- [first lines]
- James Cole: Where are you right now? Somewhere warm? Safe? Next to someone you love? Now, what if all that was gone, and the only thing you could do is survive? You would, right? You'd try. You'd do things - horrible things. Until you lose that last thing you have left: yourself. But what if you could take it back? All of it? A reset switch? You'd hit it, right? You'd have to, even if you didn't want to. Because sometimes the choice isn't even yours. It's fate.
- [after Ramse has been critically injured, Cole helps him up]
- José Ramse: [groggy] What're you doing?
- James Cole: No one has to die. We'll find another way. We'll find another way.
- Aaron Marker: You're no savior, Cole. You're just a savage.
- James Cole: You want to know what makes a savage? Seeing shit no kid should ever see and then doing the same thing to survive. I was just a boy, watching the world die, alone. Now I know who I have to thank for that.
- [he punches Aaron in the face]
- Jennifer Goines: Leland Goines, my father, was just a man. But what kind of man? A charitable man, a giving man, a wise man, and, most importantly, a family man. Except that my father was none of those things. No. My father was only ever a Markridge man.
- Striking Woman: At last, the next cycle has begun.
- Man in Suit: [about the 12] In 28 years, they'll be ready. This is quite the undertaking.
- Striking Woman: It has to be. Nothing is more important.
- [...]
- Man in Suit: You're certain of all this?
- Striking Woman: The Witness has spoken.
- Man in Suit: But what of Jose Ramse?
- Striking Woman: On this day, November 11th of 2015, history will show that Ethan Seki will be found dead beside the accelerator he helped finance. His circle will come to an end.
- Man in Suit: And James Cole?
- Striking Woman: James Cole will flee into obscurity, his future unknown to us. All of this is preordained, scripted by time, unmovable, because there is nothing more powerful than fate.