He said what?

I have finally acquired -- not that I couldn't have done so any time the last several years -- a copy of the Theodore Sturgeon novelization of the 1961 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea movie. Now, I've watched the movie a few times, and I know it's a universe or three over from the TV show, and not in the same direction as most of the fanfic I've seen. Even so, flipping through the book revealed a piece of dialogue that has completely broken my brain by its incompatibility with the characters I'm familiar with. Not in a million years can I see Lee saying that, not even in a severely altered state -- or Harry letting him get away with it, either. I'm not going to post it right now, but no doubt I'll blog the book in due course, and see if I feel the same way about it when I've read the whole thing.