McKay: You haven't told them we practically woke the Wraith from hibernation, have you?
Sheppard: No, I have... I really haven't had the chance.
McKay: We've been here for two days.
Sheppard: One and a half, really.
McKay: Major, they're not expecting the Wraith for another 50 years. We have to let them know they could show up at any time now.
Sheppard: If you're so eager, why don't you tell them?

McKay: Reminds you of Area 51, doesn't it?
Sheppard: Circa 1918.
Ford: I don't think Area 51 was around in 1918, sir.
Sheppard: Well, the area was.
McKay: True.

Sheppard: Weapons come in all shapes and sizes, Lieutenant.

Chancellor Druhin: Major Sheppard, I think you'll find this intriguing.
Sheppard: Okay. I'm intrigued. What is it?

McKay: Hence, Major Sheppard has generously offered our help to the Hoffans.
Weir: Has he?
Sheppard: Look, the fact is, if they're onto something, maybe we can speed up the process.
Weir: Okay, Major, you have a go. But if the drug really is just a pipe-dream-
Sheppard: Ah, Dr. Beckett has already volunteered to help us find that out.
Weir: Oh, he has, huh?
Sheppard: He will.

Beckett: It's not that I mind lending people a hand.
Sheppard: No, of course not.
McKay: You're a generous man, Carson.
Beckett: But it's the principle of the thing, isn't it? You can't go and volunteering someone for something without consulting them first. That's not even volunteering, is it? It's being pressed into service.

McKay: No no no, he just doesn't like going through the Stargate.
Sheppard: He's worse than Dr. McCoy.
Teyla: Who?
Sheppard: The TV character that Dr. Beckett plays in real life.

Beckett: Converting a human body into energy and sending it millions of light years through a wormhole. Bloody insanity.
McKay: Come on, how often do you get to travel to an alien planet?
Beckett: I was already on an alien planet.

Sheppard: Sorry if I woke you. Just came by to see if there was anything you needed- magazines, fresh towels.
Wraith: You hide your fear poorly, Major.
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.
Sheppard: I prefer Steve.

Weir: Major, have you made any progress with your prisoner?
Sheppard: Not yet, but he just blinked.
McKay: He blinked? What does that mean?
Sheppard: It means he's still holding on, but he's indicated to me that he may break soon.
McKay: And he indicated this to you by blinking?
Sheppard: Yes.

Sheppard: Hi, Steve.
Ford: Bye, Steve.

Ford: Almost looks peaceful, doesn't he?
Beckett: Peaceful? You're out of your bloody mind.

Beckett: Anything's possible if you're willing to give it a go. Come on, then, a bald head is soon shaved.

Beckett: Scotland? Oh, I think it's beautiful. But I'm told it's something of an acquired taste.

Beckett: Oh, you'd be surprised how not peaceful it is. We're spoiled rotten, now that I think of it.

Weir: And you support this?
Sheppard: Well, I know for certain he's going to die, so we might as well make good use of him while he's still alive.
Weir: You do understand the Geneva Convention prohibits using prisoners for scientific experiments?
Sheppard: No offense, Doc, but had the Wraith attended the Geneva Convention, they would have tried to feed on everyone.
Weir: Beckett's report indicates that we have no idea what the long-term effect of this drug on humans might be.
Sheppard: Well, we know damn well what the long-term effects of Wraith culling are, don't we?
Weir: We're talking about putting a human being in the same room as a starving Wraith. Now, once we start down that road-
Sheppard: Which road did you think we were headed down?
Weir: Not this one. At least, not this fast.
Sheppard: Having spent time with the prisoner, I don't pity him. He's going to die anyway. This drug could be useful someday.
Weir: Someday.
Sheppard: The point is, we don't get a lot of opportunities like this. Do you know how obsessed with this the Hoffans are? When they found out we had a live Wraith prisoner...? He's going to die. I tried to feed him all sorts of live stuff, but apparently, there's only one item on his menu.
Weir: What about the test subject? If the drug fails-
Sheppard: We're not just grabbing anybody off the street. The test subject is a terminally ill patient who has volunteered himself.
Weir: These are not exactly the types of decisions I was expecting to make on this expedition.
(Long pause while Weir thinks.)
Weir: Do it.

Weir: Be safe, Major.
Sheppard: That's the plan.

Perna: What do you think?
Beckett: 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.
Beckett: 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."
Beckett: Pherell's last journal entry.
Perna: More than words, Carson.

Sheppard: You have any idea when that'll be? Morning, afternoon?
Steve (digustedly): Ugh.

Beckett: Major, I was just about to cut him open.
Sheppard: Then... I was just leaving.

Sheppard: You're deliberately sacrificing millions of lives.
Druhin: An end to the Wraith! You can't comprehend the bargain in that?
Sheppard: You can't make a bargain like that for your entire people!
Druhin: You think I'm alone in this conviction?
Sheppard: I think you're delusional.

Perna: I would... have liked to have seen Atlantis.
Beckett: Perna... I'm so sorry.
Perna: Don't look at me that way. I am at peace with what I have done. As you should be.
Beckett: I wish I had no part in this.
Perna (in gasps): You gave us hope. For years, our people have been working towards this... very moment. We didn't betray the forefathers. We fulfilled their destiny, their promise.
Perna: Stay. Stay with me.
Beckett: All right.
Perna: Stay... with me...
Beckett: I'm here. It's okay.

Sheppard: If and when we ever return, I don't imagine you'll be here. I don't imagine anyone else will be either. (Long pause) Good luck.

Beckett: "Victory at all costs." That sound familiar, Major?
Sheppard: Churchill.
Beckett: Aye. Never thought I'd disagree.