- Dr. Cassandra Railly: Notice anything weird about that place?
- James Cole: I'm from the apocalypse. Everything here looks weird to me.
- James Cole: [about the grotesque remains of a human body] What the hell is that thing?
- Jennifer Goines: The origin... of my father's virus.
- Jennifer Goines: This thing falls in the wrong hands - brimstone, horsemen, zombies, crazy clowns - you know, party's over.
- Ivan: Oh, um... um, for, for who? For Markridge?
- Jennifer Goines: For everyone.
- Pallid Man: Jennifer, you deceived us.
- Jennifer Goines: Shit, no, son. I'm Honest Abe. I'm chopping down cherry trees.
- Dr. Cassandra Railly: You're insane.
- Pallid Man: No, insanity and rationality may be on opposite sides of the animal, but lately, Doctor, the snake is eating its own tail. And if you were to ask *him*, he would tell you that 99.9% of all species that have ever existed, are now extinct. The natural order.
- Dr. Cassandra Railly: Him? You mean God?
- Pallid Man: No, no. Not God. The Witness.
- James Cole: You should get some rest.
- Katrina Jones: So should you.
- James Cole: Yeah, I never really sleep before a jump. Ramse and I usually knock a couple back. It's become a kind of pre-splinter tradition.
- Katrina Jones: Now I know why our calculations are off. It's the alcohol in your bloodstream.
- José Ramse: What the hell is wrong with you? Listen. I get that you're in a rush to delete yourself.
- James Cole: Easy, man.
- José Ramse: That one's in a mad dash too. You guys are being reckless.
- James Cole: Look, we're getting close to the end of this thing, okay? If she's right about tomorrow...
- José Ramse: All right. We'll never have happened. I get it.
- James Cole: Yeah. And you won't be around to hear me say 'I told you so'.
- [Jones has told Ramse about the experiments on people, which made time travel and the project to save humankind possible]
- José Ramse: You better wake up, lady. In case you haven't noticed, it's not working! Nothing's changed! We're still here. And all you got is blood on your hands.
- Katrina Jones: Mr. Ramse. Have you ever heard Mozart? Or Beethoven? Debussy, Bach? He was my favorite. You're too young to remember.
- José Ramse: I remember enough.
- Katrina Jones: It wasn't just... the people. It was the ideas. The paintings. Rembrandt, Caravaggio. The books. Shakespeare. Tolstoy. And... and the music. Oh, the music. Go. Go call me a monster.
- José Ramse: [referring to the experiments] This is wrong.
- Katrina Jones: This was necessary! You don't think I felt the pain of those men?
- José Ramse: You kept going!
- Katrina Jones: Because in a thousand generations, we could not rebuild what was lost! What is the lives of a few people, compared to the whole of human history? Without it, there's nothing. Nothing, no future. Just... just drifting. In the ocean of time. No shore in sight.
- Dr. Cassandra Railly: [when learning that Cole has killed Henri] I trusted you. I had a good life before I met you. A full life. Now there's just... death.
- James Cole: Ramse and I, we, uh... we had rules for ourselves. Never kill in anger, only for self-defense. And that became food and shelter. There was one day we raided this farmhouse. And there was this... old couple. The husband went down easy. But the old lady, she, uh... she was quick. She got a knife in me before I... And, uh... so I did it. She, uh... she looked up at me, and she smiled. Like she forgave me! And I never knew it before that moment. That was what I wanted.
- Dr. Cassandra Railly: Forgiveness?
- James Cole: [nods] I don't deserve it. I know that. But still, ever since, that's what I've been rushing towards, you know, just trying to make everything make sense. And that's what this is. You know, if I can... if I can fix this. If I can fix it... then all of it won't have been for nothing.
- Dr. Cassandra Railly: You're willing to do what is needed and I'm not. I can't. I just want to heal people. Fix things.
- James Cole: That's good. You don't wanna be like me.
- Dr. Cassandra Railly: No.