- [first lines]
- Nicodemus: What I am about to tell you is the legend as it was told to me. There was once a serpent who only traveled one direction. Always forward, never backward. Until one day, the serpent came upon a demon.
- Jennifer Goines: Imaginary friends aren't supposed to be dicks.
- Jennifer Goines: Yeah, yeah. Just bustin' your balls, psycho.
- Hannah Jones: How is that possible?
- James Cole: We didn't just move the facility. We went back in time.
- Hannah Jones: To when?
- James Cole: The beginning.
- Jennifer Goines: Did someone find you?
- Jennifer Goines: Yeah. I got this. This guy... is history.
- Jennifer Goines: Is that a catchphrase?
- Jennifer Goines: Maybe.
- Jennifer Goines: Abort catchphrase!
- Guard 2: What do I care? The world is ending anyway, eh?
- Jennifer Goines: Wouldn't sweat it, Czech-y Cheese. I'm just here to do my part.
- Guard 2: In what?
- Jennifer Goines: Saving it.
- Guard 2: Americans.
- Nicodemus: Still not enough power?
- Dr. Lasky: You can bring a hundred generators and it still wouldn't give us enough power to re-fire the machine. Without a working core...
- Nicodemus: So fix it.
- Dr. Lasky: We need another Adam Cell to kick-start it. To get one of those, You. Need. A time machine.
- Nicodemus: Jones have any thoughts?
- Dr. Lasky: None she's willing to share.
- James Cole: I know this.
- Katarina Jones: It's an ouroboros. Many cultures have it.
- Hannah Jones: Jennifer often drew that. Sometimes waking from a nightmare.
- James Cole: Why? Why did she draw it?
- Katarina Jones: She called it "the end of the beginning."
- James Cole: The secret to the universe is chock full of nuts.
- Dr. Cassandra Railly: What are you talking about?
- James Cole: The future me said that there was an end to all this, that Jennifer was the key, that she had the answer to everything.
- Dr. Cassandra Railly: She did. Guardians. Athan.
- James Cole: No, there's more than that.
- Katarina Jones: Ms. Goines wanted to return to her time. 2017.
- James Cole: Well, we need to find her. Get the machine back up and running again.
- Dr. Cassandra Railly: We can't.
- James Cole: God damn it.
- Katarina Jones: Dr. Railly's right, it's impossible.
- James Cole: We're not giving up!
- Katarina Jones: Mr. Cole.
- James Cole: We need the core to get the machine to work. We had two. The broken one, and the one we slaughtered Spearhead for. We use the old to fix the new one.
- Dr. Julian Adler: The old core was in storage. Outside the splinter perimeter.
- James Cole: Which means we know it'll be there.
- Katarina Jones: Crushed under the rest of the facility we left behind.
- James Cole: Well, there's only one way to know.
- Dr. Cassandra Railly: Go back to Raritan? It's way too dangerous. We lost enough...
- James Cole: Deacon. Whitley, Lasky... Athan. They died for us. For this mission!
- Dr. Cassandra Railly: Cole. There is no mission. It's over.