Stargate: Atlantis (TV Series)

Tao of Rodney (2006)

David Hewlett: Dr. Rodney McKay

Quotes 

• Dr. Rodney McKay : You know, we could be a team. You could be my sidekick.

  Ronon Dex : "Sidekick".

  Dr. Rodney McKay : Yeah, it'd be like Batman and Ronon. Has a nice ring to it.

  Ronon Dex : Yeah, you keep eating like that, it's more like Fatman.

• Dr. Rodney McKay : I just realised why light behaves as both particles and waves.

• Dr. Rodney McKay : Oh, I'm fine. No, yes, and it doesn't.

  Dr. Elizabeth Weir : What?

  Dr. Rodney McKay : I can read your mind. Uh, everyone's actually. That was very cool for the first, like, ten seconds there, but now I'm finding it a little disturbing, so I'm trying to tune it out as much as I possibly can... well, sort of. Anyways, look, I wanted to get your permission to access the Control Chair. I've got some pretty interesting ideas for maximising our ZPM. I reconfigured the city's power systems, it's too complicated to explain, but trust me when I say that you are going to be incredibly happy with the results. Look, Elizabeth, I know you have every right not to trust me but I promise you, I'm gonna make things much, much better, OK? Good.

  [McKay looks at Ronon] 

  Dr. Rodney McKay : She wants you to shoot me if you think for even one second that I might be trying to take over the city for my own evil purposes. I'm kidding. That was a joke. Is your weapon set to, uh, stun? Wait, never mind.

  [McKay closes his eyes and Ronon's gun beeps] 

  Dr. Rodney McKay : There, I did it myself. OK, to the Chair Room, Ronon.

  [McKay leaves] 

  Ronon Dex : Can I shoot him now?

  Dr. Rodney McKay : I can hear you!

• Dr. Rodney McKay : Trust me, this will work, I just need some more time. Now stop talking so much. You're rippling my pond.

• Dr. Rodney McKay : You know, I don't get these Ancients. They're supposed to be so smart, but why activate something that you don't need and you're not using, huh?

  Dr. Radek Zelenka : Well, maybe they didn't have time to get to it, you know, before the human-form Replicators that you reprogrammed attacked.

  Dr. Rodney McKay : Yes, yes, we all know what happened.

• Dr. Carson Beckett : Alright. Like I said, as far as I can tell, he's as healthy as a horse. I'm clearing you for active duty.

  Dr. Rodney McKay : Are you insane? Look, I need to be put under guard. Who knows what I could become?

  Dr. Elizabeth Weir : What are the chances it could make him more pleasant?

  Dr. Rodney McKay : Oh, thank you!

  Lt... Colonel John Sheppard : I'll keep an eye on him.

  Dr. Elizabeth Weir : Thank you!

  Dr. Rodney McKay : Can you still see me?

• Dr. Elizabeth Weir : Have there been any other instances of this power manifesting itself?

  Dr. Rodney McKay : Powers. Plural.

  Dr. Elizabeth Weir : What else can you do besides telekinesis?

  Dr. Rodney McKay : Well, super-hearing for one, and I'm not sure but I think I may actually be getting smarter. It's hard to say for sure because I was pretty smart to start with but, um, recently I've been having some ideas that I don't think even I would have thought of before.

  Lt... Colonel John Sheppard : Does super-ego count as a power?

• Lt... Colonel John Sheppard : We could also be dealing with a super-appetite, although it's hard to tell because he ate so much before.

  Dr. Rodney McKay : Very funny.

  Dr. Carson Beckett : My God! He's eatin' again!

  Dr. Rodney McKay : I have a very active metabolism.

• Dr. Elizabeth Weir : Rodney, you're a good person. Know that we love you.

  Dr. Rodney McKay : You love me? Really? All of you?

  Lt... Colonel John Sheppard : In a way a friend feels about another friend.

  Dr. Rodney McKay : You're just saying that because I'm gonna die. Oh, God. I can't believe I'm gonna die.

  Lt... Colonel John Sheppard : Alright, just back to the blue skies. Let your thoughts go.

• Dr. Elizabeth Weir : Are you sure that this is how you want to...?

  Dr. Rodney McKay : ...spend my last couple of days alive? Don't have a lot of choice, do I?

  Dr. Elizabeth Weir : Rodney, I think it's very decent and noble of you to want to leave a scientific contribution behind, but I still believe there's a chance you can ascend if you put your mind to it.

  Dr. Rodney McKay : We both know that that is a waste of time. Maybe you could do it, but...

  Dr. Elizabeth Weir : I don't know if I could, but you are certainly selling yourself short by not even trying.

  Dr. Rodney McKay : To be honest, I don't have the first clue where to start.

  Dr. Elizabeth Weir : Stop thinking.

  Dr. Rodney McKay : See, I don't understand that.

  Dr. Elizabeth Weir : One of the biggest things that holds people back is that somewhere deep down they believe they're not deserving. You have to... release your burden.

  Dr. Rodney McKay : Oh, please!

  Dr. Elizabeth Weir : I know, spirituality to you is a load of mumbo jumbo, but it does help people find peace with themselves.

  Dr. Rodney McKay : But you have to believe.

  Dr. Elizabeth Weir : I'm not talking about religion. I'm talking about shedding yourself of guilt, of anger, of ill-feeling, of anything that makes you feel shame. And then you can focus all of your energy on ascending.

  Dr. Rodney McKay : So what you're telling me is that I don't think I'm worthy.

  Dr. Elizabeth Weir : Rodney, I don't know what you truly believe about yourself. For all I know, you use your intelligence to compensate, to make yourself feel better for other things you think you may lack.

  Dr. Rodney McKay : Like what?

  Dr. Elizabeth Weir : That, I can't tell you... but maybe you could start reading your own mind?

• Dr. Rodney McKay : Yeah, see? Never been big on leaps of faith, either. I mean, sure, there was a part of me that from the beginning knew that this was too good to be true. *Nothing* this great could ever happen to me without really, really bad consequences. Anyways, now I have come to terms with that and I just wanna get as much done in the time I have left and not waste my time on a bunch of mumbo jumbo I'm not gonna understand anyways.

• Lt... Colonel John Sheppard : Truth is, I was never really very good at this myself.

  Dr. Rodney McKay : So why am I here?

  Lt... Colonel John Sheppard : Elizabeth made me.

  Dr. Rodney McKay : Oh. Yeah. Me too.

• Dr. Rodney McKay : I think in the grand scheme of things, we're... we're good, aren't we?

  Lt... Colonel John Sheppard : Of course.

  Dr. Rodney McKay : Right. Look, if it's not too much trouble, I'd like you to read my eulogy.

  Lt... Colonel John Sheppard : I *refuse* to discuss that.

  Dr. Rodney McKay : Just keep it simple. Um, make up a few nice things. I'd like my little sister to be there... and, oh, you should know that I told Beckett that he should most definitely do a full autopsy. He can use my body for any kind of experimentation that might prove helpful, and, uh... Oh, and I'd like to be cremated, with my ashes to be, uh... thrown out into space from the Jumper...

  Lt... Colonel John Sheppard : [Rodney collapses]  Rodney... Rodney!

• Lt... Colonel John Sheppard : There must be something we can do.

  Dr. Rodney McKay : It's OK. You know, I'm actually feeling a sense of peace... interspersed with moments of sheer terror, of course.

  Lt... Colonel John Sheppard : Rodney, as far as this ascension thing, I know you didn't have much success but at this point, what've you got to lose?

  Dr. Rodney McKay : May as well go out fighting, huh?

  Lt... Colonel John Sheppard : Absolutely.

  Dr. Rodney McKay : Hook me up.