- Raymond 'Red' Reddington: It always starts with a favor.
- Harold Cooper: I've known Tom Connolly for two decades. He's had dinners at my house. And when he offered to help me get into that drug trial, it was my only hope.
- Raymond 'Red' Reddington: It wasn't just your hope, Harold. It was your wife's hope, it was your children's. You were given a terminal diagnosis, and Connolly ends up offering you a choice: your life or your ethics, and you picked your life. What good are ethics if you aren't alive to live by them?