Stargate: Atlantis (TV Series)

Runner (2005)

David Hewlett: Dr. Rodney McKay

Photos 

Quotes 

• Major Lorne : Wow, you must really be some kind of genius.

  Dr. Rodney McKay : Well, as a matter of fact I... eh, wait a minute, why would you say that now?

  Major Lorne : Something has to have kept Colonel Sheppard from shooting you all this time.

• Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : It almost smells like I'm on vacation.

  Dr. Rodney McKay : [putting on sunscreen lotion]  Could it be the simulated tropical aroma of cocoa butter?

  Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : Strong enough for anyone within five miles to smell you.

  Dr. Rodney McKay : Like they haven't been tipped off by the Aqua Velva.

  Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : It's dark.

  Dr. Rodney McKay : Yeah, well the sun will be up in 2 hours, 43 minutes and... 10 seconds.

  Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : It's raining.

  Dr. Rodney McKay : So we'll be cold and miserable. Look, the cloud cover will depreciate a small percentage of UV rays but 95 per cent of deadly is still deadly.

  Major Lorne : Dr Parrish said a day or two of exposure wasn't going to kill us.

  Dr. Rodney McKay : And Dr Parrish has a PhD in what? Right, botany!

• Dr. Rodney McKay : What kind of special training do you guys have to go through to get this sort of mission?

  Major Lorne : You guys?

  Dr. Rodney McKay : Yeah, you know... Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines. It's a great place to start.

  Major Lorne : And by "this mission" you mean hunting down a skilled weapons expert hopped up on Wraith drugs in the pitch black of an alien planet?

  Dr. Rodney McKay : Yes.

  Major Lorne : Actually, I skipped that course in Major School.

• Major Lorne : I was hoping Lieutenant Ford might recognize a friendly face and just turn himself in.

  Dr. Rodney McKay : What, you mean me?

  Major Lorne : Well you were friends, weren't you?

  Dr. Rodney McKay : Oh yeah, when we weren't out on harrowing missions we used to hang out together. I'd share my dreams of a self-sustaining fusion and he would talk of how you could sever a man's torso with a P90.

• Dr. Rodney McKay : By my calculation we have been exposed to 327 millisieverts since the sun came up. May not sound like much to you, but I've been keeping a running tally of my lifetime exposure to radiation. X-rays, cellphones, plane rides, the whole unfortunate Genii nuclear reactor thing. My God, last week we flew dangerously close to the corona of a sun. As it is I may have to forgo reproducing.

  Major Lorne : Yeah, it's funny. I was just thinking that might be wise.