- Ed Mason: Don't tell me what can't be helped. Let me tell you something. A lot of us are getting fed up. Fed up to the teeth! What's he doing up there anyhow? Just flapping around, that all!
- Officer Jim Reed: No, sir, that's not all. Without the helicopter, we wouldn't have known that a boy was riding his motorcycle up there in those hills. I don't need to tell you what a fire would mean around this area, do I?
- Ed Mason: Loud flapping noisemakers. That's all they are. What's the sense talking to you?