- Colonel Lerner: The Alien's gone. So's your man Corliss.
- General Spaulding: You think Corliss took him?
- Colonel Lerner: That's exactly what I think. I also think he had to have had help. He had a gun and a Transport Two Manifest.
- General Spaulding: He could have stolen them.
- Colonel Lerner: Or SOMEBODY could have given them to him. In which case, General, you and I are both prime suspects... and I know I didn't do it.
- General Spaulding: [after Spaulding has helped Corliss escaped] As you yourself so astutely pointed out, you are the other suspect.
- Colonel Lerner: What's the point?
- General Spaulding: Point is you want to play it by the book, you're going to have to relieve yourself of duty as well. As I see it, we can do our job, or we can both turn ourselves over for house arrest.
- Colonel Lerner: I'll find Corliss. And if you had *anything* to do with this your career... is over... General.