- Julián Martínez: [Julián is handed the facial composites] It's them. It's exactly them.
- [Looks to the artist]
- Julián Martínez: He is very good.
- Salvador Martí: How could the fucker not be good? He is Velázquez.
- Julián Martínez: Wait a minute, what is this? A joke or some shitty new psychological treatment or what?
- Julián Martínez: So the time machine exists and it is Spanish.
- Salvador Martí: How could the time machine exist? Please, don't be silly. The time machine doesn't exist. What does exist, is the time doors.
- Benito: [Benito and Thibaud are in a 2015 bookstore, still dressed in their early 19th century clothes] Excuse me. Do you have any volume dealing with a conflict between France and Spain, way back in 1808?
- Bookstore clerk: The War of Independence. History. Second floor.
- Thibaud: "War of Independence"? This is a bad start.
- Irene Larra: Miss Folch, Mr. De Entrerríos, it is time you discover the 21st century.
- [cut to the characters in a traffic jam]
- Irene Larra: Fuck's sake! What's the matter, you idiot? What an asshole that dude... fuck.
- [Alonso is in shock upon learning how the Spanish Empire he remembered has faded away since the 16th century]
- Alonso de Entrerríos: And now, are we sovereign or paying honor to someone else?
- Julián Martínez: Yes, to the Central European Bank.
- Thibaud: I fought at Austerlitz. I crossed the snowed Alps and the Egyptian desert. And never had I as much fear as I have now.
- Salvador Martí: The origin of the Ministry dates back to the reign of the Catholic Monarchs. A Jewish rabbi, in exchange for not being expelled, revealed them the secret of a network of doors that connected to the past of the Spanish kingdoms. The story is not very uplifting. The rabbi was not expelled... but the Inquisition burned him as a warlock.
- Amelia Folch: [while drinking with Irene] If my mother saw us... she's determined to find me a husband.
- Irene Larra: And you don't want to.
- Amelia Folch: I don't need a man.
- Irene Larra: You don't know how happy you just made me.
- [kisses Amelia on the lips]
- Amelia Folch: I don't need one, but I happen to like them.
- Alonso de Entrerríos: Sir, can I make you a question? Who is this Alatriste that everyone here mistakes me for?
- Salvador Martí: All goverments have secrets. Ours only has one, but it's an ancient one. Our secret is this ministry.
- Julián Martínez: And which ministry is this?
- Salvador Martí: The Ministry of Time.
- Ernesto Jiménez: [in Alonso's cell in 1569, disguised as a monk] Are you Alonso de Entrerríos?
- Alonso de Entrerríos: You are wasting your time, Father. Whatever I have to talk to God about, I shall tell him in person tomorrow.
- Ernesto Jiménez: I am not here to hear your confession, but to take you out of here, if you accept my offer. Will you work for a secret office of the Crown?
- Alonso de Entrerríos: Spying?
- Ernesto Jiménez: Something like that. Special jobs in strange places. You will be dead to everyone, including Blanca, your wife.
- [Alonso silently agrees and Ernesto frees him from his chains]
- Alonso de Entrerríos: You must be very powerful. As much as these people like executions, I am surprised they cancelled this one.
- Ernesto Jiménez: It's not cancelled. They shall have their execution.
- [Ernesto reveals behind him the body of a man, tied up and blindfolded]
- Alonso de Entrerríos: Who is he?
- Ernesto Jiménez: For all intents and purposes...
- [reveals the man's face, gagged under the blindfold, and he turns out to be the captain who wrongfully sentenced Alonso to death]
- Ernesto Jiménez: you.
- Alonso de Entrerríos: Can I stay to watch the show?
- [a digital watch on Ernesto's wrist produces a beeping noise]
- Ernesto Jiménez: No time for that.