- Patricia Thornton: Mac, you can't help anyone if you're dead.
- Angus MacGyver: So I'm under house arrest?
- Patricia Thornton: I prefer to call it protective custody.
- Angus MacGyver: I don't even get a chair to sit in?
- Patricia Thornton: No, because you would figure out how to turn that chair into a cannon, or a...
- Angus MacGyver: Come on, I'd need propellant to make a cannon.
- Patricia Thornton: See? You're already thinking about it.