- Mad Buck Gibson: I was always afraid of dying. But now, death has screwed up. He's overplayed his hand. You see, it's the only thing that we're really afraid of in death. We know it's inevitable, we just don't know when. But now, don't you see, now I know that death can't cheat me of life, can't cheat me of really, truly living a full life. Because... now I don't have to hold back something to save for tomorrow or the next year or for next summer. Now I know that there never will be another summer. I know there will never be another morning quite as glorious such as this. You see I won. Because I've nothing to lose.
- TC: Yeah, yeah, so anyway, my next favorite one was 'Dagger of the Scorpion'.
- Mad Buck Gibson: Oh.
- TC: That's where the guy gets the girl in the bathtub...
- Rick: [interrupting] Yeah!
- TC: Yeah, yeah, yeah...
- Rick: Yeah, yeah, yeah and she gives him the mickey! Hey Buck, can you really make a mickey out of asperin, baking soda and aftershave lotion?
- Mad Buck Gibson: Pal, you give me a medicine cabinet and I can make a mickey out of anything.
- Magnum: [reading Buck's note] Sorry for the grief, pal, I'm taking off for Asgard. Tell Joan she's a brick, Buck.
- Joan Gibson: Oh, the vanity.
- Magnum: Where is Asgard?
- Joan Gibson: Not where, Magnum, what. Asgard is Norse mythology. It's the home of slain heroes.
- Magnum,: [narrating] You know, there's some quotations that would make good rules to live by. For instance: never drive behind an old man wearing a hat, or another: it's always brightest just before the storm. If I'd remembered that one, I'd really have been on my guard, because the afternoon it all started, was a truly beautiful day.
- Mad Buck Gibson: You know the last time I saw her namesake, we were up in Tarchello up in the Italian alps near Yugoslavia. She was entertaining the troups and I was covering the Big Bang for old uncle Henry Lewis... It seems like yesterday about two hundred years ago.
- Thomas Sullivan Magnum III: I just said I understood. It's like my friends and I when we remember Vietnam. It was so terrible there, I don't think there's any words to describe it, and yet...
- Joan Gibson: You were never more alive.
- Thomas Sullivan Magnum III: ...Well, it's not that we're old. It's just that we're not young anymore.
- TC: Eh, you know, I know you get tired of hearing this, but I've read all of your books.
- Mad Buck Gibson: Oh come on, not all...
- TC: All twenty-seven. My favorite is 'Curse of the Aztec Goddess'.
- Mad Buck Gibson: Right.
- TC: I mean you're sort of an inspiration to me, because I've sort of working on something of my own. You know, maybe when I finish a chapter, you'd read it?
- Mad Buck Gibson: Oh yeah, you got it, BC.
- TC: TC.