- Charlotte Grayson: Look, you're not gonna tell mom and dad about me being pregnant, are you?
- Daniel Grayson: You think that's a conversation I want to be a part of?
- Emily Thorne: [opening voiceover] Darkness scares us. We yearn for the comfort of light, as it provides shape and form, allowing us to recognize, to define what's before us. But what is it we're afraid of, really? Not the darkness itself, but the truth we know hides within.
- Newscaster #1: All five New York City boroughs and additional outlying areas have been completely powerless for going on five hours. Thus far, authorities are at a loss to explain how multiple power grids, in addition to numerous communication networks could have all failed at once...
- Nolan Ross: Carrion.
- Aiden Mathis: But I thought the only person with the ability to activate the program was the Falcon. How could she do that if she's behind bars?
- Emily Thorne: She didn't have to. You did it for her.
- Nolan Ross: Emily's right. The Falcon must have altered Carrion so that when we hacked the Amanda Clarke Foundation...
- Aiden Mathis: It triggered the chain reaction.
- Emily Thorne: And she made sure that you used Aiden's administration code to set everything in motion. Everything that we did to prevent this...
- Aiden Mathis: Will now prove that I caused it.
- Nolan Ross: And we don't even know what they're going to do while the lights are out. This could be catastrophic!
- Emily Thorne: Aiden, you need to go dark.
- Aiden Mathis: No, I can take care of this...
- Emily Thorne: [interrupting] No, you listen to me. I have been through this before. I'm not gonna sit back and watch the Initiative turn you into their next David Clarke.
- Declan Porter: [as he fails to break them out of the cubicle] Damn!
- Regina George: It's called Plexiglas, dumb-ass. What does Charlotte see in you anyway? I get the "forbidden fruit" thing, but... you are particularly low-hanging. You have something over her?
- Declan Porter: [sarcastic] Yeah. Blackmail is how I land all my girls.
- Regina George: Just trying to explain the inexplicable.
- Victoria Grayson: [to Conrad:] Well, it seems Declan is old enough to engage in a variety of adult activities.
- [to the boy:]
- Victoria Grayson: Charlotte's gone for a walk to clear her head.
- [takes him by the shoulder]
- Victoria Grayson: Shall we?
- [leads him off]
- Victoria Grayson: I've always fancied us as having a... healthy respect for one another.
- Declan Porter: I'd say we had our ups and downs.
- Victoria Grayson: A respect born of the fact that you've understood your rightful place in this family... in that you don't have one. So imagine my confusion when you have the audacity to show up here after everything you've done.
- Declan Porter: That's what I wanna talk to Charlotte about. This new friend of hers, Regina, I don't know how she got those bruises, but I would never do something like that, and... It's just that Charlotte believes everything she says, like she cast some kind of spell over her.
- Victoria Grayson: It isn't a spell, Declan. She's pregnant.
- Declan Porter: She's what?
- Victoria Grayson: Oh, I see she hasn't told you. And for good reason.
- Declan Porter: There's gotta... there's gotta be a mistake.
- Victoria Grayson: Oh, there is. And I am done looking at it. Stay the hell away from my daughter, or your ability to procreate will be nothing but a distant memory.
- Declan Porter: [trapped in the cubicle, Regina is playing the viral video of her and Charlotte outside the club] Hey, is your phone online?
- [grabs it]
- Regina George: What are you doing?
- [rises]
- Declan Porter: My God, you downloaded that thing to your phone?
- [she snatches it back]
- Declan Porter: That wasn't a publicity stunt, was it? You really like her.
- Regina George: Whatever, pervert. Stop looking for a threesome.
- Declan Porter: That's why you wanted me out of the picture from the start. You can't stand it that she loves me, because why wouldn't she want a rich, damaged party girl instead?
- Regina George: God, seriously, shut up!
- Declan Porter: [smirking] Does Charlotte know how you feel? I don't know, maybe it would be easier coming from me, you know, the low-hanging fruit.
- Regina George: [threatening] You say anything to her, and...
- Declan Porter: You'll what? What are you gonna do?
- Conrad Grayson: There are bonds in this world that cannot be severed. and the bonds forged in the fires of hardship are as strong as the bonds of blood. We New Yorkers are family. Today I am proud to stand amongst you in the midst of what appears to be a cowardly cyber attack. An attack meant to throw our lives into chaos and to make us shrink with fear. But shrink we will not. Because we're New Yorkers. Because we press on. Because we persevere. And we will rise above this.