- Chung Mee: Opium is my business. The bridge mean more traffic. More traffic mean more business. More business mean money. More money mean more power.
- Lawrence Bourne III: Yeah, well, before I commit any of that to memory, would there be anything in this for me?
- Chung Mee: Speed is important in business. Time is money.
- Lawrence Bourne III: You said opium was money.
- Chung Mee: Money is Money.
- Lawrence Bourne III: Well then, what is time again?
- Chung Mee: We must all do what we must do, for if we do not, then what we must do does not get done.
- Tom Tuttle: Let's face it: you're afraid and you have a damn good reason to be. Albert Spear once said, "Fear is victory's fuel!" Oh, you spend a few years with me, pal, and we are going to turn that fear into high octane.
- Lawrence Bourne III: I need to have a talk with you; sort of a little father-son chat.
- Lawrence Bourne Jr: Have we ever done this before?
- Lawrence Bourne III: No, we're breaking new wind. Dad, I need $28,000; it's the matter of a little gambling debt. I can assure you it will never happen again.
- Lawrence Bourne Jr: Well, I must say it doesn't surprise me. You have been a constant disappointment to your mother and me ever since the day we brought you home from the orphanage.
- Lawrence Bourne III: Stop it, Dad. You know I'm not adopted.
- Lawrence Bourne Jr: [Puts his head in his hands] I know, but please; just allow me this little fantasy.
- Lawrence Bourne III: Stewardess! Stewardess?
- Tammy: Can I help you?
- Lawrence Bourne III: Yes, hi. I need to send a telegram, right now, this instant.
- Tammy: A telegram? Well, I suppose I could relay something to the captain, and he could pass it on along.
- Lawrence Bourne III: Fine, get this down:
- [Writes down message]
- Lawrence Bourne III: To Lawrence Bourne Jr, Number One Bourne Lane, Darien, Connecticut: "Lawrence, have made grave error. Have joined Peace Corps and gone to Thailand. Please arrange for my immediate return. Your loving son, blah, blah, blah Lawrence."
- Tammy: Are you sure about this?
- Lawrence Bourne III: Do I look like I'm associated with this hootenanny?
- Tammy: [Looks around] OK.
- Lawrence Bourne III: Thank you. And when you come back, bring me anything with alcohol in it.
- Beth Wexler: Bangkok. Already.
- Lawrence Bourne III: Well, we've been talking now for, oh my, ten hours, twenty two minutes.
- Beth Wexler: Kent, I'm really lucky to be assigned with you.
- Lawrence Bourne III: You know, uh, Beth, we're going to be awfully busy once we get to, uh...
- Beth Wexler: Loong Ta.
- Lawrence Bourne III: Loong Ta. Yes, of course. Uh, what say we, you and I, take the first night out, just for ourselves, huh? A bit of dinner, maybe a few drinks, and then see a little bit of the city, huh? I mean, there really is only one thing we haven't shared.
- Beth Wexler: [laughs] Very funny.
- Lawrence Bourne III: [Takes Beth's hand and starts kissing her hand and up her arm]
- Beth Wexler: [Pulls her hand away] Thank you just the same.
- Lawrence Bourne III: Beth, now, we've been moony-eyed since Istanbul, why fight it?
- Beth Wexler: Kent, why are you doing this? I thought we were becoming friends?
- Lawrence Bourne III: Well, this is what I do with my friends.
- Beth Wexler: You mean, you've just been trying to go to bed with me?
- Lawrence Bourne III: Well I think I've put in the hours, don't you?
- Beth Wexler: [attempting to speak Thai to the village women] Germs make you sick. That is why we give medicine to help kill you.
- John Reynolds: I'll tell you what I'm going to do. I'm gonna kill you, I'm gonna skin you, and I'm going to use your shin bone for a pencil box.
- Tom Tuttle: I don't understand it. I explained the bridge; everything was A-OK. Then I mentioned the teakwood we'd be using, and they went all heathen on me.
- At Toon: The problem is, you're an asshole.
- Tom Tuttle: All right, let's not get personal.
- [pause. Realizes he should be shocked to hear a villager speaking English]
- Tom Tuttle: Who said that?
- Lawrence Bourne III: It should have been me.
- At Toon: You're an asshole, Peace Corps guy. You can't cut down those trees. They're sacred! The spirit that guards the village lives in those trees. Don't they teach you nothing?
- Lawrence Bourne III: [to Tom] He might be just a marvelous mimic.
- [to At Toon]
- Lawrence Bourne III: You speak English.
- At Toon: As good as him. You better pick another set of trees, 'cause no one touches those, Champ.
- Tom Tuttle, Lawrence Bourne III: [laughing] Champ!
- Lawrence Bourne III: Who are you?
- At Toon: I'm At Toon. I spent four years in American school in Bangkok. I'm the sharpest thing this village ever seen, so they sent me. Big deal, less headaches here!
- Lawrence Bourne III: Astonishing.
- At Toon: Believe it, Hot Rod!
- Kent Sutcliffe: Bourne, it's 8:00. Graduation breakfast is at nine, graduation is at ten.
- Lawrence Bourne III: Well, Bootsy, we'd better get down to the real sex then.
- Bootsy: Graduation! My speech.
- [leaps out of bed]
- Bootsy: I don't even have a theme yet!
- [to Kent]
- Bootsy: I'm the valedictorian at Smith.
- [Leaves holding her clothes]
- Lawrence Bourne III: Did you knock out Lucille and tie her up?
- At Toon: No, she did it herself. You should've been there.
- Lawrence Bourne III: Excuse me, I'm, uh, just going by height of course, but, uh, are you in charge here?
- John Reynolds: Yes, John Reynolds.
- Lawrence Bourne III: Lawrence Bourne III, Johnny.
- John Reynolds: Bourne, I've got a telegram for you.
- Lawrence Bourne III: Hmm.
- [Speaking to Beth]
- Lawrence Bourne III: Last chance.
- Beth Wexler: Over my dead body.
- Lawrence Bourne III: Interesting.
- John Reynolds: You must have some friends in pretty high places, Bourne.
- John Reynolds: Yeah, well, we do consider Washington our General Store.
- John Reynolds: Damndest thing I ever saw. Training waived, location approval, Just like that, you're officially in the Peace Corps.
- [to Beth]
- John Reynolds: Beth?
- Lawrence Bourne III: [Bourne reads his telegram] Hey! John, John, John, This, this is ridiculous. Really, now I am obviously not, of Peace Corps fiber. It's not that I can't help these people, it's just that I don't want to.
- John Reynolds: You know, looking at you I think two years in Loong Ta might do you some good.
- Tom Tuttle: Hi, Tom Tuttle, from Tacoma Washington. Where do we saddle up for Loong Ta?
- John Reynolds: He's going, too?
- Tom Tuttle: Hey, Larry!
- John Reynolds: Yeah, I'll be taking you all in by chopper.
- Tom Tuttle: Chopper! Holy Cow! All, right, I call shotgun on this one! I got dibs on that, Larry, sorry.
- [Turns to shake hands with Beth]
- Tom Tuttle: Tom Tuttle, Tacoma Washington.
- Beth Wexler: Hi, Beth.
- Tom Tuttle: Hey!
- Beth Wexler: Are you going to Loong Ta?
- Tom Tuttle: Loong Ta? I'll give you a hand over here.
- Lawrence Bourne III: I'm stationed with him?
- [John nods]
- Lawrence Bourne III: John, for what I'm about to do, you should be ashamed.
- [Lawrence gets down on his knees]
- Lawrence Bourne III: I'd like to go home, please. Please, can I go home? Please? Just let me go home. Can I go home?
- Lawrence Bourne III: [throwing cigarettes and gum to the villagers] That's right, Lawrence Bournes III; rich American.
- Beth Wexler: [Lawrence is trying to talk Beth into bed] I thought we were becoming friends!
- Lawrence Bourne III: This is what I do with my friends.
- John Reynolds: Don't move, not an inch. Bourne, this is the end of the line.
- Lawrence Bourne III: You make one move towards me, and I'll signal my friends down there, and they'll blow us both to kingdom come, and, hey, wait a minute!
- John Reynolds: I tell you what I'm going to do, I'm going to kill you, and I'm going to skin you, and I'm going to use your shin bone for a pencil box. Ain't nobody around this time, Bourne. It's just you, me,
- [John thumbs his knife's edge]
- John Reynolds: and Mike.
- Lawrence Bourne III: Well, that's fair.
- John Reynolds: Stand up.
- Lawrence Bourne III: You know, there never was a time when brains didn't triumph over brawn.
- John Reynolds: Let's see what you've got, boy.
- John Reynolds: Oh, I've got brains.
- [Looks up at the sky]
- John Reynolds: Is that a Russian Mig-25?
- Lawrence Bourne III: [Looks up at sky and lowers his knife] Where?
- Lawrence Bourne III: [Knocks John over the bridge railing and into the river]
- John Reynolds: Gol Durn!
- Lawrence Bourne III: [Dives into the river] Whoa!