- Charlie Eppes: Let me ask you something. Did you actually think that I was jealous of Ron Allen?
- Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: [chuckles] Well, I mean... yeah, maybe a scootch.
- Charlie Eppes: I'll be honest with you. You weren't exactly wrong. But not jealous of Ron, not specifically.
- Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: But...?
- Charlie Eppes: Well, you know, when I was a 13-year-old freshman, it wasn't much fun but it was cool. Everything I did was that much more impressive because of how young I was. And you know it was always, If he's able to accomplish that now, can you imagine what amazing things he'll accomplish when he's 25.
- [sighs]
- Charlie Eppes: Now I'm 30 years old.
- Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: Listen, listen. Paul Erdich published more than 1500 papers. He died, literally, at the chalkboard at age 83. C'mon, you haven't seen your best years yet, Charles.
- Charlie Eppes: No. But uh... they'll never come ahead of schedule again.
- [as Charlie, Amita, and Larry slowly figure out the thief's next target, Larry is becoming more and more agitated...]
- Charlie Eppes: LIGO is the well-worn page.
- Amita Ramanujan: He's gonna rob the LIGO lab.
- Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: MY LIGO LAB!