Deadlock Quotes

“I always say that it’s not really been a good day if you haven’t caused a major diplomatic incident by lunchtime,’ Otto said with a grin.”
― Mark Walden, Deadlock

“Otto said, raising an eyebrow. ‘You know it’s almost like people don’t want me interfering with their highly advanced experimental weapon systems these days.’

‘How very inconsiderate of them,’ Raven said.”
― Mark Walden, Deadlock

“Your explanation has been quite clear, thank you, Franz,’ Wing said, still frowning. ‘I just think that financial corruption on this scale may be a little more than I can get my head around.’

‘Poor old ninja boy,’ Shelby said, smiling. ‘Knows twenty-seven ways to take you down with just his pinky, but can’t actually count to twenty-seven.’

‘So this makes perfect sense to you, I suppose,’ Wing said, handing the sheet to Shelby.

‘Yeah, it’s easy,’ Shelby said, pointing out one area of the diagram. ‘See this piece here is just gobbledegook.’ Her finger moved to another area. ‘Whereas this section is premium-grade incomprehensible gibberish and this section,’ her finger moved again, ‘appears to be mostly in Greek.’

‘Am I to take it that you have not studied for the test tomorrow at all then?’ Wing asked, raising an eyebrow.

‘Nope,’ Shelby said with a grin. ‘There’s going to be some good old-fashioned last-minute cramming later though. Either that or I’m going to just sit near my best bud Franz here and he’s going to write out all the answers in nice, b-i-i-i-i-g, easily legible letters. Right, bud?’

‘This is being what I normally do,’ Franz said with a sigh, ‘isn’t it?”
― Mark Walden, Deadlock

“He turned towards Otto. ‘It’s good to see you too, Mr Malpense. Staying out of trouble, I hope?’

‘Of course,’ Otto replied. ‘You know me, Professor.’

‘Indeed I do, Mr Malpense, indeed I do,’ the Professor replied, ‘which is why I’ve activated the school’s long-range defence grid. Just as a precaution you understand.”
― Mark Walden, Deadlock

“We’d better get a move on,’ Shelby said, quickly doing up the fastenings on her own suit. ‘Francisco said that the Professor has some cool new toys for us.’

‘I believe he actually said assault weapons,’ Wing said.

‘Right,’ Shelby said. ‘New toys!’

‘You know, I do worry about you sometimes,’ Wing said, shaking his head.

‘What can I say? I’m a twenty-first-century girl. Who wants flowers and chocolates, when you can have body armour and bullets?’ Shelby said, giving Wing a quick peck on the cheek as she walked out of the room.

‘Is it right that I should occasionally be slightly frightened of my girlfriend?’ Wing asked as he watched her leave.

‘As I understand it, that’s perfectly normal,’ Otto replied with a grin.”
― Mark Walden, Deadlock

“This is the Sandman,’ Francisco said. ‘Its non-lethal mode is derived from the same technology as the Sleeper guns that you’re already familiar with, but with far greater range and accuracy.’ He pressed a button just above the rifle’s trigger guard and a glowing, blue holographic sight appeared in the air above the weapon. ‘This targeting array will identify and track multiple targets through heat signature, electromagnetic emissions or movement. It’s also capable of up to twelve times’ magnification for long-range sniping. If it should prove necessary the weapon can also be switched to lethal mode which fires magnetically accelerated microslugs, which have the stopping power of a bullet but are much lower in mass, giving it greatly increased ammo capacity. Each clip holds two hundred and fifty rounds, allowing for sustained rapid fire if necessary. The Sandman fires almost silently, with no muzzle flash and without the need for a suppressor, making it an ideal stealth weapon. It also has a full thermoptic camouflage coating tied into the system on board your ISIS armour. You have ten minutes to fire the weapon on the range in order to better familiarise yourself with it. Any questions?’

‘Are they going to be in the shops in time for Christmas?’ Shelby asked.”
― Mark Walden, Deadlock

“If you must know where I was this morning,’ Shelby said, ‘Professor Pike never misses breakfast and I was just taking advantage of that fact to . . . erm . . . visit his office.’ She produced a sheet of folded paper from the pocket of her black uniform jumpsuit. ‘I know his memory’s probably not that great these days, but he really shouldn’t just write his master server access passwords down like that.’

‘And he just left that lying around, did he?’ Wing asked with a slight frown.

‘Yeah, just lying around . . . in his safe,’ Shelby said with a mischievous smile, ‘but if you’re going to rely on such basic security you’re really asking for this kind of thing to happen.”
― Mark Walden, Deadlock

“Hard to believe that it was only ten minutes ago that this actually seemed like a good idea,’ Otto said, staring at the tiny cars passing by on the street hundreds of metres below him.

I would like it noted that I have never classified what you are about to do as a ‘good idea’, a calm voice with a slight synthetic edge said inside Otto’s head.”
― Mark Walden, Deadlock

“OK, no problem,’ Shelby said confidently.

‘I can assure you that it will be a problem, young lady,’ Nathaniel said with a frown. ‘That locking system is a third generation, pre-shared key system with passive intrusion detection.’

‘Like I said,’ Shelby said, smiling, ‘no problem.”
― Mark Walden, Deadlock

“Well,’ Shelby said with a crooked smile, ‘look at it this way. If you’re a member of the Disciples right now, you have Otto tracking you down and Raven coming after you when he does.’

‘Actually,’ Wing said, ‘when you put it like that, I almost . . . almost . . . feel sorry for them.”
― Mark Walden, Deadlock

“Franz said with a resigned sigh. ‘Normally I am enjoying the whole shooting and exploding and nearly dying thing as much as anyone, but I am wondering perhaps if there is any chance that I might be being allowed to sit this one out for once?”
― Mark Walden, Deadlock

“Accurate enough to make the shots you need to make, Franz?’ Otto asked.

‘Yes, they are being very nice,’ Franz said, nodding happily. ‘Do not worry, my lack of accuracy on the range was due to the compensating for increased muzzle velocity.’

‘Right,’ Otto said, not bothering to point out that if they had been keeping a tally his shots would have outscored all the rest of them put together.”
― Mark Walden, Deadlock

“Are they going to be in the shops in time for Christmas?” Shelby asked.”
― Mark Walden, Deadlock

“the hotel, but the pilot assures me that we can make up the time once we get airborne.”
― Mark Walden, Deadlock