- Sophie Devereaux: So the salt was Plan B?
- Nathan Ford: Plan M actually.
- Alec Hardison: Don't I die in plan M?
- Nathan Ford: Yeah, usually. Yeah.
- Alec Hardison: What you mean, "usually"? How many plans do I die in?
- Nathan Ford: C, F, and M through Q.
- Jim Sterling: Let me get this straight, 'cause I'm having a hard time believing this. You're telling me you think he acted alone.
- Eliot Spencer: That's not what I said, is it? I said I don't think that there was only one bullet. Where did you get this coffee, man? It's horrible!
- Jim Sterling: Coffee's fine. If there was a second bullet, that means there was a second shooter. Otherwise, he fired a Carcano bolt-action twice in less than two seconds, which simply cannot be done. You do realize that, on a topic where nobody agrees on anything, you picked the one thing, the only thing which is not up for debate! Simply humanly impossible!
- Eliot Spencer: I did it.
- [smirks]
- Jim Sterling: Bollocks.
- Eliot Spencer: I'm not letting Sterling slide on this.
- Parker: Well, at least I got to jump off a building that was, like, eight buildings on top of each other.
- Nathan Ford: That little weight is what separates a trigger-happy terrorist from a nuke.
- Alec Hardison: Yeah, and because of its precise atomic mass, there's only one. This thing is like the nuclear equivalent of the One Ring.
- Sophie Devereaux: Ring? What ring?
- Nathan Ford: Oh, please. Don't get him started.
- Sophie Devereaux: You're gonna have to beat all these champions to make sure that you and Olivia play in the finals.
- Nathan Ford: Mmhmm.
- Alec Hardison: Yeah, now, these are the grandmasters, Nate. Okay, you're good but not that good.
- Nathan Ford: Ah, I beat you every time, Hardison.
- Alec Hardison: Maybe if you let me use the Vulcan rules like I'm accustomed to... I mean, you're stingy with it, Nate. You're real stingy.
- Alec Hardison: Now, to power a nuke, you need a few thousand gas centrifuges. Each spins uranium fast enough to separate weapons-grade molecules from the less-potent stuff. But if the drum gets off-kilter, it wobbles.
- Nathan Ford: Like a washing machine.
- Alec Hardison: Yeah, except when your washing machine wobbles, it goes "thump, thump." This thing wobbles, it explodes.
- Parker: Take your time. I'm just standing on a giant alarm sensor with no exit, no plan, and a hundred pounds of iron strapped to my feet.