- Chaya Sar: I am what you call an Ancient and it is also true that I can never offer your people sanctuary. But you are wrong about as to why I came here.
- Major John Sheppard: Why did you come here?
- Chaya Sar: You, John.
- Major John Sheppard: Me?
- Chaya Sar: I have lived in solitude for so long that when you asked me to come to Atlantis, I...
- Dr. Rodney McKay: Oh my god, he is Kirk!
- Dr. Rodney McKay: Word of caution? The whole Captain Kirk routine is problematic to say the least, let alone morally dubious.
- Major John Sheppard: What routine?
- Dr. Rodney McKay: The romancing of the alien priestess? It's very 1967 of you. Actually, I'm surprised...
- Major John Sheppard: [interrupting Rodney] If and when anything I do becomes your business...
- Dr. Rodney McKay: It becomes my business, Major, when an alien woman who is clearly not who she claims to be has the ranking military officer wrapped around her little finger!
- Major John Sheppard: Don't go there, McKay.
- Dr. Rodney McKay: I'm sorry - I know I'm not normally Mr Sensitive, but you gotta believe me when I say there is something about her. I know it's intangible but I can feel it.
- Major John Sheppard: I said don't go there!
- Dr. Rodney McKay: It's just a matter of time before I prove it, Major. I'm just recommending that in the meantime you keep your...
- [Chaya Sar appears and he shuts up]