We know. We just spoke to Vaughn.
Marshall Flinkman : No, not on the plane, in my office! The bomb in my office has been activated!
