- Jane: We have nineteen minutes since our last contact.
- Dr. Elizabeth Merrill: Feels like nineteen days!
- Jane: Still no response.
- Mark Harris: Then it is time for me to get a ball I can stand on.
- Jomo: Huh?
- Mark Harris: It means: 'to begin to act', doesn't it?
- Dr. Elizabeth Merrill: You mean 'to get on the ball', that's the expression.
- Mark Harris: I thought that was what I said.