Stargate: Atlantis (TV Series)

Grace Under Pressure (2005)

David Hewlett: Dr. Rodney McKay

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• Dr. Rodney McKay : [to the sea monster]  Oh, see, pal. Sorry you don't get to eat me today.

  Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : He's the reason we found you.

  Dr. Rodney McKay : Really?

  Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : Almost thought we lost you.

  Dr. Rodney McKay : I knew you'd think of something... subconsciously, at least.

• Lieutenant Colonel Samantha Carter : The way I see it, you're scared. You're a little panicked, you're a lot lonely. You knew you could use some help, so your subconscious is manifesting the one person you know is smarter than you.

  Dr. Rodney McKay : Oh, I don't think so!

  Lieutenant Colonel Samantha Carter : Oh, don't start with me, McKay!

  Dr. Rodney McKay : You are very clever, I will even give you brilliant; but there is brilliant, and then there's me.

  Lieutenant Colonel Samantha Carter : Every time we've worked together you've been wrong and I've been right.

  Dr. Rodney McKay : Even if that were true, and no-one is saying that it is, the fact that you could assert...

  Lieutenant Colonel Samantha Carter : Why else would I be here?

  Dr. Rodney McKay : I don't know. Maybe one last romp before I die?

  Lieutenant Colonel Samantha Carter : One last romp? Please, we never...

  Dr. Rodney McKay : Okay, one first romp but it's romping that comes to mind, not your brains, blondie. Now you've got to admit I am a handsome man...

  Lieutenant Colonel Samantha Carter : You're essentially arguing with yourself.

• Dr. Rodney McKay : We make a good team, you and I.

  Lieutenant Colonel Samantha Carter : Suuure...

  Dr. Rodney McKay : No, I mean it. I really enjoy working with you. Always. I wonder why we never hooked up.

  Lieutenant Colonel Samantha Carter : Well aside form the fact you're petty, arrogant and treat people badly?

  Dr. Rodney McKay : Yes?

  Lieutenant Colonel Samantha Carter : No, that's pretty much it. Petty, arrogant, bad with people.

  Dr. Rodney McKay : Oh, but you find me attractive? Physically?

  Lieutenant Colonel Samantha Carter : Stick to working on my idea.

  Dr. Rodney McKay : But this is my idea.

  Lieutenant Colonel Samantha Carter : How do you figure?

  Dr. Rodney McKay : You don't exist. You think what my subconscious tells you to think. So really the idea was mine. Oh, wow. I'm arguing with myself about who had an idea first, me or me. I really am petty, aren't I?

  Lieutenant Colonel Samantha Carter : And arrogant and bad with people, yes.

• Lieutenant Colonel Samantha Carter : [McKay kisses Carter]  You do realise what you're actually doing, right?

  Dr. Rodney McKay : Oh come on! You're a figment of my imagination. The least you could do is take your top off.

  Lieutenant Colonel Samantha Carter : Your subconscious mind knows I would never be into that.

  Dr. Rodney McKay : You are the worst hallucination ever.

• Captain Griffin : Columbus was Spanish - he figured out the Earth was round.

  Dr. Rodney McKay : He was Italian.

  Captain Griffin : So I wonder what it is that makes Spaniards so good at debunking bad science? You're not Spanish, are you?

  Dr. Rodney McKay : Oh, yes! Of the Barcelona McKays! Now, if you don't mind...

• Dr. Rodney McKay : Look, if you're not going to help then just swim on by!

• Captain Griffin : So, let me ask you something. As a scientist, does it bother you that most of your work, no matter how brilliant, will eventually be considered misguided? 'Cause that would bother me.

  Dr. Rodney McKay : I'm sorry?

  Captain Griffin : Well, given enough time, everything's pretty much proven wrong, right?

  Dr. Rodney McKay : No.

  Captain Griffin : Everything from the Earth being flat, to the sun revolving around us.

  Dr. Rodney McKay : Well, if you wanna go back hundreds of years!

• Dr. Rodney McKay : Look, I need to be the one on the surface saving the poor bastard stuck down here, not actually be the poor bastard stuck down here! By the time Zelenka comes up with a plan, I'll have died of old age!

• Dr. Rodney McKay : You're not real. You are not real. You are not real.

  Lieutenant Colonel Samantha Carter : Of course I'm not real.

  Dr. Rodney McKay : I'm sorry?

  Lieutenant Colonel Samantha Carter : I'm three million light years away with problems of my own.

  Dr. Rodney McKay : Yeah, well, so what are you doin' here?

  Lieutenant Colonel Samantha Carter : You're hallucinating.

• Dr. Rodney McKay : It's funny. I was just actually... I was just, you know, thinking what would complete this experience would be freezing cold sea water in the compartment, lots of it, and because now the whole imploding thing is kind of off the table, drowning should really be brought back into the equation.