THE CORE:
FBI Agent: Dr. Keyes, your presence is required in the Pentagon.
Keyes: Aaah, it's my best buddies! Hey! Why don't you join us for a drink?
FBI Agent: We'd be grateful if you could join us - for a ride, sir.
Keyes: And if I were to say no? I'm just asking.
FBI Agent: Well, we have no sense of humor.
Keyes: That's true.
FBI Agent: And we're armed.
Keyes: I'm married to my work.
Serge: So am I. Which makes my wife my mistress, which is why I'm still in love with her.
Rat: How many languages do you speak?
Zimmern: Five, actually.
Rat: I speak one. 10100. With that I could steal your money, your secrets, your sexual fantasies, your whole life. In any country, any time, any place I want. We multi-task like you breathe. I couldn't think as slow as you if I tried.
Rebecca: So, you're really a college professor? You're not from the CIA, the NSA or any of those three letter places?
Keyes: No, I am a boring college professor. Wrong place, wrong place.
Rebecca: That was the bravest thing I've ever seen.
Keyes: Well, I just... I just... Listen, the lack of oxygen kept me from weeping like a little girl, as is my custom in dangerous situations.
Iverson: It's the simplest things that are the hardest, huh?
Keyes: Yeah. It's official: I'm the least qualified person on this base.
Iverson: Dr. Keyes, I'm sure the people in charge have every confidence in you.
Keyes: Well, the problem is I'm in charge.
Keyes: So, we hotwire the nukes, as one does. We seed them through the core at locations that have to be accurate to the inch. We detonate them in a sequence that has to be accurate to the millisecond. Then we outrun the biggest nuclear shockwave in history.
Zimsky: Right.
Brazzelton: Yeah.
Keyes: I mean, that should be fairly simple.