- Emily Thorne: [opening voiceover] My father's false imprisonment taught me in that in a crisis, you quickly find out who your real friends are. Tragedy and scandal, it seems, have a unique way of clarifying people's priorities.
- Emily Thorne: [closing voiceover] Adversity creates unexpected alliances, but treaties of this nature seldom form with an equality of power. Loyalties forged in apprehension and mistrust are tenuous at best. Easily broken when held up to the unforgiving light of the truth. But in the darkness of our most desperate hours, it's often these loyalties that lend us the strength to do what we know must be done. A conflicted heart feeds on doubt and confusion. It will make you question your path, your tactics, your motives. When you stare ahead and darkness is all you see, only reason and determination can pull you back from the abyss.
- Nolan Ross: Y'ever notice how, whenever you want her to leave, girlfriend keeps popping up like the homicidal-stripper version of Whac-a-Mole?
- Nolan Ross: You're not going anywhere?
- Jack Porter: Declan needs me.
- Nolan Ross: You're making a colossal mistake.
- Jack Porter: You're sure you don't want a drink?
- Nolan Ross: Hm. Make it a double. It's gonna be a long fall.