- Marge: How come you've got an army gun?
- Joe White: I took it with me when I quit.
- Marge: You quit? Quit the army? Why didn't you let them fire you? Then you'd get severance pay.
- Joe White: Fire me? Yeah, they'd fire me all right. You know how they'd fire me? They'd kick me out with a medical discharge as psycho! Psychotic, they'd call me. Too... too unstable, you know, not normal enough to be a real hero in a uniform. So sooner or later they'd kick me out with a slip of paper tellin' the whole world I'm not good enough for the army!
- [first lines]
- Narrator: It takes a lot of dynamite to blast a hillside off the face of the Earth. But in order to begin construction on the state's new flood-basin project, the hill had to go. Highway Division engineers were assigned to handle the explosives, and the Highway Patrol was called out to set up rigid precautionary measures. Although the community had been alerted by radio, newspaper, and television announcements, it was the Patrol's job to make sure nobody was injured in the giant blast. But in this case, the human element was found to be more deadly than the dynamite.
- [last lines]
- Dan Mathews: It's all over, kid. Chopper's comin' back for us.
- Joe White: Hey, you don't... you don't need that gun, I'm not gonna run away.
- [the chopper lands]
- Joe White: Oh, and tell Marge, tell her I'm all through running away.
- Dan Mathews: Yeah, I know. And I'm gonna make sure of it.