David Hewlett credited as playing...
Dr. Rodney McKay • Dr. Rod McKay
- [Sheppard is giving McKay flying lessons, and they get into an argument]
- Maj. John Sheppard: This is why parents get someone else to teach their kids how to drive.
- Dr. Rodney McKay: I'm both insulted and touched by that.
- Carson Beckett M. D.: He fainted.
- Dr. Rodney McKay: Oh there's gotta be a better word.
- Carson Beckett M. D.: Faint is a proper medical term.
- Dr. Rodney McKay: I passed out from... manly hunger!
- Dr. Rodney McKay: Well, let me see - we've got slow death, quick death, painful death, cold, lonely death.
- [Sheppard and McKay whisper while spying on a Wraith in disguise]
- Maj. John Sheppard: That's her!
- Dr. Rodney McKay: That's the Wraith?
- Maj. John Sheppard: Yeah.
- Dr. Rodney McKay: Wow... She's hot! I mean seriously hot!
- Maj. John Sheppard: Rodney, you're drooling over a Wraith!
- Dr. Rodney McKay: I know, I... disgust myself sometimes.
- Dr. Rodney McKay: You're referring to the ship you just shot down! One that doesn't stand a hope in hell of ever flying again.
- Torrell: The ship that you're gonna fix, yes.
- Dr. Rodney McKay: What am I, MacGyver? Fix it with what?
- Dr. Rodney McKay: [the team is trying to come up with a solution to a problem while being very short on time] You're right. If only we had a magical tool that could slow down time. I foolishly left mine on Earth - did you bring yours?
- Dr. Zelenka: You know, you're not pleasant when you're like this, McKay.
- Dr. Rodney McKay: I'm always like this.
- Dr. Zelenka: My point exactly.
- Dr. Rodney McKay: I'm not sure I can fix this.
- Dr. Peter Grodin: You can fix anything.
- Dr. Rodney McKay: Who told you that?
- Dr. Peter Grodin: You did. On several occasions.
- Dr. Rodney McKay: You see, the thing is, Col. Sheppard and I have sorta gotten into this habit of saving each others' lives and it's my turn.
- [pause]
- Dr. Rodney McKay: It can be your turn next.
- Maj. John Sheppard: [the sensors have discovered a powerful energy field] You think it's worth checking out?
- Dr. Rodney McKay: Any significant energy emission generally indicates technological civilization.
- Maj. John Sheppard: So... you think it's worth checking out?
- Dr. Rodney McKay: [sarcastically] I'm sorry. Yes. Energy field good.
- Carson Beckett M. D.: You have a date, Rodney? With a woman?
- Dr. Rodney McKay: It is simply two adults sharing some friendly... Yes, with a woman!
- Dr. Rodney McKay: I built an atomic bomb for my grade six science fair exhibit.
- Lt. Aiden Ford, USMC: They let you do that up in Canada?
- Dr. Rodney McKay: Look, the first siege of Atlantis lasted for years. I mean, with only one functioning Zed P.M, we can't expect to hold on that long.
- Col. Steven Caldwell: Can we submerge the city again?
- Dr. Rodney McKay: [sighs] It's a city, not a yo-yo.
- Maj. Lorne: Wow - you must really be some kind of genius!
- Dr. Rodney McKay: Well, as a matter of fact, I, um... wait a minute. See, why would you say that now?
- Maj. Lorne: Something has to have kept Colonel Sheppard from shooting you all this time!
- Dr. Rodney McKay: Yeah, yeah, like I didn't see that one coming, huh?
- Dr. Rodney McKay: [when the Daedalus becomes infected with a computer virus] Oh, crap!
- Hermiod: What did you do?
- Dr. Rodney McKay: I ran it through a translation program, the virus is Wraith.
- Hermiod: Crap, indeed.
- Dr. Rodney McKay: [facing a wraith guard] So! This is how it's gonna be, huh? Just me?
- Dr. Rodney McKay: [seeing another Wraith guard come up] OK! That's just fine!
- Dr. Rodney McKay: [he draws his pistol and points it at them, grinning in bravado]
- Dr. Rodney McKay: You want some of this, huh? Huh?
- Dr. Rodney McKay: [as he goes to fire his pistol, he presses the wrong part of the gun and the magazine ejects and drops to the floor]
- [Dr. McKay is wearing an Ancient personal force field generator]
- Elizabeth Weir, Ph. D.: I'm still trying to understand how you thought it was a good idea to test this device by having someone throw you off a balcony.
- Dr. Rodney McKay: Oh, believe me, that's not the first thing we tried.
- Maj. John Sheppard: [Smug] I shot him.
- [Dr. Weir gives him "the look"]
- Maj. John Sheppard: In the leg!
- Dr. Rodney McKay: I'm invulnerable!
- Elizabeth Weir, Ph. D.: Aren't you the one who's always spouting off about how proper and careful scientific procedure must be adhered to?
- Dr. Rodney McKay: [Smug] In-vul-nerable!
- Carson Beckett M. D.: [sighs] We believe ATA or Ancient Technology Activation is caused by a single gene that's always on. Instructing various cells in the body to produce a series of proteins and enzymes
- [McKay is staring at syringe]
- Carson Beckett M. D.: that interact with the skin, the nervous system and the brain. In this case we're using a mouse retrovirus to deliver the missing gene to your cells.
- Dr. Rodney McKay: [Looking worried] A mouse retrovirus?
- Carson Beckett M. D.: It's been deactivated.
- Dr. Rodney McKay: Well, are there any side effects?
- Carson Beckett M. D.: Dry mouth, headache, the irresistible urge to run in a small wheel...
- Maj. Lorne: [about radiation exposure] Dr. Parrish said a day or two of exposure wasn't going to kill us.
- Dr. Rodney McKay: Oh, yeah, and Dr. Parrish has a PhD in what? That's right, botany!
- Dr. Rodney McKay: So exactly what kind of special training do you guys have to go through to get this sort of mission?
- Maj. Lorne: "You guys"?
- Dr. Rodney McKay: Yeah, you know - 'Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines. It's a great place to start'.
- Maj. Lorne: And by this mission you mean hunting down a skilled weapons expert hopped up on Wraith drugs, in the pitch black of an alien planet?
- Dr. Rodney McKay: Yes.
- Maj. Lorne: Actually, I skipped that course in Major school.
- Dr. Rodney McKay: I was afraid of that.
- [McKay buttons up his collar while entering the cave with the Iratus bugs]
- Carson Beckett M. D.: You don't seriously think that's gonna help?
- Dr. Rodney McKay: When they see your neck before they see mine, you won't think it's stupid.
- [several minutes later, Beckett lifts up his collar before trying to harvest the eggs]
- Dr. Rodney McKay: See! Not so stupid!
- Carson Beckett M. D.: Ah, shut up.