Lynn Loring, real-life wife of Roy Thinnes replaced Tisha Sterling, who had to withdraw because of illness.
Ed Bishop replaced Peter Dyneley, after rushes revealed the latter's physical similarity to Patrick Wymark, which was thought likely to confuse audiences.
David Poulson:
Does our side have anything like this?
Mark Neuman:
We do now.
Jason Webb:
When are you going to nail him?
Mark Neuman:
That depends on how much rope we give him,
Jason Webb:
Lisa! This access restriction, it must be widened.
Lisa Hartmann:
To whom?
Jason Webb:
Hassler, Doctor Hassler!
Mark Neuman:
You're serving up information on a plate. To our prime suspect.
Jason Webb:
That's my responsibility. Your responsibility is this! IF he shows his hand, I don't want an arrest. Understood?
Mark Neuman:
Understood.
Jason Webb:
You are going to sit there and watch me take a man for one billion dollars.
John Kane:
The words of an egotistical megalomaniac.
Jason Webb:
Remind me to be as charitable to you when one of your rockets blows up on the pad.
Glenn Ross:
You know when a rocket is ready, but you don't know when a man is ready, Kane isn't.
Jason Webb:
I know more about human nature than anyone else here at EuroSEC. That's why I am in this office.
John Kane:
I could grow attached to those.
Dr. Pontini:
That's the idea. Now you can be hooked up to the heart, lung, and kidney machine during flight. With sedation, you'll sleep, three weeks there, and three weeks back.
John Kane:
That part I'm looking forward to.
Jason Webb:
Are you telling me that you don't know anyone here? Your wife? Lisa? Neuman?
Col. Glenn Ross:
Only their Doppelgangers.
Jason Webb:
I've been thinking John, about the second astronaut to accompany Ross.
John Kane:
Well Bogemann is the obvious choice, or Mitchell.
Jason Webb:
If we want just an astronaut, I agree.
John Kane:
But?
Jason Webb:
It occurs to me, that we need someone more flexible.
John Kane:
Well they're trained to be-
Jason Webb:
I mean, in terms of knowledge. Someone who could take full advantage of any findings on the new planet, no matter how bizarre or unusual they happen to be.
John Kane:
You mean an astrophysicist. (a beat) Me?
Jason Webb:
The idea doesn't appeal to you?
John Kane:
You must be joking!
Jason Webb:
It'll grow on you.
[Preparing for hibernation]
Col. Glenn Ross:
See you in three weeks.
Dr. John Kane:
Let's hope the alarm goes off.
Col. Glenn Ross:
It'd better, you made it.
Desk Sergeant:
Your pen, Doctor Hassler.
Doctor Hassler:
Sorry, Sergeant.
[removes pen from pocket and hands to sergeant]
Doctor Hassler:
(joking) Now my plan is ruined. You see, this is not a pen at all. It's a "secret camera".
Desk Sergeant:
Better luck next time, Doctor.
Lisa Hartmann:
That was a penny for your thoughts. If they are as confused as mine, perhaps sharing them will help?
Glenn Ross:
Did you say a penny? Well, it's a buyer's market.
Lisa Hartmann:
Sharon has left?
Glenn Ross:
Yeah. You know, in way she left a long time ago.
Jason Webb:
We discover a NEW planet! In OUR OWN solar system! Military and scientific implications BEYOND comprehension! We ask our *friends*, for a *few* dollars, and it's "No Go!".
David Poulson:
One *billion* dollars, Jason.
Jason Webb:
Cheap at TWICE the price!
Plot holes: Col. Ross uses a lander/ascent module from the "mirror" Earth to recover the mother ship from his own Earth in order to prove the existence of both worlds. There was concern that the electrical polarization (right-hand rules, etc.) would be different for each vehicle. Since this could potentially pose severe consequences for both vehicles, then why did Col. Ross attempt to physically dock the two vehicles (with the predicted result)? Surely it would have been more prudent to park the ascent vehicle a short distance away and space-walk the remaining distance.
Continuity: Dr. Hassler has a secret camera in his glass left eye. Yet when he removes it and is processing the film in his bathroom (a darkroom), we can clearly see that his left eye is open as he works.
Factual errors: When Dr. Hassler is developing the film from his eye camera, he does so under a red safelight. However, red light will fog undeveloped film; only photo paper is non-responsive to red light.
Crew or equipment visible: When John Kane is retrieving photographs in the space craft before landing, there's a hand in the printer slot handing out the photographs.
Remade as
The Stranger (1973) (TV)
References
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)