- McKenas Cole: You give us the codes, I won't have to open the box which will be really excellent for you.
- Arvin Sloane: I can't be the first person to have difficulty taking you seriously, can I?
- McKenas Cole: [holding one 'needles of fire'] Each one is like you took a bag of red jalapeños, threw them in a blender, and used them for an enema. And Arvin, you're about to get to know them.
- Sydney Bristow: There's something that happens when you discover the truth about someone. I know a little about this. The truth changes everything. There is this woman, a personality, like a collage put together from the photographs, the few memories I have, the scraps of stories I've heard. The clothes of hers I've got, her books. None of it's real. She wasn't that woman at all. She was... she was a horrible person, who killed your father. Vaughn, I just wanted to say, that I'm so sorry.
- Marshall Flinkman: As luck would have it, I'm feeling kind of a... a Stockholm Syndrome thing happening.
- McKenas Cole: But another part that sucks is seeing guys you worked with, guys you thought were tougher than deer jerky... tortured to death. That's no good.
- [after Irina's past surfaces]
- Michael Vaughn: It's a weird thing you know when, learning how your father died. I mean it's always been this intellectual idea I had... knowing he died, just not having any details.
- Eric Weiss: You really want some space, or are you and I going to get drunk? Because there's this bar, you won't even remember it tomorrow.
- Jenny: I found out that SD-6 is an ingredient in artificial sweeteners... but that's probably not the SD-6 you're talking about.
- Jack Bristow: I know how this feels.
- Sydney Bristow: Not exactly. You've had a lot longer to make sense of this than I have.
- Jack Bristow: There was a time when this was news to me, too. Your mother was sent to the United States to steal secrets from a ranking officer of the C.I.A. How she and I happened to meet, how she supposedly fell in love, I thought it was all true. But it was just a set-up.
- Sydney Bristow: Look where we are. I mean, this isn't real. This isn't what we should be doing. I want out.
- Michael Vaughn: Out?
- [Sydney nods]
- Michael Vaughn: You want to enter the protection program.
- Sydney Bristow: No. I'm not going into hiding.
- Michael Vaughn: If you don't, Sloane will kill you.
- Sydney Bristow: I don't think he will.
- Sydney Bristow: How could K-Directorate overpower fifty trained agents?
- Jack Bristow: If K-Directorate attacks SD-6, they know SD-6 will return the favor. This team that's invaded SD-6, isn't working with any organization we know. My guess is they're working for a group, clearly unpredictable and dangerous.
- Jack Bristow: Sloane must have activated the emergency failsafe. There are five hundred pounds of C-4 strategically placed within the substructure of this building. Opening the vault will trigger that C-4. All underground levels will collapse, burying any evidence that the Los Angeles cell of SD-6 ever existed.
- McKenas Cole: You're going to give me the combination to the SD-6 vault and if you don't, I'm going to open this box. And Arvin, trust me when I tell you, you do not want me to open this box.
- Sydney Bristow: You like hockey, right, the Kings?
- Michael Vaughn: Right, how'd you...
- Sydney Bristow: The pen you keep in your briefcase, it's a Kings pen.
- Michael Vaughn: Yeah, I got that at...
- Sydney Bristow: They're playing the Islanders next week, we should go.
- Michael Vaughn: [There is a long pause as he contemplates her question] Sydney, you can't do this.
- McKenas Cole: You still got that room downstairs right? The "Conversation Room"? That's what you used to call it right? The torture room, like you're ever going to admit what ever it is you did down there right? So Arvin lets go to the Conversation Room.
- Sydney Bristow: This is suicide.
- Jack Bristow: I don't think it is.
- Sydney Bristow: What exactly is your strategy here? Politely asking Sloane to let you out of SD-6?
- Will Tippin: Does my voice annoy you?
- Jenny: Your voice?
- Will Tippin: Yeah, I was just going through this interview with Eloise Kurtz and I started thinking about McNeil and the guy had this look in his eyes while I was interviewing him. And with his lawyer, the same thing. They were trying to get away from me.
- Jenny: Will, you are journalist for God's sake. You get paid to be annoying.
- Will Tippin: So you are saying I'm annoying.
- Jenny: Not to Danny or Eloise Kurtz.
- Will Tippin: Oh, so I don't annoy dead people.
- Jenny: Will, you are their champion.
- Will Tippin: What am I doing if I am hurting the people I'm trying to write about? Look, if I could bring back Danny Hecht or Eloise Kurtz I would. But I jus... I can't. And if championing them is gonna cause David McNeil's daughter danger, I can't live with that. I don't think I can do this anymore, this SD-6 story. I'm out.
- Steven Haladki: Hey! What a day, huh?
- Michael Vaughn: Why do you say that?
- Steven Haladki: Come one. Bristow's mom, your dad. It's not like a secret around here. Vaughn, that really sucks.
- Eric Weiss: Well played.
- Steven Haladki: You know what I think? Barnett is gonna be good for you.
- Michael Vaughn: I am not seeing Barnett.
- Steven Haladki: Oh, yeah, you are. She wants to see ya. I mean, come on. You're Bristow's handler, you found out that her mom killed your dad... She is a shrink, she lives for crisis management I think she will be good for ya...
- [after a small pause, referring to Eric's and Vaughn previous conversation]
- Steven Haladki: I like thick crust, in case you wanted me to come.
- Eric Weiss: Oh, hey, we don't.
- Michael Vaughn: What the hell is your problem, Haladki? Reporting me to Barnett?
- Steven Haladki: I don't have a problem, I told you. You have a problem.
- Michael Vaughn: You know what? This might shock you: my business is not you business.
- Steven Haladki: I am looking out for the good of the agency.
- Michael Vaughn: Yeah? Then you should quit.
- Steven Haladki: Stay out of my way.
- Steven Haladki: Did it make you feel better about yourself when you told Barnett that I got Sydney a Christmas gift?
- Steven Haladki: You are too emotionally attached to that woman!
- Michael Vaughn: Oh, like you would know anything about being emotionally attached to a woman!
- Steven Haladki: I think your judgement is impaired!
- Michael Vaughn: I think I am gonna kick your ass!
- Steven Haladki: You are out of line!
- Michael Vaughn: You are out of line, you stay the hell out of my operation, do you understand me?
- Eric Weiss: [gets in between them] Okay, okay, okay, we don't need to start down...
- Steven Haladki: [interrupts him] Who is losing control, me?
- Eric Weiss: Hey!
- Steven Haladki: Did you see that? Did everyone see that? That's what I'm talking about.
- McKenas Cole: You will learn about The Man. What The Man wants is a little sumthin' sumthin' you got in the SD-6 vault.