Exosquad, Season 2

Jonas Simbacca:
Many years ago our ancestors came to Tethys as convict labor. In exchange for their work, they were promised freedom and help in building new lives. Many did not survive to see the end of their sentences. Then the Neosapiens were created. The rich mines of Mars were opened. And the mines, and miners, of Tethys were abandoned. From the struggle to survive, the Pirate Clans were formed. Metals were dug, ships were built. Whatever else the clans needed they took from the Homeworlders who had lied to them for decades.

[the Able Squad is being overwhelmed by Neosapiens in a space battle]

Bridge Officer:
They are cut off, Admiral! They can't get through!

Admiral Winfield:
Not if I can help it... Attention all E-frames! Standby for the activation of the GRAF Shield!

Bridge Officer:
But, Sir! The GRAF Shield is not operational.

Admiral Winfield:
The Neos are monitoring this channel, trooper... On my mark: five, four, three, [the Neosapien forces retreat rapidly] two, one... mark!

Wolf Bronsky:
Hey, they are running! Remind me never to play poker with the Admiral...

[Jubail decided to assault the Neosapien fleet that captured Jonas Simbacca]

Barca:
Wait, Jubail! Attacking the Neosapiens will cost many lives, all for the sake of one. Leave Simbacca to his fate, and you could be the new leader of the Pirate Clans.

Jubail:
Only a coward would let someone else remove the obstacle in his path. We attack!

Jonas Simbacca:
This fight will make you a legend in the Clans, Marsh. They'll tell the story of our deaths for a thousand years.

J.T. Marsh:
I'd rather be alive than a legend.

Alec DeLeon:
Think we can get out of here with no more surprises?

J.T. Marsh:
If you don't like surprises you're in the wrong line of work.

[after a disasterous training session with perspective Pirate E-frame pilots, DeLeon informs Marsh of a spy onboard]

Alec DeLeon:
J.T., I think we have a problem.

J.T. Marsh:
Only one? I've got six of them in there.

Sean Napier [during the Exofleet-Pirate negotiations]:
The Pirates can share Mars with the Neosapiens. After the war there'll be plenty of room for both of you. I've fought the Neos face-to-face, whatever else you may think of them they've got guts. Besides, there won't be many of them left.

Wolf Bronsky:
Man, it's just another day at the office. Savin' everyone's butt.

J.T. Marsh:
Punch your time card, Bronsky.

Jonas Simbacca:
You are a brave man, Admiral, to sacrifice yourself for our escape. But it will not be necessary.

[a large Pirate fleet decloaks and decimates the Neosapiens pursuing the Exofleet]

Admiral Winfield:
You are a devious man, Simbacca. I like that.

Sean Napier:
One thing you can say for Phaeton, he makes the magnotrains run on time.[1]

[Amanda Connor, who was collaborating with Neosapien propaganda machine, has been coerced to participate in the extraction of former Homeworlds Congressmen]

Sean Napier:
I hope you've learned something tonight, Amanda.

Amanda Connor:
Look, maybe the Neosapiens did try to make this camp look like a resort instead of a prison. Sure they were using it for propaganda. But that doesn't mean they are evil.

Sean Napier:
You just don't wanna see the truth. [mans his E-frame] You better get on board. Even you won't be safe here when your "friends" retake the camp.

Amanda Connor:
I am not going, Sean. I believe Phaeton's order - with all its faults! - is the best way for the future.

Sean Napier:
I could force you to come with me but I won't. You have the right to make up your own mind. Even if you're wrong.

Amanda Connor:
You are living in the past, Sean! Terran and Neosapien cooperation is the key to the future.

Sean Napier:
I'm sure it is. But not on Phaeton's terms.

[the first appearance of the recurring quote]

Avery Butler:
Any heroes in here?

Jumptroopers:
No, sir!

Avery Butler:
Good, the only heroes I ever saw weren't breathin'. Now let's jump![2]

[the jumptroops capture a Neo Mega for the first time]

Vince Pellegrino:
Captain, about that weird Neo we captured, there's good news and bad news.

Avery Butler:
I could use some good news.

Vince Pellegrino:
The good news is that, uh, his air supply is holding out.

Avery Butler:
What's the bad news?

Vince Pellegrino:
He's stopped breathing.

Coleen O'Reilly:
You call that bad news?

Marsala [about Burns and Bronsky who were captured by Neosapiens]:
By now, they could be almost anywhere on the planet.

Kaz Takagi:
Oh now that's a great attitude.

Marsala:
It is equally probable that they are no longer alive.

Kaz Takagi:
We'll find her, we have to!

Marsala:
I am simply pointing out probabilities.

Kaz Takagi:
How can you be so calm about it? Don't you care?

Marsala:
I do not express my feelings the way you do. That does not mean I feel less. Concern for friends is common to all humans, and we Neosapiens are very much human. If Terrans had remembered that, perhaps this war would never have been fought.

[Professor Algernon introduces his method of curing the Dark Matter Syndrome]

Med-tech:
You propose to save this man's life with light?

Algernon:
Well, yes if you put it that way.

Admiral Winfield:
Do you really think this is going to work?

Algernon:
If my theory about Dark Matter Syndrome is correct, it will.

Admiral Winfield:
And, if it isn't correct?

Algernon:
That never occurred to me.

[Glycon orders Thrax to lead Mercury forces to Venus, should their attack on the Exofleet fail]

Thrax:
What about you?

Glycon:
I will lead the counterattack.

Thrax:
You are sacrificing yourself for nothing.

Glycon:
Has it not occurred to you that we are all sacrificing ourselves for nothing? It has become Phaeton's war, not ours.

Sharos:
What are Glycon's orders?

Thrax:
Do you never grow tired of it, Sharos? The fighting?

Sharos:
It is what we were bred for.

Thrax:
And when the war is over? What will we do then?

Sharos:
For us, the war will never be over.

J.T. Marsh:
Let him go Takagi, break off pursuit. We're here to look, not fight.

Kaz Takagi [returning]:
Hey, can I follow orders or what?

Rita Torres:
Takagi, only you can show off by not showin' off.

[Kaz Takagi disarms Thrax who then turns around to face him]

Kaz Takagi:
I know you.

Thrax:
It's not true, then, that we all look alike to Terrans.

Kaz Takagi:
You were on Mercury, you let me live. Why?

Thrax:
It seemed like a good idea at the time. [puts his arms down and calmly walks away]

Kaz Takagi:
Halt! Don't make me fire.

Thrax:
No one makes you fire. It's a decision you make for yourself. And you have to live with it.

[Takagi lowers the gun, Thrax takes off in his E-frame]

Marsala:
Phaeton has chosen to rule through terror. But when everyone fears you, you must fear everyone.

Maggie Weston [kicks DeLeon's damaged E-frame, which suddenly boots up]:
Whaddya know, I'm a mechanical genius.

Shiva [on being put in charge of the Neo Warriors]:
I was once Commanding General of all Earth forces. Now, I am a zookeeper.

J.T. Marsh:
Can you fly?

Marsala:
I presume you mean "in an E-frame".

J.T. Marsh:
Great. You pick now to find a sense of humor?

[captured by Neosapiens, Marsh claims to be Kaz Takagi to avoid unwanted attention]

Praetorius:
You will use Commander Marsh's E-frame. Are you capable of operating his machine?

J.T. Marsh:
I can do anything J.T. Marsh can do.

Jonas Simbacca [to J.T. Marsh]:
There will be fortunes to be made after the war. More wealth than I ever saw as a Pirate. I intend to be one of the most important men in the Solar system. And you could be there, with me, at my side. In this war I have trusted men with my life. You, I would trust with my money.

Jonas Simbacca:
I like the way you think, J.T. Marsh. You will command the counterattack.

J.T. Marsh:
But, Simbacca, that's a job for a senior commander.

Jonas Simbacca:
If you win, no one will complain. And if you lose, there won't be anyone left to complain.

Phaeton:
The blow you are about to strike will send the Terran rabble back to the cover of their Pirate hideouts. You will have your revenge for the Terrans' destruction of Mars. I will build a monument to your victory on Venus, and inscribe your names in stone, so that future broods will remember your courage.

J.T. Marsh [after shooting the General's E-frame down]:
You were the best of them, Shiva. Too bad you didn't serve a better cause.

[injured in the crash, General Shiva is found by Exoscouts]

"Pirate":
You're our prisoner, Neo.

Shiva:
Not for long. Soon I will be free.

"Doc":
What's your name and rank?

Shiva:
I am... I... am just a soldier.

Shiva [to the Exoscouts]:
Put me... down. Leave me. I do not wish to spend my last moments with half-formed Terrans.

Shiva [last words, as the Exoscouts start crying]:
Why?..

Alec DeLeon [last words, to Colleen O'Reilly]:
You never... you never answered my question... you do care about J.T., don't you? [...] Tell him... I never told Maggie... remember...

Wolf Bronsky [on DeLeon's death]:
Man, I've never thought it would be him.

Nara Burns:
It's never who you think.

J.T. Marsh [to Weston]:
Will it be OK?..

Maggie Weston:
Uh... sure...

Colleen O'Reilly:
When is this stupid war going to end?!.

Sean Napier [to the Terran workers]:
I understand you people are hungry. But what are you hungry for? Food? Or freedom? It's 400 kilometers to Chicago. Those tanks can make that in 2 hours. Anyone feel like a drive?

J.T. Marsh:
If we're wrong the sun may never rise on the Earth again.

Algernon:
The sun is always rising somewhere. After all, our darkness means light to the other side of the world.

J.T. Marsh:
Heh. You almost sound optimistic, Professor. How would a doomsday device work?

Algernon:
If I were going to destroy the Earth, and I had as little imagination as Phaeton, I'd simply blow it up.

Thrax [to Livia]:
Do you imagine that I'm afraid of you?

Thrax [to Galba]:
I used to worry how I would face the end. Would I go bravely like a soldier? But let me tell you something, Neo Mega, it's life itself that matters, not how it ends. Each moment is a precious gift, if only we have the courage to accept it. That is where our duty lies, not in taking life, but in living it.

Vince Pellegrino [reading the engraving over Phaeton's bunker]:
Abandon all hope...

Coleen O'Reilly:
...ye who enter here. It's Dante, from The Divine Comedy.

Wolf Bronsky:
Sounds like a load of laughs.

Phaeton:
Shiva, you have always been my best general. Can you stop them?

Shiva:
No, but I will try.

Marsala:
Without tradition to guide us, without posterity to judge us, we live in a moral void as empty as space itself. We are desperate for something to give our lives purpose. That is what Phaeton offered us.