- Jack Carter: Allison, it's me, Jack, the real Jack, and I'm in love with you. I need you to trust me. Do you trust me?
- Allison Blake: No.
- Jack Carter: [Stunned] Real--I thought that would go differently.
- Jack Carter: Sorry, Fargo. Couldn't help but overhear. Can I offer you an opinion?
- Douglas Fargo: Sure.
- Jack Carter: I know this is hard, but, um... Let her go. You're a catch. There are lots of eccentric geniuses in town who would love to have a shot at you. Some of them even women.
- Jack Carter: My body's actually in Henry's garage. He had to--to jack me to get at my mp3s.
- Zane Donovan: Npc.
- Jack Carter: Yes.
- Douglas Fargo: Run! The entire program is de-rezzing, with us inside!
- Zane Donovan: We must have created a cascade failure. If that bullet reaches us, we're dead.
- Jack Carter: So "run" is sort of a short-term plan, then?
- Zane Donovan: We're gonna try to blow up the Astraeus? That's not gonna be easy. That ship was made to take a pounding.
- Jack Carter: I know, but that's why I wrote on-- Oh, I wrote...
- [Looks at his palm. There's nothing there]
- Zane Donovan: Great.
- Jack Carter: This is a virtual hand now.
- Zane Donovan: Mm-hmm.
- Jack Carter: [Tries to remember] It's... Ironic.
- Zane Donovan: Mm-mm.
- Jack Carter: I got this. That means it's a different word. It's bionic.
- [Zane shakes head]
- Jack Carter: It's...
- [remembers]
- Jack Carter: Ionic!
- Douglas Fargo: Guys... We're trapped in the matrix!
- Allison Blake: We know.
- Douglas Fargo: ...You could have told me in your message.
- Jack Carter: What we have to do is build a thing to blow up the ship, and then there's gonna be a heat spike, and then Henry, he can trace it with Jo in the real world.
- Zane Donovan: Yeah. No computer version of you could have come up with something that incoherent.
- Jack Carter: You were holding a gun at my face!
- Jo Lupo: [Carter is about to go into the computer simulation] You know what to do?
- Jack Carter: Yeah. Wrote it on my hand.
- Jo Lupo: Carter, just think about that for a second.
- Jack Carter: Right. Well, I'll memorize it.