- Michael Vaughn: I still think it would just be easier to sic your father on him.
- Sydney Bristow: We have twenty-seven hours before Ryan sets off another bomb. Our best chance to prevent that is to let him know that his first demonstration convinced us to buy every weapon he can produce.
- Michael Vaughn: Us, being the Covenant, based on intel received from someone we may or may not be able to trust.
- Sydney Bristow: Your product demonstration in Belfast was impressive: we'd like to purchase your new weapon.
- Daniel Ryan: Yeah. While I appreciate... your hairstyle... as I said, I do business with Andrejev.
- Daniel Ryan: [to Sydney] There's loads of things I'm really good at. Some, I'm exceptional at. One of them is poker. Ahh, I love poker. Play twice a week. My friends come 'round, they bring their money, they lose their money. I always win. Do you know why? I can see a bluff a mile away.
- Sydney Bristow: You're angry, with good reason. The Covenant took away your brother's life.
- Daniel Ryan: Took his life. What an interesting choice of words. I mean, personally I would've gone with something a little more colorful, like um, murdered, but even that's not... Slaughtered, yeah, what about slaughtered. Try that.
- Sydney Bristow: The Covenant held me captive for almost two years, they did things to me that I will never get over. They starved me, subjected me to electroshock, sensory deprivation, they used hypnotherapy, all to convince me I was someone else. A... An operative they created named Julia Thorne. I'm telling you this, it may not change anything, but you need to know that I understand what it is like having the Covenant take away people you love. They are evil, evil people. The thing is, I was luckier than you. The man I love, the Covenant didn't murder him, he's on that plane. Like I said, my telling you this may not change anything. But I swear to you if you disable that bomb, I will not rest until the Covenant pays for what they have done to us. Please I beg you. Don't do this.
- Daniel Ryan: My former handler confessed to me on the day before she was killed, that my brother had been murdered by the Covenant, and that it was a test of loyalty, for a woman named Julia Thorne.
- [He looks at Sydney]
- Daniel Ryan: You killed my brother.
- 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.
- 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.
- Jack Bristow: Actually, Ryan alerted local authorities, gave them time to evacuate the building.
- Eric Weiss: So he's a humanitarian bomber?
- Michael Vaughn: He wanted the bomb squad called in?
- Marshall Flinkman: Well, maybe because he knew there was nothing they could do.
- Eric Weiss: What, I can't ask my buddy...
- Michael Vaughn: [angrily] The marriage is fantastic.
- Eric Weiss: [Vaughn leaves in a huff] Yeah, I can tell.
- Eric Weiss: That was good, right? It's called method acting: I was shot in the neck once... I can do it again.
- Leonid Lisenker: Daniel, I know about Belfast. Your extraction was cleared to the highest levels. Emma saved your life. You should kiss her... whatever she wants.
- Leonid Lisenker: Sark has never met Ryan.
- Jack Bristow: Are you sure of this?
- Leonid Lisenker: Yes.
- Sydney Bristow: That wasn't a "yes," that was a "no."
- Julian Sark: Doesn't it bother you?
- Michael Vaughn: What's that?
- Julian Sark: A bombmaker arranges for a meeting on a plane and then doesn't show up. I don't know about you, but that concerns me.
- 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!
- Daniel Ryan: Don't tell me. We've come to the point where you coerce me into cooperating.
- Jack Bristow: Not exactly.
- [Jack grabs Ryan by the neck and starts to strangle him]