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Jericho (TV series)

Jericho (2006–2008) was an American television series, airing on CBS, about the residents of a small Kansas town who must come to terms with a new and very different reality after a nuclear disaster caused by several terrorist attacks destroys most of America.

Pilot [1.1]

 * Deputy: Are we under attack?
 * Johnston: Son, I don't want to hear that word again. Now look, this could have been a test. It could have been an accident. There's, uh, military bases near Denver. One explosion does not make an attack. If we stay calm, the town stays calm, okay.

 * Johnston: Hey, Shep? You said earlier that you had heard that speech before. Ever ask yourself why I say it? ‘Cause I happen to trust you people. ‘Cause I love my town. Now, something happened in Denver, in Atlanta, and it could be that we wake up and find out that’s where it stopped. But, until we know, are we going to use our imaginations to solve problems or to cause them? Now, we can get the power back on. We can find out how big this thing is. If we have to we can fight. We can fight anybody, we can fight all enemies. The only way that’s going to happen is if we work together. Now, go on home. We’ll meet tomorrow at the town hall. And folks, don’t you break my heart again.

 * Hawkins: You might want to get some black spray paint, you know, cover that. [Points at the word "Jericho" on the police car] Look, I know that you're telling people that is was an accident, and I hope it was, but if it was an attack, Sheriff and there's chaos out there, you might not want the wrong people to know that Jericho is still here.

 * Deputy: We have our frequencies, sir, but outside, it's like there's no one there.
 * Johnston: All right, um... what about analog? We could contact the governor with a Ham radio, couldn't we?
 * Deputy: That could work, but there's only one in town that I know of.
 * Johnston: I was afraid you were going to say that.

 * [Johnston knocks on the door, Old Man Oliver answers the door cocking his shotgun]
 * Johnston: Oh, Oliver, would you stop that.
 * Old Man Oliver: Sorry, Johnston. Thought you were Aliens. Well, we're under attack, by Aliens. Don't you know that?
 * Johnston: Yes, we do. That's why we're here. Do you have your Ham radio?
 * Old Man Oliver: Yeah, for you....50 cents.

 * Johnston: If you convince me that you are living a more productive life, then..
 * Eric: That's right Jake.
 * Jake: We were both born on third base, stop pretending you hit a triple. When are you going to realize I am 32 years old?
 * Johnston: When you do.

Fallout [1.2]

 * Fallout Alert: Attention, attention. There is radioactive fallout coming from the nuclear blast. You have less than 90 minutes to get indoors. I repeat, you have less than 90 minutes to get in doors. Use your basements. Put duck tape or leather tape to seal your homes. You have less than 90 minutes. There is a shelter at town hall and at the medical centre. There is radioactive fallout coming. You have less than 90 minutes to get indoors.

 * Mary: You're not from around here are you?
 * Mimi: I came from DC to supervise a little audit on a farm. Is God punishing me?
 * Mary: You really should get to the basement at town hall.
 * Mimi: You think?

 * Johnston: Gail, who is in charge here? You or me?
 * Gail: You do not want to play that game.

 * Jake: Bonnie, take them to the storm cellar now!! Go, guys, go!! Emily, we've got to get inside. Emily? Emily, hey. It's going to be ok? Alright I promise. Everything is going to be ok, alright. We've got to go in now, babe. Babe? We've got to get inside before the rain, okay? Come with me. Come on. Run. Run. Get inside!

 * Eric: Do you realize a nuclear bomb went off yesterday?
 * Pool Player: So? If I'm going to die in a nuclear blast, so be it.  I'll be right here, playing pool with my buddies.
 * Eric: But you're not going to die in a blast. You're going to get radiation poisoning. Within the first couple of hours you're going to be vomiting and have crippling diarrhea. Your hair is going to fall out in chunks. Your skin is going to blister. Your internal organs are going to start to shut down. Because, well, frankly....they're being cooked from the inside. You're going to get sicker and sicker until you can't move. And then you will die. Over there on the floor by the pool table....with your buddies.

Four Horsemen [1.3]

 * Gail: You know I keep thinking about when we were kids and how they used to make us practice hiding under our desks in case of an atomic bomb.
 * Johnston: Yeah and duck for cover.
 * Gail: That's the first thing I thought of when I saw that mushroom cloud. Did they have enough time to hide under their desks? It's pretty stupid, huh?

 * Stanley: Are you okay?
 * Mimi: Huh, if you call radiation poisoning "okay".
 * Stanley: Were you out in the rain, too?
 * Mimi: Heavens no! I touched a building when we came out of the shelter.
 * Stanley: Oh.
 * Mimi: Look, you can stop pretending.
 * Stanley: What do you mean?
 * Mimi: I audited your farm. Why do you care?
 * Stanley: Maybe I'm a nicer person than you.
 * Mimi: Right. Were you in the rain?
 * Stanley: Yeah, for about twenty minutes.
 * Mimi: Well, you look pretty good.
 * Stanley: Thanks. You know, try to work out.
 * [Mimi laughs]
 * Stanley: Look, um, you know I think I got the worst of it, so as long as I'm okay, you should be fine.
 * Mimi: You're really sweet. And you still owe the IRS $180,000.
 * Stanley: Yeah, I know.

 * [Mimi rests her hand on a column, and when she lifts it, her hand is covered in black]
 * Mimi: What's this black stuff?
 * Mary: That used to be Denver.

 * Johnston: In my office. Now.
 * [Punches Gray Anderson]
 * Johnston: Right now these people need our leadership. I will not have you tearing this town apart. And when all this is over, if you and I are still alive, you investigate your ass off. In the meantime, if I hear anymore talk like that out of you, you and I are gonna have a problem. Do we understand each other?

 * Johnston: I can’t just sit around here all day. We’ve got to find the sheriff and his men; we’ve got to get the power back on.
 * Gail: Okay, now you’re going to stay here as long as it takes. Now, don’t make me take your pants with me.
 * Johnston: I can run this town without my pants.
 * Gail: It wouldn’t be the first time.
 * [Jake walks in]
 * Jake: There's a story I don't want to hear.

Walls of Jericho [1.4]

 * Dale: That's a dollar 69.
 * Allison: Ok.
 * Dale: You got the last bag of corn chips.
 * Skylar: I'll give you $20 for them!

 * Stanley: I couldn't find an empty pesticide container so I thought this water tank might do.
 * Heather: No no no, we can't use steel, there is to much risk of static. One spark and the whole thing could blow sky high.
 * Jake: We don't have time to look for something else!
 * Heather: We can't, well, who's gonna fill it?

 * Johnston: Earlier today we buried 20 people, refugees from Denver. People we, we didn't know but, were prepared to welcome into our town. Unfortunately they died of radiation poisoning before we could reach them. For those people from Denver and for our own people, for Sheriff Daurs and Deputy Riley, for Deputy Connor and Deputy Saleam. For people out there somewhere out there that we know nothing about that might be suffering and dying right now, I ask that we take a moment of silence.

 * If you've lost a loved one would you please stand? If someone you love is missing would you please join those standing? We stand because we know that every life matters... we have to fight for every life, even when it seems hopeless, even if we're afraid. Because the battle ahead isn't just for our survival, its for our humanity.

 * Jake: We’ve seen it. We’ve seen it 100 times. A man just died in our clinic. Our clinic! He was traveling with his daughter and about 20 other people. Alright, it could’ve been Shep or Gray or any of us. They need our help. Are we going to help them, or are we just gonna sit here watching the same three images over and over?

 * Johnston: Any word from Shep or Gray?
 * Jimmy: No, Mayor. Still can’t get them on the radio.
 * Bill: Maybe they got captured by those tanks that Stanley saw?
 * Jimmy: Those tanks are probably just National Guard, okay?
 * Bill: You don’t know that, they could be China.
 * Johnston: Shhh!
 * Bill: They could be China, they could be Iran, Al Qaeda, North Korea; anybody who hates us. They could be coming here and what’s our line of defense? You’re looking at it.

Federal Response [1.5]

 * Jake: You know what the hardest part about growing up your son was? It’s not the politics or the expectations, it’s… It’s that I always knew you were a good judge of character and you thought mine was lousy. When I left town, I was determined to prove you wrong but…but instead, everywhere I went I seemed to prove you right. Dad, I wasn’t just in San Diego.
 * Johnston: I don’t care.
 * Jake: What?
 * Johnston: I don’t care. If you need to tell me, I’ll listen, but…wherever you went, whatever you did, it changed you. And a stupid little punk may have left home but a pretty decent fellow came back. I can live with that.

 * Jake: You were always good at blocking out the bad. Dad, not so much.
 * Gail: He’s had more to block out. When you left, you left quite a mess. You have no idea the lengths your father went to try to square things.
 * Jake: Then why didn’t he talk to me?
 * Gail: Because he knew you’d resent it. And there’s a stubborn streak that runs in the family. Honey….I think you owe him the truth.
 * Jake: You want me to tell him about my…about my time away?
 * Gail: This house is too small for big secrets.

 * Hawkins: You take a shower?
 * Allison: Nothing gets past you.
 * Hawkins: Go clean the tub and fill it up.
 * Allison: Why?
 * Hawkins: The water doesn’t get to that shower by magic. If the power goes out again, so do the pumps that get it there, so we store what we can. That is why.
 * [Allison walks away and into her room]
 * Darcy: She is your daughter, Rob, not your employee.
 * Hawkins: Well, she needs to talk less and listen more.
 * Darcy: You need to learn to ease up on her.
 * Hawkins: Darcy, I don’t know how long I’ll be here, so whatever I gotta teach her, it needs to happen now.

 * Phone Message: Hello, this is Assistant Secretary Walsh from the Department of Homeland Security. Do not be alarmed. If you are safe, stay where you are. Do not attempt to leave. We will be in contact again shortly. Until then, know that help is on the way.

 * Jake: I'm tired of war, no one ever really wins.
 * Stanley: Me too.
 * Mimi: We could play crazy eights instead or hearts?
 * Stanley: No, I'm calling it a night.
 * Mary: Call it whatever you want but it stopped being night hours ago. Ya'll want coffee?
 * Mimi: Make mine an Irish.
 * Jake: So Mimi, what would you be doing if you were back home in DC?
 * Mimi: Sleeping. You know the hardest thing about sleeping in this dump? The quiet, yeah I don't know how you stand it, it's like my brain is an echo chamber.
 * Jake: Why do you think I left town?

9:02 [1.6]

 * Hawkins: Come on out here. Hey!
 * Allison: Are all those cities gone?
 * Hawkins: What do you think?
 * Allison: How do you know?
 * Hawkins: I don’t for sure [sighs] Okay. Those are the cities I heard about through the HAM radio, and the satellite feed before the EMP.
 * Allison: How come your laptop isn’t fried like everyone else’s?
 * Hawkins: It’s ruggedized. It is built to withstand an EMP. The, um…the government issues them, baby.
 * Allison: So you’re some kind of spy? That’s why you moved us here. You knew this was going to happen. Why do you have that gun, what’s it for?
 * Hawkins: Shooting. And I think it’s probably time you learned how. You see the way things are going you may have to defend yourself one day. Do you understand?

 * Johnston: Now look…you know I would like nothing better then to string up the guys who did this, but that’s not the way we do things. Last time you got mixed up with Mitch Cafferty, you left town and a boy was dead.
 * Jake: I’m not that guy anymore.
 * Johnston: Yeah? (removes gun from Jake’s waist) Let’s just make sure that it stays that way.
 * Jake: Look, if I don’t take care of him he’ll come back.
 * Johnston: We’ve got to do this right.
 * Jake: He could be out….
 * Johnston: If this family starts breaking the law how are we supposed to enforce it?

 * Mimi: I have a proposition. The hotel I was staying in closed and since you owe the government more than $180,000
 * Stanley: No one’s heard from the government in weeks.
 * Mimi: Consider me the government.
 * Stanley: Fine then I still get to call you Uncle Sam. Nice watch.
 * Mimi: It’s a Rolex.
 * Stanley: You got the time?
 * Mimi: It’s, um….It just stopped working after the pulse, just like everyone else’s.
 * Stanley: Well, how about I pay you when it starts up again?
 * Mimi: You’re being an idiot. I am trying to give you a chance to protect your interests.
 * Stanley: You’re too kind.

 * Darcy: So why you heading off to play cop?
 * Robert: Because people are starting to react to the fact that no one is coming to save them. Okay? No one. Because the world we knew does not exist anymore. So if we can’t keep order, we will not survive.
 * Darcy: Allison give me a minute with your father.
 * Allison: Mom, I just--
 * Darcy: Now! (Allison walks away) What the hell are you doing scaring our kids about the end of the world Robert?
 * Robert: Well, they have to understand what’s going on.
 * Darcy: You haven’t been around in four years. I’m the parent here. I’ll decide what they need.

 * Eric: Well, if we’re sending missiles they must have figured out who attacked us.
 * Jimmy: God Bless America.
 * Jake: Could have just decided to take out one of the usual suspects.
 * Johnston: Which means there could be more missiles headed in our direction.
 * Gail: Well, is this the federal response we’ve all been waiting for?

Long Live the Mayor [1.7]

 * Gray: Are you going somewhere?
 * Eric: My father needs medication, stuff we don't have in town. Me and Jake are going to Rogue River to find it.
 * Gray: Are sure that that's a good idea?
 * Eric: Not really.
 * Gray: You be careful out there. You don't stop for anything. You don't even slow down. I mean it.
 * Eric: We'll be back before morning. Do you mind keeping an eye on things here?
 * Gray: Of course, don't worry about it.

 * Gail: What are you doing?
 * Johnston: What?
 * Gail: You were cooling your thermometer in that glass of water. Weren't you?
 * Johnston: No I wasn't. Fine, so what if I was, I'm tired of being sick.
 * Gail: You have a temperature of 350 degrees. You are going to rest. You are going to take the pills that April gave you. You are going to admire this ridiculous pumpkin with me and then we are going to try and eat the pumpkin together because we use every part of the buffalo in this house. Is that understood?
 * Johnston: Most of it.

 * Heather: Watch out for giant irradiated ants out there.
 * Jake: Always do.

 * Heather: I don't think this is such a good idea.
 * Jake: No choice.
 * Heather: Well, then at least let me do some work on the car.
 * Jake: There is no time. I have to go now... what? Wait, you said it was sturdy.
 * Heather: Well, sturdy yeah but what if you need to outrun something.
 * Jake: Why? How fast will it go?
 * Heather: I don't know, thirty maybe forty miles an hour... best case... down hill... and not for very long. See this is what I'm saying, maybe you should go on horseback.
 * Jake: A horse is slower than that.
 * Heather: A horse is less likely to explode.
 * Jake: [Holds up his gun] I'll take my chances.

 * Jake: I can talk to Jonah.
 * Gray: You can talk to Jonah? Find him---
 * Jake: He lived up to his end of the deal.
 * Gray: And why the hell are you protecting this guy?
 * Jake: I’m protecting this town. He can get things we’re gonna need.
 * Gray: What can he get?
 * Jake: He can get food; he can get gas, he can get ammo. Could you get that stuff if we needed it tomorrow? Could you? ‘Cause he can. We’ll do this my way now.

 * Jonah: I want to talk to Emily.
 * Jake: She doesn’t want to see you.
 * Jonah: She blames me for Chris’s death. Things might be different if she knew whose fault it really was.
 * Jake: I didn’t send him on that job, all right, you did. I tried to talk him out of it.
 * Jonah: He needed a lookout; someone to watch his back. You left him alone.
 * Jake: A lookout? He needed a father.
 * Jonah: All right. Maybe it is time Emily learns the truth about what you did.
 * Jake: I told her. I told her, I told her everything.
 * Jonah: Did she forgive you?
 * Jake: No.
 * Jonah: Neither do I. Get her to see me, or I’ll do business wherever the hell I please.
 * Jake: I can’t.
 * Jonah: Then I guess we don’t have a deal.

Rogue River [1.8]

 * Jake: You haven’t said anything for miles, stay sharp.
 * Eric: What happened to you Jake?
 * Jake: What do you mean?
 * Eric: The last five years, where were you? I’m assuming jail. Why won’t you tell me?
 * Jake: Why does it matter?
 * Eric: Because all that time, I stood and I watched Mom and Dad suffer. Every time the phone rang they thought it was you. I used to hate calling the house because we sound the same on the phone. I couldn’t listen to them realizing it was only me.
 * Jake: I’m sorry, all right. I’m sorry for what I did to our family. But don’t use me as an excuse for not getting on with your life.
 * Eric: What’s that suppose to mean?
 * Jake: You wouldn’t be the first guy to leave his wife, Eric. Look, I’m not telling you to leave her. I’m just saying….

 * Gray: Thanks for talking with us, Robert.
 * Hawkins: No problem Gray. What’s this all about?
 * Gray: Well, when I was in Topeka people were saying that all of this could be a first step in a foreign invasion except that getting all of these bombs into the country would be difficult…
 * Hawkins: Without help on the inside.
 * Gray: Exactly.

 * Gail: How long can he hold on like this?
 * April: I can’t say for sure. Maybe 12 hours.
 * Gail: 12 hours?
 * April: I am so sorry.
 * Gail: I---I’ve been married to that man for a long time. I refuse to believe this is the way it ends.

 * Eric: I didn’t know Rogue River had a SWAT team.
 * Jake: They don’t. These guys aren’t cops. They’re government contractors; a private army, a firm, called Ravenwood.
 * Eric: What are mercenaries doing in Kansas?
 * Jake: The same thing they’ve been doing in Iraq and New Orleans. The military’s been stretched so thin the past few years mercenaries became a commodity. The real question is did they kill these people?

 * Hawkins: How do you even know that that badge is real?
 * Gray: I guess, I don’t.
 * Hawkins: The fakes are usually made of aluminum. It’s cheaper, lighter. If it’s heavy [drops badge on the table] that’s how you know. Don’t just assume that just because someone has one of these that it’s real, especially not these days.
 * Gray: But why didn’t you say anything?
 * Hawkins: Because I don’t know you. I don’t know who I can trust. You see, the bureau was tracking some suspicious contacts between unknown people in this area of Kansas and terrorist groups abroad.
 * Gray: What kind of contacts?
 * Hawkins: Pay phone calls, money transfers. You know I was relocated to investigate undercover, Mr. Anderson and as far as I’m concerned, I am still on the job so I would appreciate your discretion.
 * Gray: No, of course, Jimmy’s the only one that knows I’ll make sure it stays that way.
 * Hawkins: The people who did this they will try to do this again. We can’t let that happen.

Crossroads [1.9]

 * Goetz: You know, one day, things are gonna start to get back to normal around here. The federal government is going to put itself together. And when it does, they're going to want to send someone to help all of you get back on your feet. You know who they're gonna send? Me.

 * Heather: Oh, and, um, if the engine starts to shake, just slide over and gun the gas. And, uh, keep your eye on the temperature. If the needle hits the red, cut the gas ‘cause you’ve got about two seconds before its about to explode. Okay?
 * Emily: Wait, wait, wait, wait. Why can’t I just go in?
 * Heather: Aw, no, no, no. I don’t want you to go through the trouble.
 * Emily: Right.

 * Hawkins: This isn’t your first run in with Ravenwood, is it?
 * Jake: Why?
 * Hawkins: You go off on your road trip; all of a sudden they’re headed for Jericho. Would’ve thought you’d be more careful is all.
 * Jake: You think I led them here on purpose?
 * Hawkins: Hey, I’m just trying to put the pieces together, Jake.
 * Jake: Let me make it easy for you, my family lives in Jericho.
 * Hawkins: So does mine.
 * Jake: Everything I do, I do to protect them.
 * Hawkins: Same here, man.
 * Jake: Well then let’s stop screwing around and get it done.

 * Jake: Let me guess—this isn’t your first run in with these guys either, is it?
 * Hawkins: You know there’s only one thing I need to know from you, Jake.
 * Jake: What?
 * Hawkins: Would you even know when you’re in over your head?

 * Eric: Okay, let’s talk.
 * April: When I, uh…had the divorce papers drafted. I did that because I couldn’t see a future for us, [holds Eric’s hand] but now I can.
 * Eric: I can’t.
 * April: What?
 * Eric: Look, the last thing I want to do on this Earth is hurt you April, but I’m in love with someone else.
 * April: [gasps] Who?
 * Eric: Mary Bailey. April, look April….April..I’m sorry
 * April: No, you don’t get to do this. You son of a bitch. [April walks away]

 * Heather: Before we head over to the church, I’d like to make a toast to the blushing bride and banker boy.
 * Emily: Banker man
 * Heather: Well, it’s still a banker any way you slice it. Who here would ever match Roger with Emily. Talk about high risk investment.
 * Emily: There’s nothing risky about him.
 * Heather: Exactly. To Emily and Roger, may they live happily together in eternal blandness, never questioning their life, never looking too closely, never wondering if they weren’t meant for something else. Down the hatch, everybody.

Red Flag [1.10]

 * Gail: This is nothing like what we went through.
 * Johnston: I seem to recall when my mother thought your name was ‘the other woman’. And I ignored her, just the way Eric’s ignoring us. Now, if this is so different, I’m not seeing it.

 * Gail: It’s all from China.
 * Emily: Are we being invaded?
 * Johnston: I doubt it. If they wanted to invade they’d send troops.
 * Emily: So this is charity?
 * Gail: We’re getting aid from China. Why isn’t our own government helping us, the United Nations or the Red Cross?

 * Gray: That stuff wasn’t half bad and I’m still alive.
 * Johnston: The only thing that proved is that you’re clinically stupid.
 * Gray: When are you going to hand out that food, Johnston?
 * Johnston: We are not having that debate here.
 * Gray: What, should we have it in your office again? Maybe this time I sucker punch you.
 * Johnston: Listen, if you’re still breathing this time tomorrow maybe we’ll distribute this stuff, in the mean time do the town a favor and forget you want my job for one second.

 * Eric: What are you talking about?
 * Johnston: April’s pregnant, I just found out myself.
 * Eric: And I got to hear this from you?
 * Johnston: Well, I shouldn’t be the one telling you. I’ll probably be in the doghouse till next Thanksgiving but I thought you ought to know.

 * Johnston: Let me get this straight. We’re talking about Vietnam era planes flying through Kansas airspace doing a Chinese drop and they’re using U.S. Air Force equipment to do it.
 * Robert: Sounds about right.
 * Eric: In what world does that make sense?
 * Jake: Ours.

Vox Populi [1.11]

 * Mimi: What we did (sex), it’s not what you think. I had a weak moment. It was a mistake.
 * Stanley: I’m really good at making mistakes.
 * Mimi: Yes, you are.

 * Gray: I love this town. And I just want to keep it safe; the way it always was.
 * Johnston: What it was was a democracy. that's easy when everything is going well, but when you get mad or angry it gets a whole heck of a lot harder.

 * Gray: We just had our first murder in 30 years.
 * Johnston: And I’ve been Mayor of this town for 25 of those years.
 * Gray: Maybe that’s the problem. You still think Jericho is the same sweet little town it was before the bombs. We need someone who understands….
 * Johnston: Save it for the election, Gray.
 * Gray: This is what the election is about.
 * Johnston: You wanna get this civilian off the crime scene?

 * Jake: It’s up to you Gray. Go on…no? [Jake puts Jonah on the ground and points a gun to his head] This is what you want, right? You make the rules? Decide who lives and dies? Go ahead and do it, you do it here in front of me and Dale, in front of everyone. Not in some back room with your buddies. Don’t let someone else do the dirty work for you, mayor. You want him dead, you take this gun and you blow his brains out. [Gray takes the gun from Jake and points it at Jonah] You better be damn sure he’s guilty because if he’s not, you’re a murderer. Justice will be swift. [Gray lowers the gun]

 * Mimi: This will never work.
 * Stanley: Ah, that's what they said about Brangelina.
 * Mimi: Are you seriously quoting US magazine right now?
 * Stanley: Yeah, what do you think they'd call us? Stimiley? Mimiley? [Pause] St... Stimi!
 * Mimi: [Laughing] You are such an idiot!

The Day Before [1.12]

 * Gail: It’s time for some changes, Johnston, starting with your diet.
 * Mayor Green: [indicates his mostly empty plate] A man can’t live on that.
 * Gail: He can if he wants to stay married to me.

 * Stanley: It’s nice to meet you, Miss Clark.
 * Mimi: Do you not read your mail?
 * Stanley: Nope. Nothing but bills and bad news. Why?
 * Mimi: Well, this would be a little of both. I work for the IRS and according to our records you owe $180,000 in back taxes. It’s nice to meet you.

 * Jake: You finally pulled the trigger, Freddy? All right.
 * Freddy: You know it baby. Hey she’s got some good looking sisters, man? Unless you’re still all hung up on that farm girl in Iowa.
 * Jake: Kansas.
 * Freddy: Same thing.
 * Jake: No, not the same thing.

 * [Robert throws Darcy’s cell phone to the side]
 * Darcy: You let them out of there right now Robert or so help me I’ll start screaming.
 * Hawkins: No, you listen to me very carefully, in 5 seconds I’m getting on this truck and I am leaving Washington for good and I did not come here to discuss this with you, now you can either trust me and come with us or you can stay here, but you will never ever see your children again.

 * Stanley: Well, now, who doesn’t like corn? I mean you got corn on the cob, cornflakes, corn nuts, corndogs, cornsicles.
 * Mimi: Cornsicles?
 * Stanley: It’s a joke, lady.
 * Mimi: Can you not talk to me please?

Black Jack [1.13]

 * Johnston: [listening to Gray speak to the town] There’s a way of doing this without scaring the crap out of everybody.
 * Gail: He was elected. Means he’s gonna do it his way.
 * Johnston: Ahhh, I’m gonna need a hobby.

 * Heather: I shouldn't have sprung this on you. This is too weird.
 * Jake: What? What's weird?
 * Heather: Okay...I kissed you...a month ago. We haven't spoken since. Generally people speak after something like that.
 * Johnston: I'm just gonna...you know...uh... [walks away]

 * Jake: Did you ask Mom?
 * Johnston: Son, I’m 59 years old. I was Mayor of this town since the Carter Administration. I’m a retired U.S. Army Ranger and a combat veteran. Of course I asked your mother.

 * Heather: I’m coming too.
 * Jake: Not a chance in hell.
 * Heather: Would you know a working mechanical governor for a wind turbine if you saw one.
 * Jake: Yes. [Heather tilts her head in disapproval at Jake] No, I’m not taking passengers out there, no, no, no.

 * Heather: You know why things didn’t work out between us? I’m not dangerous. I’m crossword puzzles and flannel pajamas and the occasional light beer. I was never gonna be hazardous to you. That’s how you tick.
 * Jake: No it isn’t.
 * Heather: Of course it is but it’s okay. If it wasn’t, your dad would probably be dead right now. You and I would’ve never met on that bus. So I’m taking a page out of your book, I’m throwing caution to the wind. I’m gonna help turn the lights on for everyone back home.
 * Jake: Just for a few days.
 * Heather: You worried about me?
 * Jake: Come back in one piece.
 * [Jake hugs Heather]

Heart of Winter [1.14]

 * Mimi: The closest I ever got to the outdoors was the Ralph Lauren section of Neiman Marcus.
 * Stanley: Bargain hunting. Same thing but with a gun.
 * Mimi: Bargains? At Neiman's? Sometimes I forget that the biggest designer in your closet is Wrangler.
 * [Jake chuckles]
 * Stanley: What are you laughing at?
 * Jake: I’ve never seen you in a domestic squabble before.
 * Stanley: Knock it off.
 * Mimi: This isn’t squabbling.

 * Hawkins: I have something in my possession, and there’s people out there that want it, that will stop at nothing to get it. And that puts you, me and the kids in danger here.
 * Darcy: Ok, so th-then we go. I trust you. Robert, do..do you trust me?
 * Hawkins: Yeah.
 * Darcy: Then listen to me. Okay, Sarah is not on our side. Now whatever’s gone on between the two of you, I’m telling you, Robert she’s not here to help us.

 * Jake: I can see her.
 * Johnston: See who?
 * Jake: The girl.
 * Johnston: What, girl? Jake I think you’re hallucinating son?
 * Jake: No, listen to me. When I was in Iraq….there was a girl, she couldn’t have been more than 10 or 12.
 * Johnston: Shh, shh, shh…don’t talk now son, save your energy. We’ll talk when we get home.
 * Jake: I killed her dad. I killed a little girl.

 * Mimi: Your lips are still cold.
 * Stanley: Well...maybe you can warm them up.
 * Mimi: That's the worst line I've ever heard!

 * Jake: Wager for the first kill.
 * Stanley: I’m in for a dozen eggs.
 * Jake: Two hours chopping wood.
 * Mimi: Tax Return consultation.
 * Stanley: How about foot massages for a week? For me, not for him.
 * Mimi: We’ll talk.

Semper Fidelis [1.15]

 * Mimi: I just realized.
 * Stanley: Hmm?
 * Mimi: If the government is up and running, you know what that means, right?
 * Stanley: No.
 * Mimi: Paperwork. They’ll need accountants again.
 * Stanley: Does that mean I’m back in debt?
 * Mimi: Don’t be so negative. New York made it. Come next summer I’ll be taking walks through Central Park. [Stanley shakes his head] What?

 * Hawkins: This is my family, Sarah.
 * Sarah: It never mattered before.
 * Hawkins: Yeah, well, now it does.
 * Sarah: What’s it going to take, someone slitting your wife’s throat before you get it?
 * Hawkins: Hey, Hey…..You’re right. We will drop them at the safe house and then we’ll keep moving.
 * Sarah: It’s the right thing for them.
 * Hawkins: Yeah.

 * Sarah: How can I be sure you won’t follow me?
 * Hawkins: I won’t follow you.
 * Sarah: Not if I take your son with me you won’t.
 * Darcy: My God.
 * Sarah: I’ll leave him just outside of town.

 * Jake: Hey.
 * Maggie: Our own personal escort out of town?
 * Jake: Look, you’re a smart girl; you need to get out before these guys get you killed.
 * Maggie: And go where? Towns aren’t taking refugees and there’s only one thing they want women for.
 * Jake: Stay here, all right, you’ll be safe.
 * Maggie: It’s not going to work, not after the story we told.

 * Stanley: Not now, Mimi.
 * Mimi: Like hell right now, Cornhusker.
 * Stanley: Cornhuskers are from Nebraska, I’m a Jayhawker...What? What?
 * Mimi: You drive me so crazy and you know that I can’t stay here forever but, the truth is I can’t live without you, either.
 * Stanley: Really?
 * Mimi: Yes, really.
 * [Stanley kisses Mimi]

Winter's End [1.16]

 * Mimi: In this crazy world, we don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow and I don’t wanna leave anything unsaid, so I’m just going to say it, okay? So here I go..
 * Stanley: I’ve loved you since the first day I saw you at Bailey’s.
 * Mimi: You said it…you said it first. No one’s ever said it first to me before.
 * Stanley: I don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow, plus I can hold it over you for the rest of our lives. [kisses Mimi]
 * Mimi: I love you Stanley Richmond.
 * Stanley: But I said it first. [kisses Mimi]

 * Gail: Honey, you look tired, you getting enough sleep?
 * April: Almost seven hours.
 * Gail: Where?
 * April: In my office.
 * Gail: Sleeping in your office doesn’t count. You’re going to give the baby a crick in its neck.
 * April: You’re going to make a terrific grandmother.
 * Gail: I know.

 * Mimi: I’ll pick you up at 5:00
 * Bonnie: I’ll walk.
 * Mimi: Look, Stanley thinks that you’re using this whole volunteering thing as an excuse to go see Sean Henthorn. I’m just following orders to keep an eye on you; personally I don’t give a damn who you date.
 * Bonnie: I’ve been volunteering here since I was 16, it’s not about Sean. You volunteered for anything? Ever?

 * Mary: I’m so cold my mouth is numb.
 * Eric: We need the logs or we’re going to freeze to death.
 * Mary: Isn’t that what we are doing now?
 * Eric: All right. Let’s get in the car. A blanket.
 * Mary: Let’s turn on the heat.
 * Eric: We can’t I’m sorry, we won’t have enough gas to get home. You know we could make our own heat.
 * Mary: Don’t get any ideas I ‘m not taking my clothes off.
 * Eric: You know how happy you make me.
 * Mary: I’m still not taking my clothes off.

One Man's Terrorist [1.17]

 * Kyle: Ma’am, there are empty houses all over Jericho and we sleep in a shelter.
 * Gail: Those are our neighbors’ homes. They were gone when the bombs went off. They’re coming back!
 * Kyle: Well, wherever your neighbors are, I hope nobody’s kicking them out of town in the middle of winter.

 * Gail: [to townsfolk about evicting the refugees] You can’t let them go out there. A woman died on Main Street today. I didn’t even know her name. Did you? Think of our neighbors who didn’t make it back yet. That’s who they are! Now my family can feed two people. Who else here is willing to share their rations?

 * Reverend: You can't do this Gray, I have given these people sanctuary.
 * Gray: This is a police matter now.
 * Reverend: You have no right to assault these people, they have committed no crime. They will be my responsibility.
 * Gray: What, are you going to feed them? Have you got a little hospital down there Reverend? No, I didn't think so!

 * Hawkins: So...I just wanted to know how you were doing. Settling in okay at Jimmy's place.
 * Allison: Yeah, he just never stops talking.
 * Hawkins: No [chuckles] he doesn't. How's Sam?
 * Allison: You know, he gets scared.
 * Hawkins: And you?
 * Allison: I'm fine.
 * Hawkins: Look, that thing you had to do to Sarah...I know how that can change people.
 * Allison: Dad, don't worry about me. I'm not Sam, and I'm not Mom. So... you're not going to live with us anymore, are you?
 * Hawkins: I don't think it's a good idea right now.
 * Allison: Then don't worry. I'll take care of them.
 * Hawkins: Hey, hey, hey. Come here. [He grabs and hugs her] You are not me.

 * Man on radio: In New York, the terrorists who were apprehended were all carrying nearly-perfect fake FBI badges. Their identities have not been released. Authorities have increased security at all critical sites. Counter-terrorist forces are working to capture those responsible. In the meantime, all citizens are encouraged to be vigilant. As we receive more information, we'll bring it to you. Until then, all news is local. Take care of each other, Kansas.

A.K.A [1.18]

 * Mimi: [to the chicken she is about to slaughter] So it’s come to this. I want you to know that this is nothing to do with you personally. I’m sure you’re wonderful. But, let’s be honest here. You’re the one that lays the fewest eggs and I distinctly told all of you that this was going to happen. I believe I made myself perfectly clear in that regard...Here's my concern. I've heard stories about how you're going to react to this and if I see half of you running around, well I just know that I'm going to freak out. So if you could do your best to minimize that part of it, well I'd just really appreciate it.

 * Emily: [to class] Five months ago this was a map of our country. Now it’s an antique. It’s a picture of the way things used to be.

 * Jake: At the FBI what were you working on?
 * Hawkins: I was sent here to monitor phone calls made in the area to a suspected terrorist cell.
 * Jake: And what'd you find out?
 * Hawkins: Nothing. Trail went dead. We about done here?
 * Jake: Not even close. Tell me about her: Sarah Mason.
 * [while Jake's distracted, Robert reaches behind his back and pulls a gun from a drawer]
 * Hawkins: She's gone. [realizing gun's empty, chuckles] You're pretty thorough.
 * Jake: I also took care of the one in the cabinet and the one behind the water heater. There's only one loaded gun in this house, and it's mine. Sit down.

 * Hawkins: Those are Defense Department projections. They've been doing them since the 50's. They're fallout scenarios in the event of a nuclear attack on 20 US cities. Do you see Jericho? It's outside the fallout zones, Jake, it's got a salt mine, plenty of farmland, and access to an untainted water table.
 * Jake: So you weren't here to monitor phone calls?
 * Hawkins: Jericho was a rally point in case we failed in our mission.
 * Jake: Failed or succeeded?

 * Jake: Did you wipe out 23 American cities?
 * Hawkins: Get out of my house!
 * Jake: Answer the question!
 * Hawkins: Why would you even think that?
 * Jake: You've got a working generator and a food supply. It's like you knew the attacks were coming!

Casus Belli [1.19]

 * Jake: Was that doing it your way?
 * Hawkins: You asked me to come along.
 * Jake: What were you gonna do?
 * Hawkins: To get the truth? Less than you would have. You see, I've done—I've done enough, Jake, to know better. It's the fear of torture that gets results. Actual torture...only works in the movies.

 * Bonnie: [signing] Thank you.
 * Stanley: For what?
 * Bonnie: Letting Sean stay.
 * Stanley: You're welcome.
 * Bonnie: And for not calling him an idiot, even when he is one.
 * Stanley: Okay, if you know that...
 * Mimi: [clears throat] Sorry, just a little frog in my throat. Don't let me interrupt your nice sibling bonding moment. That's what it is, right?
 * Bonnie: [continues signing] Sean can be an idiot, but he can also be really great. All guys are like that, you have to put up with the "idiot" stuff...to get to the "great" stuff.
 * Stanley: [chuckles] Yeah? And where did you come by that little pearl of wisdom?
 * [Bonnie points at Mimi]
 * Mimi: What'd she say about me?

 * Mimi: I never thought I'd be so thankful to live on a farm. From now on I promise I'll only complain intermittently.
 * Stanley: We don't have much, but we'll always have enough.
 * Sean: Dude. All they need to do is get the Internet back up.  After that it's a piece of cake.
 * Stanley: Why is that?
 * Sean: Well you could do anything! I mean you could run for President, make a virtual White house. Fly a plane into that!  I mean, virtual cities and towns, nothing to nuke!
 * Bonnie: Yeah, but, where will we get... stuff?
 * Sean: What stuff?
 * Stanley: I dunno... food, clothes, blankets, fuel...
 * Sean: Not a problem. After the Internet's back up you just order all that stuff!
 * [long pause]
 * Mimi: You know Stanley, you would not believe how helpful Sean has been around here with the livestock, and the house, and... just everything!
 * Bonnie: It's true.

 * Johnston: So anyhow, it’s like 3 am, I’ve got this flashlight in my face. Gail’s over on her side of the bed trying to find the phone to call the cops and finally I located the light switch. It’s Eric, who’s standing there and he says, “I can’t go to sleep until I confess – I’m drunk.” I said, “You’re what?” He said, “I’m drunk. It won’t ever happen again, I don’t know what I was thinking.” Meantime he looks perfectly normal, his speech isn’t slurred or anything. Gail starts grilling him, turns out he has had a beer and a half. I said to him, “Son, do you have any idea how much beer it takes to get drunk?” He said, “No, I don’t.” I said, “Well get out of here and don’t wake me up again until you do!”

 * Mimi: You know, you listen to me, Stanley. Your sister's not a child any more. You can't just throw this fit and kick Sean's ass and think that's going to be the end of it.
 * Stanley: Well, I hope you're going to explain to me why I can't.
 * Mimi: Because if you do, she's just going to latch on that much tighter; unless they get really angry, in which case the age-old teenage remedy is to run away, which used to mean that you'd hear from them in a few days when they ran out of bus money. Nowadays, chances are much better that you'll find their bodies on the side of a road. Look, right now it is under our roof and it's a pain in the ass, I know. But it's a safe and manageable pain in the ass and I suggest you let him stay here before it turns into more than that.

One if by Land [1.20]

 * Constantino: Jericho’s continuous acts of aggression against this town are unjustified.
 * Johnston: What ‘continuous acts of aggression’? We’re neighbors, for God’s sake.
 * Constantino: I didn’t hear much talk of neighbors when you sent Ravenwood to our front door.
 * Johnston: We blew everything to hell and gone trying to defend ourselves against those mercenaries. We had no idea where they were heading next.
 * Constantino: You didn’t try and warn us? You couldn’t help us while they were raiding what little we had left? Shooting whoever got in their way? My deputies, my friends?

 * Eric: [about his torture] It’s not about Hawkins. They wanna know about Jericho. What our defenses are like, do we have any troops, where are they posted, do we have a stock pile of weapons, that sort of thing.
 * Jake We have to get back, we have to warn them.
 * Eric: We will. We’re not gonna die in here.

 * Emily: For what it's worth, you and Mary have a lot in common.
 * Gail: What -- we both love Eric?
 * Emily: No, I was actually going to say you're both pretty tough broads. You're both a little hard-headed. In a bar fight -- even money.

 * Maggie: So, what's the plan?
 * Hawkins: Plan? There's gonna be an explosion in town. Hopefully it'll cause enough chaos that we can somehow get Jake and Eric out of there.
 * Maggie: I think I can help you with that. I have an in with Constantino.

 * Constantino: I want you to tell me who your friend is and where I can find him. Things are gonna get very bad for you and your brother if you don't help us, Jake.
 * Jake: Why would I want to help you?
 * Constantino: This is what I know is that you, your friend, and your brother were caught attempting to sabotage this town's sole means of manufacturing.
 * Jake: You were manufacturing weapons. You were-
 * Constantino: So I'm gonna repeat the question -- Where is your friend?
 * Jake: Why don't you tell me what happened to Heather Lisinski?
 * Constantino: Take him back.
 * Guard: Let's go, boy.
 * Jake: Word's going to get back. It's going to get back to Jericho about what you're doing and there is nothing you can do to stop it!

Coalition of the Willing [1.21]

 * Refugee: You want us to risk our lives for a promise? [refugees begin to leave]
 * Dale: Listen – listen! Since you’ve been here you’ve been asking for a place to live, food. You came here as refugees and you’re still being treated as second-class citizens. That’s no way to live. If you fight for my farm and we win, then everybody gets an equal split. It’ll be your farm. You’ll have a stake in this town that nobody can take away from you. You’ll never have to ask anyone for anything ever again. So, who wants a future?

 * Emily: Help us fight. We'll give you half. Half of all the weapons, food, and fuel that we take. And if New Bern's army is as big as you say it is, you'll do a lot better than hittin' one truck at a time out here.
 * Jonah: You've got more of me in you than you're ever going to admit.

 * Johnston: Stanley, what happened out there?
 * Stanley: I don't know. We were moving towards the mortar truck. And they were waiting, they were waiting on both sides of it for us. They wouldn't, they wouldn't stop firing.
 * Gray: Stanley, where's everybody else?
 * Johnston: Where are they, son?
 * Jake: Stanley?
 * Stanley: They're, they're all dead. They're all dead.

 * Johnston: Most of you have no idea what to do or what's coming, some of you do. This isn't a fight about land or about this town. Its a fight for our very existence. Pray for each other; and while you're at it, pray for the men and women of New Bern and pray that God forgives us.

 * Constantino: We're still cleanin' the blood of eight deputies off the sidewalks of New Bern. So you need to understand our position. We need seven farms, including the Jackson farm, the Herbert farm, and the Richmond farm. And we need half the salt mine. You have four hours to respond.
 * Gray: I don't understand. What are you askin' us to do?
 * Constantino: Jericho is about to be invaded. For the sake of your people, I'm asking you to surrender.

Why We Fight [1.22]

 * Mimi: [to Stanley's parents' graves] I really love your son. And, of course, Bonnie is just wonderful and I've really enjoyed living with them…
 * Stanlay: [under his breath] Great.
 * Mimi: What?
 * Stanley: I didn't say we were living together. We're not married!
 * Mimi: Oh, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry, I… [Bonnie starts laughing]

 * Darcy: So there were dozens of these things used in the attacks, right? And now you have the last one.
 * Hawkins: Yeah.
 * Darcy: I don't, I don't think these people are looking at this thing as a weapon. It's more than that. It's...
 * Hawkins: Evidence.
 * Darcy: It's the smoking gun behind the greatest crime in the history of the world.

 * Hawkins: This satellite must remain a secret.
 * Johnston: [pauses briefly] Sounds good.
 * Jake: What, that's it?
 * Johnston: What do you want me to say? I get it, man has a satellite, doesn't want anyone to know.
 * Jake: Yeah, but...
 * Johnston: I am about to go to war with New Bern, Kansas, the home of the nearest Costco - today is already just about as weird as I can handle. I'm not asking any more questions.

 * Jake: [about his father] He's been shot.
 * Hawkins: I'm sorry. OK.You know what to do, right? Keep pressure on the wound. And there should be some morphine curettes in the supplies I gave you.
 * Jake: Yeah, we've got it.
 * Hawkins: Listen, Jake, people are gonna be looking to you now. You know what I mean?
 * Jake: Yeah.

 * Johnston: [to Jake] One day, I know you're gonna become the man I know you can be. The man you were born to be. By God, that day's gonna be something to see.

 * Constantino: Jake, you're outmanned and you're outgunned. There's too many of us and we are too desperate to give up. You cannot win this. I'm giving you one last chance to walk away, to put your guns down and return to town, and no one else will be harmed. Jake, I need an answer. What's it gonna be?
 * Jake: NUTS!
 * Constantino: Sorry, what was that?
 * Jake: You can go straight to hell.

Reconstruction [2.01]

 * Mimi: [about Trish] Did you see that skin? It's like porcelain. That girl's never had a restless night's sleep in her life. And here I am running five miles a day so my butt doesn't hit my ankles!

 * Robert: You know, if you were smart, you'd let three months go by. Wait until everything calms down and then you would go in there quietly in the middle of the night and you would kill Constantino in his sleep. 'Cause that I would understand. But this, this is just you making a big show out of it, Jake, and it is both dangerous and stupid.

 * Mimi: I'm sorry I asked you to marry me.
 * Stanley: No, look, I was gonna ask you!
 * Mimi: You were?
 * Stanley: I was, yes. I had it all planned out. I was gonna propose the way my father proposed to my mother.
 * Mimi: How'd he do it?
 * Stanley: He asked her.

 * Mimi: What's that?
 * Stanley: It's my mother's wedding ring, now please, be quiet. I've never loved anybody the way I love you. And I can't remember my life before you and...and, uh [gets down on one knee] now I really don't think I could live without you. Listen, I'll do whatever it takes to make you happy, I swear to God. So, will you marry me?
 * [Mimi nods and gasps out a laugh]
 * Stanley: See, now..now you can talk.
 * Mimi: Yes. Yes.

 * Mimi: Tell me you didn't sign this contract.
 * Stanley: I didn't sign that contract.
 * Mimi: Oh good.
 * Stanley: I signed another one. That's a copy.

Condor [2.02]

 * Stanley: This is a big day! You get to be an accountant again. Account things, add things up, maybe even a little subtraction, right?
 * Mimi: I have to say, I cannot wait to work in that office. You wouldn't believe how organized the Jennings and Rall people are. Everything is bar-coded. I have so missed bar-codes and spreadsheets. I mean every component and package and foodstuff, every ounce is accounted for; where's its been and where its going. Oh, I had forgotten how beautiful order can be.
 * Stanley: That's probably the most boring story I've heard in months.

 * Beck: Sheriff Green? Nice uniform.
 * Jake: [lifting up casual jacket to show badge pinned to jeans] I'm pacing myself.

 * Mimi: I'm still trying to figure out how to make our wedding registry vital to national security.
 * Stanley: You're already planning our wedding registry?
 * Mimi: Oh, since I was twelve. And I've already taken off the list luxury items that we already have such as your Star Wars collectors' glasses.

 * Tomarchio: You've lost loved ones, and here you are again; still strong, still proud. This is the best of America. But infighting has left us weak and vulnerable to our enemies. Remnants of the old Federal government has fallen back to Columbus, Ohio. After the attacks that government endlessly debated our response. So, in a vacuum of leadership I acted to let the world know that America was down, but not out! The Federal government of the eastern block states no longer has any governing authority beyond the Mississippi. You've seen the flag. This is the flag of a new country, flying from the Mississippi to the Pacific. The thirteen stripes of red and white still represent the thirteen colonies, but they run in a new direction, just as we must chart a new direction for ourselves. In a few short weeks Mayor Anderson will represent you as we ratify a constitution for this new nation, that will be known to the world by a new name; The Allied States of America! And with this new name, a clean slate. Our debts have been forgiven, and we are open again for business. That means jobs, stocked shelves, a return to life as we knew it. And in the fall we'll have elections where we can all take part in building a new government, as a safer, stronger America. God bless you, and God bless the Allied States of America!

 * Eric: [about his mother] You should be glad she's not here. She would have thrown that new history book right in the president's face.
 * Gray: Oh, come on…
 * Eric: He wasn't elected, Gray. How does a government no one voted for change the constitution? We found time to have an election. Of all people I think you would have remembered that.

Jennings & Rall [2.03]

 * Beck: Mr. Goetz has already informed me of your previous run-ins.
 * Jake: Yeah, did he tell you about the massacre he and his men carried out in Rogue River? Did he give you a head count on how many people he murdered in New Bern?

 * Goetz: [to Jake] This is a brand new building, and this is my office. In that office is a desk, and on that desk is a folder; the Jennings and Rall corporate dossier for Jake Green. Let me try to put it in perspective for you, Jake. You got a very interesting period of employment with JR. Especially Safa, Iraq. Remember Safa. You heard stories about me, you think you know who I am… I wonder what the people of Safa must think about you?

 * Heather: Three doctors on this radio frequency said the risk of the generic stuff being dangerous is almost nil. But somehow there's only one legally approved source.
 * Jake: J and R.

 * Heather: How many people have you lost since then?
 * Woman on Radio: Hard to say… about [static]…twenty.
 * Heather: I'm sorry, you're breaking up. It sounds like you've lost twenty people in the last week?
 * Woman on Radio: Sorry, two hundred and twenty. Around two-twenty.

 * Beck: My wife was in Santa Fe when the attacks came. After that, uh…
 * Heather: I'm sorry.
 * Beck: I have to hope that she's okay. Until then I do my job. And I, uh, I trust that wherever she is, some army major is looking after her the way I try to look after the people under my charge.

Oversight [2.04]

 * Hawkins: Let's agree on this. You don't make the terms. I do. And if you have information to share, then you just share it. But if you lie to me then know that I will find out, and the next time we speak, it will not be on the phone. Those are the terms.
 * Voice on Phone: Agreed. Now can we move on to more urgent business?
 * Hawkins: I'm listening.
 * Voice on Phone: Good. 'Cause you're a day away from being caught.

 * Stanley: We're talking about booze and cows, here.
 * Emily: The Stamp Act, the Sugar Act…
 * Stanley: What are you talking about?
 * Emily: The Boston Tea Party. Was it just about tea? Every revolution that's ever been fought, they started in rooms like this.

 * Heather: The government, the army, the news… they're all lying about who's responsible for the attacks.
 * Hawkins: Yes.
 * Heather: You're telling the truth.
 * Hawkins: Yeah.
 * Heather: Who are you?

 * Deputy Kohler: It's Fort Knox back there.
 * Jake: What is that?
 * Deputy Kohler: Thumb-print scanner. Getting that room ready to house 'classified' information, pretty short list of people that will have access.
 * Jake: Let me guess, I'm not on it?
 * Deputy Kohler: But, if it's any consolation, you now hold the distinction of being the first Jericho sheriff, in history, who doesn't have a key to the sheriff's office.

 * Voice on Phone: [about the file] Jennings and Rall put it all in one place. It was supposed to protect us, but someone got a hold of it. It took our worst nightmare and made it come true.
 * Hawkins: Okay, how do you know about this?
 * Voice on Phone: Because I helped write it.

Termination for Cause [2.05]

 * Jake: It's not gonna wait twelve hours.
 * Beck: Well, it's gonna have to. Things are coming apart at the seams in New Bern right now. And you have my word, tomorrow I'm gonna get into this but for tonight I'm trusting that you can keep things under control here. That means Goetz is off limits. No threats, no retribution, no exceptions. Do you understand?

 * Russell: [to Heather] The resistance in New Bern has placed a bounty on your head. We were sent to collect it. Is there a place we can talk?

 * Hawkins: So why not just blow the whistle? What do you need me for?
 * Voice on Phone: I don't need you. I need your bomb.

 * Mike: Punish Goetz in New Bern, we show Beck we're not going away any time soon.
 * Heather: I know things are bad, but the minute you threw in with Constantino you gave up the high ground. Beck's gonna fight you. I'm sorry, but I'm gonna be helping him do it.

 * Eric: When April died all I could think about was I hadn't done enough. That it was my fault.
 * Stanley: When my parents died I did that. I blamed myself, and I hated myself for being alive. But there was this little girl to take care of.
 * Eric: I know that this is harder. When your parents died, that was an accident. An act of God.
 * Stanley: Aren't they all?

Sedition [2.06]

 * Beck: The Rangers are now considered fugitives. I want all of them.
 * Jake: Good luck finding them.
 * Beck: Until they're produced I'm declaring Jericho to be in a state of open insurrection. Lights, power, food supplies... 9 pm tonight, I'm shutting it all down.
 * Jake: We've lived without that stuff before; we'll do it again.

 * Beck: [about capturing the Rangers] How long and how much this town suffers is up to its citizens. Somebody knows where those men are.
 * Heather: The Rangers were saving lives back when you couldn't have found Jericho on a map.

 * Jake: Explain this to me. I hurt everybody that was ever close to me and I get a second chance, but Stanley... Stanley never hurt a soul in his life...
 * Grandpa: And he lost everything.
 * Jake: How is that right?
 * Grandpa: Life doesn't...
 * Jake: ...work on a balance sheet, I know. But it should.
 * Grandpa: And your punishment is to sit in this hole and die. How does that bring back Bonnie? Or the Stanley you knew? Or the little girl in Iraq?
 * Jake: It's a start.
 * Grandpa: It's an ending!
 * Jake: What choice do I have?
 * Grandpa: The answer is Beck.
 * Jake: I don't even know where to start with him. And he's too stubborn to listen.
 * Grandpa: Your father said that about you once. You turned out real nice.
 * Jake: It's not about convincing one man he's wrong. It's a... it's a whole system.
 * Grandpa: You think it's impossible? This has all happened before. If the names weren't Jennings & Rall, they would be names like... the British East India Trading Company. If it wasn't Ravenwood, it'd be the Hessian Mercenaries. And it all comes down to the same thing...
 * Jake: Revolution.

 * Jake: It's my fault. No one else's. I'm the sheriff. I...
 * Beck: You were sheriff.
 * Jake: I'm the only one to blame. The only one, so my terms are simple. My surrender for the amnesty of the other Rangers.
 * Beck: I accept your surrender. [Pauses] But not the terms.

Patriots and Tryants [2.07]

 * Hawkins: [prepping to retrieve the bomb] I'm asking for your help but I can't afford for you to go off book out there and I don't have any room for debate, so if you've got any questions, now's the time.
 * Jake: Yeah, I've got a question. How do we find the bomb?
 * Hawkins: No idea. Anything else?

 * Heather: He said this government is corrupt and illegitimate. That it lied about who attacked us to seize power.
 * Beck: You're naive.
 * Heather: And you're a coward.
 * Beck: Excuse me?
 * Heather: You know there's something wrong with this country, and you refuse to open your eyes and see it.

 * Hawkins: What happens in the next few hours could determine the course of things for years to come. Y'know, maybe our history for the next hundred years. That is the responsibility we got here. And if that comes at a terrible cost, then so be it, because that's the only way things get better and the way people stay free. That's why I do what I do.

 * Jake: I think we started a war today. Let me guess, not your first?
 * Hawkins: Jake, this war was coming with or without us. I just hope we did enough to make it a fair fight.

 * Hawkins: So how does it feel?
 * Jake: What?
 * Hawkins: Making history.

Cast

 * Skeet Ulrich - Jake Green
 * Michael Gaston - Gray Anderson
 * Kenneth Mitchell - Eric Green
 * Pamela Reed - Gail Green
 * Gerald McRaney - Johnston Green
 * Lennie James - Robert Hawkins
 * Sprague Grayden - Heather Lisinski
 * Shoshannah Stern - Bonnie Richmond
 * Brad Beyer - Stanley Richmond
 * Ashley Scott - Emily Sullivan
 * Erik Knudsen - Dale Turner
 * Alicia Coppola - Mimi Clark
 * Clare Carey - Mary Bailey
 * James Remar - Jonah Prowse
 * Richard Speight, Jr. - Bill Kohler

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Flip Wilson

Clerow "Flip" Wilson (8 December 1933 – 25 November 1998) was an American comedian and actor, whose flippant sense of humour earned him his nickname while he was serving in the United States Air Force.

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 * It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV. After all, I was number one in the ratings four times last year and twice this season. What could be more damn equal than that? If they get any more equal, I don't want it.
 * Quoted in Comedian Flip Wilson Dies at 64 (November 26,1998)

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Megan Whalen Turner

Megan Whalen Turner (born November 21, 1965) is an American fantasy fiction author.

Aunt Charlotte and the NGA Portraits

 * I had to ask, "Is it a true story, Aunt Charlotte?" Aunt Charlotte looked at me without saying anything for a while. Then she said, "I've told you my story. What you believe is up to you, Marguerite."
 * Marguerite and Aunt Charlotte

Instead of Three Wishes

 * They looked like business cards. Instead of a printed name, a filigreed gold line wrapped itself in a design in the middle of each white rectangle.:"What are they?" Selene asked. "Wishes," said the elf prince. "You've got three. Just make a wish and burn a card. It doesn't"-- he looked her over with contempt --"require a college education." "Thanks, but no, thanks," said Selene, handing the cards back.  She'd read about people who were offered three wishes my malevolent spirits. No matter what they wished, something terrible happened. She looked carefully at the man. Behind the nice suit and tie, he was just as she thought a malevolent spirit might appear. "What do you mean, 'Thanks, but no, thanks'? They are perfectly good wishes, I assure you.  They're not cheap 'wish for Popsicles' wishes, young woman.  They are very high quality.  Here."  He pushed them towards her. "Wish for anything. Go ahead." "I wish for peace on earth," Selene said, and sneaked a look over her shoulder. Her bus was coming up the street, but still two blocks away. "That's not a thing!" snarled the elf prince. "That's an idea, that's a concept. I didn't say wish for a concept. I said a thing. A material object. Go on." Selene stood her ground. "I'd rather not."
 * Selene and Mechemel

 * "The jam is from my mother's pantry." "Oh, does your mother live far from here?" "Not far," he responded, "as the crow flies."
 * Mechemel and Selene

Factory

 * "The factory doesn't like to hear too much talk about things it doesn't believe in. Contrary to what you may have heard, the factory has never found a single problem caused by ghosts. So if you meet any ectoplasmic spirits up there in the high crane, I suggest you be polite and they'll probably be polite right back. You're up there alone for fourteen hours a day, and you might find it's nice to have someone to talk to."
 * The Foreman

 * "And we never get any older. Richie and Alex will always be ten. My sister and Todd will always be newlyweds. Angela will always be two. And I will always be the only one with no one my age to talk to." "You have me to talk to," pointed out John. Edwina smiled. "You aren't afraid to talk to ghosts?" "Not at all." John realized the truth as he said it.
 * Edwina and John

 * "Mother said she couldn't guess what was worse, to be a two-year-old with a cold forever or to live with a two-year-old with a cold forever."
 * Edwina

The Thief (1996)

 * "I can steal anything." "So you claimed. It was a wager to that effect that landed you in prison."  He picked a pen nib off the desk behind him and turned it in his hands for a moment.  "It is too bad for you that intelligence does not always attend gifts such as yours, and fortunate for me that it is not your intelligence I am interested in, but your skill.  If you are as good as you say you are." I repeated myself. "I can steal anything." "Except yourself out of the king's prison?" the magus asked, lifting one eyebrow this time. I shrugged.  I could do that, too, but it would take time.
 * Eugenides and the magus of Sounis

 * "...Everything about you reveals your low birth. You'd never be comfortable at the court." "I'd be famous." "Oh, you're already that, Gen," he said pityingly.
 * The magus of Sounis and Eugenides

 * "You can always give me some of Ambiades's food." The magus gave me an ugly look. "You'll get your share and nothing else. No one's going hungry so that you can eat." :"I don't see why not," I said as I lay down on the grass for a nap. It had dried in the sumer sun to crakling stalks that poked me in the arms and neck.  "I'm a lot more important than anyone else here," I told the blue sky above me.
 * Eugenides and the magus of Sounis

 * Ambiades, I realized, was the kind of person who liked to put people in a hierarchy, and he wanted me to understand that I was at the bottom of his. He was supposed to treat me politely in spite of my subservient position, and I was supposed to be grateful. For my part, I wanted Ambiades to understand that I considered myself a hierarchy of one. I might bow to the superior force of the magus and Pol, but wasn't going to bow to him.  Neither of us moved.
 * Eugenides

 * Neither the king's reward nor Pol could stop me, but I wanted to be a kingmaker myself. I wanted to be the first one to steal Hamiathes's Gift in hundreds and hundreds of years.  I wanted to be famous.  Only I couldn't steal the damned thing if I didn't know where if was, and only the magus could find it for me.  I would stay with him until he led me to the stone, but I promised myself that someday I would stick a sharp knife into his arrogance and give it a good twist.
 * Eugenides

 * "Surely I am a better mistress to serve?" "You are more beautiful, Your Majesty." The queen smiled again before I finished. "But she is more kind." So much for discretion. The smile disappeared. You could have heard a pin drop onto the stone floor as her alabaster cheeks flushed red. No one could ever accuse the queen of Attolia of being kind.
 * Eugenides, to the queen of Attolia

 * With my good hand I reached under the braid at the base of my neck to free the thong that was tied there. It was the shorter of the two that Pol had given me on the banks of the Aracthus. One-handed, I couldn't easily get the knot undone, and several strands of my own dark hair came with the thong when I pulled it free. I glanced back briefly at the magus and was delighted to see his mouth open in astonishment. "Gen," he said under his breath, "you viper." Above the queen's extended palm I held Hamiathes's Gift. It had hung hidden in my hair since I'd braided it there after first fighting in the Sea of Olives.
 * Eugenides and the magus of Sounis

 * "Gen-" Sophos started to ask another question, but I interrupted him. "No," I said, "not Gen. Eugenides from now on. I never, never, want to hear Gen again in my life." The magus laughed while I shook my head. "You haven't spent any time in the king's prison," I said. "And you haven't had to drink your way through every disreputable wineship in the city of Sounis. I cannot tell you how sick I have been of cheap wine and of being dirty. Of talking with my mouth half closed and chewing with it open. Of having bugs in my hair and being surrounded by people who think Archimedes was the man at the circus last year who could balance four olives on his nose." The magus looked around the books piled in my study. "I remember that Archimedes. I think it was five olives," he said with a straight face. "I don't care if it was twelve," I said.
 * Sophos, Eugenides, and the magus of Sounis

 * "I don't know how he would have gotten out of the prison on his own," said the magus. "It seems a foolhardy plan to have relied on my intervention."

 * I am a master of foolhardy plans, I thought. I have so much practice I consider them professional risks. Sooner or later they would have needed the cell and the chains for someone more important, the minister of the exchequer, for instance, and I would have been moved to another cell. Sooner or later I would have had my chance to escape, if I hadn't died of disease first.

 * "He couldn't have found the whereabouts of the stone from the papers in my study," the magus went on. "I was careful to destroy any records. But he could have followed us and stolen the Gift once it was located."

 * The minister of war snorted. "Not if he had to follow you on a horse," he said.

 * The queen laughed, and I flushed in the privacy of my bedroom. I do hate horses. That was the first sign that I wasn't going to be the soldier my father hoped for.

 * The magus might have heard me thinking. "He does have other skills to be proud of," he said. For instance, I thought, stealing Hamiathes's Gift not once but twice. Who else in history had done that? But the magus referred to the fight with the Queen's Guard at the base of the mountain. That wasn't a skill I appreciated much. If I'd been as inept with a sword as I was in a saddle, my father might not have driven me so hard to be a soldier and to let the title of King's Thief lapse forever. It had been meaningless for so many generations, and he'd felt strongly that it should disappear for good.

 * The magus described the fighting with the guard in detail and made me look very good indeed.

 * The minister of war snorted. The magus didn't recognize this as high praise, and he said stiffly, "I've been told that his father wanted him to be a soldier. I'd be happy to inform his father that he has a son to be proud of."

 * I stifled a snort of my own in the silence that followed. The magus must have still been tired. He must have once known, but forgotten, that the minister of war had married the daughter of the previous King's Thief. He was talking to my father. The magus might have remembered this, might have recognized me from the first time he'd seen me in Sounis, but we had never been introduced. When he'd come with Sounis's marriage proposals, I had been sulking in my rooms.

 * While the magus, realizing his error, was trying to word an apology, my father came to look in at me. "I thought I heard you laughing up your sleeve," he said.
 * Eugenides

 * "If you want to keep something safe from thieves, hide it carefully and keep a close watch over it."
 * Eugenides

The Queen of Attolia (2000)

 * "Be cautious," said the other. "Do not offend the gods."
 * Moira, to Attolia

 * "The second night you repeated the same words over and over. I think the fever had set in by then. Do you remember what you said? "No." She knew every one of them. His voice, broken and stumbling, had filled her dreams until she had wept in her sleep, crying tears for him that she'd never been able to cry for her father or for herself. "Oxe Harbrea Sacrus Vax Dragga..." she began. Eugenides's chin lifted as he recognized the opening words. "It's the invocation of the Great Goddess at her spring festival," he said calmly, "calling her to the aid of those that need her. Those words are archaic."
 * Attolia and Eugenides, about Oxe Harbrea Sacrus Vax Dragga Onus Savonus Sophos At Ere

 * "We invoke the Great Goddess in our hour of need for her wisdom and her mercy," Teleus said in the demotic. "Ere translates as love, a rather ruthless love, not mercy, Teleus. The Great Goddess of Eddis not known for her mercy."
 * Teleus and Attolia (The King of Attolia)

 * "I'll be your minister--" "Of the exchequer? You'd rob me blind." "I would never steal from you," he'd said hotly. "Oh? Where is my tourmaline necklace? Where are my missing earrings?" "That necklace was hideous. It was the only way to keep you from wearing it." "My earrings?" "What earrings?"
 * Eugenides and Eddis

 * "How could you come once a week to talk about the weather and not mention a war?" Eddis sighed. "Will you sit down and stop shouting?" "I'll stop shouting. I won't sit down. I might need to throw more inkpots."
 * Eugenides and Eddis

 * "It matters, because I can't do anything more for this country, and it matters," he yelled as he threw the papers back to his desk, "because I only have one hand and it isn't even the right one!"
 * Eugenides

 * "I can't steal things without two hands," Eugenides said bitterly. "That's why she cut one off." The queen of Attolia was only ever "she." The name Attolia rarely passed his lips, as if Eugenides couldn't bear the taste of the word in his mouth. "There are a lot of things that a person with two hands couldn't steal," Eddis said. "So?" "Surely if it's impossible to steal them with two hands, it's no more impossible to steal them with one. Steal peace, Eugenides. Steal me some time."
 * Eugenides and Eddis

 * "Eugenides," he said. He had recognized the voice. "Yes." "What have you done?" "Not much yet," answered the Thief from the darkness. "I remain fairly limited in my physical activities." He held up his right arm, and the magus started before realizing that the hand he saw had to be a wooden one, concealed by a glove. Another booming explosion filled the air, and the magus turned back to the window but could see only a glare reflecting on the whitewashed walls of the buildings below. "I had to send someone else to light the fuses," Eugenides said behind him. "Fuses?" asked the magus, with a sick feeling. "In the powder magazines of your warships," Eugenides explained. "Powder magazines?" "You sound like the chorus in a play," said Eugenides. "And the play is a tragedy, I suppose?" "A farce," Eugenides suggested, and the magus winced.
 * Magus of Sounis and Eugenides

 * "You said I should do something." Eugenides smiled in the dark, twisting the knife of his revenge a little deeper into the magus. "I did?" "As you were leaving, after your extremely edifying visit in the spring. You said ‘You could still do something.’ Your exact words." "I meant talk your queen into surrendering, not destroy our navy in its own harbor!" the magus shouted.
 * Eugenides and the Magus of Sounis

 * "I didn't come to Sounis to blow up His Majesty's warships. I told you someone else had to do that." "What did you come for if not to murder my king?" "I came to steal his magus." "You can't," said the magus in question. "I can steal anything," Eugenides corrected him. "Even with one hand." He took a step forward into the moonlight and waggled his fingers. The smile on his face made the magus feel worse, not better.
 * Eugenides and the magus

 * "Think of it as stealing not you but the king's faith in you." "And what happens to me without the king's faith?" "If you're smart, you leave Sounis," said Eugenides. "Quickly."
 * Eugenides and the magus

 * The moon disappeared behind a cloud. Eugenides was only a dark form against the darker water behind him. "Before you make a decision," he said, "I want you to know that I love you."
 * Eugenides to Attolia

 * He could tell her he loved her. He ached to shout it out loud for the gods and everyone to hear. Little good it would do. Better to trust in the moon's promises than in the word of the Thief of Eddis. He was famous in three countries for his lies.
 * Eugenides, on the queen of Attolia

 * The Thief leaned close to the queen to speak almost in her ear. "From shadow queen to puppet queen in one rule," he whispered. "That's very impressive. When he rules your country, and tells you he loves you, I hope you believe him." He anticipated her blow and leaned back. Her hand only brushed his cheek in an entirely unsatisfying manner. "At least that's one lie I didn't tell you," Eugenides said.
 * Eugenides and the queen of Attolia

 * "And now we wait," she said, not bothering to hide her smile of delighted anticipation as her guards conveyed the messenger out of the door. "Wait for what?" the Mede asked. "Hmm?" Attolia focused herself on the present. "Good heavens, I don't know," she said. "Eddis produces such lovely threats when her Thief is concerned."
 * The queen of Attolia and Nahuseresh

 * "Nahuseresh, if there is one thing a woman understands, it is the nature of gifts. They are bribes when threats do not avail." The queen shook her head. "The problem with bribes, Nahuseresh, is that after your money is gone, threats still do not avail."
 * The queen of Attolia to Nahuseresh

 * "They are mice, Nahuseresh, hiding in their mouseholes, hoping their own familiar cat will come home to drive you away. At least when I hang people from castle walls, it is because they are traitors, not because they drive hard bargains. You seem willing to hang anyone who is displeasing to you. How kind of you to show my barons that if I am a hard ruler to cross, you are a worse one to serve. I must thank you for that as well as your emperor's gold. They will be most mousy and well behaved for months."
 * The queen of Attolia

 * "Treachery," said the Mede. "Diplomacy," said Attolia, "in my own name," as the rest of her guard rose up from the grass behind their captain.
 * The queen of Attolia and Nahuseresh

 * "You don't understand your weakness, if you think the greater nations will protect you. We will see how much longer you rule your backwater, Your Majesty. You will soon enough discover the limits of your resources." "Will I? I think you underestimate me still, Nahuseresh. While we are being forthright with each other, I admit I find it tedious."
 * The queen of Attolia and Nahuseresh

 * Eddis looked at her minister, curious. "Your head?" she asked. Attolia explained. "He had to be forcibly dissuaded from strangling his son." "So have we all from time to time," Eddis said seriously.
 * Eddis and Attolia, on the minister of war and Eugenides

 * "He looks--" Attolia hunted for the word. "Defenseless" came to mind, but it wasn't the one she wanted, nor was "young," though he looked even younger when he was asleep. "Quite guileless," she said at last. "Oh, yes," said Eddis. "I'm always willing to forgive him anything - until he wakes up."
 * Attolia and Eddis on Eugenides.

 * "If it is an affliction, it is as you said: The gods know me so well they can predict my behavior. They don't control it. They could know I would love her, but they don't make me. I've watched her for years, you know. All those times when you didn't know where I went, mostly it was to Attolia."
 * Eugenides to Eddis, on Attolia

 * "...She's like a prisoner inside stone walls, and every day the walls get a little thicker, the doorways a little narrower." "And?" Eddis prompted. "Well," said Eugenides, "it's a challenge."
 * Eugenides and Eddis on Attolia

 * "Least said, soonest mended isn't the advice for every occasion, Your Majesty, isn't the advice for every occasion."
 * Phresine to Attolia

 * "He lies to you?" Attolia asked. "Constantly," said Eddis. "He lies to himself. If Eugenides talked in his sleep, he'd lie then, too." Attolia looked stunned. "And you can't tell?" Eddis thought for a moment. "I sometimes believe his lies are truth, but I have never mistaken his truth for a lie. If he needs me to believe him, he has his own way of showing his veracity."
 * Attolia and Eddis on Eugenides

 * "You must choose now. Between the two of us we can reach a treaty without a wedding. You don't have to marry him, but if you choose to marry him, you have to believe him." Attolia turned, and Eddis thought that behind her mask the queen might be afraid, and so she finished lightly. "You have to believe him, because he's going to have you entire palace up in arms and your court in chaos and every member of it from the barons to the boot cleaners coming to you for his blood, and you are going to have to deal with it." Attolia smiled. "You make him sound like more trouble than he's worth." "No," said Eddis thoughtfully. "Never more than he is worth."
 * Eddis and Attolia on Eugenides

 * "Nothing mortals make lasts; nothing the gods make endures forever."
 * An unnamed goddess

 * Unable to guess the answer, she asked, "Who am I, that you should love me?" "You are My Queen," said Eugenides. She sat perfectly still, looking at him without moving as his words dropped like water into dry earth. "Do you believe me?" he asked. "Yes," she answered. "Do you love me?" "Yes." "I love you." And she believed him.
 * Attolia and Eugenides

The King of Attolia (2006)

 * The queen turned back to face him. "I could hang you," she said. Eugenides looked up at her. "You missed your chance for that," he said.

 * "Your Majesty," he asked innocently, "is it true that your cousins once held you down in a water cache?" Ornon, in the act of putting down his wine cup, paused. "Is it also true that they wouldn't let you out until you agreed to repeat insults about your own family?"

 * The dandified Attolian who had spoke, a patron, but not a baron by any means, glanced at the queen to see if she approved, but she was looking the other way. The king shrugged his shoulders slightly and said, "I could send you to ask them." The man laughed. "It would be a long trip, Your Majesty. I would so much rather hear the answer from you." "Oh, the trip would be much quicker than you think," said the king pleasantly. "Most of my male cousins are dead." The silence that had begun at the head table had spread to the edges of the hall. The Attolian's smile grew uncertain. The king didn't smile back. Those who understood shifted uncomfortably in their seats.

 * "The court is watching," she pointed out. "I thought you wanted me more exposed to the public eye?" he teased. "I reverse myself," she said coldly, "and argue for a little circumspection." She tugged at his hand, but he didn't release her. She gave up, unwilling to be seen trying to pull away. "You don't think I can do it." She didn't think he could. "I don't care what they think." She knew that. It worried her. "No," said the queen, but she wavered. He sensed it and smiled. "Am I king?" he asked, irrepressibly. It was the one argument she was in no position to deny. She wanted him to be king, and he was resisting it with all his will.
 * Attolia and Eugenides

 * "Why were these the only dances you knew?" "Because no one would dance with me. Thieves are never popular." I know why, thought Attolia, but aloud she asked, "Why are you familiar with the square dances?" The music quickened. "My mother taught me. We danced them on the rooftops of the Megaron. According to legend, the Thief and any partner the Thief chooses will be safe." "You are king now," she pointed out. "Ah, but they say that if the king dances, the entire court can safely dance with him." "Spare me," said Attolia, "and my court, from dancing on the roof." "It probably only works in Eddis."
 * Attolia and Eugenides

 * As Attolia spun, she felt a tug at her hair and, turning back, felt another. Then she felt her carefully arranged hair slipping down her neck. Eugenides, minding the pattern with his feet and spinning the queen with one hand, had been pulling out her hairpins one by one when her back was turned. The rest of the pins loosened, and her hair dropped free. It swung out as she spun and the last of the pins bounced and slid across the marble floor. The queen was several inches taller than Eugenides, and he leaned back to counter her spin. To those watching, it didn't seem possible that he could succeed, but with one hand, and no visible effort, he defied the laws of the natural world. Phresine, the queen's senior attendant, watched them from behind the throne as her queen danced like a flame in the wind, and the mercurial king like the weight at the center of the earth. Faster and faster they moved, never faltering, until the music shrilled at an impossible tempo and the pattern gave way to a long spin, each dancer reaching in with one hand and out with the other, holding tight lest they fall away from the other, until the music stopped abruptly and the dance ended.

 * The king paused. "Your master of spies is a liar, and this time he is lying," the king said slowly, "to you." Attolia frowned, then almost imperceptibly shook her head. "Have him arrested," said the king. After another pause he added unequivocally, "Now." If he succeeds in having me killed, you could be the next Captain of the Guard. What, then, if the king destroyed Relius? Who would replace him? Costis hardly breathed. The king hadn't ordered the arrest himself, though he could have, but he had directed the queen to do so, in public. Now they would see if the queen could protect her own or not.

 * For a moment Costis could see, not so much what was hidden but that there were things hidden that the king did not choose to reveal. Things that were not for Costis to see. There was no understanding him, but Costis knew he would march into hell for this fathomless king, as he would for his queen. So long, he worried, as they didn't order him in opposite directions at the same time. What he would do when that happened, Costis couldn't guess.

 * The king lifted a hand to her cheek and kissed her. It was not a kiss between strangers, not even a kiss between a bride and groom. It was a kiss between a man and his wife, and when it was over, the king closed his eyes and rested his forehead against the hollow of the queen's shoulder, like a man seeking respite, like a man reaching home at the end of the day.

 * "Yet you prefer his mercy to my justice." She meant from the king. She knew where the message had come from.
 * Attolia to Teleus

 * As the queen raged at him, he responded, first calmly, then with his own heat. "Is there no one that you will see punished?" the queen shouted. "Are you fond of Teleus now that you preserve his life at all costs?" "I only asked you to reconsider." "There is nothing to reconsider!" "You know why I need him." "Not anymore," the queen declared with finality. The king ignored the finality. "Now more than ever," he insisted. "He has failed-" "That was not entirely his fault!" "Then you will unmake my decisions?" Attolia dared him to try. "You said that I could," Eugenides flatly replied. Pushed too far, the queen lashed out. The king made no effort to avoid the blow. His head snapped around and his forehead struck the doorjamb. He staggered and caught himself. By the time he opened his eyes, she was at the door and then she was gone.

 * "Who knows but that you will get up to find that the world has inverted itself yet again?" He looked around the room at the other attendants as if in warning, but spoke to Philologos. "Remember, the love of kings and queens is beyond the compass of us lesser mortals." If anyone noticed, no one commented that he had called the Thief of Eddis a king.
 * Hilarion

 * He looked up from the where he had been carefully smoothing the embroidered cover, and seeing his face, Costis felt the shock like a physical blow. If Attolia could look like a queen, Eugenides was like a god revealed, transformed into something wholly unfamiliar, surrounded by the cloth-of-gold bedcover like a deity on an altar, passionless and calculating.

 * He had seen a temple fall once, in an earthquake. Small gaps had appeared between the stones, and these had grown until each separate stone tottered in opposition to the ones below. First the columns supporting the porches and then the walls had tumbled down. So, piece by piece, did the king hammer out the enormity of the disaster Sejanus had precipitated on his house.

 * "I wouldn't destroy an entire house to destroy one man. But I would destroy a man to destroy a house."
 * Eugenides to Sejanus

 * The king, the master of the fates of men, before their eyes was reduced to a man, very young himself, and in love.

 * "A story?" Phresine was surprised. "What makes you think I can tell stories?" "Insight," said the king. "Go on."

 * "He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you."
 * Relius, to Attolia on Eugenides

 * Grown more confident of the queen's humor, Relius said, "I had not pictured you for a fishwife." "Lo, the transforming power of love."
 * Relius and the queen of Attolia

 * "Will you serve me and my god?" "I will, Your Majesty." "Then come out," said the king, helping him, "knowing that you'll never die of a fall unless the god himself drops you."
 * Eugenides and Costis

A Conspiracy of Kings (2010)

 * "I think he was delighted to see you safe," said the magus, "and grieved that the next time you meet, it must be as king and king and not as friends."

 * He was confident, I think, of the success over both Eddis and Attolia right up until the world heard that the Thief of Eddis had stolen the queen of Attolia and meant to marry her.

 * "I'd suggested eating it before we left the market. I'd also suggested eating it on the road.  I was not so comfortable with my new authority that I could say, "We eat the chicken now!" but the magus had seen that I was considering it."
 * Sophos

 * Everything, it seemed, depended on gold. The magus and I had fallen easily back into our old habits. He lectured constantly, and I asked questions to my heart's delight. Where he had once been my master and I his apprentice, I had become king and he my sole advisor. Where we had once focused on natural history and philosophy, we now concentrated on administration, taxation, and the prosecution of war. He had begun his lessons by quoting the duke of Melfi: "To make war you need three things: one, money; two, money; and three, money." He went on to tell me the things I should have known already, that I would have known if I had been a more promising heir to the throne and not exclusively interested in poetry.

 * "You eat more than Gen did after prison", he said. "I have more sympathy with him all the time. Are you going to finish that drumstick?" I asked. "I am. Stop staring at it."
 * Magus of Sounis and Sophos

 * The magus and I had talked for many long hours about this marriage of Eugenides and the queen of Attolia. The magus insisted it was Eugenides's choice and his desire as well, but it was impossible to know whose influence would prevail and if Gen would grow more like his wife, or his wife like her king.

 * Then, as you well know, Eugenides looked me in the eye as if I were a complete stranger and said, "The simplest way to end a war is to admit you have lost it." The silence after that was not polite.
 * Sophos

 * "Would I be wrong," Sounis asked one evening as he walked with Eddis, "to think that I talk to you, you talk to Gen, and Gen talks to Attolia, who talks to the magus, who talks to me?" Eddis laughed. "Not always. Sometimes, as in this case, someone approaches my Eddisian ambassador Ornon, here in Attolia, and he talks to me, I talk to you, you talk to Attolia, Attolia talks to Gen, and he talks to me." "I see you appear in that progression twice." "Oh, more than that, because after Gen talks to me, the process reverses. He goes back to Attolia, who talks to you, who go to the magus, who repeats the information to me, who gives it to Ornon, who takes it back to whoever started this particular political ball rolling in the first place."
 * Sophos and Eddis

 * Eddis nodded. "Gen leaves the reins in Attolia's hands. Which is not what either I or Attolia recommended, but wisely he ignored us both." "Wisely?" Smiling, Eddis said, "He hasn't the temperament. He gets angry. She only ever gets angry at him." Sounis, having seen the Thief of Eddis lose his temper, could see her point.
 * Eddis and Sophos

 * "Sophos, you sleep with a knife under your pillow? I'm hurt." "I'm sorry," said Sounis, blinking, afraid that he had made contact with his wild swing. "I was joking. Wake up the rest of the way, would you?" "Gen, it's the middle of the night." "I know," said the king of Attolia.

 * "Don't you trust my palace security?" "Yes, of course," Sounis said, trying to think of some other reason besides mistrust to sleep with a knife. He heard Eugenides laugh. "My queen and I sleep with a matched set under our pillows, as well as handguns in pockets on the bedposts. Don't be embarrassed." :"Gen, what are you doing in my bedroom in the middle of the night?" Sounis asked. "Going out of my mind," said Eugenides promptly. "At least I am on the verge of going out of my mind."

 * "You bastard," said Sounis wearily. "I don't know why I don't stab you here in this alley so I can be the annux over Sounis and Attolia." They were twisting through the narrowest of passages, with Eugenides still in the lead, turning on what seemed to be a whim from one walkway to the next. "Well, the stabbing would be unkind," said Eugenides, "but you can have the annux part with my goodwill." "Not Attolia's." "True," said the king. "Better not stab me."

 * "I know exactly when. I was hiding in a takima bush in the Queen's Garden, watching the older son of the Baron Erondites tell Attolia that he loved her. He was trying to propose a marriage and she thought he was talking about a poem he was writing. I was laughing like a very quiet fiend, trying not to make the branches around me shake, and then, between one heartbeat and the next, and to my complete surprise, it wasn't funny anymore." He rubbed his chest, as if a remembered pain. "I wanted to kill him. Once she was gone, I very nearly jumped out of the bush onto his head. Poor Dite." Poor Eugenides, thought Sounis, to fall in love with a woman he had already made into an enemy.

 * "When you stop fussing," Gen had said, slipping to his knees beside her couch, "I will sleep with two knives under my pillow." Attolia had looked down at him and said sharply, "Don't be ridiculous." Only when Eugenides laughed had Sounis realized her implication: If she ever turned against Eugenides, a second knife wouldn't save him.

 * "I seem to remember once sharing my oatmeal with you," Sounis remarked. "I seem to remember stealing your oatmeal," said the former Thief of Eddis, "but it didn't have sand in it." "Sand?" said Sounis, taken aback. "Sand, and if my queen notices, she will have someone flayed."
 * Sophos and Eugenides

 * Inside the case was a dueling pistol, a king's weapon, wheel-locked, chased in gold. Eddis had seen it earlier that day. When Sounis lifted it out and tipped his head over the locking mechanism, she knew he was reading the letters inscribed there: Onea realia. "The queen made me."

 * "You have heard the queen's advice. My gift is below. Would you wait to see it until you have decided what you will do with hers?"
 * Eugenides to Sophos

 * "Do you warn him not to offend the gods?" "There was no need," said Attolis, smiling, "He couldn't offend the gods with a pointed stick."
 * Eddis and Eugenides

 * In the shocked aftermath, I said, "We'll give them a second chance." With my right hand, I reached to the other pocket. I had known as soon as I lifted the false bottom of the gun case and looked underneath what it meant. I had tried without ceasing to find some alternative to Attolia's ruthless advice, and I had failed. Gen's fit reassured me that I had not failed for lack of trying. He had seen no other solution himself. I lifted out the matching gun and read the archaic inscription. Realisa onum. Not "The queen made me," but "I make the king."

 * Staring at me over the barrel of my gun, Akretenesh said, "Did you not just days ago lecture me about the sacred truce?" With my finger still through the trigger guard of the spent pistol, I lifted my left palm upward to the sky to see if lightning struck me down. When none did, I smiled again. "We will have to assume the gods are on my side." "I am an ambassador," Akretenesh warned me, anger bringing his confidence back. "You cannot shoot." "I don't mean to," I reassured him, still smiling. I adopted his soothing tones.  "Indeed, you are the only man I won't shoot. But if I aimed at anyone else, it might give others a dangerously mistaken sense of their own safety." I raised my voice a trifle, thought it wasn't really necessary. "We will have another vote, Xorcheus." They elected me Sounis. It was unanimous.
 * Sophos

 * "Ten thousand!" I shouted at the walls, back in the room with the wooden shutters, now open so that anyone could hear me, on the porch or probably across the compound. "That arrogant bastard landed ten thousand men at Tas-Elisa. In my port! Mine!" When I was a child and playmates snatched my toys out of my hands, I tended to smile weakly and give in. Years later I was acting the way I should have as a child.  Probably not the most mature behavior for a king, but I was still cursing as I swung around to find a delegation of barons in the doorway behind me. My father, Baron Comeneus, and the Baron Xorcheus among them. They thought it was how a king behaved.

 * Eschewing ceremony, Eugenides said, "You shot their ambassador?" "You gave me the gun," protested Sounis. "I didn't mean for you to shoot an ambassador with it!" Eugenides told him. "Oh, how our carefully laid plans go astray," murmured the magus. "You shut up!" said Gen, laughing.

 * "In my experience, the more you know of the gods, the more you know what you cannot understand."
 * Eddis

Thick as Thieves (2017)

 * If a man who claims to see the future is a fool, how much more so, the man who believes he can control it? We think we steer the ship of fate, but all of us are guided by unseen stars.
 * Enoclitus (Epigraph)

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