- Shelby: Look, Hathaway, this is not a friendly job. Russia is helping us - up to a point. China's a lot simpler. China just doesn't like us.
- [Last lines]
- John Hathaway: Yes, it's going to be a rough world. Do you want to stay or do you want to go ?
- Kay Hanna: I'll stay.
- [Embrace and walk together in the distance]
- John Hathaway: What do you call this place?
- Soong Chu: The People's Institution of Molecular Biology.
- John Hathaway: [seeing the guard towers on the walls surrounding the place] Oh, it doesn't look it somehow.
- John Hathaway: I have a document, signed by the Chairman, giving me free passage any time.
- Soong Chu: The Chairman is too great to be confined by a piece of paper.
- Professor Soong Li: All of us in this room - we're prisoners. We're chained hard and fast to an enzyme.
- John Hathaway: Oh, and Shelby, send a cable for me, will you? From Milan, Italy, to Professor Kay Hanna, London University. Having fun. Wish you were her.