- [last lines]
- Arthur Bishop: [voiceover as Steve reads note] Steve, if you read this, it means I didn't make it back. It also means you've broken a filament controlling a 13-second delay trigger. End of game. Bang! You're dead.
- Steve McKenna: You do this for money?
- Arthur Bishop: Money is paid, but that's not the motive. It has to do with standing outside of it all, on your own.
- Arthur Bishop: It takes a special kind of person to do that.
- Steve McKenna: I can dig it.
- Arthur Bishop: You say you can "dig it". But, the fact is that you don't know what you're talking about.
- Steve McKenna: You do?
- Arthur Bishop: Do I?
- Steve McKenna: Interesting. When he's cornered, he answers questions with questions.
- Arthur Bishop: That was pretty cold.
- Steve McKenna: I knew she wouldn't do it.
- Arthur Bishop: But, had she done that, would be willing to pick up the tab?
- Arthur Bishop: [When Arthur is explaining to Steve about the rules in the martial art scene] They won't hit each other or one of them would be dead and that's against the law.
- Arthur Bishop: [voiceover] Steve McKenna: Mountainview Drive; age: 24; height: five foot, eleven inches; weight: 165; right-handed; hair: blonde; distinguishing marks: small scar on right arm; interests: girls, freaks, physical fitness, fast cars, and killing.