- Miranda Shaw: [to the recruits] When I leave this classroom, the exam begins. When it ends is up to you.
- Shelby Wyatt: I don't suppose your dad gave you an inside track on this test?
- Caleb Haas: [chuckles] Yeah, right. I'm sure he designed it specifically for me to fail.
- Miranda Shaw: I'm sure you have questions.
- Simon Asher: You ever read "Hapgood"? It's a play about the KGB's use of twins during the Cold War. How they used them to infiltrate places with large amounts of intel but limited access. Swap one out, debrief, switch again. Constant flow of information without any of that pesky "where'd that girl we trusted with our terror plot go?" I'm a pretty smart guy. Yes.
- Miranda Shaw: And yet you chose two women who couldn't remember to keep their door closed, who jeopardized your career by locking me in this bathroom. So, no, I don't have questions. I have plans.
- Clayton Haas: Defending this country is not a job. It's not a skill set. It's not a stepping stone to something else. It's an honor. And it's an honor that you have to earn.
- Natalie Vasquez: How is a blank piece of paper a test?
- Simon Asher: How's a raven like a writing desk?
- Caleb Haas: Just another twisted Quantico psychological experiment.
- Elias Harper: Maybe we're supposed to write an essay?
- Natalie Vasquez: On what?
- Elias Harper: Why we deserve to be here.
- Natalie Vasquez: Then leave yours blank.
- Ryan Booth: Who knows Brandon best?
- Elias Harper: Vasquez. She's sleeping with him.
- Natalie Vasquez: Mind your own business.
- Elias Harper: It isn't personal. I just want to finish the test.
- Natalie Vasquez: Fletcher's not crazy. Okay, if he was I'd be having way more fun.
- Elias Harper: Whatever hang-ups you have about what happened in Gaza, you're a man who saves everyone, and I'm a man who runs from a firecracker.
- Shelby Wyatt: You didn't really want him to take the bribe, did you?
- Clayton Haas: Miss Wyatt, my son is a screw-up. I want him to find his place in the world. I just don't believe for a second it's here. And if you're honest with yourself, you'd agree.
- Shelby Wyatt: No, I don't.
- Clayton Haas: You will.
- Shelby Wyatt: Caleb is a smart, brave, capable person, and he does belong here.
- Clayton Haas: Miss Wyatt, I'm not hard on my son because I don't believe in him. I'm hard on him because it's the only thing keeping him alive. He's a greater danger to himself than you know. But I do. I was there. I saved his life and the lives of those around him with my own two hands.
- Nimah Amin: We can't keep lying to them.
- Miranda Shaw: Lying is a small price to pay for the good of this project.
- Nimah Amin: I know you think you're protecting us, but you expect us to put our lives in each other's hands. That requires honesty. It requires trust. Everyone in that room deserves to know who we are. If we can't trust them with our secret, how can you trust them with our lives?
- Ryan Booth: This better be good. I'm missing class.
- Liam O'Connor: Actually, you're not. You've been reinstated.
- [holds out a badge]
- Liam O'Connor: Think the words you're looking for are "thank you."
- Ryan Booth: Can I think about it? I think the words you're looking for are "yes, Booth, you can think about it." You owe me at least that.