- Dr. Daniel Jackson: [about Vala] So you're saying that she could be alive somewhere in the Ori home galaxy?
- Lt. Col. Samantha Carter: It's possible.
- Dr. Daniel Jackson: Well, we wanted to send them a message.
- Dr. Daniel Jackson: Vala, this is a military vessel.
- Vala Mal Doran: I know, darling. I've stolen it before.
- Dr. Daniel Jackson: Well, just try to be, uh...
- Vala Mal Doran: My charming self?
- Dr. Daniel Jackson: Just a little less talk, a little more "shut the hell up".
- Nerus: General! Join me for a glass of wine. It's from a place called France.
- Major General Hank Landry: I'm on duty.
- Nerus: What is this? This is exquisite! What is it?
- Major General Hank Landry: Chicken.
- Nerus: Chicken?
- Major General Hank Landry: It's a rare delicacy among our people.
- Nerus: It's exquisite. I want more chicken, more chicken!
- Major General Hank Landry: I'll try to pull some strings.
- Lt. Col. Samantha Carter: Considering their unique ability to maintain an active Stargate indefinitely and their force field capabilities, the President has authorized any and all means to complete the mission.
- Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell: Oh boy, here I was trying to have a nuke-free career.
- Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell: Detonating the largest warhead ever built by man is not exactly the historical footnote I had in mind.
- Dr. Daniel Jackson: Not to mention the guilt you're going to feel for vaporizing a perfectly good Stargate.
- [Gestures to the Prior]
- Dr. Daniel Jackson: And that guy.
- Vala Mal Doran: Oh, he's probably looking forward to it.
- Major General Hank Landry: You will descend to a small, dark room, in the basement of Area 51, and you'll stay there until you come up with a defense against the Ori. That was our deal.
- Nerus: What would possibly compel me to do that?
- Major General Hank Landry: Hunger.
- Vala Mal Doran: You can't honestly open the doors to a pathetic minor Goa'uld posing as one of the big boys. At least promise me you're intending on torturing him.
- Major General Hank Landry: Look at it in terms of optics. We must look like major players now.
- Dr. Daniel Jackson: Most of the system lords were killed by the Replicators, we defeated the Replicators.
- Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell: Wow, we look cool.
- Major General Hank Landry: Don't let it go to your head.
- Major General Hank Landry: We received a communique from a Goa'uld named Nerus. Ring any bells?
- Teal'c: I am aware of his identity. He was a minor Goa'uld who served Ba'al for many centuries.
- Major General Hank Landry: What can you tell me about him?
- Vala Mal Doran: Honestly you don't want to know.
- Major General Hank Landry: Honestly I do.
- Vala Mal Doran: Why?
- Major General Hank Landry: What do you say we go with the idea that I'm in charge, and I've asked a simple question.
- Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell: Lieutenant Colonel Cameron Mitchell, leader of SG-1.
- Nerus: But you... you're not...?
- Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell: Nope.
- Nerus: Will he be here?
- Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell: Nope.
- Major General Hank Landry: I've read enough of your SG-1 mission reports to know that there were times when no one else but Samantha Carter could have pulled your ass out of the fire.
- Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell: We have in our possession a Mark IX Naquadria-enhanced nuclear warhead, which was designed solely for the purpose of vaporizing Stargates and anything else in a one-hundred mile radius. If you attempt to disable this warhead, physically, electronically, or otherwise, it will result in an immediate detonation. Now, we have a number of these god-awful things at our disposal, and we will not hesitate to use them, if necessary. If you do not disengage the Stargate within thirty of our Earth minutes, we will shut down the gate for you.