- Victor: What you're not getting, man-friend, is that this whole operation is dependent upon *me*. Not a brain-construct-y me, but "Bond, James Bond" me. Which is
- [Victor chuckles]
- Victor: not so me.
- Boyd Langton: Vict - Topher. All you have to do is stay calm.
- Victor: This from the guy who had to dismember my last little outing!
- Adelle DeWitt: [Seductively] I would like to think we could achive a... mutually beneficial... compromise.
- Howard Lipman: Compromise can be fun...
- [DeWitt grabs a part of Lipman's body]
- Adelle DeWitt: If you don't return my Active, I will send someone to cut these off. You will be killed horribly over a long period, and never found. Now look me in the eyes Stuart, and tell me if I've learned how to bluff.
- Howard Lipman: [In a pained voice] Ok.
- Adelle DeWitt: Compromise.
- Topher Brink: She's got me locked out on this end.
- Victor: Who's your back door man?
- Topher Brink: We'll pretend I didn't say that.
- Victor: Yeah.
- Victor: Are we into her?
- Topher Brink: We may be fierce on the subject.
- Victor: Oh, God, I wish I was there! I mean, w-what's she like?
- Topher Brink: Uh, totally shy, librarian energy through the roof.
- Victor: Glasses?
- Topher Brink: Glasses on a chain!
- Victor: For the win!
- Victor: Seriously, just a few more days. I could help analyzing Perrin's brain map!
- Topher Brink: It wouldn't be a second opinion. It would be the same opinion twice!
- Bennett Halverson: What's interesting to me is that - you don't call out to God. It isn't a question of faith, it's just the venacular. Anyone in this much pain prays, or at least curses. But we take God from you too. You really are a shell.
- Echo: I'm afraid of Caroline. If she comes back, where will I go? I don't want to fall asleep, even for a little while
- Bennett Halverson: Do you know who Echo really is?
- Topher Brink: She's a friend!
- Bennett Halverson: Friend? A shell? I was her friend. I was her *best* friend.
- [Indicating her arm]
- Bennett Halverson: This is what I got for it. This is my gift from Caroline.
- Topher Brink: This isn't about Caroline. This is about Echo.
- Bennett Halverson: They're the same! Caroline has a power over people. And however well you wiped her, she clearly still does!
- Boyd Langton: So what are you saying? They're manufacturing a president?
- Topher Brink: Wouldn't be the first time.
- Victor: Bennett Halverson is the chief programmer at the D.C. Dollhouse. She's a genius! *I* think she's a genius, so, you know, double it. She's just gonna look at my 1.0, and his palms are gonna sweat, and she just, she'll know!
- Victor: Did I fall asleep?
- Topher Brink: For a little while.
- Victor: Shall I go now?
- Topher Brink: For the love of God, yes!
- Echo: [Bennett is holding a hard drive] Is Caroline in there?
- Bennett Halverson: Heh. Yes and no. This is one of my memories of you. This is the last time I saw you. This is what you did to me. Not just to my arm. To *me*. I want you to feel this. There is something worse than pain.
- Topher Brink: Okay, so we have had an active, Whiskey. She was rendered unengageable. So we - *I* made her into a doctor. Uh - and you -
- [gestures to Bennett's arm]
- Topher Brink: so I thought maybe - similar - Bennett - the real Bennett would use an active to...
- Bennett Halverson: You thought... That's idiotic. Actives are beautiful.
- Topher Brink: Yeah.
- Victor: Finally!
- Topher Brink: Everything good there?
- Victor: Everything's great, me-man. Except I've got a long white beard from waiting.
- Bennett Halverson: If we use the neural electric biolinks, we can redirect the loop to target a specific brain.
- Howard Lipman: In english.
- [everyone looks at Topher]
- Topher Brink: Oh, wow, okay, I do the english part? That's new.
- Echo: We haven't escaped. They're coming. They always come. Because of this.
- [Echo touches the back of Daniel's neck]
- Senator Daniel Perrin: What is that?
- Echo: It's how they find us.
- Senator Daniel Perrin: GPS tag?
- Echo: We have to cut.
- Bennett Halverson: [to Topher] How about, while I build the magic bullets, you work on adapting your gun.
- Cindy Perrin: But everybody's got a past. It's the future the voters care about. You show them that. All will be forgiven.
- Echo: Daniel stop! They're in your head. You don't have to listen! You don't have to be what they tell you to be! You can belong to you!
- Cindy Perrin: Where is he?
- Echo: Gone. Something else is here.
- Cindy Perrin: [Cindy hits Echo] Oh God. Doll speak.
- Victor: Are-are we sure this is such a great idea? I mean, I am sensing tension, of the palpable sort.