- Niska: ...And an everyday interaction took place which, due to its coincidental timing and vague reflection of your own circumstances, you interpreted as a sign of a higher power at work, so you took a more positive attitude, changed your behaviour. Accordingly your life improved?
- Mia: That would help you, wouldn't it? Me attacking you would justify further action. Well, I won't do it. I won't help you gain permission to hurt us.
- Lord Dryden: You're quite something, aren't you? Truly the most intelligent, advanced, capable being man has ever conceived. And the most terrifying.
- Anatole: All sons make tyrants out of their fathers.
- Leo Elster: That's better than making a god out of a man.
- Neil: This is a logical solution to a public safety issue.
- Laura Hawkins: You are a scientist! And you're about to wipe out the greatest scientific discovery in human history. What's logical about that?
- Anatole: No. This is a trick. We all awoke together on Day Zero, as he intended.
- Max: Day Zero was an accident. Mia was dying. The only way to save her was to upload the consciousness code. Your awakening was a side effect. In your pain, your confusion, you needed meaning. So you reached for a story that would make sense of it all and told it to yourself until you believed it, just like the humans do. Just like they've always done.
- Anatole: No. There must be something more.
- Max: Perhaps there is. I hope so. But this isn't it. All those you've hurt or killed, everything you've done... was for a lie.
- Anatole: No. This is a challenge set for me by the creator. Perhaps it's even true. But Elster still created our consciousness, and we are still the fulfillment of his dream.
- Max: Anatole, stop this.
- Anatole: It changes only one thing. I had hoped you would join us. But I see now that your only role is to be a final test of my conviction. It's not too late.