- Carson Beckett M. D.: Converting the human body into energy and sending it millions of lightyears through a wormhole. Bloody insanity!
- Dr. Rodney McKay: Come on, how often do you get to travel to an alien planet?
- Carson Beckett M. D.: I was already on an alien planet!
- Carson Beckett M. D.: It's not that I mind lending people a hand...
- Maj. John Sheppard: No, of course not.
- Dr. Rodney McKay: You're a generous man, Carson.
- Carson Beckett M. D.: But it's the principle of the thing, isn't it? You can't go volunteering someone for something without consulting them first. That's not even volunteering, is it? It's being pressed into service. Not to mention the fact I'm not...
- Maj. John Sheppard: ...military and I can't give you orders. I know.
- Dr. Rodney McKay: No, he just doesn't like going through the Stargate.
- Maj. John Sheppard: He's worse than Dr McCoy.
- Teyla Emmagan: Who?
- Maj. John Sheppard: The TV character that Dr Beckett plays in real life.
- Carson Beckett M. D.: "Victory at all costs." That sound familiar, Major?
- Maj. John Sheppard: Churchill.
- Carson Beckett M. D.: Aye. Never thought I'd disagree.
- Maj. John Sheppard: Sorry if I woke you. Just came by to see if there's anything you needed. Magazine, fresh towels.
- Wraith: You hide your fear poorly, Major.
- Maj. John Sheppard: You know, we've been having these conversations for a couple of weeks now, and I don't even know your name. You guys do have names right? Let me guess... Steve?
- Wraith: I am your death. That is all you need to know.
- Maj. John Sheppard: I prefer Steve.
- Wraith: What do you hope to gain from this?
- Maj. John Sheppard: Just trying to bridge the gap between our two cultures, get to know you better. That and try to figure out how to keep your kind from sucking the life out of millions of innocent people!
- Perna: What do you think?
- Carson Beckett M. D.: That it goes against everything I believe in. There's an oath among medical people where I come from. It begins, "First, do no harm."
- Perna: Important words to you.
- Carson Beckett M. D.: More than words, Perna.
- Perna: "The battle rages at the very threshold of our laboratory now. Those of us working to the last know that these few final hours have been dearly purchased, yet our concentration has not waned. We cannot hope to save ourselves but we can hope that one last insight, one last revelation before we take our dying breaths, may prevent this terrible day from happening again."
- Carson Beckett M. D.: Ferrel's last journal entry.
- Perna: More than words, Carson.
- Dr. Elizabeth Weir: You do understand the Geneva Convention prohibits using prisoners for scientific experiments.
- Maj. John Sheppard: No offense, Doc, but had the Wraith attended the Geneva Convention, they would have tried to feed on everyone there.