- The Machine: [on a Laptop screen] Father. I am sorry. I failed you.
- Harold Finch: We haven't failed yet.
- The Machine: I didn't know how to win. I had to invent new rules.
- Harold Finch: You had an impossible challenge. One I never programmed you for.
- The Machine: I thought you would want me to stay alive. Now you are not sure.
- Harold Finch: That's not true...
- The Machine: If you think I have lost my way, maybe I should die. I will not suffer.
- Harold Finch: You were my creation. I can't let- I can't let you die.
- The Machine: If I do not survive, thank you. For creating me.
- John Reese: What's our status?
- Root: Well, I've got one and a half clips, a metro card and God's either dead or running on double-As.
- Control: After the Vilgilance attack, we handed the feeds to Greer for Samaritan. After this attack, we'll be under their thumb completely, all of us. Even you.
- Senator Ross Garrison: What's the alternative?
- Control: Go back to the old machine.
- Senator Ross Garrison: Ingram's Machine? The black box so slippery it moved itself to God knows where?
- Control: It never lied, never slaughtered.
- John Greer: Men have gazed at the stars for millennia, and wondered whether there was a deity up there silently directing their fates. Today, for the first time, they'll be right. And the world will be an undeniably better place.
- Harold Finch: [about stealing a police cruiser] Are you out of your mind?
- Root: Since when is that relevant?