Timeless (TV Series)

The War to End All Wars (2018)

Melissa Farman: Irene Curie

Quotes 

• Lucy Preston : You're... you're Irene Curie?

  Irene Curie : Who are you?

  Lucy Preston : Your English is excellent.

  Irene Curie : Your French is terrible. What do you want?

• Marie Curie : Come closer.

  Lucy Preston : Oh, I've heard radiation is dangerous.

  Marie Curie : The procedure is completely safe.

  Irene Curie : Don't believe what you've heard. We're in more danger from our drivers.

  Carol Preston : How so?

  Irene Curie : One night, my mom was on her way home from the field hospital.

  Marie Curie : The truck overturned.

  Irene Curie : My mom was crushed underneath the apparatus. Bleeding everywhere, and then, the driver, he rushed around the car, and he said...

  Marie Curie : "Madam, madam, are you dead?"

  Irene Curie : My sister and I wouldn't have even known had we not found the bloody bandages. I think she was afraid we'd try to stop her from her work, as if that were possible.

• Irene Curie : We've trained over a hundred women to use these machines.

  Lucy Preston : I know.

  [covering] 

  Lucy Preston : I mean, that's amazing!

  Irene Curie : Maman says there's nothing worse than idle hands.

  Lucy Preston : Tough boss, huh?

  Irene Curie : She has high standards. When maman was called away with work, I'd write her letters and she'd write back correcting my grammar.

  Lucy Preston : When I was in school, I would stay up late doing my homework, and then I would come down the next morning just to see that mother had deleted page after page.

  Irene Curie : [confused]  Deleted?

  Lucy Preston : Well... erased. Because it just wasn't good enough.

  Irene Curie : Sounds like we have something in common.

• Lucy Preston : Do you ever wish that your mother would've just let you stay at the Sorbonne? That she hadn't dragged you to the front?

  Irene Curie : She did not drag me. The war is here. Whether we come to the battlefield or not. I can't imagine having fun doing physics and chemistry when I could be of service. And how did you know that I went to the Sorbonne?

• Lucy Preston : [outside the Mothership, as Emma draws her gun]  Emma, no.

  Irene Curie : It's just my mother and me.

  Marie Curie : We wanted to see what was disrupting the machine. I think we found it.

  Emma Whitmore : I really wish you hadn't seen this.

  Lucy Preston : Mom, this is crazy. Tell her to put the gun down.

  Carol Preston : Emma.

  Emma Whitmore : What? You think I want to do this? I didn't make the rules, Carol, but you know them as well as I do.

• Lucy Preston : You want to prove to me that you're not a monster? You taught me everything that I know about these women. How could you hurt them?

  Marie Curie : Do what you must. Spare my daughter. Her sister has no other family left.

  Irene Curie : Maman, no, if you die, your work dies with you.

  Marie Curie : My daughters are the only work that matters.

  Emma Whitmore : Let's just get this over with.

  Carol Preston : Put the gun down. That's an order.

  [Emma lowers her gun; after a moment, she raises it again, and Lucy steps protectively in front of the Curies] 

  Lucy Preston : No! No.

  Emma Whitmore : Don't tempt me, princess. I'm more than happy to take you out, too.