
Crusade Quotes
Season 1 / Episode 13: – Each Night I Dream of Home
Lt. John Matheson: You’re smiling. |
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Season 1 / Episode 13: – Each Night I Dream of Home
David Williams: The only way I can… get through the blockade is if I am contaminated. |
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Season 1 / Episode 13: – Each Night I Dream of Home
Capt. Matthew Gideon: I thought you were supposed to be resting comfortably. |
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Season 1 / Episode 13: – Each Night I Dream of Home
Capt. Matthew Gideon: It’s a strange thing, Lieutenant. If I close my eyes I can see every detail of the Earth’s surface as clearly as we’re seeing it right now. But after my father died, I tried to remember his face. But it always slipped away from me. Why is that, I wonder? |
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Season 1 / Episode 13: – Each Night I Dream of Home
Capt. Matthew Gideon: Anything yet? |
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Season 1 / Episode 12: – Visitors from Down the Street
Durkani: Sooner or later, the truth is going to come out. The truth is– |
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Season 1 / Episode 12: – Visitors from Down the Street
Lt. John Matheson: I don’t- |
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Season 1 / Episode 12: – Visitors from Down the Street
Lt. John Matheson: Showing that we can obey the new regs is all that stands between us and the creation of a new Psi-Corps. I’m not gonna be the one to mess that up. |
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Season 1 / Episode 12: – Visitors from Down the Street
Lt. John Matheson: There are probably some who’ll say that by doing this, we are interfering with their culture. [cut to: Capt. Gideon relaxing, enjoying a drink, and the wind] |
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Season 1 / Episode 11: – The Needs of Earth
Capt. Matthew Gideon: How did we get in the middle of this again? |
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Season 1 / Episode 11: – The Needs of Earth
Capt. Matthew Gideon: Open. |
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Season 1 / Episode 11: – The Needs of Earth
Dr. Sarah Chambers: [on the porn that came from Eilerson’s data crystal] There’s something you don’t see every day.
Dr. Sarah Chambers: As a Doctor, I have to say that’s totally unrealistic. An alien life form like the Pak’Ma’Ra is not biologically equipped to interface with humans in that kind of… |
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Season 1 / Episode 11: – The Needs of Earth
Capt. Matthew Gideon: I may have an idea. |
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Season 1 / Episode 11: – The Needs of Earth
Natchok Var: [listening to music he found on a data crystal] This is yours? |
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Season 1 / Episode 11: – The Needs of Earth
Lt. John Matheson: How odd. To know everyone’s heart but my own. |
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Season 1 / Episode 11: – The Needs of Earth
Capt. Matthew Gideon: I was thinking about what happened down on Praxis 9 and I thought I’d stop by and see if you wanted to talk about it. |
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Season 1 / Episode 10: – The Memory of War
Galen: [After finding a glyph on some nanobots] A glyph, yes. A sign. A signal. A warning to others like us. That thing, that obscenity was made by another *Technomage!* That’s why we were all taught never to come here. They wanted to keep secret that one of us was responsible for this. |
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Season 1 / Episode 10: – The Memory of War
Jane: And as the planetary quarantine enters its fourth month, mass rioting continues in India, South Africa, and parts of central America as they struggle to deal with the total collapse of their economies, the result of lost income usually generated by trade with other worlds. … In the Vatican, Pope Bernadette II led a global day of prayer and fasting. She called for churches everywhere to unite in the scientific community’s attempt to find a medical cure. |
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Season 1 / Episode 10: – The Memory of War
Galen: [holding one of these probes] I want you to know that this thing just made a very large dent in my ship. Did you ever think about looking outside before you start throwing things overboard? |
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Season 1 / Episode 10: – The Memory of War
Max Eilerson: [to Dureena] I’ve decided to re-define our relationship. You pretend that you can’t speak. I’ll pretend that I can’t hear. We’ll get along famously. |
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Season 1 / Episode 10: – The Memory of War
Max Eilerson: Where are you going? |
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Season 1 / Episode 10: – The Memory of War
Capt. Matthew Gideon: What do you recommend now? Galen: Music. |
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Season 1 / Episode 10: – The Memory of War
Max Eilerson: You talk like that planet is alive. |
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Season 1 / Episode 9: – Racing the Night
Max Eilerson: Nations rise and fall. Planets live and die. But corporations go on and on, through good times and bad, because it’s all about profit. |
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Season 1 / Episode 9: – Racing the Night
Galen: When you have reached the end of the road, then you can decide whether to go to the left or to the right, to fire or to water. If you make those decisions before you have even set foot upon the road, it will take you nowhere. – Except to a bad end. |
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Season 1 / Episode 9: – Racing the Night
General Miller: And it is our firm belief that Capt. Gideon is the right man for this job. His reputation– |
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Season 1 / Episode 9: – Racing the Night
Galen: Never contradict a Technomage when he’s saving your life. Again. |
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Season 1 / Episode 9: – Racing the Night
Capt. Matthew Gideon: [to Lt. Matheson] Don’t think. |
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Season 1 / Episode 9: – Racing the Night
Galen: If I’m going to die, I’d rather do so in a room with a view. |
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Season 1 / Episode 9: – Racing the Night
Galen: The answer is still no. For now. |
Season 1 / Episode 9: – Racing the Night
Capt. Matthew Gideon: The last choice was not a good one. |
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Season 1 / Episode 8: – Appearances and Other Deceits
Capt. Matthew Gideon: Personal journal, Capt. Matthew Gideon, continuing. It’s now three days since our visitors arrived on behalf of Earthgov’s political affairs office. There’s apparently some concern with how our work here is being perceived back home. They’ve been assigned to help us. Before their tour is finished, I may have to kill them. Assuming Lt. Matheson doesn’t beat me to it. |
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Season 1 / Episode 8: – Appearances and Other Deceits
Max Eilerson: Bring me more of these… Salted. I work better with salt. – Did you know that in the 20th century they actually thought that salt was bad for you? Listen to the animals I say. The lion will sit down with the lamb to share the salt lick. – Good enough for them, good enough for me. |
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Season 1 / Episode 8: – Appearances and Other Deceits
Capt. Matthew Gideon: [viewing his new grey red-trimmed uniform in the mirror] I look like a bellhop! |
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Season 1 / Episode 8: – Appearances and Other Deceits
Capt. Matthew Gideon: Eilerson was right about all of this. I hate it when he’s right. He’ll be insufferable for days. |
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Season 1 / Episode 8: – Appearances and Other Deceits
Lt. John Matheson: Take a look at that collar. |
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Season 1 / Episode 8: – Appearances and Other Deceits
Capt. Matthew Gideon: Begin recording letter. Capt. Matthew Gideon: Dear Mr. Arkham, your son David gave his life in the performance of his duty. I was his commanding officer. |
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Season 1 / Episode 7: – The Rules of the Game
Rolf Müller: You’re some kind of big shot, brainy guy back in school. |
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Season 1 / Episode 7: – The Rules of the Game
Dr. Sarah Chambers: So, this is Babylon 5. It’s everything I expected. Noisy, crowded, and constantly in trouble. Still, you have to give it credit. It has lasted 10 years. Nobody back home thought it would even last a year. |
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Season 1 / Episode 7: – The Rules of the Game
Capt. Elizabeth Lochley: [has just won her bet] That’ll be 100 credits |
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Season 1 / Episode 7: – The Rules of the Game
Max Eilerson: Manners maketh man, after all. |
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Season 1 / Episode 7: – The Rules of the Game
Lorkan #3: If the leaders of our religion cannot maintain their vows in the face of temptation… then perhaps it is time to question whether or not the whole system is flawed. |
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Season 1 / Episode 7: – The Rules of the Game
Capt. Matthew Gideon: It’ll take hours to vibe this stuff off.
Capt. Matthew Gideon: We don’t have to wait to recycle the water. We could, uh – we could share. |
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Season 1 / Episode 7: – The Rules of the Game
Capt. Matthew Gideon: [a bit annoyed by Lorkan #3 ] Can I smack him? Just once? |
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Season 1 / Episode 7: – The Rules of the Game
Max Eilerson: [accepting a letter] Thank you. |
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Season 1 / Episode 6: – Ruling From the Tomb
Gideon: All these precautions are nice, but … |
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Season 1 / Episode 6: – Ruling From the Tomb
Gideon: You are the most double-talking, suspicious, second-guessing individual I have ever seen… since the last time I looked into a mirror. |
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Season 1 / Episode 6: – Ruling From the Tomb
Elizabeth Lochley: Do you believe in God? |
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Season 1 / Episode 6: – Ruling From the Tomb
Elizabeth Lochley: You know what you are? |
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Season 1 / Episode 6: – Ruling From the Tomb
Elizabeth Lochley: Who was your old hero? |
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Season 1 / Episode 6: – Ruling From the Tomb
Gideon: *Married*? You’re telling me some guy actually managed to land you. Got you to lower your defenses enough to commit, and then let you get away? God, he must be the biggest loser in the galaxy. |
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Season 1 / Episode 6: – Ruling From the Tomb
Elizabeth Lochley: I need specifics, Lt. Carr. Your saying you’ve got it covered isn’t enough. |
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Season 1 / Episode 6: – Ruling From the Tomb
Max Eilerson: Anyway, Christ came to tell us to love one another, and the last 2,200 years, we’ve spent killing each other on how he said it? When you become obsessed with the enemy, you become the enemy. |
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Season 1 / Episode 6: – Ruling From the Tomb
Max Eilerson: One man’s lunatic is another man’s saint or holy martyr. In the words of T.S. Eliot, “Saint and martyr rule from the tomb.” |
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Season 1 / Episode 6: – Ruling From the Tomb
Dureena Nafeel: You know, on my world, it was considered great evil to even try to presume to speak on behalf of the universe. |
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Season 1 / Episode 6: – Ruling From the Tomb
Dureena Nafeel: Gods, I am drowning in testosterone. |
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Season 1 / Episode 5: – Patterns of the Soul
Capt. Matthew Gideon: General Thompson, you don’t understand. We are minutes away from a new destination with some good leads. |
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Season 1 / Episode 5: – Patterns of the Soul
Max Eilerson: Orion system? Theta 49? Looks incredibly dull. |
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Season 1 / Episode 5: – Patterns of the Soul
Max Eilerson: [to Gideon] Must be difficult for you, being a career military officer, having to play the roles of jailer, ferryman, executioner. That’s where we’re different. I just do what I’m told. The corporation knows all, sees all, and tells very little. If we make a bad call, we can honestly say that we’ve acted in good conscience based on the information available. Absolution in absentia, the blessed state of being able to say, “It’s not my fault.” |
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Season 1 / Episode 5: – Patterns of the Soul
Capt. Matthew Gideon: Granted, I’m a bit eccentric, as captains go. |
Season 1 / Episode 5: – Patterns of the Soul
Max Eilerson: [dictating] To close my report, I’d like to make one note for the record. That not all of the colonists on Theta 49 were killed in the explosion today. A detailed surface scan of the planet indicates that there is another race living there as well, suggest that the Corporation check it out one of these days.
Computer: Last entry deleted. |
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Season 1 / Episode 4: – The Path of Sorrows
Galen: All roads intersect with the path of sorrows, sooner or later. |
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Season 1 / Episode 4: – The Path of Sorrows
Lt. John Matheson: You like going nowhere at 120 miles an hour? |
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Season 1 / Episode 4: – The Path of Sorrows
Capt. Matthew Gideon: We’re all in pain, one way or another. At least, I’ve never met anyone who wasn’t. |
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Season 1 / Episode 4: – The Path of Sorrows
Capt. Matthew Gideon: It’s easier not to want forgiveness or to expect it. You just keep trying to fix the mistake so you don’t have to ask. But you end up trying so hard to atone for one set of mistakes, you overcompensate and make new ones and then you can never break out of the cycle. You just keep going round and round. No way out. Nowhere to go. |
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Season 1 / Episode 4: – The Path of Sorrows
Isabelle: [dying] Listen to me, Galen, my dearest love… You must learn one day to forgive God for his decisions. I’m sure it would greatly relieve him. If there is a purpose, if there is a design, if there is a way – after I’m gone I will call to you and say your name and send you a message. And you will know I was right, as usual. Kiss me good night. |
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Season 1 / Episode 4: – The Path of Sorrows
Lt. John Matheson: We received a message for you a little while ago. |
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Season 1 / Episode 4: – The Path of Sorrows
Capt. Matthew Gideon: Anything yet?
Capt. Matthew Gideon: How about you? |
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Season 1 / Episode 3: – The Well of Forever
Galen: [about Isabelle] Every technomage knows the fourteen words that will make someone fall in love with you forever, but she only needed one. |
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Season 1 / Episode 3: – The Well of Forever
Galen: What have you done to your quarters? |
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Season 1 / Episode 3: – The Well of Forever
Galen: Do you think I’m hiding things from you? |
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Season 1 / Episode 3: – The Well of Forever
Max Eilerson: I think it’s safe to say that we’re not being consumed, but it’s certainly an odd, chewing rhythm. |
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Season 1 / Episode 3: – The Well of Forever
Capt. Matthew Gideon: [to Galen] I didn’t ask how you screwed me, I asked why. |
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Season 1 / Episode 3: – The Well of Forever
Lt. John Matheson: Sir, before you go into your meeting, I wanted to let you know that Mr. Jones is here from the Bureau of Telepath Integration. |
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Season 1 / Episode 3: – The Well of Forever
Dureena Nafeel: But what about your question, Galen? Did you find your answer to “why”? |
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Season 1 / Episode 2: – The Long Road
Capt. Matthew Gideon: You know something about this, don’t you? |
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Season 1 / Episode 2: – The Long Road
Galen: If we’re planning to appeal to the better angels of their nature we better have a backup plan in case reason is not sufficient to the cause. |
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Season 1 / Episode 2: – The Long Road
Worker #2: It’s here again. |
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Season 1 / Episode 2: – The Long Road
Capt. Matthew Gideon: Once the mission’s over, you could come back here, have yourself a home. |
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Season 1 / Episode 1: – War Zone
Jane: The alien forces that attacked Earth struck without reason or provocation. Although they were driven back by our forces, on their way out, they left behind a biogenetically engineered virus that has completely penetrated the atmosphere. As a result, Earth has been quarantined. Repeat: Earth has been quarantined. |
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Season 1 / Episode 1: – War Zone
Capt. Matthew Gideon: I’ll do whatever’s necessary. If that means turning the entire galaxy upside down and shaking its pockets to see what falls out, then that’s what I’ll do. I’m not subtle. I’m not pretty, and I’ll piss off a lot of people along the way. But I’ll get the job done. |
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Season 1 / Episode 1: – War Zone
Trace Miller: I’ve got plans for the weekend and being dead ain’t part of ’em. |
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Season 1 / Episode 1: – War Zone
Dureena Nafeel: Yes, I’m a thief, and a damned good one. Need to get inside something? Get out? Tunnel under? Go around? Go through? I’m it. You’re going to hit some pretty strange places and you’re going to need a lock pick. There isn’t a lock made that I can’t get through. |
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Season 1 / Episode 1: – War Zone
Max Eilerson: I can appreciate dramatic irony as much as the next person, but this is pushing it a bit. |
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Season 1 / Episode 1: – War Zone
Capt. Matthew Gideon: [about Max Eilerson] He may be a pain in the ass, but he will be our pain in the ass. |
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Season 1 / Episode 1: – War Zone
Capt. Matthew Gideon: I’d like you to come with me.
Galen: Who do you serve and who do you trust? |
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Unknown Episode:
Galen: Who are you?
Galen: Who do you serve, and who do you trust? |
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Unknown Episode:
Gideon: Why me? There are others just as qualified. |
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Unknown Episode:
Senator McQuate: You know, Captain, folks think there might have been life on Mars once. If they did exist, they left no sign. We’ll never know who they were or what they did, what songs they sang, what stories they told. Mars is a dead world. I can’t imagine that happening to the Earth in a few years. I can’t imagine that happening at all. |
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Gideon: Just so we’re clear: once we go, this is my command. I’ll do whatever’s necessary. If that means turning the entire galaxy upside down and shaking its pockets to see what falls out, that’s what I’ll do. I’m not subtle, I’m not pretty, and I’ll piss off a helluva lot of people along the way, but I’ll get the job done. |
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Captain Matthew Gideon: [Galen has led Excaliber on a wild goose chase] Now will you tell me what’s going on? |
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Gideon: I thought you said you never hold a grudge. |
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Elizabeth Lochley: Is there anything you can tell me? |
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Galen: When you have reached the end of the road, then you can decide, whether to go to the left or to the right, to fire or to water. If you make those decisions before you have even set foot upon the road, it will take you no where… except to a bad end. |
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Gideon: Refresh me, Lieutenant. How did we get into the middle of this again? |
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Elizabeth Lochley: Do you know what you are? |
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Technomage’s Avatar: Our order says many things; does few, believes in fewer still. |
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Dureena Nafeel: Look, I don’t like having to trust anyone because I’m always disappointed. But just once I’d like to know that I could actually trust someone, that for at least one person everything wasn’t about money or power. |
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Dureena Nafeel: When will you be back? |
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Durkani: It doesn’t matter if they believe us. Sooner or later the truth’s going to come out. The truth is… |
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John Matheson: The more you make a big deal out of denying something, the more people think it must be true. |
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Galen: Never contradict a technomage when he’s saving your life… again. |
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Kendarr: The truth has never been in anyone’s best interests. |
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Galen: There is always hope. Only because it’s the one thing that no one has figured out how to kill yet. |
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Trace Miller: Is that a challenge, Max? |
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Captain Matthew Gideon: You cheated! |
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Captain Matthew Gideon: I can see every detail of the Earth’s surface as clearly as we’re seeing it now. But after my father died, I tried to remember his face, but it always slipped away from me. Why is that I wonder. |
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Gideon: [Excalibur encounters life forms in Hyper space. The life forms attach themselves to the ship. Gideon looks at Galen.] No, it’s not. It’s mating with us! |
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Captain Matthew Gideon: Married? You’re telling me that some guy actually managed to land you? Got you to lower your defenses enough to commit and then he let you get away? Huh? God, he must be the biggest loser on the galaxy. |
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John Matheson: [seeing Galen in the transporter] You like going nowhere at 120 miles an hour? |
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Galen: If I want to sit and talk with the dead I will draw a pentagram on the ground and conjure up someone more, interesting. |
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Captain Matthew Gideon: What if you’re wrong, Galen? |
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Galen: Do you think I’m hiding things from you, Dureena? |
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Gideon: Galen, I didn’t ask you how you screwed me, I asked you “why.” |
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Galen: Then when the time comes I will help you keep your promise Matthew, as you have helped me keep mine. Perhaps then we can both forgive ourselves our common crime. |
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Dureena Nafeel: Did you find your answer to “why”, Galen? |
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Captain Matthew Gideon: Personal Journal: Captain Matthew Gideon continuing. It’s now three days since our visitors arrived on behalf of Earth Gov’s Political affairs office. There’s apparently some concern with how our work here is being perceived back home. They’ve been assigned to “help” us. Before their tour is finished, I may have to *kill* them. Assuming Lieutenant Mattheson doesn’t beat me to it. |
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Elizabeth Lochley: Do you believe that there is a supreme being? |
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Gideon: [to Matheson] It’s easier not to want forgiveness, or to expect it. We just keep trying to fix the mistake so we don’t have to ask. But you end up trying so hard to atone for one set of mistakes, …you overcompensate and make new ones, and then you can never break out of the cycle. You just keep going round and round, no way out, nowhere to go. [cut to scene of Galen travelling aimlessly in the shuttlecar] |
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Senator Jacob Redway: Didn’t your daddy ever teach you not to contradict your elders? |