- Harold Finch: Mr. Reese, I understand your frustration with the opacity of the Machine, but there is a reason I chose to make it that way. The Machine only gives us numbers because I would always rather that a human element remain in determining something so critical as someone's fate. We have free will, and with that comes great responsibility, and some times great loss. I miss her dearly too...
- Sameen Shaw: You wanted to see me?
- Harold Finch: Would it be too much to ask you to snap a twig?
- Sameen Shaw: Not my thing.
- Owen Matthews: Going through other people's stuff, that's not cool. What are you looking for?
- John Reese: A safety razor, maybe. Hairspray.
- Owen Matthews: Dude, your hair looks fine. That salt-and-pepper thing's like catnip to soccer moms. Go au naturel.
- Sameen Shaw: You play dumb with me one more time. I'm gonna make you eat this tie. Except right before you digest it, I'm gonna pull it out and we're gonna do this all over again.
- Holly: So what is it you really do again?
- John Reese: I help people.
- Holly: You wanna help me get a drink?
- Sameen Shaw: Dizzy? Tongue a little itchy?
- Hersh: Shaw.
- Sameen Shaw: You once taught me that an operative should always wet their lips and wait for symptoms before drinking anything. Scopolamine. Tachycardia will be setting in shortly. Fatigue, amnesia...
- Hersh: I know what the drug does.
- Sameen Shaw: You're conscious, but you've been rendered completely docile.
- Hersh: I'm on a job right now.
- Sameen Shaw: You were. Guy with the glasses on the laptop, right? That was the number you were supposed to kill tonight?
- Hersh: I trained you well.
- Owen Matthews: You seem like an angry guy. Do you want to talk about that? I really think you want to talk about that.
- Owen Matthews: So, I'm sitting at my kitchen this morning, having my breakfast-toast, dry, butter's bad for your heart.
- John Reese: Almost as bad as a cartel hit man.
- Harold Finch: We have free will, and with that, comes great responsibillity and sometimes great loss.