- Vala Mal Doran: There's a 70 percent chance that if we dial manually we'll be able to establish a connection and a 50 percent chance that the bomb will just go off.
- Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell: That's 120 percent.
- Vala Mal Doran: Well, there's some crossover where we establish a wormhole *and* it blows up.
- Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell: [over radio] Jackson, did you catch any of that?
- Dr. Daniel Jackson: [over radio] Yeah, 100 percent chance we should have brought someone that knows what they're doing.
- Dr. Daniel Jackson: We're stuck.
- Vala Mal Doran: No we're not. Well, when we fail to make the scheduled check in, General Landry will dial in, at which point we'll ask him to send a naquadah generator and a laptop with a dialing program and that's that!
- Dr. Daniel Jackson: We knew that! I thought that when I said that we're stuck, that you would know that I meant "until then."
- Vala Mal Doran: Well, then you should say what you mean.
- Dr. Daniel Jackson: I don't think you want me to start doing that.
- Vala Mal Doran: I don't think you want to start thinking what I think.
- [two female hostages start pulling each other's hair and shrieking at each other]
- Dr. Daniel Jackson: [shouting] What the hell are you doing? Stop it!
- Hesellven: She started it.
- Sylvana: [shouting] I think you started it when you kissed Heron!
- Dr. Daniel Jackson: Shut up! Shut up! You're hostages. This is like a-a life-and-death situation here. Start acting like it.
- Sylvana: Oh, please. You're not rebels. We're not deaf, you know. Everyone in this room knows it.
- Dr. Daniel Jackson: That doesn't matter. You're hostages. We're your - we're your captors. We're heavily armed. There's a - there's rules. There's a whole school of etiquette to this.
- [she glares at him]
- Dr. Daniel Jackson: Don't eyeball me.
- Cicero: I've published dozens of papers, written a book. No one listens. My colleagues think I'm a bit of a joke.
- Vala Mal Doran: Oh Daniel, you've found a kindred spirit.
- Teal'c: Should we not wait until Colonel Carter returns from Washington?
- Major General Hank Landry: She's still there briefing the President on the scenario that played out in the alternate reality where the Stargate was made public.
- Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell: Well that's taking longer than it was supposed to.
- Dr. Daniel Jackson: It could be a good way to examine what might happen here.
- Major General Hank Landry: Sounds like President Hayes is having a hard time just getting past the fact that he wasn't President.
- Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell: I hear what you're saying, but I don't think we have a choice. As far as I can see, these people are not going to be open to the idea that we are peaceful aliens out on a jolly jaunt just to look around.