- Adm. James G. Lawrence: That's blackmail.
- Sam Axe: Actually, sir, I believe this form of extortion is known as "graymail". It's much nicer than blackmail.
- [Sam confesses to Michael that he's found out his new girlfriend is an Admiral's wife]
- Sam Axe: So, look, what do you think I should do here?
- Michael Westen: Go to Maitland and explain. Tell him you didn't know who she was until things had already gotten out of hand. In fact, call him right now.
- Sam Axe: Mike, that's not what I- look, I was more looking for that super-spy advice on how to keep this quiet.
- Michael Westen: You remember that thing in Kiev with Misha? When he sold out the wetwork team on their way to Paris?
- Sam Axe: Hell, yeah. What about it?
- Michael Westen: That's the kind of secret that stays secret, because if it comes out, people get sent to Siberia. This will come out as soon as Maitland looks sideways at his wife.
- Sam Axe: Seriously, Mike, you know, I know you're a smart guy, but you've dated, like, one lady, and she was a frickin' psycho. I'm just saying you may not be the expert on this whole boy-girl thing.
- Sam Axe: You feel like advising an old buddy with a sticky situation?
- Michael Westen: How sticky?
- Sam Axe: Sticky like let's get a table and a few more rounds.
- Sam Axe: Look, boys and girls, this is happening. You stay here, you die. You come with me...
- Ben Delaney: We live?
- Sam Axe: Well, the odds are a little better.
- Sam Axe: [after handing Ben a defibrillator paddle] Take that. This is your detonator. Yeah, that's gonna go - tape that right on top of that valve.
- Ben Delaney: Okay. Real quick - the warning label says 'Keep away... '
- Sam Axe: Yeah. That's right. We're building a bomb, okay? So you do the opposite of what the warning label says.
- [the improvised bomb explodes, knocking Sam and Ben to the ground]
- Sam Axe: What the hell did you do?
- Ben Delaney: I maximized the pressure! Because you told me! You told me to maximize the pressure!
- Sam Axe: Yeah, I did, I just didn't know you were going to do it so well! You got talent!
- [the lead truck in Veracruz' convoy stops, just short of Ben's trap]
- Comandante Veracruz: [in Spanish] Why are they stopping?
- Sam Axe: [overlooking] Is he on it or not?
- Ben Delaney: He's not on it! If he was on it, it would...
- [the truck drives forward, triggering the bomb and exploding]
- Adm. Gregory Maitland: You were in my house, in bed with my wife! And don't even try to deny it, 'cause I found your belt. This look familiar? I talked to Donna, and she told me everything.
- Sam Axe: Admiral, I was unaware, sir, that she was your significant other.
- Adm. Gregory Maitland: You were unaware? You're a Navy SEAL! You're trained in battlefield awareness, and you didn't see my name on the mailbox?
- Sam Axe: Well, sir, I wasn't exactly in that frame of mind, sir. As you can imagine, sir, I was otherwise occupied, sir. I'll stop talking now, sir.
- Adm. Gregory Maitland: You're going to Colombia!
- Sam Axe: Well, sir, it's been a while since I was down in South America, I really should brush up on my Spanish.
- Adm. Gregory Maitland: Well, you've got a thirteen-hour flight, so...
- [throws Sam a mission dossier]
- Adm. Gregory Maitland: Brush up, amigo!
- Sam Axe: Amigo, that's "friend," right, sir?
- Adm. Gregory Maitland: GET THE HELL OUT OF MY OFFICE!
- Sam Axe: [voice-over] There comes a time in a soldier's life when he's got to decide if he's going to follow the letter, or the spirit, of his orders.
- Sam Axe: Can I ask you something? How did you get to be so cynical? Aid worker, helping the less fortunate?
- Amanda Maples: Only someone who isn't an aid worker could ask that. You get into this business because you want to make the world a better place, and it turns out that there's people out there who just want to make it worse, and we're outnumbered. By a lot.
- Sam Axe: I mean, how smart can spies be, right? You're always fighting on the side with no guns.
- Michael Westen: There's certain rewards to fighting on the side with no guns.
- Ben Delaney: [about one of the young patients] Okay, guys, she's got malaria. And without the right treatment, she could die soon.
- Sam Axe: Listen, I'm tap-dancing as fast as I can. I'm just trying to keep everybody breathing.
- Ben Delaney: Me too, man. Me, too.
- Sam Axe: So between these tanks and the fuel out back, we should have just enough to blow the place.
- Ben Delaney, Amanda Maples: Whoa...!
- Amanda Maples: No, you're not going to destroy the clinic! Isn't Veracruz coming to do the exact same thing?
- Sam Axe: No, Veracruz wants to destroy the clinic with the people inside. I want to destroy the clinic to create a distraction to *save* the people. Little bit of a difference.
- Gabriel Manaro: You're gonna burn for this.
- Sam Axe: Yeah, but that's not the question. The question is, are you gonna make that call?
- [draws his gun]
- Sam Axe: Or am I gonna *make* you make that call?