- Col. Wilma Deering: Buck's been moping around like that for days. I've done everything short of kidnapping him to get him out of his apartment.
- Dr. Elias Huer: Well, I'm afraid Twiki was right. He's depressed about his upcoming birthday.
- Col. Wilma Deering: But I don't understand what's bothering him. We all get older. Why, he's in better shape than a man half his age.
- Dr. Elias Huer: There are no men half his age.
- Dr. Elias Huer: And this?
- Col. Wilma Deering: A party hat.
- Dr. Elias Huer: A hat?
- Col. Wilma Deering: You wear it on your head.
- Dr. Elias Huer: I most certainly will not.
- Col. Wilma Deering: Oh, Dr. Huer.
- Dr. Elias Huer: Colonel there will soon be dozens of Security Directorate Agents swarming through the building and guarding the entrance downstairs. Perhaps it's academic but if by some small chance an assassin does get into the building after me, I will not be murdered wearing a blue and white plastic cone on my head. It's positively undignified.
- Twiki: [chirping] Party pooper!
- Dr. Elias Huer: Party pooper? Well, I'm not certain, mind you, but we probably have one of those here too. And this.
- [squeezes party horn]
- Dr. Delora Bayliss: For God's sake, Corey, I'm no murderer!
- Col. Cornel Traeger: No? And I suppose you weren't selling quadrillium when we first met on Regulus 4 either. How many people died of radiation poison back then, Delora?
- Dr. Delora Bayliss: That was different.
- Col. Cornel Traeger: Oh, being an accessory to murder doesn't bother you does it? It's just the act itself you have no stomach for.
- Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers: What are you doing? You got what you wanted from her.
- Dr. Delora Bayliss: Not entirely. This device has been adapted... for sonic hypnosis. I can wipe out every memory she has of being intercepted and brought here and substitute new ones.
- Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers: And then you let her go and she thinks she's done the job she was supposed to do.
- Dr. Delora Bayliss: Mm-hmm. Rather intelligent... for a Neanderthal.
- Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers: [looking wistfully at snow landscape painting] Well, as someone said... You're never more nostalgic than for the things you once knew and have no more.
- Twiki: Bidi-bidi-bidi. Who said that?
- Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers: Me.
- Col. Wilma Deering: [planning surprise birthday party] All of us will be hiding in Buck's apartment, he'll come home, switch on the lights, and we'll yell "Surprise!"
- Dr. Elias Huer: Captain Rogers is new here.
- Raylyn Derren: Oh, well, you see, Captain Rogers, top secret data is implanted directly into an IAC's subconscious. Then when I arrive at my destination, Security extracts it from my mind with the psyche probe. I never know the nature of the information.
- Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers: Which makes it very difficult to get out. Cute.
- Raylyn Derren: What is?
- Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers: Uh, I mean... interesting.
- Raylyn Derren: Mm.