- Dembe Zuma: It was a little different for me, because my relationship with Elizabeth was always in terms of Raymond. I remember when Elizabeth was several years younger than Agnes is now. Raymond and I went to a soccer match she was playing in. The match was a disaster. All these girls running this way and that. A lot of missed goals or goals made by accident, but it was so much fun. And after it was over, I don't think anyone really cared or knew who won or lost. Everyone was standing around, having snacks and juices, comparing scrapes and bruises, and there was a lot of noise and activity, but suddenly, I heard this laugh. This sort of explosive, spontaneous laugh, young and so full of joy and infectious, but also familiar. It was Elizabeth. But I turned to look next to me, because just for a second, I thought it was Raymond. And some years later, just before Elizabeth died, we all spent a few days together in D. C. and New York Raymond, Elizabeth, Agnes, myself, and Mrs. French, just hanging around, talking, eating, playing board games, walking in the park. We went to a couple of museums, got ice cream, and we just laughed with each other. Agnes, Elizabeth, and Raymond. This funny, little family who all share that laugh. This one, big, generous, mischievous, loving, hungry, wanting, tragic heart.
- Marvin Gerard: You always were a great strategist, Raymond.
- Raymond 'Red' Reddington: You were always a great consigliere.
- Raymond 'Red' Reddington: You've made a bigger mess of this than either of you realize. That man is my attorney. Do you have any idea how clever a person you'd have to be to fill that position?
- Harold Cooper: There's no deal coming, Marvin. We don't need your cooperation. We have Raymond, and he can tell us anything you know.
- Marvin Gerard: He can, but he won't. You're a puppet. The federal government sees 1% of the Reddington organization, the 1% he allows you to see. The rest, the full scope of what we built together, is a criminal masterpiece the likes of which you, respectfully, don't have the talent to comprehend.
- Raymond 'Red' Reddington: I loved you, Marvin, but we were never partners. You worked for me. I valued you. I pulled you close. I wanted and needed your help and friendship.I never dreamed that it would cost me Elizabeth.
- Raymond 'Red' Reddington: What a sad end to our association, our friendship.
- Marvin Gerard: Is that what I hear in your voice, Raymond? Sadness?
- Raymond 'Red' Reddington: In part. For what it's worth, Marvin, I understand your turn of events. The betrayal is unforgivable and you'll die for it, but it's understandable. After all, my feelings for Elizabeth weren't always rational. I was often emotional rather than pragmatic, and you weren't entirely wrong to wonder if Elizabeth was capable or worthy of running things. Not entirely wrong, or even slightly. Still, however subjective my decision was, the objective truth is that it was mine to make. You voiced your objections.
- Marvin Gerard: You'd already made up your mind.
- Raymond 'Red' Reddington: And once the choice was made, it was your obligation to live with it, Marvin.
- Marvin Gerard: Even if it meant watching everything we built crumble before my eyes?
- Raymond 'Red' Reddington: Yes.
- Raymond 'Red' Reddington: Out of respect for our history, I'm going to give you what you never gave Elizabeth, a chance to leave this world in whatever way you choose, a chance to make it painless, to put your affairs in order and say goodbye to those who would grieve your passing.
- Marvin Gerard: And if I refuse?
- Marvin Gerard: Then you and I would get the answer to a question I've been asking myself since the night Elizabeth died, what will I do to the person responsible? How dark is the blackness at the center of this hole in my heart? I'm not sure I really want to know that, Marvin, but if need be, we'll find out together.
- Marvin Gerard: My offer is simple. He's out. I'm in. I get his deal, and in exchange, I continue to provide Main Justice with a steady stream of criminals you don't even know exist.
- Cynthia Panabaker: And what happens to Reddington?
- Cynthia Panabaker: That's the best part. Main Justice gets what it always wanted, arrest him. Drop him in a hole somewhere.