- Thomas Eichorst: [holding Setrakian aloft] Admit it, A230385: you've always been curious about what's on the other side.
- Abraham Setrakian: Are you going to stand there flapping your lips all day, or finish this?
- [Eichhorst extends his stinger and "bites" Setrakian's neck]
- Augustin 'Gus' Elizalde: No! No!
- [Setrakian drops an empty pill bottle - blood thinners. Sensing something wrong, Eichhorst withdraws his stinger and drops Setrakian, then falls to his knees, dry-heaving. Taking advantage of his captor's distraction, Gus breaks free and stabs him to death. Setrakian slowly picks up his sword and faces the convulsing Eichhorst]
- Abraham Setrakian: Like rats, you cannot vomit the blood thinner. An anatomical curiosity, but very significant too, don't you think? You *are* vermin. Look at me. I want your Master to see this. Can you hear me? I have something to say to you. You are the hunger, the strain that feeds on us since time immemorial. But make no mistake, you're still a parasite, and we will flush you out and burn you. It will not be me, it will not be now, but it will happen, no matter how long it takes. In another face, another eyes, you will see me as you die. And as for you, Herr Eichhorst, my name is Abraham Setrakian. And you should know, I'm not a number anymore.
- [He raises his sword...]
- Abraham Setrakian: [in ancient language] My sword sings of silver!
- [... and decapitates Eichhorst]
- Ephraim Goodweather: How'd he get so run down?
- Dutch Velders: We were captured. He was put in a Partnership research facility.
- Ephraim Goodweather: What kind of research?
- Dutch Velders: All I know is that they're running experiments.
- Ephraim Goodweather: Experiments?
- Dutch Velders: He's B-positive. They were doing studies, pumping him full of drugs.
- Ephraim Goodweather: Wait, wait, wait. Hold on, start from the beginning.
- Dutch Velders: I told you, we were caught. We were separated.
- Ephraim Goodweather: For how long?
- Dutch Velders: I don't know.Three months, maybe.
- Ephraim Goodweather: You didn't see him for three months?
- Dutch Velders: I don't understand your tone here. Are you blaming me?
- Ephraim Goodweather: I'm not blaming you!
- Dutch Velders: Because at least I was here! It was just me and him! We made it on our own for months off the grid! And, by the way, I was locked up, too, if that's of any concern. And when I was, he was all I thought about. And meanwhile, what were you doing in Philadelphia?
- Alex Green: Look, I don't think that this is getting us anywhere. The question is, what do we do now?
- Thomas Eichorst: You have lost faith in me... Master. I do not deserve your mercy, nor will I ask for it. I only ask that you take my life.
- The Master: Is that your desire, Thomas?
- Thomas Eichorst: Yes, my Lord.
- The Master: Well, then. This is a proud day... for Abraham Setrakian. This is Standartenführer Thomas Eichhorst, defeated by a Jew. My most trusted acolyte, an officer of the Reich, bested by a pawnbroker. You will go down in the history of our species as an abject defeatist who lost his stomach for the fight! Is that what you really desire, Thomas? To hand victory to Setrakian?
- Thomas Eichorst: No!
- The Master: Then find him! Find the Born and the others. Above all, do not let that warhead cross the river!
- Thomas Eichorst: You have my word.
- Abraham Setrakian: There's an age, Miss Velders, where you meet an enemy you cannot run from. Time. When you reach it, you will experience your body's betrayal from within.
- Abraham Setrakian: I saw this in a dream. The ouroboros. The Egyptians thought it represented the never-ending cycle of creation and destruction, birth and death. Eternity!
- Ephraim Goodweather: I didn't mean it that way. Look, I... I'm just doing the only thing I know to do. If we can find Setrakian, if we can kill the Master, then all of this ends; the depravation, the feed lots, the blood harvesting, all of it.
- Alex Green: And this Setrakian will have a plan?
- Ephraim Goodweather: Setrakian always has a plan.Whether it'll work is another question.
- Dutch Velders: What the hell are you doing? Professor...
- Abraham Setrakian: I saw this in a dream. The ouroboros. The Egyptians thought it represented the never-ending cycle of creation and destruction, birth and death. Eternity!
- Dutch Velders: Right.But why... But why are you ripping out the pages after all we went through?
- Abraham Setrakian: I have to see the parts and their sum all at once. There are... there are patterns here. Connections. I... things I... I've overlooked.
- Dutch Velders: I... I thought you had this figured out. The "Face of God," the... the nuclear explosion.
- Abraham Setrakian: I was wrong. Slightly. I missed the significance of these images.
- Dutch Velders: All right. OK, hold on, hold on.
- Abraham Setrakian: I can't hold on! There's too much to do!
- Dutch Velders: Just take a minute.
- Abraham Setrakian: I... I'm running out of time!
- Abraham Setrakian: I have to see the parts and their sum all at once. There are... there are patterns here. Connections. I... things I... I've overlooked.
- Ephraim Goodweather: His heartbeat's changing rapidly. I think he's in AFib.
- [Atrial Fibrillation, a condition where the heart muscle beats in a rapid and irregular manner, in this case the upper chambers]
- Dutch Velders: What does that mean? He's had a heart attack?
- Ephraim Goodweather: Or maybe a stroke.
- Dutch Velders: Jesus.
- Ephraim Goodweather: Or hopefully he's just dehydrated. How'd he get so run down?
- Raul: We gotta check this place out. It's an old marine warehouse in Sheepshead Bay. Jorge says it's gotta be 10,000 square feet. The Partnership's growing strawberries, tomatoes, spinach, all kinds of shit there. What do you think, Gus?
- Ephraim Goodweather: We need to get him hydrated. And we should probably get him some blood thinners. God knows where we'll find that.
- Augustin 'Gus' Elizalde: We need you fighting the good fight.
- Abraham Setrakian: And what would you know about the good fight, Mr. Elizalde? When you had the chance to stand with us, you... ran off. Throwing in with the likes of Alonso Creem.
- Augustin 'Gus' Elizalde: Hey... I'm just trying to get by like everybody else.
- Abraham Setrakian: That is exactly why the Master won... because people "try to get by."First with silence, then with comfort, then with... collaboration.
- Abraham Setrakian: That is exactly why the Master won... because people "try to get by."First with silence, then with comfort, then with... collaboration.