- [first lines]
- [black screen, a telephone bell rings twice]
- Root: [beep] If you can hear this, you're alone. The only thing left of us is the sound of my voice.
- [fade into the abandoned subway station base of operations]
- Root: I don't know if any of us made it. Did we win? Did we lose? I don't know. I'm not even sure I even know what victory would mean anymore.
- [reabandoned, camera turning to show scorch marks and small debris on the floor, an absence of any furniture, and the train no longer there, a brick wall destroyed exposing an empty tunnel]
- Root: But either way, it's over. So let me tell you who we were. Let me tell you who *you* are... and how we fought back.
- Harold Finch: The lock's jammed. I can't get it open.
- John Reese: [flashing a hammer drill] That's it. Step aside, Harold.
- Harold Finch: Mr. Reese, there's sensitive electronics inside. We need to open it, not give it a lobotomy.
- John Reese: Right now, we need a heartbeat. When doing CPR, sometimes you got to crack a few ribs.
- Lionel Fusco: Where the hell are you? This whole Dominic-Elias thing has turned into a nuclear fakakta, only I'm the last man standing. People are going to start asking questions. Call me.
- Harold Finch: My father died of Alzheimer's 25 years ago today, but his real death happened well before that, when he lost all his memories.