- William Fairchild: Where did you get this?
- Captain Michael Quinn: It's a little hard to explain right now.
- Dr. J. Allen Hynek: What is Operation Ivy, sir?
- William Fairchild: I think you need to tell me where you found this.
- Dr. J. Allen Hynek: Sir, with all due respect, if you don't know, then we're the ones who should be asking the questions right now, not you. Especially as there is a duplicate which will finds its way to the press should anything happen to us.
- Captain Michael Quinn: I-I don't think we're in a position to be making threats to the Secretary of Defense.
- Dr. J. Allen Hynek: It's not a threat. The truth will come out one way or another. Isn't that what you really want?
- William Fairchild: Ivy is the code name for a top secret thermonuclear weapons test in the South Pacific. We had two successes and one failure. Now we know why.
- Captain Michael Quinn: A UFO?
- Dr. J. Allen Hynek: Well, whatever they are, I think it's a message. They want us to know that they're in charge of the skies, and they're watching us.
- Captain Michael Quinn: Wait, hold on a second. Surely, we should get it tested before crediting aliens with taking down the most powerful weapon known to man.
- William Fairchild: I need the President to see this before the Joint Chiefs have him make a horrible mistake. But I'm going to need backup.
- William Fairchild: Now, you saw these things with your own eyes?
- Captain Michael Quinn: Yes, sir.
- William Fairchild: And?
- Captain Michael Quinn: I-I-I don't - I don't really know how to describe it. I never seen anything like it before.
- William Fairchild: Are you speaking as a pilot now or as member of Project Blue Book, Captain?
- Captain Michael Quinn: Both.
- Dr. J. Allen Hynek: What does this room think?
- General James Harding: That's a matter of national security, which doesn't concern you.
- General Hugh Valentine: What's more important is what the public thinks. We can't have a national panic on our hands.
- Captain Michael Quinn: What do you need us to do?
- General Hugh Valentine: What you've always done. I want you to find a rational scientific explanation as to what's occurred, then move it off the front page.
- Dr. J. Allen Hynek: You mean lie. We saw it with our own eyes. Those things were not planes.
- General James Harding: How would you know what types of planes the Russians have or don't have?
- Dr. J. Allen Hynek: The Russians have nothing to do with this. Am I right?
- William Fairchild: What's right is what works right now. Press has been waiting. Get out there and give them something to chew on.
- Captain Michael Quinn: Yes, sir.
- William Fairchild: [to Valentine and Harding] As for you two, I'm gonna need real answers. Truman won't go to war on a gut feeling.
- The Fixer: Dr. Hynek. I see you've got my message.
- Dr. J. Allen Hynek: You owe me some answers.
- Captain Michael Quinn: Actually, Doc... I think you both do.
- The Fixer: I'm not the enemy.
- Captain Michael Quinn: Generally, when someone's got a gun pointed at you, they get to make that decision.
- Dr. J. Allen Hynek: Captain.
- Captain Michael Quinn: I haven't gotten to you yet. Keep quiet. You look familiar. What's your name? That's okay. We'll figure that soon enough.
- Dr. J. Allen Hynek: Can we just listen what he has to say first?
- Captain Michael Quinn: Sure. Back on base, under arrest. Make it all official.
- The Fixer: Why would I be under arrest?
- Captain Michael Quinn: Well, let's see. My partner here says you've been showing up time to time offering cryptic information and then disappearing. Now, last night, you give him advanced knowledge about an aerial attack on our nations capital. Not a warning, but an invitation. Now I'm wondering what kind of man does that. What does he want?
- The Fixer: And you're asking me?
- Captain Michael Quinn: I think a Russian spy would have a lot to gain by convincing a civilian with top secret clearance, like my partner here, that he's made for greater things.
- The Fixer: You think I work for the Russians?
- Captain Michael Quinn: Convince me you don't.
- The Fixer: This has nothing to do with the Russians. Or America, for that matter.
- Dr. J. Allen Hynek: Who do you work for?
- The Fixer: In some ways, the same people you do.
- Captain Michael Quinn: Tell me what the hell is going on.
- The Fixer: What you need to know about me is we want the same thing. But even when the truth flies right over your head, it's still impossible to believe.
- Dr. J. Allen Hynek: So they are real.
- Captain Michael Quinn: Do you have proof?
- The Fixer: What's in this trunk here will help you to convince more people, the right people. That's why I asked my good friend Dr. Hynek to come here tonight.
- Dr. J. Allen Hynek: Then why do you need me?
- The Fixer: It's simple. I don't exist.
- Dr. J. Allen Hynek: The secretary is dead?
- General Hugh Valentine: Official story is engine fire.
- Captain Michael Quinn: Official story?
- General James Harding: It was a Russian hit. It's bad enough they fly by our capital, this is an act or war carried out on our sovereign territory.
- Dr. J. Allen Hynek: Are you saying that you have definitive proof of that?
- General James Harding: You know, Professor, I have been more than patient with your bullshit. But why don't you ask Captain Quinn what happens to soldiers when you disobey orders during wartime?
- Dr. J. Allen Hynek: I apologize, General. I hadn't realized we were at war or that you were giving orders. In either case, I'm not a soldier.
- General Hugh Valentine: You two said you needed to see us. You said it was urgent. Now, why are you here?
- Captain Michael Quinn: After all we've seen, you sold me out.
- Dr. J. Allen Hynek: No. In fact, I did the opposite. What I did was to set us free. What I've come to realize, is that the only way to - to really get to the truth is to convince them that we don't believe. Because if we don't believe, then we're not a threat. And if we're not a threat, then...
- Captain Michael Quinn: We keep our jobs. Jobs that give us access to more cases, more information.
- Dr. J. Allen Hynek: Jobs that will allow us to continue our search for the truth.
- Captain Michael Quinn: Gotta say, Professor, you are one tricky son of a bitch. How did that happen?
- Dr. J. Allen Hynek: Let's just say that I took some advice to heart from the top.
- [quoting Truman]
- Dr. J. Allen Hynek: "There is nothing new in this world except the history we do not know." It's up to us now, Captain, to discover that history.
- Captain Michael Quinn: You think more of them will come?
- Dr. J. Allen Hynek: Yes. And every time they do, however impossibly, they're arrival will pose the same question.
- Captain Michael Quinn: What question is that?
- Dr. J. Allen Hynek: Do they come in peace, or do they come for war?
- Captain Michael Quinn: He told you he'd be right here?
- Dr. J. Allen Hynek: Who?
- Captain Michael Quinn: The man... The man with the hat, whoever he is.
- Dr. J. Allen Hynek: No, we're not meeting him here.
- Captain Michael Quinn: Then why the hell are we running?
- Joel Hynek: Mom? Is Dad in Washington? Because something just came on the news.
- Mimi Hynek: Joel, just... turn it off. Turn everything off!
- Captain Michael Quinn: Did we just witness an alien invasion?
- Dr. J. Allen Hynek: Well, I can't say that with absolute certainty.
- Captain Michael Quinn: But?
- Dr. J. Allen Hynek: The physics of the maneuvers, the speed... I can't think of any other logical explanation.
- Susie Miller: Why are you showing me this?
- Mimi Hynek: Well, Allen's out of town, and you're the only person I trust right now. I mean, I swear, ever since Allen started working on Project Blue Book, there's been this... this weird static on the line any time I pick up the phone. I think the government has been bugging our house from day one.
- Susie Miller: That would definitely make sense.
- Mimi Hynek: Can we talk?
- Susie Miller: I figured this was coming.
- Mimi Hynek: Your friendship is important to me, more than I can ever say. I've never had a friend like you.
- Susie Miller: I feel the same way. And I'm sorry.
- Mimi Hynek: Can I just say that first? I just... I-I need to get this out. I love my husband... and my family, and... what happened that night, the kiss, it can't happen again. It won't.
- Susie Miller: I understand.
- Captain Michael Quinn: You gonna be all right?
- Dr. J. Allen Hynek: Yeah, don't worry about me.
- Captain Michael Quinn: Can't help it, Doc. In spite of my best efforts, you sort of grew on me. Like a barnacle.
- Susie Miller: I suppose I should say something clever about drinking alone.
- Captain Michael Quinn: Susie Miller. Mimi Hynek's friend. And how is... Mr. Miller?
- Susie Miller: Out of the picture. Permanently.
- Captain Michael Quinn: Roger that. Can I buy you a drink?