- Beka Valentine: He's good. Quick on the uptake, smart, completely fearless. He reminds me of...
- Seamus Harper: You... He reminds you of you.
- Beka Valentine: Then I know I can't trust him.
- Beka Valentine: Is that what it was? A game?
- Leydon Bryce-Hawkins: Wasn't it?
- Beka Valentine: Yeah. Sure.
- Leydon Bryce-Hawkins: Smile. Well done.
- Beka Valentine: Leydon? Maybe we'll play again some time.
- Leydon Bryce-Hawkins: Yeah, maybe.
- Beka Valentine: You always say that about orbital habitats. You'd rather walk on dirt, I suppose?
- Seamus Harper: I prefer the term soil. Rich, moist. Visualize, Beka: the green hills of Earth, purple mountains majesty, and waving fields of grain.
- Beka Valentine: Rain, mud, unfiltered air, Magog raids. Thanks, I'll take a nice artificial gravity field.
- Seamus Harper: We have nothing in common. Why do I worship you?
- Beka Valentine: Uncharacteristic bout of good taste.
- Tyr Anasazi: Would you like me to kill them for you?
- Captain Dylan Hunt: Yes. Wait! I'm just kidding. I've got a better idea. Next time I offer to broker peace talks between a Chichin gangster and a Than warlord, just kill me.
- Tyr Anasazi: All right.
- Captain Dylan Hunt: Kidding, again.
- Clarion of Loss: Chichin scum! Give me one good reason not to call down my task force right now!
- Mayor Doge Miskich: I'll give you three. Free. Trade. Alliance! Mess with me, I'll be using your exoskeleton as a hat rack!
- Captain Dylan Hunt: Well, you see there? Everybody wins. That's what the Commonwealth always strives for.
- Mayor Doge Miskich: And what do I win?
- Tyr Anasazi: No one's blown you out of the sky.
- Leydon Bryce-Hawkins: Oh, don't tell me.
- Beka Valentine: I'm afraid of heights.
- Leydon Bryce-Hawkins: You can't be afraid of heights. You're a pilot. You live in heights.
- Beka Valentine: I live in space. You fall in space, you keep falling. There's nothing to splat on.
- [last lines]
- Rommie: I was wrong.
- Captain Dylan Hunt: Hm?
- Rommie: I... didn't think Beka could be trusted to complete the mission.
- Captain Dylan Hunt: She came through, though, in the end.
- Rommie: Still, you took a big risk, trusting her.
- Captain Dylan Hunt: Well, that's the thing. I'm not a computer. I can't do a spectrographic analysis with my eyes. Sometimes I have to take risks to be able to tell the real hearts from the fake ones.
- Tyr Anasazi: That's the amount we agreed on.
- Beetle: Yes, well, finding what you wanted was harder than I thought. We need a new deail. Make me an offer.
- Tyr Anasazi: I offer not to pull you heart out through you eye socket and nail it to your forehead.
- Beetle: That's very reasonable.
- Captain Dylan Hunt: If we pull this off, the Than Hegemony will owe us a huge debt, and if we don't try, they'll destroy Pierpoint drift.
- Rommie: Pierpont Drift is a den of thieves. I say let the Than blow them up.
- Captain Dylan Hunt: Well, that is why *you* are not conducting the negotiations.
- [first lines]
- Rommie: And if this were the old days, I would note this in my permanent files.
- Captain Dylan Hunt: So you want to lodge an official protest against inviting Doge Miskich onboard.
- Rommie: Hosting negotiations between Miskich and Clarion of Loss is like... trying to juggle live plasma grenades.
- Captain Dylan Hunt: High risk, high reward.