Pete Thornton quotes from MacGyver

Pete

I operate on a need-to-know basis. [Sighs] I guess you need to know.

Pete

Listen, MacGyver. Anybody who can use a paper clip, a pair of shoelaces, and a rusty monkey wrench to take out two bazookas could be very useful in taking Murdoc. Help me.

Pete

You are a do-gooder, MacGyver. Ninety percent of the people in the world are smart: they see trouble coming, and they duck and run. Ten percent are like you. Can't resist cleaning up the mess.

Pete

Right now, I know you better than you know yourself. You don't use guns. That gun doesn't feel right in your hand. It can't. You don't use guns, MacGyver. You hate them.

Expecting trouble?

Pete

Well, you never can tell. The East Germans are just a little bit hot over this one.

Nice to know my work is appreciated.

It's not technology, it's… art.

Pete

Art?! MacGyver, it's a damn bomb!

You just lack artistic taste.

Hey Pete, don't forget you and I have got a little golf match as soon as this is job is over.

Pete

Yeah right, and I'm gonna spot you a stroke a hole, buddy!

Victoria

GRU. Special Operations.

Pete

Which means?

Victoria

He kills people.

Pete

I need someone I can trust to stay on top of it.

You have got a whole file full of people on salary who can do that.

Pete

Yes, and any one of them could turn out to be the mole!

Pete

I thought we could rely on each other; I thought we were friends.

We are friends, Pete. We're friends, shall be ever more - after my vacation!

(after his plane blows up) I could just hear old Pete Thornton saying, "Why does he always have to wait until the last possible second?"

Pete

(back at Phoenix Foundation) He always waits until the last possible second.

Pete Thornton

What the hell are you doing here?

What do you mean, what am I doing here? You take an emergency leave of absence, grab a Soviet IdD a map of Northern Russia and you split. You didn't even say goodbye to me.

Pete Thornton

What, so you just naturally have to follow me?

Pete, we're friends. If you got troubles, I've got troubles.

Pete

Change the timing?

Remember Belgrade?

Pete

Mm. Don't change the timing.

Natalia

Is he really schizophrenic, or is he political?

Pete

He's ill. Why do you ask?

There are... different modes of treatment.

Pete

Maria, are you sure you can handle your part of this plan?

My part is simple, they take advantage of cheap labor from the village. But yours, MacGyver, is… it's a bit mad.

Yah, that's the idea.