Walter O'Brien quotes from Scorpion

Because this is a black operation, my information is need-to-know. Walter O'Brien, Cabe Gallo, Happy Quinn, join me in my SUV.

Toby Curtis

Hmm. Are you heading north or south? Ooh, eye flutter on south. Huntington? Long Beach? San Pedro? San Pedro it is. Meaning water. The ports.

Sylvester Dodd

A frigate!

Can we leave now?

Toby Curtis

You can only take three of the team, so space is an issue. A submarine? It's a submarine, isn't it? Anyway, Homeland needs Scorpion's help for a black ops nuclear submarine mission deep in international waters off the coast of California? Yep!

Walter O'Brien

They'll be needing me to code? I'll get my laptop.

Happy Quinn

And I will be building something, so I'll get my tools.

Sylvester Dodd

And I will get my party hat because I don't have to go on a submarine.

Cabe Gallo

And I'll be going to keep anyone from wanting to kill them.

Walter O'Brien

I don't know how much longer they can last.

I didn't know you knew Morse code.

Walter O'Brien

I didn't before I got in the sub, but I figured it out.

Happy Quinn

Walt, we've got less than a minute now. This is normally when you think of something brilliant, so how's that coming?

Walter O'Brien

The escape pod. The oxygen tank could be used as an escape pod!

Happy Quinn

I asked for brilliant. I already told you there's too many bodies for buoyancy. We'll just sit there in the water.

Walter O'Brien

Yeah, normally we would, but in our present circumstances, we're likely to be propelled upward from the blast.

You really think we can ride the explosion of the submarine?

Walter O'Brien

Yes. [pause] Maybe, I don't know. Or we die.

Walter O'Brien

I will never understand the allure of comic books. Superheroes, evil villains, it's nonsense.

Paige Dineen

We do it all the time.

Walter O'Brien

We aren't mortals who got powers from radiation exposure. We're simply organisms with abnormally dense brains that process glucose at a rate high enough to allow for advanced thought processing.

Toby Curtis

I'm startin' to think we should just let 'em have the nuke....With great responsibility comes great wedgie.

Cabe Gallo

This is just wrong.

Happy Quinn

Don't say anything.

Toby Curtis

Just friends.

Paige Dineen

I don't know how the actors move in these things.

Walter O'Brien

I want Homeland to double our fee. I feel absurd. I don't like feeling absurd.

Happy Quinn

Hey, John McClane! Need a ride?

Walter O'Brien

Who's John McClane?

Happy Quinn

Just a movie, never mind.

Ray Spiewack

Dude! It is just like that move!

Walter O'Brien

Oh yeah, with John McCain.

Ray Spiewack

No, not quite.

Situation red-lined moments ago, we're just trying to figure out--What the hell?!

Walter O'Brien

[on the phone] Relax, Mr. Taggit, that's just me. I've hacked your system, I'm giving the command for the train to slow down, but nothing is responding.

Question 1, who the hell are you? And question 2, how did you get into the DOT server?

Walter O'Brien

Answer 1, my name is Walter O'Brien. Answer 2, your security sucks. It's atrocious.

Walter O'Brien

Counterbalance is one of the keys to your survival.

Paige Dineen

One of the keys? What's the other?

Walter O'Brien

How often they empty the grease tracks at Chucky Burger.

Walter O'Brien

How far away is that train?

Sylvester Dodd

Its current path has it just a few minutes from you, heading towards the Olympic and Westwood stop. Why?

Walter O'Brien

'Cause I'm getting on board.

Toby Curtis

Suicidal genius says what now?

Cabe Gallo

How the hell are you going to get on a train going 90 miles an hour?

Walter O'Brien

I presume with great caution!

Happy Quinn

Better hurry if you're gonna catch that train!

Walter O'Brien

Really?

Happy Quinn

I couldn't help myself.

Walter O'Brien

I don't like this.

Paige Dineen

What, me taking a risk, or me using logic against you?

Walter O'Brien

Both.

Happy Quinn

Knock knock.

Happy Quinn

Knock knock!

Who's there?

Happy Quinn

Matthew.

Matthew who?

Happy Quinn

Matthew could never do unless you had an IQ of 184!

Happy Quinn

Ammonium and sodium hypochlorite hook up at a bar. Everyone inside dies.

Sylvester Dodd

[laughing] It's funny because it's true!

Happy Quinn

I've been reading this great book on anti-gravity; I can't put it down. I have this new theory on inertia, but it's not gaining any momentum.

Happy Quinn

Thank you.

Walter O'Brien

Well, that was factual.

Cabe Gallo

Identify yourself!

Mark Willis, Central Intelligence.

Toby Curtis

CIA. Explains how he came in like a cloud. A dark cloud.

Homeland's agreed to lend out Scorpion's services to my unit.

Toby Curtis

Oh, lucky us!

For a significant payday.

Walter O'Brien

We're listening.

Toby Curtis

Good luck with that. We'll take our cashier's check now!

What if I doubled the fee?

Toby Curtis

No!

Walter O'Brien

Keep talking!

Walter O'Brien

There's nothing that we really can't explain.

Paige Dineen

What about death?

Walter O'Brien

It is the breakdown of biological functions that support life.

Paige Dineen

See, you throw science at things that should be emotional.

Walter O'Brien

We process the world differently from most people. It's all it is. And truthfully, I know exactly what's going on with Megan.

Paige Dineen

There is a process to life that ends in unknown.

Walter O'Brien

[pushes intercom button] Toby?

Toby Curtis

What?

Walter O'Brien

Can you explain Megan's condition as it stands?

Toby Curtis

She has a bacterial infection in her lungs. Pneumonia.

Walter O'Brien

Why's that?

Toby Curtis

She has scarred, damaged lungs.

Walter O'Brien

Why?

Toby Curtis

She's inhaled small amounts of food and saliva that over time have damaged her lungs.

Walter O'Brien

Mmm hmm. Why is that happening?

Toby Curtis

Um, she can't swallow very well because of the MS.

Walter O'Brien

Explain.

Toby Curtis

The MS damaged some nerves in her brain, probably her medula.

Walter O'Brien

How come?

Toby Curtis

Her own immune system attacked the myelin sheaths around the nerves.

Walter O'Brien

Thank you, Toby. [turns off intercom] You see, we know everything we need to know

Paige Dineen

[turns on intercom] Toby, why is her own body attacking her nerves?

Toby Curtis

You know, we don't know.