- [first lines]
- Control Voice: In the troubled places of the world, the Devil's hunter finds rare game, for manmade savagery is only the instrument for a secret terror stirring from its dark place of ambush.
- Lieutenant Minns: I understand my IQ is going up, but that's very funny because I don't feel any smarter.
- Lieutenant Minns: No, nobody waiting for me.
- Adam Ballard: None of those other men have any ties either.
- Lieutenant Minns: Link after link. So many things in common. There's gotta be a reason, a purpose, is that it, Mr. Ballard?
- Adam Ballard: No clue, Lieutenant? No inkling what it might be? Something alien in your head. Something guiding you, pointing you, directing you.
- Lieutenant Minns: [softly] No.
- Adam Ballard: What are you reading?
- Lieutenant Minns: Just something I found in the library. Idle curiosity. Morgan's Theoretical Analysis of Comprehensive Finance.
- Adam Ballard: Something wrong, Renaldo?
- Pvt. Robert Renaldo: Now, what could be wrong? I'm celebrating. I just finished my mission... whatever that is.
- Shop Superintendent: He took three weights of metal and put them together, and it weighed less than one tenth than their combined weights.
- Shop Superintendent: He's a brilliant man, Mr. Ballard... and a sad one.
- Adam Ballard: Sad?
- Shop Superintendent: I like him. I like him for the kind of man he is. Inside, Mr. Ballard, a troubled man, troubled by what he is doing, but when I asked him to explain what he's about to... he could not tell me.
- Adam Ballard: Could not?
- Shop Superintendent: Could not. It was as though... as though...
- Adam Ballard: As though what?
- Shop Superintendent: As though the DEVIL HAD HIM UNDER HIS THUMB! And he had no chance to get out of... to be his own man.
- E.F. Larkin: What kind of experimenting?
- Pfc. Francis Hadley: [signing paperwork] Gas compounds, exotic herbs, air conduits, pressure atmospheres.
- E.F. Larkin: Well, you are now the official owner of 45,000 square feet of the finest abandoned factory in Wichita County and homemade laboratory.
- Adam Ballard: [looking upon Renaldo's finished project] Wanna show me what it does.
- Pvt. Robert Renaldo: [tormented] Like everything connected with this... thing... if you need to know, suddenly you learn. If you need money, suddenly you get money! Anything. Anything to finish the job, the... the PROJECT! Nothing can stop it... but if you want to get it off your back, if you wanna walk out on it, oh no. You can't do that. You're hooked. The monkey's got you. You do what's inside your HEAD! No matter... how your insides are busting.
- Adam Ballard: These four men are medical miracles. They had bullets in their brains, they should have died but didn't, and when the bullets were removed another brain, an intelligence, got in and took over - and I mean intelligence. Three of these men developed IQs over 200.
- Pfc. Francis Hadley: [threatened at gunpoint] Mr. Larkin, the only way that you can use that gun... is on yourself; but, you have a choice, Mr. Larkin. You can sign the papers or you can pull the trigger.
- E.F. Larkin: I'll sign.
- Pfc. Francis Hadley: Thank you.
- Art Harris: [trying to find something wrong, but...] The lieutenant was so open and above board, everything he did and said, didn't even try to change his name. The VP said he was willing to bet that he was a completely honest and trustworthy man.
- Adam Ballard: [spotting something wrong] He's a banker. He shouldn't gamble.
- Prof. Andrew Whitsett: [speculating] I'd say these particles probably affect mentality and intelligence. What other healing or life-giving factors they may contain or compulsions or tendencies or capabilities I don't know, but I would say, based on the IQs I saw, that those men may achieve intelligence, knowledge and capacities far beyond anything Mankind has ever known.