- Nikki Carpenter: You were real smooth with that border guard back there. How did you ever manage to ask him about his sister's feet?
- MacGyver: [indignantly] All right, so my German's not so good - - we got through, didn't we? I wanna thank you for all YOUR help.
- Nikki Carpenter: [referring to the lovely delicate blue-eyed blonde who had been Mac's hot-air-ballooning instructor, and whom Mac had developed a slight but obvious crush on] Well, I suppose your SWISS MISS could have done better.
- MacGyver: *Heidi* happens to be extremely competent, intelligent, and articulate.
- Nikki Carpenter: Not to mention a great body.
- MacGyver: THAT'S not her fault!
- Nikki Carpenter: [smiling sarcastically] YOU certainly wouldn't hold it against her.
- MacGyver: [resentfully tossing Nikki's previous "you're a closet sexist to not want to bring a woman along on your mountain hike" remark back in her face] Oh, NOW who's the sexist, huh?
- [first lines]
- MacGyver: [voice-over narration] I'd finished up a little mission in Zurich and the Phoenix Foundation gave me a bonus. Some time off and a first-class flight anywhere I wanted to go. So I took 'em up on it. Signed up for a hot-air balloon rally. Slow and easy over the Alps. No schedule. No time tables. Just watching the birds go by. Enjoying the scenery, smelling the fresh air and reminding myself why eagles don't get ulcers. I did hope we had enough fuel to keep our altitude over the peaks and clear the snow field. We did and, as soon as we got away from the others, everything kind of worked out. Besides, I'd brought along an expert.
- [last lines]
- Nikki Carpenter: [after having been pushed out of a balloon and catching up with MacGyver on the ground] You! You rat! You're the lowest! I should've know there was a reason you gave me the only 'chute! What's next, MacGyver? Perhaps you'd enjoy dragging me behind a speeding truck. Did it ever even occur to you I could have landed in a tree? Or in the middle of a busy intersection? What if I hadn't of spotted where you landed? Did you ever consider that, Mr. Improvise. And another thing... Wait a minute. Where's Starkoss? Don't tell me. You didn't make him jump, too, did you?
- [at MacGyver's nod in a direction behind her, Nikki turns to watch Starcoss smilingly wave goodbye and walk into the woods]