- [first lines]
- Quellcrist Falconer: First thing you'll learn is that nothing is what it seems. Ignore your assumptions. Don't trust anything. What you see, what you hear, what people tell you, what you think you remember
- [soft gasps]
- Quellcrist Falconer: Your body is not who you are. You shed it like a snake sheds its skin. Leave it, forgotten, behind you.
- Quellcrist Falconer: One thing I can promise you: coming back from the dead is a bitch. Every single time.
- Reileen Kawahara: What are you doing here, big brother?
- Takeshi Kovacs: I should be asking you that.
- Reileen Kawahara: That's easy. I'm not real. What's your excuse?
- Kristin Ortega: What were you in for?
- Takeshi Kovacs: You know, a little bit of this, a little bit of that. I blew some shit up and killed some people. Some people just need killing.
- Kristin Ortega: And how do you decide who deserves to die?
- Takeshi Kovacs: Depends on the day. Anything can set me off: interstellar dictatorship, genocide, you people who talk too much.
- Takeshi Kovacs: Where am I?
- Trainee: Alcatraz Prison. Bay City.
- Takeshi Kovacs: What planet, genius?
- Meditech 2: Earth.