Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Michael Vaughn : He wanted the bomb squad called in?
Marshall Flinkman : Well, maybe because he knew there was nothing they could do.
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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.
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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.
