Alias (TV Series)

30 Seconds (2006)

Ron Rifkin: Arvin Sloane

Quotes 

• Arvin Sloane : [Nadia has just found Rambaldi's page 47 in Sloane's homes office]  Let me explain. Nadia you're going to have to trust me.

  Nadia Santos : You said it was over.

  Arvin Sloane : No... It's not what it looks like.

  Nadia Santos : You've been lying all along.

  Arvin Sloane : Look, I handed everything over to the DSR except for that page; I couldn't part with it, I... I'd spent so much time.

  Nadia Santos : I don't want more excuses. Just talking about Rambaldi, your face, your voice, it all changes. This obsession you have...

  Arvin Sloane : No it's not an obsession... It's faith.

  Nadia Santos : Do you have any idea what your faith costs me? What did you think, that I was sleeping peacefully? The last twelve months were an extended nap?

  [She begins to cry] 

  Nadia Santos : I heard people talking; I felt tubes being shoved down my throat. I couldn't open my eyes, I couldn't move, I couldn't scream. But I felt everything! So forgive me if I don't have much tolerance for your faith.

  Arvin Sloane : Nadia, please... You have to understand.

  Nadia Santos : I'm done trying to understand you. You have to make a choice; either me or this.

  [She holds up the page] 

  Arvin Sloane : Please don't make me choose between the two most important things in my life.

  Nadia Santos : I suppose then, you'll lose us both.

  [She throws the page in the fire. They fight and he recovers part of the page from the fire and knocks her into a glass table. She falls thru it and glass shards slash her neck and Sloane watches her die] 

• Arvin Sloane : [Voiceover the last shots of the episode. Jack finds out that Sloane killed Nadia, and Sydney finds Renee dead]  A few days I was absolutely horrified that you would suggest that I turn against APO that I would kill my own daughter. I realize now that both were inevitable. That death is a necessary sacrifice; necessary to complete the final leg of this journey. And I have been preparing for this my whole life, I knew it was coming. I have betrayed everyone I ever loved, but I was chosen.

  Joseph Ehrmann : We appreciate what you've done.

  Arvin Sloane : This is my road to follow.

  Joseph Ehrmann : Welcome back.

  [last lines]