- [last lines]
- Dr. Delaney: [explosion roars] How will we know if it worked?
- Grant MacLaren: I'm not sure it did.
- Dr. Delaney: Why?
- Grant MacLaren: Because we're all still here.
- Trevor Holden: You know, my Humanities teacher, Mr. Warchowski, says that in 20 years, equality between the sexes won't even be an issue.
- Gary Holden: Warchowski's the gay one, isn't he?
- Mrs. Bloom: Everything up to now, all these missions, they've been preparations, fine-tuning for this moment. Not that the other work wasn't important or didn't matter, but if we successfully deflect asteroid Helios 685, we alter the course of humanity so profoundly it's highly probable that the time we come from - everything between then and now, the plagues, the shortages, the wars - none of that will happen. Which means it's also highly probable that... neither will we.
- Marcy Warton: It is an honor to meet you in person.
- Mrs. Bloom: Oh, please the honor's mine.
- [turning]
- Mrs. Bloom: You *do* know you guys are already famous where I just came from?
- Grant MacLaren: Really?
- Mrs. Bloom: Not in a good way.
- Grant MacLaren: Oh.
- Mrs. Bloom: There's been a lot of arguments among the project team over you. I should know. I've argued on both sides. Boy, they ever give you a hard time... Remind me not to *ever* get on your bad side.