- Gen. Wendell Bruce: You insist? You insist? Are you trying to give me an order? Who the h__l do you think you're talking to? "You insist"!
- Gen. Hempstead: May I remind you, sir: Davis is an Army man. You've taken him into custody, arrested him for reasons unknown to us. I demand to know...
- Gen. Wendell Bruce: YOU DEMAND? Let me remind you, General: the Internal Security Forces SUPERSEDE the Army! AND DON'T YOU FORGET IT! I'll arrange your resignation so fast you won't know what hit you. "You demand".
- Gen. Hempstead: My apology for what might have been an unfortunate choice of phrase, sir.
- Gen. Wendell Bruce: That's better.
- Gen. Hempstead: Nevertheless I *request* some explanation!
- Gen. Wendell Bruce: How did it happen?
- Maj. Shepherd McCloud: They were waiting for us - The Society of Man.
- Gen. Wendell Bruce: I didn't ask who, I asked how. Who broke security? Who do suspect? Couldn't have been Clark or Franklin or Anderson - they never left the building. Was it Felding?
- Maj. Shepherd McCloud: He's dead.
- Gen. Wendell Bruce: Then he's the only one I can trust.
- Maj. Shepherd McCloud: Why couldn't you have given us and edge? Move the mission ahead four hours, four minutes - anything! Now how are you going to explain that?
- Gen. Wendell Bruce: You're bleeding on my desk.
- Gen. Wendell Bruce: [whispering] Nobody... Nobody I can trust.
- Maj. Shepherd McCloud: Well, as you said, sir, in this business, that's an occupational hazard.