- Peter Strelzyk: I know the S.S.D. was on its way. We still haven't got the material. Yesterday five yards, today nothing.
- Doris Strelzyk: Could you make the balloon smaller?
- Peter Strelzyk: Yes we could. But, it wouldn't carry eight people.
- Günter Wetzel: People have always laughed at the great ideas.
- Doris Strelzyk: You want us to climb into a balloon and float away to West Germany?
- Petra Wetzel: Come on. It isn't funny to make jokes about going to the West.
- Doris Strelzyk: They're not joking.
- Günter Wetzel: I'm not gonna be a delivery boy all my life. I'm a mechanic. Damn good one and I've got a right to prove it.
- Petra Wetzel: There are other ways. Helicopters fly people out of Czechoslovakia.
- Günter Wetzel: [laughs] How are we gonna get into Czechoslovakia? Sneak across that border with two little children? And even if we did, we don't have the money. They're charging ten, twelve thousand a ride.
- Petra Wetzel: You really think we can do it?
- Günter Wetzel: I know we can. We have to. The police are gonna find the Strelzyks and when they do, we're locked into it.