- Colonel Gregory Usher: Have the launch fueled and ready to shove off at dawn.
- Duvall: Sir! I thought you would send someone to the island.
- Colonel Gregory Usher: I want to go myself.
- Duvall: But have you forgotten the Americans, the indictment? As head of security, I strongly advise against it.
- Colonel Gregory Usher: As head of the country, I strongly advise you to do as I say!
- Voice on Disc: Good morning, Jim. Three years ago, Col. Gregory Usher declared himself president for life. Since then, his country has been one of the world's leading producers of processed cocaine. Usher is under indictment in the US for his drug trafficking, but has been impossible to extradite from his heavily armed compound outside the country's capital, and all attempts for a democratic overthrow of the government have failed as Usher maintains a firm grasp on power with the help of his chief of secret police Major Duvall who, several days ago, organized the murder of Usher's only political opponent. Your mission Jim, if you choose to accept it, is to neutralize Major Duvall and lure Colonel Usher out of his compound and onto US-controlled soil where he may be arrested. As always, should you or any of your IM force be caught or killed, the secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This disc will self-destruct in five seconds. Good luck, Jim.
- Colonel Gregory Usher: Do you think you need a bodyguard here, Mr Taggart?
- Nicholas Black: [posing as drug dealer Myles Taggart] Well I watch the evening news, and things like assassinations at airports make me kind of nervous.
- Colonel Gregory Usher: Uh, that was politics, Mr Taggart, this is business.
- Colonel Gregory Usher: [speaking to Black] So I sell drugs. Americans buy drugs, but I'm the monster, I'm the one they indict. Well, they can indict me all they want. They'll never lay a hand on Colonel Usher. They can't touch me here.
- Colonel Gregory Usher: [Usher in bed with Phelps sitting beside him. Duvall enters room] The boy! Did you find the boy?
- Duvall: No, Colonel.
- Jim Phelps: [posing as neurologist Dr. Frederic Quinn] Please try to calm yourself, Colonel. You've had a pretty bad turn.
- Colonel Gregory Usher: No, I've had worse, Doctor. Why don't you stop patronizing me and tell me what's wrong with my body?
- Jim Phelps: Well, according to what Major Duvall has told me about your medical history, you suffer from an arteriovenous malfunction. Now that's a...
- Colonel Gregory Usher: [interrupting] Congenital defect. Too many blood vessels around the surface of my brain. I've heard it all before!
- Jim Phelps: But it does explain your headaches.
- Colonel Gregory Usher: Does it explain the *boy* Dr. Quinn?
- Jim Phelps: Well, if the defect is in a specific area of the brain, it could cause, uh, hallucinations.
- Colonel Gregory Usher: [bounds out of bed] People I sell drugs to have hallucinations. I don't!
- [first lines]
- Reporter: It's official. Political exile Joseph Elias has returned to his native land and should be stepping down from the plane as soon as he finishes an on-board interview. We have been advised that Mr. Elias will then give a statement to the media. Speculation is that president for life Colonel Gregory Usher has allowed the opposition leader Elias to return form exile in response to pressure the United States has been applying, pressure which culminated yesterday with the indictment of Colonel Usher by a U.S. federal court on charges of illegal drug trafficking.
- Duvall: In the last hour, we have received reports of United States naval vessels patrolling the area.
- Colonel Gregory Usher: So fix it, Duvall! Isn't that what you get paid to do?
- Duvall: I can take care of dissidents. I can handle imposters like Taggart. But don't ask me to take on Spruance-class destroyers. We'll lose.