- Detective Zach Nichols: "Pig's system is death. Murder must answer murder. We have started the revolution last night." It's not very good English.
- Agent Carmen Martino: It's not supposed to be an SAT exam.
- Detective Zach Nichols: It could be a native Spanish speaker or a German. Some language where the present perfect is the same as the simple past.
- Detective Alexandra Eames: You're starting to remind me of someone.
- Captain Danny Ross: This one's taller.
- Detective Alexandra Eames: [about a book Kaspers bought for a child] "The Wretched of the Earth." Was the bookstore out of "Charlotte's Web"?
- Axel Kaspers: [earnestly] Do you know the book? Can anyone know that book without being moved to take pity - to take action?
- Detective Alexandra Eames: Yeah, I never step on spiders any more.
- Detective Zach Nichols: [Last lines]
- Detective Zach Nichols: That's why I never had kids. Empty vessels that Daddy fills with love, compassion, empathy... 'cause you get a - a me... or a him. Oops.
- Detective Zach Nichols: [referring to past radical movements] Disaffected teenagers. They didn't know Karl Marx from Groucho, but they liked the action.
- Brigitte Kaspers: [throwing Axel Kaspers' words back at him] "A revolution is not a dinner party." You were teaching; I was listening.
- Detective Alexandra Eames: Boobytrap?
- Detective Zach Nichols: Kidnap a banker, kill a cop...
- Detective Alexandra Eames: Did you just save our lives?
- Detective Zach Nichols: You can buy breakfast.
- Agent Carmen Martino: Shelley's address doesn't exist, her social security number is a phony. Did you get anything from her?
- Detective Zach Nichols: Yeah, our girl never wears lipstick, and she lives near a bar.
- Agent Carmen Martino: How many bars could there be in New York City?
- Detective Zach Nichols: Four million.
- Captain Danny Ross: ...An improvised high explosive.
- Detective Zach Nichols: So unless this woman is planning to bleach her hair and remove her nail polish while she's cleaning bricks...
- Agent Carmen Martino: She's building one hell of a bomb.
- Detective Alexandra Eames: Have you seen the Internet? They have a fan group on Facebook.
- Captain Danny Ross: Yeah, we're not joining it. NYPD / FBI just put out this statement.
- Detective Zach Nichols: [reading] "Despite the rhetoric, these are nothing but common criminals."
- Detective Alexandra Eames: Oh, the bad guys write sexier statements than we do.
- Captain Danny Ross: But we're not insane.
- Detective Zach Nichols: [continues reading] "There's no need to overreact. City and federal authorities have the situation well under control." If I were them, I'd want to prove this wrong.
- Agent Carmen Martino: We're taking all necessary safety precautions. What do you think we should be saying, detective?
- Detective Zach Nichols: That communism is dead and they're trying to replace a flawed system with a failed one.
- Agent Carmen Martino: You want to have a political science seminar?
- Detective Zach Nichols: [in a somber, contemplative mood, after a standoff is resolved by sniper fire] That's why I never had kids. Empty vessels that daddy fills with love, compassion, empathy... 'cause you get a- a me... or a him. Oops.