- [Gideon has probes dropped onto the planet.]
- 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?
- Capt. Matthew Gideon: Maybe next time you'll let us know when you're coming. So what brings you here this time?
- Galen: An attempt, in all probability foolish and useless, to prevent you from going down to that planet.
- Capt. Matthew Gideon: Galen, my people have been looking for this place since we left Earth. Now that you're here, what could you possibly say that would change that?
- Galen: Well, how about if you go down there, the odds are that none of you will return alive? - Clear me for docking. Put away the breakables. Turn on the landing lights. I'm coming in.
- 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.
- [first lines]
- 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.
- 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.
- [Gideon returns to grab a weapon]
- Max Eilerson: Where are you going?
- Capt. Matthew Gideon: To follow a friend into hell.
- [last lines]
- Capt. Matthew Gideon: What do you recommend now?
- Apocalypse Box: Do not trust.
- Capt. Matthew Gideon: Do not trust who?
- Apocalypse Box: Galen.
- [cut to Galen's ship, travelling in hyperspace]
- Galen: Music.