- Neil Walters: You did it, didn't you? You saved us again. Pop would be so proud. God, what a disappointment I must have been. I... I never could be what he wanted. I never could be you.
- Dr. Sam Beckett: Neil, it's all right.
- Neil Walters: I tried to do the right things. I never wanted to be head of the family. I've ruined... everything he built.
- Dr. Sam Beckett: You did your best.
- Neil Walters: How? By losing a farm?
- Dr. Sam Beckett: No. By being there when he needed you. Don't you see? In the end, it wasn't my face he saw, it was yours. And no matter what happens to me, no matter what I do for the rest of my life, I can never change that. That moment belongs to you.
- Admiral Al Calavicci: Sam, I know that look.
- Dr. Sam Beckett: What look?
- Admiral Al Calavicci: What look? That look. The "I'm gonna save the world" look. Ziggy says this leap's over as soon as the brothers surrender.
- Dr. Sam Beckett: I can't do that.
- Admiral Al Calavicci: What do you mean you can't? Maybe I'm not making myself clear here. I'm talking life and death here.
- Dr. Sam Beckett: So am I. Don't you get it, Al? It doesn't matter if you kill a man with a gun or with a pen. In the end, he's still dead. I'm home, Al. And I'm gonna stay right here.
- [Sam has leapt into Willie Walters, who, together with his brothers, has taken hostages in a bank]
- Carrie Young: Why are you doing this?
- Dr. Sam Beckett: If you could just be patient a little bit.
- Neil Walters: Let me tell her.
- [he holds up his hands]
- Neil Walters: See these? That's what my father left my brothers and me when he died. We get up before the sun, and we don't rest till after dark. Then along comes Gus Vernon. He tells you you ain't gonna make it unless you increase the yield. Modernize, he says. Well, you're afraid of losing the only thing you got. So you go along, and you make the deal. But somehow, no matter how hard you work, you can't keep up.
- Dr. Sam Beckett: Pretty soon you're selling off the milk cows to make the next payment.
- Carrie Young: It was just business.
- Dr. Sam Beckett: Well, we'd like to hear Gus Vernon explain that kind of business to us face-to-face.
- Admiral Al Calavicci: I know that you're sympathetic with the situation here because it's your home town and all of that, but Ziggy says there's a 73.9% chance that if you surrender, you'll leap.
- Dr. Sam Beckett: Leap? Why would I wanna leap? I'm home.
- Admiral Al Calavicci: But you're here to save the brothers, right? So? You got to turn yourself in. Right? So? Let's go! Right?
- Dr. Sam Beckett: I can't.
- Admiral Al Calavicci: Eh... How did I know he was gonna say that?
- Gus Vernon: What the hell's going on, Clyde? One minute I'm doing business, the next I hear my bank's being robbed.
- Sheriff Mundy: Well, first of all, your bank isn't being robbed, it's being occupied. Secondly, it isn't your bank. It belongs to the town.
- Gus Vernon: I didn't drive 30 miles to get a lesson in semantics.
- Mary Walters: [to Vernon] You're gonna listen. We're not the first to go under here. And we won't be the last. Now, I was born in this county. Most of these folk here were. And I'll be damned if I'm gonna sit here and let the likes of you steal it out from under us! No, sir. My boys stay right where they are! And they stay there with my blessing.
- Admiral Al Calavicci: [of Vernon] What a nozzle. I'd l-, I'd like to grab his Adam's apple and pull it out through his nostrils.
- Beth Ryan: The way I see it, Gus Vernon has it comin'.
- Carrie Young: Beth!
- Beth Ryan: Well, he does. I don't know why you're always protecting that man.
- Carrie Young: Because he is our boss, that's why. We wouldn't have a job if it wasn't for him.
- Beth Ryan: Oh, some job. Two dollars an hour, no benefits, and you. I should've never quit the Dairy Queen.
- Carrie Young: If you ask me, that's where you belong.
- Beth Ryan: Well, at least I don't have to sleep with the boss to keep my job.
- Carrie Young: You little bitch!
- Beth Ryan: Takes one to know one.
- [last lines]
- [Sam comes face to face with his real dad]
- Dr. Sam Beckett: I'm Willie Walters.
- John Beckett: Bill Walters' boy?
- Dr. Sam Beckett: That's right.
- John Beckett: I haven't seen you since the funeral. Your father was a good man.
- Dr. Sam Beckett: He was the best.
- John Beckett: How's your mother?
- Dr. Sam Beckett: She's good. She wanted me to give you a message though.
- John Beckett: Message?
- Dr. Sam Beckett: Yeah, she, uh... she wanted me to wish you a merry Christmas.
- [he hugs John]
- John Beckett: Well... Merry Christmas to you too, son. Merry Christmas to you.