- Harold Finch: You know before we, before I found you, the numbers haunted me. I never felt so helpless in my entire life. I know I can't get justice for all of them, but the possibility of having just one...
- Zoe Morgan: You never did tell me your name.
- John Reese: John. My name's John.
- Zoe Morgan: Of course it is.
- John Reese: She does favors for a price. She's a fixer.
- Harold Finch: Assuming that she's the victim, any idea who'd want to take her out?
- John Reese: Who wouldn't?
- Robert Keller: Pleasant as it is to talk, the board and I do need to know what your... intentions are, now that you own 8% of Virtanen.
- Harold Finch: Actually, I've sold my shares in Virtanen. I had a tip that the price is about to take a nosedive.
- Robert Keller: Tip? What tip?
- Harold Finch: That senior management was about to have some very serious legal problems. In fact, I took my initial investment, and I shorted your company... To the tune of 1/2 billion shares.
- Robert Keller: f you're betting against me, you clearly don't know who you're dealing with.
- Harold Finch: Oh, I know exactly what kind of man I'm dealing with. I know you don't care who you hurt to get what you want. I know the only thing you do care about is money. So that's what I'm going to take from you. Your money. All of it. Your were right Mr Keller. I'll never will have to invest in another company.
- Zoe Morgan: You're probably one of those guys that can get out of anything with a paper clip. Where did you learn that stuff?
- John Reese: It's a long story.
- Harold Finch: No photos of family or friends. Some jazz records. She dropped out of law school, no current employer. But she buys a $2 million dollar apartment for cash three years ago. What's she gotten herself mixed up in? Where does she keep the things she cares about? Where do you?
- John Reese: I don't have any things I care about.
- Zoe Morgan: Who the hell are you?
- John Reese: You can say we're in the same business. Fixing problems. I had information that you might be in danger
- Zoe Morgan: Information? Who gave it to you?
- John Reese: You have your people. I have mine.
- John Reese: Let me guess. You're looking to strike a deal with Virtanen.
- Zoe Morgan: No, not this time.
- John Reese: I thought everyone had an angle.
- Zoe Morgan: I know this girl once. Naive. She got a tough lesson on the way the world works. That reminds me of Dana.
- John Reese: Also, they tried to kill you.
- Zoe Morgan: Well, there's that, too.
- Zoe Morgan: You want to get out of here?
- John Reese: Where are we going?
- Zoe Morgan: To do something illegal.
- Zoe Morgan: [about Finch] Am I ever going to meet this imaginary friend?
- John Reese: He's a very private person.
- Harold Finch: Every person on that list died of heart failure within a year of taking the drug.
- John Reese: Lawson must've dropped them from the study and paid the locals to hide it. Their new wonder drug is a killer.
- Harold Finch: It's 6 people out of 200. That's a 3% mortality rate. If a million people take that drug, 30,000 can die.
- John Reese: Potassium chloride?
- Samuel Douglas: Government uses it for lethal injections. Stops a heart in minutes. Quite humanely, really.
- John Reese: Lucky you.
- Samuel Douglas: Lucky me?
- [Reese frees himself and stabs him with the needle]
- John Reese: So these people are trying to kill you, and your plan is to break into their office.
- Zoe Morgan: I prefer the direct approach.
- Joss Carter: We got a rap sheet on this old gangster?
- Detective Raymond Terney: Reads like a phone book. Armed robbery, racketeering; He was charged with homicide in the mid '70s.
- Joss Carter: [Looks] Marlene Elias? What was that?
- Detective Raymond Terney: Uh, 1973. The murder charge he skated on. Victim was Marlene Elias.
- Joss Carter: The evidence was stolen from lockup a couple weeks back.
- Detective Raymond Terney: Evidence was stolen from a 40-year-old cold case?
- Joss Carter: And the murder weapon.
- Zoe Morgan: How did you know I was going to be in trouble?
- John Reese: Given your choice of career, doesn't seem like much of a stretch. You might consider a new line of work.
- Zoe Morgan: You're one to judge.
- John Reese: Talbott's a blackmailing scumbag, but hardly a threat. What about her previous jobs?
- Harold Finch: No client list in her apartment. You need to get her talking.
- John Reese: Easier said than done.
- Zoe Morgan: You don't know anything about me.
- John Reese: I know almost everything about you. I know you grew up in a nice house in Yonkers. I know your dad was a city official till he got snared in a corruption case. I know you spent the rest of your childhood in a little apartment in Queens with your mother. About the only thing I don't know about you is why you started doing whatever it is you do.
- Zoe Morgan: My dad was a party man. Machine politician. Did what he was told. Right up until the cops showed up, put the cuffs on him. The local press was camped out on our lawn for weeks. Then this guy showed up, the guy that the party would send to deal with... uncomfortable situations. He said two words. And those reporters? They packed up, and they left, and they never came back. And I realized, that's what I want to be. The person who knows what to say, and always has something to trade.
- John Reese: So what are you going to trade now?
- Harold Finch: I'm working on the audio. Interference suggests it was made on an old PCS cell network, making the recording at least two years old.
- John Reese: I didn't know static had a vintage.
- Mark Lawson: I thought I knew everyone with an investment portfolio as broad as yours
- Harold Finch: When you're in a position where people want your money, a little anonymity is rather rewarding.
- Bernie Sullivan: I managed to fill in some of the blanks on young Carl Elias.
- Joss Carter: Good work.
- Bernie Sullivan: The kid was like a professional runaway. From the age of eight, he couldn't stay anywhere more than a couple of months.
- Joss Carter: So no one really knew him.
- Bernie Sullivan: Nobody except some tough old bird named Gloria Recinto. Apparently, she, uh, she looked after him. He would send her a Christmas card and some money every year. You gotta read these things, Carter. I mean it's as if the guy was going to either be president or Attila the Hun.
- Harold Finch: Nothing is ever really deleted, Mr. Reese. The pieces are always out there. You just got to know how to put them back together.
- Anthony Talbott: Nice of Virtanen to send a skirt.
- Zoe Morgan: I understand that you have something of interest to my client.
- Anthony Talbott: You know, it is amazing what you can find just drifting out there in the ether. One thing I have learned about the, uh, smartest guys in the room... They just can't keep it in their pants.
- [Talbott passes the recording, Zoe gives him an envelope of cash]
- Anthony Talbott: This is all $40,000?
- Zoe Morgan: Count it. At home.
- [Goes to leave]
- Zoe Morgan: By the way, I would have asked for $80,000. Maybe it's a skirt thing.
- Joss Carter: I wanted to talk about that case you worked back in '73. Marlene Elias.
- Bernie Sullivan: How did that mess come up again?
- Joss Carter: A man I'm investigating broke into the evidence lockup a few weeks ago. He and his crew sold the contents of the evidence box. Your notes, murder weapon, Which turned out plunged into the chest of your lead suspect.
- Bernie Sullivan: Hmm. That would be divine retribution.
- Joss Carter: What can you tell me about Deluca?
- Bernie Sullivan: Piece of work. I had him dead to rights on murdering that woman. The dimwit left a partial on the knife.
- Joss Carter: The DA dropped the case?
- Bernie Sullivan: Bought and sold. Back then, the city was different.
- Zoe Morgan: So you are tracking my cell phone. I know how all the pieces of the city fit together. I know all the players. I know all the angles. And then there's you. You know, I don't understand you. And I don't like things that I don't understand.
- John Reese: Then why did you want me to come here?
- Zoe Morgan: Because I don't have to like you to get some news out of you.
- Bernie Sullivan: Marlene was a cocktail waitress. She worked in a club owned by Gianni Moretti. She has an affair with the don. She wants him to dump his wife. He gets tired of her complaints, and sends our friend here, the cutlery rack, to shut her up. He did. Permanently. The thing that stuck with me was the kid.
- Joss Carter: Kid? What kid?
- Bernie Sullivan: I dug these up. Marlene and the don had a kid. A son. He was out back playing when it happened. Came inside and he found her. Kid walked all the way to the station. I still got that image of him standing there with no shoes on.
- Joss Carter: What happened to him?
- Bernie Sullivan: Well, the Don didn't want to cop to the affair, so the kid went into the system. I don't have to tell you what happens to those kids.
- Joss Carter: You think he's the killer?
- Bernie Sullivan: Don't know who else would go to so much trouble.