Quantico

Alex Parrish:
I'm innocent, Natalie. You have to believe me.

Natalie Vasquez:
Hands behind your head!

Alex Parrish:
Someone's framing me. Someone... someone we both know.

Liam O'Connor:
[on the talkie] Vasquez, what's your 20?

Alex Parrish:
Okay, think about it. If I did it, why would I leave an apartment full of evidence that points to me and let myself get caught at the bomb site? Why would I come back here instead of taking the opportunity to run? Why would I shoot the man we both love?

Alex Parrish:
I need to be fast. I don't know how long I can use this phone.

Ryan Booth:
Start talking.

Simon Asher:
When was the last time you were fingerprinted?

Alex Parrish:
Um... when we got our IDs at Quantico, same as everyone else.

Simon Asher:
I see the scar. That's significant.

Alex Parrish:
Yeah.

Simon Asher:
It's not on the C-4.

Alex Parrish:
Oh, my God. Which means whoever's framing me... they didn't start last week or last month

Simon Asher:
They started to frame you the day you walked into Quantico.

Alex Parrish:
I thought I knew you,

Simon Asher:
Nobody knows anybody else. Ever.

Shelby Wyatt:
They're going to catch you, Alex. The E.A.D. is a personal friend. He won't...

Alex Parrish:
Would you please stop talking?

Shelby Wyatt:
Why did you do it?

Alex Parrish:
I didn't.

Shelby Wyatt:
So turn yourself in.

Alex Parrish:
To who? The Bureau, where someone's trying to frame me? You need to turn yourself in, Shelby. The only real piece of evidence points to you.

Shelby Wyatt:
What, you mean the wire that you found in the apartment next to yours? That could point to anyone. It's military origin, so that's Ryan or the... the friends that Simon made in Gaza or the cartels that Vasquez dealt with as a cop in Texas. Even Caleb could have gotten his hands on it through his family. And if you really are innocent, you should worry about how guilty you look right now, because an innocent person does not take someone hostage.

Alex Parrish:
Even an innocent person needs leverage, and you're mine. So you better get comfortable because we might be here for a while.

Liam O'Connor:
Saying too much is just as bad as not saying enough.

Elias Harper:
This is feeling less like a test and more like the last ten minutes of "Saw".

Miranda Shaw:
[to the recruits] When I leave this classroom, the exam begins. When it ends is up to you.

Shelby Wyatt:
I don't suppose your dad gave you an inside track on this test?

Caleb Haas:
[chuckles] Yeah, right. I'm sure he designed it specifically for me to fail.

Simon Asher:
Um... at a certain... point in my life, it became easier for me to... to let people believe I was gay rather than show them who I really was. So they wouldn't see the real me. [pauses] And the longer that that went on, the... more comfortable it got. It gave me boundaries. Just like you have boundaries.

Nimah Amin:
I have boundaries until I know I can trust someone.

Natalie Vasquez:
She may talk, but she won't say anything. This is Parrish. She's playing us.

Dr. Susan Langdon:
You never really know a killer until you've caught them.

Dr. Susan Langdon:
The longer you stare at something, the more out of focus it becomes. Finding the truth can be simple. It's accepting the simplicity that's hard.

Caleb Haas:
Are you sure you don't want to spend New Years Eve with a dozen FBI agent and a Senator drunk on white privileged.

Shelby Wyatt:
I've spent the last 15 years thinking a con artist was my sister. I'd really rather not be a table with a family right now.

Caleb Haas:
Even if it's with the Lannisters? Because that's kind of what it's like.

Liam O'Connor:
[to Alex] You're in the FBI, Alex. You'll never trust anyone again.

[first lines]

Simon Asher:
[voice over] You ever want to push a button and make it all go away? Everyone you ever loved and lost, everything that ever hurt you - just one button. No more fighting, no more regrets, no more noise - blow it all up and see what happens.

Nimah Amin:
I let my emotions get in the way of my duty. It will never happen again.

Miranda Shaw:
Yes, it will. You can't do your job and not care. But next time... next time, you'll know you have someone to talk to. You're never alone.

Elias Harper:
Are you a patriot? Are you Jewish? Are you even gay?

Simon Asher:
The answers are... yes, definitely, and no, but my boyfriend is.

Elias Harper:
Because if you weren't gay, it'd be a great way to win your spot here. You know, the first openly gay NAT. The Bureau couldn't say no to that. Or it's just another piece of the facade of Simon Asher. Just like the glasses, just like the coffee I always see you make but never drink. The only thing real about you in the way you look at Nimah Amin when you think no one's looking.

Simon Asher:
Even if all of that is true, why do you care?

Elias Harper:
The most dangerous enemy America faces... is the enemy within... traitors who play the long game. And they inflict the deepest wounds because people miss the warning signs. And that's what you are, Simon Asher... one big, flashing warning sign. If you want to tell me the truth, you know where to find me. If not, you can wait until I present my case to Liam and Miranda. Have a good night, whoever you are.

Alex Parrish:
You didn't vote for Obama?

Alex Parrish:
[Shelby shakes her head] We can't be friends.

Ryan Booth:
[to Alex when they both were training at Quantico] Well, from the moment I first saw you, I knew I didn't want to let you out of my sight.

Ryan Booth:
[having been shot] Have you ever performed field surgery before?

Alex Parrish:
No. I have a feeling I'm about to.

Caleb Haas:
What's your password?

Shelby Wyatt:
It's my birthday.

Caleb Haas:
[inhales sharply] What, are you trying to get hacked? You gotta change that. [passes phone back]

Shelby Wyatt:
Oh, you don't know my birthday.

Caleb Haas:
Well it's not like you know mine. What's my sister's name?

Shelby Wyatt:
What's my middle name?

Caleb Haas:
Where did I grow up?

Shelby Wyatt:
What color are my eyes? How old am I?

Caleb Haas:
How old am I?

Shelby Wyatt:
[makes a face]... How old are you?

Caleb Haas:
Ahh, I'm almost 18.

Nimah Amin:
You can sell any lie you want if you have enough help.

Alex Parrish:
Nobody I know seems to be who they say they are. Why would my mom be different?

Miranda Shaw:
Vasquez just said, "Who said anything about fair?" And she's right. Bad guys don't play fair. So do it again, and next time, it's two against one. 'cause bad guys don't take turns.

Alex Parrish:
This feels so wrong.

Miranda Shaw:
Doing the right thing often does.

Liam O'Connor:
It's good to have you back.

Miranda Shaw:
I never left. Been here the whole time. In handcuffs, remember?

Caleb Haas:
[about his father] He could assassinate somebody without even picking up a gun.

Miranda Shaw:
Any secret, no matter how small, can be used as a weapon by someone who wants something from you.

Simon Asher:
Because I never wanted my bombs to go off. I wanted to save the world.

Shelby Wyatt:
You can be so close to someone and still have no idea who they really are. They can smile but be a monster on the inside. They can say they care for you and betray you.

Alex Parrish:
You are not invisible.

Simon Asher:
And yet... watch me disappear.

Caleb Haas:
I don't know why I'm still here. Nobody likes me. I suck at everything. I only got in 'cause of my parents.

Shelby Wyatt:
Your parents?

Simon Asher:
They're both agents.

Caleb Haas:
I barely passed my entrance exams. They had to pull major strings to just get me in, and look what happened.

Shelby Wyatt:
Whatever Eric was hiding, no one knew about it, not even the FBI.

Simon Asher:
Just imagine if he'd actually become an agent with that secret hanging over him. Who knows what he would have done to keep it safe?

Shelby Wyatt:
His secret's out now. You know, all of ours are. That was the hard part, but now it's over.

Caleb Haas:
[to Shelby] Why are you being so nice to me? I've only been a jerk to you?

Shelby Wyatt:
Because... I know what it feels like to be discounted. That's why I decided to do something about it.

Simon Asher:
Hear, hear.

Miranda Shaw:
[to Alex] The moment you set foot in there, you'll never get out alive.

[Alex and Booth are surprised to see each other at Quantico]

Ryan Booth:
[pretending it's their first meeting] Ryan Booth.

Alex Parrish:
[rolling her eyes] We had sex in your car six hours ago.

Shelby Wyatt:
She's so warm.

Nimah Amin:
She can't be. She's the boss.

Shelby Wyatt:
So what. We do really well here, best case scenario we end up a sexless, heartless pontificating robot.

Caleb Haas:
Worked for Hillary.

Miranda Shaw:
The state of this country is the most precarious it has ever been. Not only are there more threats than ever before, but the majority of those threats don't come from know organizations or extremist groups, but our own backyard. A neighbor you grew up next to, a one night stand you had, perhaps even a family member. You applied here to protect your country from those threats. And while your ideals and your test scores might have gotten you here, they will not be enough to keep you here. The FBI academy is the toughest boot camp, hardest grad school rolled into one. It is not college. It is life and death.