Quotations

Some of Major Lorne's most memorable lines from the episodes he has appeared in.


07.07 - Enemy Mine
10.13 - The Road Not Taken



07x07 - Enemy Mine

Lorne: Core sample analysis still coming in, but so far highest concentration is 2.3 parts per million.
Edwards: 2.3 parts. Major Lorne, we need enough naquadah to manufacture 303s. You know how big a battle cruiser is?
Lorne: It's pretty big, sir.
Edwards: Hmm, if we start mining these deposits right now, today, your great-grandchildren are still gonna be trying to pull out enough ore just to make one.
Menard: Colonel Edwards?
Edwards: Menard
Menard: You're gonna want to see this, sir. Latest sample analysis shows a concentration fifty times higher than anything we've seen so far and it's increasing as we go deeper. This could be the one, sir.
Edwards: Yeah. If this pans out, your great-grandchildren might just be off the hook.
Lorne: Yes, sir.

O'Neill: I assume he's got a compass and a radio?
Lorne: The planet has peculiar electromagnetic properties which make a compass useless and severely limit the range of our radios.
Edwards: He's a good man and we need him back. Especially now, we think we may have discovered a significant deposit of naquadah.
Teal'c: How significant?
Lorne: Well, we won't know that until we complete our analysis.
Edwards: The Pentagon wants battle cruisers and F-302s. We find the rocks.
O'Neill: And we find the rock finders.
Edwards: There you have it. Uhm, Major Lorne will show you where Ritter was last seen.
Lorne: Yes, sir. If you'll follow me.
Jackson: What's this? Artifacts?
Lorne: Yes.
Jackson: You found all this and you-you didn't contact me?
Lorne: We were going to.
Jackson: They've been moved.
Lorne: Well, they were in the way.
O'Neill: Daniel ... go to your happy place.

Lorne: Lt. Ritter was recording elevations and mapping the surrounding. When he didn't' show up for chow, we got worried and went out looking for him, sir. Uh, sent up a couple of flares, hoped he'd see 'em, get his bearings.
O'Neill: Is it normal for guys to wander away from camp?
Lorne: Well, he might have been placing markers, you know, multiple sightings, some up to half a mile ... you get turned around.

Lorne: What is it?
Teal'c: The Unas wear these to prevent the Goa'uld from burrowing into their necks.

Lorne: Looks like the Unas had a little party while we were gone.
Edwards: You're right, Dr. Jackson. They're much more advanced than what I thought. They have command of fire. Major Lorne, as soon as this place is cleaned up, I want you to get a resonance scan analysis of the lower mine shafts.
Lorne: Yes, sir.

Lorne: Dr. Jackson, how'd it go?
Jackson: Well, I figured out why they attacked us. It's this mine, it's sacred to them." Most of their ancestors were worked to death by the Goa'uld while they were mining it. It's a wonder they didn't attack us the minute we set foot on this planet.
Lorne: Doctor, look...
Jackson: Now I told them I'd speak to my superiors on their behalf. Sacred burial grounds are protected on Earth from industrial development. I think the same rule should apply here. We have to leave.
Lorne: We got the results of the resonance scan. The deposit is over 300 meters in length and almost completely solid.


10x13 - The Road Not Taken

Lorne: Sam, thank God you're okay. Where's Dr. Bennett?
Carter: Major Lorne, what are you doing here?
Lorne: Whaddya mean?
Carter: You're supposed to be on Atlantis.
Lorne: Sam, what are you talking about?
Carter: You're on assignment in the Pegasus Galaxy.
Lorne: Uh, are you sure you're okay? Because I work here. Remember? As leader of SG-1.

Lorne: General, we have a problem.
Hammond: What is it, Major?
Lorne: I'm not exactly sure how to explain this, sir, but there's been an accident. It's Sam. She claims she's not the Major Carter we know.
Hammond: What's that supposed to mean?
Lorne: She says she's from a parallel universe. And given the nature of the experiments...
Hammond: Let's not jump to conclusions just yet. You said there was an explosion. Was she injured?
Lorne: Not a scratch, sir. But she does seem different.
Hammond: Different how?
Lorne: Well, for one thing, she claims she's a lieutenant colonel. And she does have this device with her I've never seen before. We have no idea where that came from.
Hammond: All right, assuming for the moment she's telling the truth: where's our Major Carter?
Lorne: We don't know.
Hammond: Find out!
Lorne: Yes sir.

Lorne: So, why are you here?
Carter: I didn't do it on purpose, believe me.
Lorne: What about that machine you brought with you?
Carter: It demolecularizes matter and transports it to another dimension.
Lorne: Well, there you go.
Carter: No, no, this is different! Look, according to M theory, there are a fixed number of alternate dimensions existing in parallel with our known universe. The multiverse theory, on the other hand, posits the existence of an infinite number of alternate universes, each evolving concurrently with our own.
Lorne: Well, is there a universe out there somewhere where you're giving me a straight answer?
Carter: Look, there must be some reason why I was brought here, of all places. I need to know what was happening in that lab.
Lorne: I'm not authorized to give you that information.
Carter: Okay, maybe I could talk to Daniel. Is he here?
Lorne: Dr. Jackson was captured by the forces of the Ori several weeks ago.
Carter: Okay, what about Col. Mitchell? Cameron Mitchell?
Lorne: The 302 pilot? Went down over Antarctica?
Carter: That's right. Is he here?
Lorne: I have no idea where he is. The last I heard, he quit the military.
Carter: Teal'c!? Vala?
Lorne: Teal'c went back to the Jaffa several years ago, and if you're talking about Vala Mal Doran, I hate to break it to you, but she is currently occupying a cell at Area 51. Care to take a stab at anyone else?
Carter: At least let me see the surveillance footage from the lab. There may be a clue. Look, I know you want your Carter back as much as I want to go home.

Lee: That's all we got. Sensors indicate there was a massive explosion in the room. But when we opened the door, instead of finding charred remains, we found you.
Carter: What were the capacitors for?
Lee: Major Carter was developing a process by which we could extract energy from parallel universes.
Carter: And you knew about this?
Lorne: Uh, knowing and understanding, two totally different things.
Lee: Ordinarily, this type of energy retrieval is extremely dangerous, leading to the creation of exotic particles in one or both universes.
Carter: I know, we've tried it.
Lee: Oh. Well our Major Carter found a way around that. She designed the machine so the bridge would only open for a microsecond. The idea was to steal small amounts of energy from thousands of different universes, thereby minimizing the fallout in any single one.
Lorne: Anyway, it doesn't entirely explain how you got here.
Lee: That's true. The device was never designed to bring ordinary matter through the bridge.
Carter: Well, I was conducting an experiment of my own. At the precise moment that your Carter tapped into my reality, the entire contents of my lab were out of phase, and they were being protected by a force shield.
Lee: Oh my God! Well it-there's no telling what effect that would have on the inter-universal bridge.
Carter: Well, presumably, it pulled me through and caused the capacitors on this side to overload.
Lorne: Well, if it brought you here, is it possible that it sent our Carter to your universe?
Carter: I'm sorry, it doesn't work that way.

Lorne: Three weeks ago, the Ori attempted an attack on Earth.
Carter: You survived an Ori attack?!
Hammond: One ship. We fought them off with the Ancient chair. The ZPM was nearly depleted in the process.
Lorne: That's why our Major Carter was running that experiment. She was trying to bolster our power reserves with captured energy from other universes.
Carter: And of course, you only have the one ZPM, cause you've never received new ones from Atlantis.
Lorne: Atlantis. You've mentioned them before. What is that?
Carter: It's a city of the Ancients in the Pegasus Galaxy. In my reality, we have an international contingent there.
Hammond: I don't know about your reality, Colonel, but in this world, there isn't much in the way of international cooperation. Three years ago, the Goa'uld system lord Anubis launched an attack on Earth. We had no choice but to reveal the existence of the Stargate program to the world.
Lorne: People panicked. There was rioting in the streets. The President had to declare martial law.
Hammond: The diplomatic fallout was even worse. You can imagine how the world's governments reacted when they realized the kind of technology being employed by the United States military.
Lorne: Mm-hmm. We barely got the chair out of Antarctica before the Russians moved in.

Lorne: Do you have another suggestion?
Carter: Yes, I do. This.
Lorne: What the hell?

Carter: I was taken out of phase, sir. Invisible and untouchable. And based on experiments in my own reality, one hundred percent Ori-proof.
Lorne: No offense, Sam, but how does hiding one lab full of equipment help us?

Lorne: Hey. How's it coming?
Carter: Oh, okay, I guess. I was just about to run my first simulation.
Lorne: Hmph. You know, it's kinda weird seeing you in here.
Carter: It's a little weird being in here
Lorne: Yeah.
Carter: It's the same, but it's different, you know? Can I ask you something?
Lorne: Yeah, sure.
Carter: I found these pictures, and, uh, in them, she was wearing a wedding ring.
Lorne: Yeah, that must have been before the divorce.
Carter: So…
Lorne: Oh, no-no-no-no. God, no. No, it was this dot com millionaire smartass named McKay.
Carter: Not…Rodney McKay?
Lorne: Yeah. You have one too, huh? Is he a jerk in your universe?
Carter: Huh. Some people think so.
Lorne: Sam always said there was a side of him that no one else saw.

Lorne: Daedalus just reported that five Ori ships have breached the safe zone.

Lorne: SATCOM reports contact, sir. Multiple targets.

Lorne: The enemy ships are splitting up. Two of them are taking up position over Area 51.

Lorne: No movement, sir. The ships are just hovering there. hey're opening fire, sir! Looks like they think we're just cloaked.