Jupiter’s Legacy Quotes on Netflix

Sheldon Sampson: [referring to his phone lock] How do you know my code?
Grace Sampson: We’ve been married for sixty years. You don’t get to have secrets.
Sheldon Sampson: Oh, that’s disturbing.

Sheldon Sampson: [referring to Chloe] She needs to hear it, Grace.
Grace Sampson: Honey, she’s not going to hear it. Your heart is in the right place. It’s just not her place, you know? At least, not right now.

Sheldon Sampson: [referring to Brandon] Yeah, well, if he plans on taking this over someday, he’s got to do more than learn. He’s got to become.
Grace Sampson: Okay, relax, Yoda. You’re not going anywhere. He’s got time.
Sheldon Sampson: Time is not the problem.

Sheldon Sampson: [referring to Brandon] He’s way too emotional. He’s distracted. He’s not even close to being ready. Maybe he never will be.

Brandon Sampson: What was dad like when he was younger? Before he got his powers, I mean.
Walter Sampson: Shel, he was, you know, he didn’t have a care in the world. Nothing ever rattled the b****rd.

Chester Sampson: [flashback to 1929] Walt, we get it. You’re the glass half empty guy. Every company needs one of those to keep feet nailed to the ground. But sometimes you got to have faith. You’ve got to step off that ledge if you’re ever going to soar.

Chester Sampson: Walt, it’s not about the board, or the Fed, or Irving Fisher. It’s about people, Walt. It’s about family.

Grace Sampson: I mean, can my man cook, or can my man cook?
Brandon Sampson: Looks great, dad.
Sheldon Sampson: Come on. It’s Sunday dinner It’s not the Last Supper. Let’s lower our expectations.

Sheldon Sampson: Don’t you ever talk like that in my house.
Chloe Sampson: “My house, my rules, my Code.” I didn’t ask to be your daughter. And I sure as s**t didn’t ask for your gifts.
Sheldon Sampson: Those gifts are not for you, Chloe. Those gifts are meant for people who are less fortunate than you.
Chloe Sampson: Everyone’s more fortunate than me because they don’t have you as their dad.

Brandon Sampson: [referring to Sheldon] Why do you talk to him like that?
Chloe Sampson: Are you seriously sticking up for him? Oh. Of course you are. You are his perfect little shadow.

Chloe Sampson: He’s a myth. He’s a myth. Dad knows that he should have been there for us when we were younger but won’t admit it, because it’s not the ideal.
Brandon Sampson: Someone still has to stand for something.
Chloe Sampson: No one can live up to the great Utopian, Brandon. Not even dad.

Brandon Sampson: You know what? You’re just jealous that he picked me instead of you.
Chloe Sampson: I am not jealous, Brandon. I am sorry that you think you have to carry a hundred and twenty years of his bulls**t so daddy will love you again. You don’t.

Walter Sampson: [referring to Grace] She hasn’t changed since the day I met her.
Sheldon Sampson: Yeah, thank God some things stay the same.

Walter Sampson: [referring to Brandon] That boy idolizes you.
Sheldon Sampson: He’s stubborn and thick-headed.
Walter Sampson: Apple fell right next to you, didn’t it?
Sheldon Sampson: Yeah, I guess so.

Barry Bishop: I swear, your pop and the original members of the Union resent us because they had to go through the worst s**t imaginable to get their powers.
Brandon Sampson: I’ve heard this story a thousand times. I mean, you’re right. It’s not our fault we were born into this.
Barry Bishop: Yeah. Then why accept the punishment?

Barry Bishop: I’m just saying, look at everything you’ve missed out on trying to impress your dad. And what’s it gotten you? In the meantime, you’re not living your life. You’re definitely not enjoying the moment.

Chester Sampson: All your life, you try to build something. Try to build it bigger, better, faster. Build a legacy. Then, one day, it turns out you’ve been building your own box, and you’re the one inside of it. Everything ends up in a box, Shel.

Sheldon Sampson: [referring to George] You ever thought about why he did it?
Walter Sampson: I know why he did it. He’s insane.
Sheldon Sampson: No. He was a good man.
Walter Sampson: He’s a terrorist, Sheldon. He took the vice president hostage.
Sheldon Sampson: He thought he was doing the right thing.
Walter Sampson: Yeah, so did Charles Manson.

Sheldon Sampson: Ninety years of fighting wizards and robots, and what do we have to show for it?
Walter Sampson: We’ve made a difference, Shel.

Sheldon Sampson: It’s all sinking into the ground, after all these years, after everything we’ve sacrificed.

Sheldon Sampson: We don’t kill. We don’t lead. We inspire. The people of this country need to make their own choices, Walter.
Walter Sampson: Yeah, how’s that working out? To this day, I still regret not doing more in World War II.

Sheldon Sampson: And more importantly, who is going to stop us? It’d be the end of free will.
Walter Sampson: Well, some would say free will is what’s bringing the world to its knees.

Walter Sampson: The days of making a difference by stopping supervillains are over, Sheldon, now just memorabilia, nostalgia. The real evil today is less black and white. Not bootleggers or gangsters. It’s corrupt corporations, politicians, the quiet guy at work no one talked to who just bought an automatic rifle.

Sheldon Sampson: So you’re saying the Code doesn’t apply anymore. Is that it?
Walter Sampson: No, I’m not saying that. I’m just saying isn’t all this starting to feel a little repetitive? And do you really think just putting away bank robbers is going to make the world a safer, better place?

Walter Sampson: [to Blackstar] There. That’s better. I’ve just separated your mind from your physical body, trapping you in a psychic painting. It’s one of my favorites, actually.

Sheldon Sampson: [after Brandon kills Blackstar] What is wrong with you? We don’t kill, ever!
Brandon Sampson: He was going to detonate, dad. He was going to take you out and half the state.
Sheldon Sampson: Then you disable his systems. You send him into space. There’s a million things you could have done. You took the easy way out.
Brandon Sampson: Did that look easy to you?

Blackstar: [seeing his own dead body] What the hell is this?
Sheldon Sampson: It appears to be you.

Sheldon Sampson: You’re going to be here long after I’m gone. And one day, God willing, you’re going to be the Utopian. And every evil you can imagine is going to rise up against you, against mankind, and not for justice, for vengeance. And in those moments, the only thing that you will have to guide you is the Code. It has to stand, Brandon, even if we fall.

Sheldon Sampson: Killing is never the answer.
Brandon Sampson: Why don’t you tell that to my friends we’re burying?

Fitz Small: So you stayed, and you fought?
Petra Small: Yeah, I got a couple of hits in, but…
Fitz Small: I’m not talking about fighting Blackstar. I’m talking about fighting through the fear.
Petra Small: It wasn’t enough.
Fitz Small: It never is.

Petra Small: [to Fittz] I’m not you. I can’t keep taking hits and just get back up. I can’t watch my friends die because of some a**hole.

Fitz Small: I never asked you to follow me into this game. Hell, I’m surprised you wanted to, after all the foolish s**t I got up to when you were little. I was worried you weren’t ready, that you’d get yourself hurt, bad, like I did. But here you are, and I couldn’t be prouder.
Petra Small: For not getting killed?
Fitz Small: For being better than me, in so many ways.

Chloe Sampson: [to Sheldon] That is why I’m here, halfway across the country. That is why Brandon’s a mess. Because you could never stop being the Utopian long enough to really be there for either of us.

Chloe Sampson: The suit and cape are the real you, dad. Not this.

Sheldon Sampson: Chloe, we’re bigger than this, both of us.
Chloe Sampson: We’re just us. The only way out of the loop is for me to stop being me, or you to stop being you.
Sheldon Sampson: Wait, that’s just a lose-lose. That’s a great framing device for unaccountability.

Sheldon Sampson: Chloe, we are our own worst enemies, both of us. But every time I try to propose a solution, it becomes, by default, just another attack. I’m not trying to attack you, Chloe.

Walter Sampson: [flashback, to Sheldon after their father commits suicide] You’ve got no goddamn idea, do you? Walking around in a cloud of dad’s bulls**t about building homes and families. This is steel. What we have, we clawed from Carnegie and Rockefeller. You think that happens without getting your hands dirty?

Sheldon Sampson: [referring to Chester] Put him in a suit. Put him in a tie. Put him in a box. “Everything ends up in a box.” He said, “I’ll be right down. Right down,” like it’s some kind of a goddamn joke. But I’m a dozen feet away, and I just stand there.
Jane: Listen to me. You couldn’t save him. You could not save him.

Grace Sampson: But, you know, fear is a part of everything. But so is getting through it.

Sheldon Sampson: It’s funny. You never really know anybody until they’re gone, do you? That’s when it’s all stripped away, the lies that hold you together, that blind you, blind you from seeing the truth you don’t want to see.

Brandon Sampson: They weren’t their powers. They weren’t their uniforms. They were people. And I’m sorry they’re gone. I’m sorry I failed them. I’m sorry I couldn’t do more, couldn’t be more. We’re all reaching for something, and we keep falling short of it. But not Briggs, not Vera, and not Barry. They achieved it. They died heroes. And I envy them.

Brandon Sampson: We’re doing our best. I know you guys are too.
Officer Parsons: There’s doing, and then there’s getting it done.

Grace Sampson: What do you want, Sheldon? The world isn’t the way you want it to be.

Grace Sampson: You cannot control everything. You have to stop! I mean, if you clamp down on this the way you clamped down on the kids…
Sheldon Sampson: We don’t kill, ever, no exceptions.
Grace Sampson: You know what? If there weren’t exceptions, we wouldn’t be having this conversation right now, because we would be buried next to Brandon’s friends.

Sheldon Sampson: [flashback] I saw something.
Walter Sampson: What did you see?
Sheldon Sampson: An island. I think it was some kind of a message.
Walter Sampson: A message? A message from who, Shel?
Sheldon Sampson: From dad.

Jane: Where have you been?
George Hutchence: Oh, here, there, everywhere the mood takes me.
Walter Sampson: Except where you’re needed.
George Hutchence: Is something chewing on your shorts, Walter? Let’s be out with it, hmm? Insinuation’s bad for the digestion.

George Hutchence: Don’t get all soggy on me. Sheldon will be just fine.
Walter Sampson: How would you know?
George Hutchence: Because it is all about the attitude, chum. Chin up, eyes forward. Paint the clouds with sunshine.

George Hutchence: You’re grieving. You’ll get past this.
Sheldon Sampson: Have you? Have you? I’ve known you my whole life, and you’ve barely said two words about your parents, about what happened to them.
George Hutchence: Well, life happened. And then it stopped.
Sheldon Sampson: Life happened, and then it stopped. That’s it?

George Hutchence: [referring to his parents] You know, sometimes I look at you and Walt, and I wonder what it would’ve been like if they had lived just a little longer, you know, if I hadn’t been alone? Well, I mean, there’s Cuthbert. But, he’s hardly what I would call a scintillating conversationalist.

Hutch: What’s in the case?
Big Man: Your lives.
Hutch: We’ll get it for you.
Big Man: And get a haircut. You look like an idiot.

Hutch: This is going to make it right.
Jack Frost: This is going to make us dead.

Jack Frost: The Kulakov Brothers, they’re freaking animals! Did you hear what they did to Stuart?
Hutch: Yeah, I heard.
Jack Frost: They zapped his d**k off. Like, clean off. And that was just for looking at them sideways.
Hutch: Stuart’s an a**hole.
Jack Frost: We’re all a**holes, mate.

Jack Frost: They zapped me, mate!
Hutch: Well, at least it wasn’t your d**k.

Sheldon Sampson: “Life happened, and then it stopped.” Your words. Simple as that. No great mystery. No secret messages from beyond the grave. I just closed my eyes and kept repeating over, and over, and over what you said, “Life happened, and then it stopped.” And when I opened my eyes back up, it’s like I didn’t see the past anymore. I just saw the future.
George Hutchence: Chin up, eyes forward.
Sheldon Sampson: That’s right.

Walter Sampson: What were you thinking? Telling him you saw something in those crazy scribbles.
George Hutchence: Well, I told him the truth.
Walter Sampson: Since when did the great George Hutchence ever care about the truth?
George Hutchence: What the hell does that mean?
Walter Sampson: Well, look at you. All dressed up as though your life is nothing but flowers and sunshine.

George Hutchence: This isn’t about me.
Walter Sampson: It’s always about you, George. You’re the center of the goddamn universe.
Well, not anymore.
George Hutchence: I know what I saw, Walt. Sheldon…
Walter Sampson: Sheldon’s lost his mind!

George Hutchence: The police? Is that really necessary?
Walter Sampson: Yes, George. You threw gas on the fire and burned the house down.

Hutch: You see, common misconception. It doesn’t matter who’s holding this. It only listens to me.

Hutch: I broke a promise tonight, Linus, when I did that to Lucy, Big Man. But the world is changing. So I guess I’m going to have to change with it.
Linus: You got to do what you got to do.

Hutch: Will it work?
Dr. Schöpfer: I constructed it myself. So, yes, it will probably work.
Hutch: Probably?
Dr. Schöpfer: What is in this case could power a small city for a year, or punch a hole through the mightiest being on the planet. Whatever strikes your fancy.
Hutch: I’ll keep that in mind.

Hutch: Almost there, Pops. Almost there.

Chloe Sampson: You got powers?
Nick of Time: Yeah. I thought you knew. I’m Nick. You know, Nick of Time?
Chloe Sampson: Oh, my God. That is so bad.
Nick of Time: Yeah, well, I’m working on that name.

Sheldon Sampson: You wouldn’t happen to have seen this place?
John Ducarmont: What, a windmill? S**t, you throw a rock with your eyes closed, you’re likely to hit one.
Sheldon Sampson: No. No, this windmill’s got three blades missing.

Sheldon Sampson: Yeah, I got a brother. I had a gal that I was supposed to marry, but that was before things went sideways.
John Ducarmont: I don’t mean to speak out of turn, but maybe you ought to get back to them. Folks like that, they provide a comfort. Keep you upright, you know, when all you want to do is lay down, call the fight.

Chloe Sampson: Ectoplex? I mean, come on, what kind of name is that, right? Sounds like something that goes wrong with your uterus. She thinks she’s better than me because she wears a silly uniform like all the other flying sheep.

Nick of Time: Look, pretending to give a s**t is worse than not showing up.
Chloe Sampson: Yeah, but, like they were my friends. Or at least they used to be. Like, shouldn’t I want to give a s**t?
Nick of Time: Chloe, this is your life, you know? And in it, you got to do what feels right. You do. Not something other people just think you should be doing.

Chloe Sampson: Okay, here’s the thing. First thing he’s going to ask you, my dad…
Nick of Time: What?
Chloe Sampson: “Can you take a punch?”
Nick of Time: Hell, yeah! I got hit by this truck once, and I’m telling you…
[Chloe then punches through her apartment wall]

Chester Sampson: No shame in giving up.
Sheldon Sampson: I’m not giving up. You gave up on everybody. You gave up on your company. You gave up on Walt. You gave up on me. You gave up.
Chester Sampson: What do you think I’m doing here, kid?
Sheldon Sampson: You’re grinding me down every goddamn step!
Chester Sampson: I’m trying to keep you from ending up like me, you stupid little s**t! Now, admit you’re wrong, and ask for help.

Leighton: [to Chloe] You know, if you can’t be a real superhero, the least you can do is pretend for five minutes. It’ll help you earn enough to shove up your nose.

Chloe Sampson: I told her I didn’t want to do it.
Man Over Phone: So you walk out. You don’t throw a car at the woman!
Chloe Sampson: I was making a point.
Man Over Phone: Well, congratulations. You made it. They’re dropping you as their spokesperson.

Sheldon Sampson: I saw this place. It wasn’t like in a picture or anything. It was, I don’t know. I just saw it.
Old Man Miller: Saw it in your head?
Sheldon Sampson: How do you know that?
Old Man Miller: You think you’re the only one?

Old Man Miller: That goddamn thing came out of nowhere. One minute The sea was clear, glassy, like a mirror. The next minute, I looked up, and it was on us. Oh, the wind came up something awful. Waves like I’d never seen. We tried to go around it next three, four days. But if we turned, it turned. It was like it knew what we were doing. Like it was alive. And then, all of a sudden, the world went upside down.

Old Man Miller: I never went to sea again. But it found me, even after all these years. The water always finds you. It makes these patterns. Around. Around.

Old Man Miller: Was it somebody close?
Sheldon Sampson: What?
Old Man Miller: Whoever was talking to you. It’s always somebody close. Don’t listen to them, boy. They’ll lie to you.
[he then takes his gun and shoots himself]

Chloe Sampson: [to Janna, referring to her parents] Brandon wants to be him. You want to be her. But you can’t. You’re just you. No matter what you do. You’re just you.

Chloe Sampson: Why are you here, Janna?
Janna: Because I’m your friend.
Chloe Sampson: No, you aren’t.
Janna: Chloe.
Chloe Sampson: I don’t have friends. Because I’m an a**hole. That’s what all of you really think, right?

Janna: You’re better than this.
Chloe Sampson: No. I’m not.

Brandon Sampson: What would you have done, Uncle Walt?
Walter Sampson: I’m not as strong as you, or your dad. No one is.
Brandon Sampson: That’s not an answer.
Walter Sampson: Yeah, because honestly, I don’t have one. All I know is we’re here. You made a decision. We’re here. Nothing can change that.

Walter Sampson: Can we just skip being an a**hole? Get to it, Barnabas.
Barnabas: Don’t make me turn your clothes to steam, Walter. Nobody needs to see your sad little Schwanz.

Barnabas: Everyone, please stand back. Unless you’re keen on having your reproductive organs irradiated.

George Hutchence: What do you think is out there in the middle of the ocean?
Sheldon Sampson: I don’t know, George. But it’s something special, something that’s going to change the world. I can feel it.

Sheldon Sampson: Will you help me?
George Hutchence: How long have we been friends?
Sheldon Sampson: It feels like forever.
George Hutchence: What would you do if I came to you with a story like this?
Sheldon Sampson: Well, I’d want to believe you. Because you’re my friend, and you always will be.
George Hutchence: Then there’s your answer.

Hobbs: [to Sheldon] Parents aren’t supposed to abandon their children of their own free will. It defies the natural order. When they do, a child’s mind can only make sense of it in one way. That the child did something bad to deserve it, that they failed to prevent it. However, it does help us better understand your attachment to the Code. It’s operating on several levels for you. Yes, it has institutionalized a way to be good. It’s also quite practical, as it staves off the amount of death or loss in your life. But in your line of work, there is a one hundred percent certainty that your adversaries will attempt to rob you of your life.

Hobbs: But for the members of your Union of Justice, when they are faced with the equivalent threat, they must remember the Code. Which is another way of remembering you.
Sheldon Sampson: So I’m just a giant narcissist? Is that what you’re saying?
Hobbs: No, no, no. You’re just hoping to stay alive in the minds of the people you love, the way your father couldn’t.

Walter Sampson: [referring to his father’s pocket watch] They’re exactly the same. Identical in every way.
Sheldon Sampson: How is that even possible?
Walter Sampson: Well, I can read minds. You shoot fire out of your eyes. So, there’s that.

Grace Sampson: Oh, I know s**t when I smell it, Larry! Don’t wave it under my nose and call it a bouquet!
Larry: Come on, Grace. Be reasonable.
Grace Sampson: Oh, “Come on, Grace.” Shove it up your as**, Larry, and don’t stop until the s**t hits your brain, if there’s room for any more up there!

Grace Sampson: [to George] You know, if you talk any faster, your tongue’s going to land on the floor.

Grace Sampson: Why me?
Sheldon Sampson: It’s complicated.
Grace Sampson: Dumb it down.
Sheldon Sampson: I had a vision, and you…
George Hutchence: Of a better future. For you, for the country, for everyone, really.

Fitz Small: [referring to Sheldon] Coming in here like that after what he did to us.
Willie Small: Yeah. He’s got some nerve, coming in here and offering you the chance of a lifetime.
Fitz Small: Didn’t you just kick them out?
Willie Small: You don’t air your dirty drawers in front of company.

Fitz Small: You want me to crawl back to the same man who stole everything from us?
Willie Small: It was his father who did all the stealing. And it’s his son trying to make things right.

Willie Small: I want you to think, son, and not with your guts all twisted up inside. I want you to think with your head, like your mama and I taught you. There’s nothing here for you, son. There’s no work. There’s no…
Fitz Small: You said we’d find something.
Willie Small: What else am I going to tell you? It was bad enough when the country was on its feet, but now all a Black man can hope to get is kicked in the teeth for wanting an honest day’s work.

George Hutchence: If it’s meant to be, it’s meant to be. Otherwise, what’s the use, huh?

Hutch: My dad left before I could barely wipe my own a**. So whatever it is you think I am, it’s got nothing to do with him.
Sheldon Sampson: You’re not the only one he hurt, you know? He was my friend. More than that. He was family. I never thought that he would turn on us.
Hutch: The way my mom tells it, you were the ones turned on him.

Sheldon Sampson: Well, we all see the world the way we want it to…
Hutch: I see it the way it is.

Sheldon Sampson: I need you.
Walter Sampson: How does that feel, needing your brother?
Sheldon Sampson: Oh, come on. You’re not listening to me.
Walter Sampson: I asked you for one thing, Shel, that you be here today. I needed you.
Sheldon Sampson: It doesn’t matter! None of it matters.
Walter Sampson: It mattered to me.

George Hutchence: [to Walter] You know, you can’t really care about someone that you’re so jealous of it turns you inside out.

George Hutchence: So you believe him? His visions. You really believe that there’s something out there in the middle of the ocean?
Walter Sampson: I have no idea. All I know is he needs this. He needs this journey to heal. Maybe he’s not the only one.

Hobbs: What was your thought process after Jane left you? Your narrative?
Sheldon Sampson: It was a punishment for not being good enough.
Hobbs: That’s not what she told you, was it?

Sheldon Sampson: Okay, I get it. The Code is a symbol for being a good boy, and that we can’t prevent loss or tragedy. I’m not naive.
Hobbs: But?
Sheldon Sampson: But the world never used to be so intentionally cruel. It used to be that if you gave your kids everything they needed, they’d be okay. That you protect your country, they call you a hero.

Hobbs: [to Sheldon] The world has always been chaos and s**t, my friend. It’s your beliefs that have kept you hopeful. “If I’m good, bad things won’t happen to me, or the ones that I love.” It’s a construct you created a long time ago to shield yourself from reality. But reality always wins out, no matter how profoundly we rail against it.

Sheldon Sampson: So, what are you saying? That there is no difference between right and wrong? That morality is some kind of an intellectual exercise?
Hobbs: No. I’m suggesting that you exist in a world of your own creation, a world of black and white, good and evil. And it has protected you for the most part.
Sheldon Sampson: But?
Hobbs: But it doesn’t allow for the way the world really is, and how the majority of people live in it, in shades of gray.

Sheldon Sampson: Thank you, Jack. Sometimes it feels like you’re the only one that I can talk to.
Hobbs: [we then see that Hobbs in an inmate in Supermax] Isn’t it interesting that the one person you come to for advice is the man who tried to kill you for twenty years?
Sheldon Sampson: Honestly, Jack, no one else understands me.
Hobbs: Well, you always know where to find me.

Grace Sampson: We need to be better than they are, Jay. Now more than ever.
Jay: Maybe. Maybe that’s how it used to be. But now it’s about not getting killed. What’s the Union going to do about that?

Grace Sampson: It’s not as black and white as it used to be.
Janna: Well, isn’t that even more of a reason to stick to the Code, to help make things right?

Captain Borges: This is a ship, Mr. Hutchence. Water comes with the bargain.
Grace Sampson: Yeah, but it’s usually on the outside, isn’t it?

Chloe Sampson: You always take his side. Don’t you ever have any thoughts that aren’t his?
Grace Sampson: That’s not fair.
Chloe Sampson: That’s exactly what he said when I called him out on all his s**t.

Fitz Small: I read about everything. It’s the only way in my country a guy who looks like me can imagine doing everything without some a**hole like Welbeck telling you you can’t. Because he thinks the color of his skin makes him king of the damn world.
Axmed: You talk to men like him the way you did back in America?
Fitz Small: Get my a** fired if I did. Or a lot worse.

Fitz Small: You know, America can be a heap of s**t for me and mine. It’s got a history of it. But it’s my heap of s**t, you know? And the only way to clean it up is to get my hands dirty.

Fitz Small: This world is not like it used to be, Grace. Don’t tell me you don’t see it.
Grace Sampson: Of course I see it, Fitz. My son took a life. I mean, he turned against everything we taught him, and he took a life.

Grace Sampson: [after they rescue Conrad] You know that guy?
Sheldon Sampson: No, but I’ve been waiting for him. He’s the last one. We’re all here now. We’re all here.

Sheldon Sampson: [referring to the storm] I tried to tell you about it. I’m not crazy! We can’t run from it! Just like Miller said, just like Richard said. We got to go straight through it! If we try to run from it, we’re all going to die! We’re all going to die!

Janna: [to Grace as she’s dying] I didn’t kill him. I didn’t kill. I didn’t break the Code. I didn’t break the Code.

Sheldon Sampson: Sorry that took me so long.
Grace Sampson: Everything okay?
Sheldon Sampson: Yeah, well, the planet’s still here. So, yeah, I guess so.

Grace Sampson: I ran into Janna out on patrol. Ghost Beam.
Sheldon Sampson: Oh, right. Right, right. That’s Chloe’s friend. She’s a good kid. How’s she doing?
Grace Sampson: She’s dead.

Chester Sampson: [to Sheldon] They want to see you fail. They want to see you fall, just like I did.

Richard Conrad: [to Sheldon] You were wrong, you know. About us not having anything left to lose. We’ve still got our lives, and they’re in your hands now.

Chloe Sampson: You do the right thing, somebody dies. You do the wrong thing, somebody dies.
Brandon Sampson: But you have to make a choice. Otherwise, you’re just standing by, letting the world go. I couldn’t live with myself if I did that.
Chloe Sampson: Oh. S**t. Maybe you’ll be the next Utopian after all.

Sheldon Sampson: We’ve seen enough dissension lately. You don’t need to be adding to it.
Grace Sampson: I didn’t realize that having an opposing view to yours was considered dissension now.

Sheldon Sampson: I’m doing everything I can to keep this thing from falling apart.
Grace Sampson: Well, it’s not working. The Code is broken.
Sheldon Sampson: The Code is not broken. It’s being challenged.
Grace Sampson: No, it is broken when Ghost Beam dies and Baryon lives.

Grace Sampson: We live in a different time! It’s not the 1930s anymore!
Sheldon Sampson: I think that’s why we need to stick to the Code even more. The country needs it right now more than ever.
Grace Sampson: No, it’s why you need it more than ever.

Grace Sampson: You always said that we had to uphold the Code because the alternative would take free will away from the people.
Sheldon Sampson: Yes, there would be consequences.
Grace Sampson: Well, now you’re taking it away yourself by trying to control everything.

Grace Sampson: You know, when I was younger, I spent my time asking questions, seeking the truth, and somewhere along the way I lost that. We made a lot of sacrifices, putting on these uniforms and living this life. I will not make truth one of them, not anymore.
Sheldon Sampson: What do you want me to do?
Grace Sampson: I just want you to listen. Really hear what people are saying, what they’re afraid of. And then talk to them.

George Hutchence: The island won’t let us leave.

Brandon Sampson: I just remember what my dad told me a long time ago. He said the Code wasn’t meant to make our lives easier. You have to care about people, about this world. That’s not easy to deal with sometimes, but what we do, it’s never about the easy way out. That’s what separates us from everyone else.

Sheldon Sampson: Look, hey, we have to cross the desert. We’ve come this far. We have to see what’s out there.
Walter Sampson: Yeah, and what exactly is that, Shel? Your sanity?
George Hutchence: Maybe your sense of courage.

Sheldon Sampson: I didn’t ask for this.
Walter Sampson: No, of course you didn’t. Because when’s the last time you had to ask for anything?

Sheldon Sampson: Go. Go out there and see how you fare on your own. I am tired of you questioning every little thing that I do. Guess what, Walter? Not everything works out exactly the way you want it to. Deal with it, for once.

Walter Sampson: Are you in contact with George Hutchence?
Blackstar: I wish. I always liked him better than the rest of you long-underwear little s**ts. He took me out for drinks one time after he busted up a job I was on. He saw right through your self-righteous Code. He knew it was all bulls**t, and Shelly’s way of staying in control.
Walter Sampson: Look how he ended up.

Blackstar: You think offing a copy of me was bad? Just wait to see what happens out there when you do it to the real thing.
Walter Sampson: I don’t give a s**t. I’m not my f***ing brother.

Fitz Small: Who would you choose if, you know, you could see someone again, someone you lost? For me, it’d be my grandma. Smartest damn person I ever knew. She got me reading books. Hell, taught me how to read. She loved everything about this world, even when it didn’t love her back.

George Hutchence: [referring to someone dead he would want to see again] Walt? What about you?
Walter Sampson: No one. I don’t live in the past.

Raikou: [to Sheldon] Digging the beard, big guy. You got, like, a hot Santa thing going on.

Grace Sampson: Aren’t you the one who knows when people are lying?
Raikou: Oh, I don’t need powers to know when you’re full of s**t.

Walter Sampson: You want to know what my problem is? It’s taking a back seat to a younger brother who never deserved to have the attention he received, who had everything handed to him, so he didn’t have to fight for a scrap. You see, everything, it comes easy to you, Shel. Because people always agree with whatever you propose, like you’re some kind of messiah. You snap your fingers, and people follow. You have no idea what it feels like to have no one take you seriously, even when you know you’re right.

Grace Sampson: [as Walter’s about to enter cloned Blackstar’s mind] Are you sure about this?
Walter Sampson: Now you’re asking?
Sheldon Sampson: There has to be another way. There always is.
Walter Sampson: Not this time.

Grace Sampson: This island is pitting us against each other. It’s testing us. I mean, think about it. All we’ve done since we got off that goddamn boat is fight.

Grace Sampson: [referring to the skulls] Look at them. Groups of six. They’re just like us.
Fitz Small: But why?
Sheldon Sampson: To see if we can overcome adversity together. That means there has to be a way out of this.

[as the group face the ghosts of their loved ones and given superpowers]
Chester, Fitz’s Grandmother, George’s Mother, Grace’s Uncle, Phillip: You have completed the ordeal. You have succeeded where so many others have failed. You have crossed untold distances, suffered unthinkable loss. Yet you have prevailed. And you are found worthy.

Hutch: What are you doing here?
Chloe Sampson: Saving your a**, idiot.

Blackstar: [as he’s holding Brandon] Today, we’re all going to learn exactly how much you value your precious Code. Here’s my jugular, Sampson. Clear shot for your eyes. Your son took a life to save you and Gracie. Can you do the same to save your boy? Or does the Code come first, even before family?

George Hutchence: [in clone Blackstars mind as Walter tries to hit him] You hit like a girl.
Walter Sampson: Grace?
Grace Sampson: So do I!

Blackstar: You kill me, and everyone loses faith in you and the Union. Uphold your Code, and you lose your son, and the faith of all the young kids in tights who are ready to leave you and the Union behind.

Blackstar: [as Sheldon hesitates] Wow, Shelly. Your kid didn’t hesitate to save you and good old mom. I don’t think he’s picking you, kid. Nice knowing you.
[as he’s about to kill Brandon, Petra comes to the rescue]

George Hutchence: [to Walter] Last time I saw you, you and my so-called friends beat me to a pulp while my son watched. You know, there’d be no Union if I hadn’t stood up for Sheldon and his crazy visions. None of you believed in them. And yet I’m on the outside. I’m the bad guy.

Sheldon Sampson: I wasn’t going to let you die.
Brandon Sampson: I know, dad.

Hutch: Somebody told me the power cell could punch a hole through the strongest being on the planet.
Chloe Sampson: You’re going to use it against my dad?
Hutch: I’m going to use it to find mine.
Chloe Sampson: And then what?

Richard Conrad: Power Rod.
Walter Sampson: That’s what you named it?
Richard Conrad: Well, it’s a rod, and it’s powerful.
Grace Sampson: You know what they say about men who talk about their rods?
Richard Conrad: What do they say, actually?

Sheldon Sampson: Look, we’re all worthy. If we weren’t, our bones would still be on that island with all the others who tried and failed.
Grace Sampson: That’s assuming an awful lot.

Grace Sampson: I just think the real question is, why? Why did they give us these powers at all?
Walter Sampson: So we could rule the world obviously.
Walter Sampson: [as the others look at him] Oh, can no one in this room take a joke?

Sheldon Sampson: We don’t govern, and we don’t kill. That’s the Code. That’s not just our values. That’s our system of checks and balances, so that nobody here can even think about ruling the world.
Walter Sampson: I can’t imagine anyone in this room susceptible to that.

Sheldon Sampson: Hey, America’s in trouble. I think we can all agree on that, right? It’s teetering on the edge. But we’ve been given these amazing gifts. How do we use them to help our country get back on its feet?

Walter Sampson: You’re just like your mother. To the point. No bulls**t.
Raikou: Sounds like you really liked her.
Walter Sampson: Yeah. I did.
Raikou: But you didn’t love her. Because that would require communication, commitment. Something we never had.

Raikou: [to Walter] All I know is that you cloned Blackstar and made it look like Skyfox was behind the whole thing.

Raikou: [to Walter] You want to split apart the Utopian from his son. That creates instability within the Union, instability that will force new leadership.

Sheldon Sampson: [referring to Brandon] I can’t lose him. I’m afraid I’m going to lose him, like I lost Chloe. I can’t.
Walter Sampson: Hey. Whatever it takes, I’ll make sure that doesn’t happen.

Raikou: I don’t give a s**t about the Union or America. But if you want me to keep quiet about this, fifty mil is my price.
Walter Sampson: Will that really buy your silence? Or can someone else buy you for a higher price?
Raikou: You can trust me.

Walter Sampson: [to Sheldon] You can trust me. I promise.

Walter Sampson: I never wanted to bring you in, but Grace didn’t give me a choice. And then I thought maybe you’d be smart, maybe you’d come over to my side. But no, you’re a disappointment, just like everyone else. I could’ve taught you so much.
[we then see he’s killed Raikou]