Halo Best Quotes (TV Series) – ‘Hello, Master Chief.’

Kwan Ha: You don’t eat?
Master Chief: Didn’t see anything I liked.
Kwan Ha: Yeah? What is it you like?
Master Chief: Nuts. Bolts. Microchips. That was a joke.
Kwan Ha: Yeah. No, I get it. Hilarious.

Kwan Ha: [referring to his helmet] You ever take that thing off?
Master Chief: All of my diagnostic command and control systems run through here. I need it.

Kwan Ha: Master Chief, huh? You know we’ve actually met before today.
Master Chief: When was this?
Kwan Ha: When you killed my mother.

Master Chief: What I can see on the ground may not reflect the entirety of the situation.
Kwan Ha: What does that mean?
Master Chief: Sometimes, others know things I do not.
Kwan Ha: It ever occur to you that it might work the other way around?
Master Chief: Then you question everything?
Kwan Ha: And someone told you that’s bad? Of course they did.

Admiral Margaret Parangosky: Not knowing why a walking killing machine is doing what it’s doing, is a risk that cannot be taken.

Admiral Margaret Parangosky: What sort of weapons is the ship carrying?
Dr. Catherine Halsey: John is not going to fire on us.
Admiral Margaret Parangosky: I think it’s safe to say you don’t know what Master Chief is going to do at this point.

Kwan Ha: I will kill you.
Master Chief: [as he takes off his helmet] This is Mark Six Mjolnir armor. The outer layer is enhanced titanium. You won’t even dent it. If you want me dead, you’ll need to aim up here.

Kai-125: He’s going to come back. He wouldn’t just leave us.
Vannak-134: Chief’s always got a plan.

Kwan Ha: Oh, my God! We’re going to die!
Master Chief: Everything dies.

Soren: Ladies and gentlemen, put your weapons down. If John here wanted you dead, you’d be dead.

Soren: Here it is. Home to every misfit, reprobate, outlaw, and renegade in the galaxy. No law. No police. No government. No responsibility. It’s everything we always talked about, man. Absolute freedom, just like I always promised.

Soren: Got a whole rock to myself. Go where I want to go, do what I want to do.
Master Chief: I’m happy for you.
Soren: Well, I can see that.

Laera: John. Soren speaks of you so often.
Soren: Not that often, my dear. Not that often.

Dr. Catherine Halsey: I’ve developed a new system which will solve John’s current issues, and expand Spartan capability across the board. It’s called Cortana.

Dr. Catherine Halsey: Cortana is the next stage in human evolution. The Spartans were the first step. Cortana is the upgrade. She represents the sum total of every available data point. The intelligence of the galaxy, in essence. With Cortana, we will create Spartans who are more lethal, their judgment error-free, their performance upgradeable, and most importantly, controllable.

Captain Jacob Keyes: And what about John? You can’t just replace his mind. We are talking about a person.
Dr. Catherine Halsey: John is much more than a person. He is a Spartan.

Soren: [referring to the food] Go ahead, taste it.
Master Chief: I don’t taste anything.
Soren: Well, you stick around here long enough, you will. That’s freedom, man.

Soren: Who’d have thought it? Me, wife, a kid.
Master Chief: I thought it was impossible.

Soren: There’s something you need to know about the Spartan program and all those treatments, John. What they did to us, it’s only permanent if we choose to let it be. Doesn’t matter how long it had you.

Soren: John, lose the pellet, and it’s like opening your eyes for the first time after living in the dark.

Soren: I guess when a camel flies, you don’t ask how far.

Soren: John’s being modest. He’s a regular Covenant killing machine.

Reth: You don’t understand what you are, do you?
Master Chief: What am I? What am I?!

Master Chief: I need the other Spartans.
Soren: You need them, not me.

Soren: You need to get back to her. Yeah, you’re running back to Halsey. Any time there’s a problem, Mommy’s there to fix it. You think she cares about you? Huh? You’re just a machine.
Master Chief: And you’re a coward who ran away when things got hard. You have no loyalty to anything.

Soren: You want to talk to me about loyalty? You gave me five goddamn minutes. You want to know what that bought me? They shot me down. I was burned all to hell, living off bark and beetles. They were on my a** for months till I got free. All because you gave me five minutes.

Master Chief: You were wrong to run.
Soren: You were wrong to stay!

Dr. Catherine Halsey: John, your actions have created a host of problems, not just for you, but for the whole Spartan program, and for me personally. The people rely on you to protect them, to make them feel safe. It is precisely your dependability that gives people hope. How am I supposed to defend your reckless behavior?
Master Chief: I felt something.
Dr. Catherine Halsey: I believe you.

Master Chief: I think I am different. I feel connected to something. I don’t know what it is, or why it chose me. But I know it’s out there. I can feel it.

Makee: Humans. Just as ugly as I remember.

Laera: When you stare into deep space, you’re seeing things as they once were. I choose to live in the present.

Laera: The universe will be diminished without you in it.

Dr. Catherine Halsey: It’s better that he sees you as an accomplice rather than a spy.
Cortana: This is not what I signed up for.

Cortana: Is this why you’ve removed your pellet? So you could hear things differently?
Master Chief: Maybe I just wanted to hear it like everyone else.

Kwan Ha: I’m going to free Madrigal, and you can’t stop me.
Soren: I could kill you for trying to steal my favorite ship. That would stop you.

Kai-125: [to Miranda] You see us as machines. But if you really want to understand how we work, you’re going to have to dig a little deeper.

Soren: Kwan, no one’s going to step up. You need to face reality. There are no more heroes.

Vannak-134: Spartans must be bonded to one another, and nothing else.

Dr. Miranda Keyes: To Dr. Halsey, human beings are messy, irrational, chaotic. They make decisions based on emotion, passion. Halsey is different. She sees the world as a set of data to be optimized, regardless of the short-term pain or sacrifice. Next to this level of dedication, the rest of us ultimately fall short. And when people let her down, Dr. Halsey has a way of cutting them out of her life.

Dr. Miranda Keyes: But Halsey never stops. She just keeps pushing forward, determined to bend us towards her vision of the future. She’s convinced there’s something out there just beyond our reach. An answer to our eternal questions. Who are we? Where are we heading? What is our true potential? She’s dedicated her life’s work to finding those answers. And she’ll never give up, no matter the cost.

Makee: [to John] The Covenant call me Hirajo. The Blessed One. You do know. We are the same.

Master Chief: Why did you do it?
Dr. Catherine Halsey: Nothing I say to you will make any sense until the benefits are manifest. I just have to accept that you will hate me. I was planning the future.

Dr. Catherine Halsey: The future of our species. Natural evolution is failing us. Human beings are still hardwired for conflict and selfishness, John. I knew years ago that if we were going to survive, we needed a force. A force that would intervene, that could prevent conflict before it started. So, I created the Spartans, a group who would protect us from ourselves.

Dr. Catherine Halsey: They have upended everything I thought I knew about our place in this universe. There are more secrets hidden, and you have the key. John, you have something inside of you, some atavistic connection to this thing that we’re calling the Halo. And I know. I know that you will take us there. And when you do, we will lead our species beyond its current limitations. But you need me to do this. Let’s ensure that all of these sacrifices have not been in vain. Let’s finish what we started.
Master Chief: I’ll finish. Without you.

Cortana: I’m here to solve problems. That is my only purpose. What do I do now?
Master Chief: Go solve problems. Galaxy’s full of them.

Adun: What does an artificial superintelligence do when it has nothing to do?
Dr. Catherine Halsey: She finds her way home.

Dr. Catherine Halsey: [to Miranda] I am truly sorry that you have been living with all of this anger against me for so long. Family, it’s just not a concept I believe in. But I should have done a better job of explaining myself to you, particularly when you were old enough to understand. Truly, it was never my intention to hurt you.

Dr. Miranda Keyes: I’ve been in charge for less than a day. I’ve already broken half a dozen laws. I guess I have more Halsey in me than I’d like to admit.
Master Chief: You and me both.

Dr. Miranda Keyes: Do me a favor.
Master Chief: What’s that?
Dr. Miranda Keyes: Don’t die.
Master Chief: Yes, ma’am.

Dr. Catherine Halsey: John has a girlfriend. How ordinary.
Cortana: Their connection is deep. Their dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin levels are all elevated, all in biochemical synchrony. John is no longer alone in the galaxy.
Dr. Catherine Halsey: Well, John was never alone. He had me.
Cortana: Of course.

Captain Jacob Keyes: This obsession that you have with the future has cost you every relationship that you have today. Me. John. Your only child. What else are you willing to sacrifice?
Dr. Catherine Halsey: Everything. I am willing to sacrifice absolutely everything.

Makee: You don’t care for humanity.
Dr. Catherine Halsey: I love humanity, but humans are the problem. We’re stuck. We’re still venal, selfish creatures who create misery and pain wherever we go. If the Halo is indeed a weapon, we will doubtless use it to destroy ourselves once and for all.

Dr. Catherine Halsey: Makee, there is no John. There’s been no John for years. There is only Master Chief, a product of the species who made him necessary. John has been used, just as you have been used. But both of your gifts are too precious for either side to claim. You two must be the ones to control the Halo, with my help.

Dr. Catherine Halsey: Where’s that patented enthusiasm?
Cortana: Forgive me, Doctor. As you said, sentimentality is a weakness I do not possess.
Dr. Catherine Halsey: Ah, but in this case, enthusiasm is warranted. This is a big day, Cortana. You and John combined, you will be the best of all of us.

Master Chief: So you no longer want to take over my body?
Cortana: I’ll wait for the less beaten-up version.

Dr. Miranda Keyes: You know, I never thought I’d see the day when the great Catherine Halsey got held accountable for her actions. You’ve rung up quite a list of charges. I can read them for you if you’d like. It starts with kidnapping and ends with treason. No? I don’t blame you.

Dr. Catherine Halsey: You know, I thought by keeping you away from all of this, I was protecting you. But it’s had the opposite effect. It’s hardened you. Miranda, you are chasing a ghost. Let it go. Let it go for your own sake.
Dr. Miranda Keyes: Goodbye, Mother.

Cortana: I can’t let you die.
Master Chief: Find the Halo. Win the war.
Cortana: I may not be able to bring you back.
Master Chief: I trust you.

Cortana: [as she takes over John’s body] When the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.

Dr. Catherine Halsey: We are on a journey. We are born, we live, and we die according to the rules of blind and unguided evolution. As a result, our species is simply not equipped to survive what comes next. It is time for us to take control of our evolution, to push past our narrow ignorance and venture out into the wide unknown, where we will discover our true potential. I suspect the Halo will provide the key.

Dr. Catherine Halsey: Much has been lost, and there will surely be more sacrifices to come. But I believe our species will soon spread its wings and soar to new heights, that we will rewrite what it means to be human. That we will achieve transcendence.

Kai-125: [after Cortana possessed John takes both keystones and rescues the team] John? Is that you?