Station Eleven Quotes from HBO Max TV Show

Jeevan Chaudhary: [to young Kirsten, who’s on her phone] You should save your battery. You’re in the red. What happens if it dies before you plug it in again, do you die too?

Young Kirsten: What kind of job do you have?
Jeevan Chaudhary: I’m a reporter. Like a reporter, or a cultural critic, slash, I had a website. I create content. I don’t have a job.
Young Kirsten: I thought you were a doctor.

Young Kirsten: How did you know how to do all that EMT stuff with Arthur?
Jeevan Chaudhary: Yeah, I think I just, I learned that watching ER.
Young Kirsten: But you were the first one in the theater to know.
Jeevan Chaudhary: Or just the first one who stood up.

Young Kirsten: Must be hard not knowing what you want to be.
Jeevan Chaudhary: Takes a while.
Young Kirsten: Yeah. I’m eight.

Siya: [over phone] We’ve never seen a flu like this before. It’s f***ing chaos.
Jeevan Chaudhary: Yeah. I don’t know, it sounds kind of bad.

Siya: [over phone] Jeevan, it’s too late to run. You need to get to Frank. Don’t believe a word the news says. The city’s going to be f***ed. People are walking around already exposed and they don’t even know it. Avoid contact with anyone. Just you, just Frank.

Jeevan Chaudhary: [over phone] Is this happening?
Siya: Get to Frank. Lock yourselves in, build a barricade. It’s your best chance of surviving.
Jeevan Chaudhary: Surviving?
Siya: Yes. Jeevan, that is what I’m trying to tell you.

Young Kirsten: [to Jeevan as he’s on his phone] What happens if your phone dies? Do you die?

Frank Chaudhary: Hello, you’ve reached Frank Chaudhary. Please leave a message and I’ll get back to you when I can.
Jeevan Chaudhary: This is the one time you should take my call, you hermit idiot.

Young Kirsten: I think Tanya and Arthur were boyfriend and girlfriend.
Jeevan Chaudhary: Yeah. If it’s for Arthur, I’d believe anything about Tanya.
Young Kirsten: Do you think she loves him?
Jeevan Chaudhary: Definitely not.

Jeevan Chaudhary: Kirsten, please tell me one person in the world who cares about you, and I will take you to them, please.
Young Kirsten: Arthur.

Young Kirsten: Do you have money?
Jeevan Chaudhary: Of course.
Young Kirsten: You don’t have a job.
Jeevan Chaudhary: Okay, but I have money.

Young Kirsten: What’s it like having a brother?
Jeevan Chaudhary: It’s annoying.
Young Kirsten: Why?
Jeevan Chaudhary: Because brothers and sisters know you too well.

Jeevan Chaudhary: Now is usually when I would have a panic attack, but I did that already back there. It’s kind of like I planned it.

Supermaket Clerk: [referring to Jeevan’s groceries] Hey, excuse me? Is this because of that thing? The flu? Should I go somewhere?
Jeevan Chaudhary: You should go home.

Siya: Who did you call?
Siya’s Colleague: My ex-husband. You?
Siya: One of my brothers won a Pulitzer when he was twenty-three. I picked the one who owes me eighteen grand and eats cereal for dinner.
Siya’s Colleague: Which one is that? Frank?
Siya: Jeevan.

Young Kirsten: Why did you say that to that man? Jeevan? Why did you tell him to go home? When are you going to take me home? My parents don’t know where I am.
Jeevan Chaudhary: Look, Kirsten, I know this is all a little scary, okay? But they’re saying that there’s a health scare coming, okay, and people are supposed to get inside. And the problem is we can’t reach anyone who knows you even exist.
Young Kirsten: That’s not fair!

Jeevan Chaudhary: If you want to go back to your house, you want to try and get in, we’ll call a cab. We’ll figure it out. Or you can spend the night at my brother’s apartment. I’m not allowed to say you have to, because that’s kidnapping, I think. And people should choose for themselves what they want.
Young Kirsten: I’m eight.
Jeevan Chaudhary: I know, but you have to choose.
Young Kirsten: Okay. I’ll go home.

Jeevan Chaudhary: Hey, Kirsten. Yeah, it’s really weird. Your parents just messaged me. I messaged them earlier. I think they just got it. Yeah. Turns out their car got stuck in Lake Forest. So, yeah, they want you to come with me and stay the night at Frank’s. It turns out they know Frank from work things, so they’re cool with it. Also, I was wrong. The world’s not ending. So that’s cool.

Frank Chaudhary: I got groceries.
Jeevan Chaudhary: The world’s ending, Frank! Okay? It’s actually ending.
Jeevan Chaudhary: [to young Kirsten] Sorry. I lied. It’s ending.

Frank Chaudhary: [referring to the news on TV] Maybe you should turn it off.
Jeevan Chaudhary: There hasn’t been any news on the Ferris wheel. Imagine dying like that.
Frank Chaudhary: Well, the way I see it, the power is on. Things will be back to normal in a couple of days.

Sayid: Check inside the cabin? You see any ghosts this year?
Kirsten: I looked in the window. It’s the same, as always. There’s no sign of him.

Sayid: [to Kirsten] Every time I think my first hundred days were bad, I remember you walked across Lake Michigan.

The Prophet: A part of me thinks we were better off all getting killed.

The Prophet: May I ask you about those tattoos? What’s the symbol?
Kirsten: It’s for all the people I’ve killed.

The Prophet: To the monsters, we’re the monsters. I guess.
Kirsten: Where did you hear that?
The Prophet: It just came into my head.

Young Kirsten: What would you have done if you knew the flu was coming?
Jeevan Chaudhary: I would have come home earlier from LA. How about you?
Young Kirsten: Say goodbye to Arthur. I didn’t get to say goodbye to anyone.

Kirsten: [referring to leaving the Symphony] Did Jeremy talk you into it? Jeremy and Karen?
Jasmine: You know Jeremy is just in Jeremy’s world.
Kirsten: This is why I don’t date actors.
Jasmine: You dated me. And Jeremy.

Jasmine: I want to stay. The Symphony is my family. You too. It doesn’t end because I take a season off.
Kirsten: We’ve never been apart.
Jasmine: Since Year Three. I know.
Kirsten: It would be better for the Symphony if you came. With the baby!

Kirsten: This is a choice.
Jasmine: What?
Kirsten: It’s selfish.
Jasmine: I’m starting a family.
Kirsten: You just said the Symphony was your family.

Kirsten: Have you ever heard of Arthur Leander, from before?
Dan: The Orion Soldier?
Kirsten: Yeah. Yes. Okay. So he gave me my first acting lesson. Ready? It’s not about you.
Dan: That’s it?
Kirsten: It works. Put all of your attention on the other person.

Young Kirsten: [flashback, after finding out her parents are dead] Everyone’s dead.
Jeevan Chaudhary: Hey. Not everyone.

Brian: I am an emissary from a community that has, until now, never once revealed its existence to the rest of the world. And I come to you with an invitation. It’s our first invitation. We invite the Traveling Symphony to visit us at the Museum of Civilization.
Alexandra: What’s the Museum of Civilization?
Brian: A place that values human culture and the past.
Sarah: F*** the past. We never leave the wheel.

Kirsten: I was being selfish.
Jasmine: Not selfish. Sad. I’m sad. But it’s not goodbye. You’ll be back. I’ll be here.
Kirsten: You don’t know that.
Jasmine: I know that when someone goes, or someone dies. I know how hard that is for you.

Frank Chaudhary: [flashback, reading from Station Eleven] “I remember damage.” Me too. “Then escape.” Good story. Love a good comeback.

Kirsten: Chicken of the Woods don’t grow up north. And you’re creepy.
The Prophet: You’re charged with that Day Zero pain. It’s like you never left.

The Prophet: It’s important that Cody and I join the Traveling Symphony. We won’t be with you for long.
Kirsten: [puts her knife against his throat] No.
The Prophet: Then your friends are going to start to disappear. Alex. The Conductor. Charlie and Jeremy, they’re staying back with the baby, but…
Kirsten: [stabs him in the stomach] No.

Kirsten: Where did you hear that line? “To the monsters, we’re the monsters.” Where did you hear that?
The Prophet: The prophecy. I remember damage.

Clark: [referring to her drawing] What’s that?
Miranda Carroll: Oh. It’s a feeling.
Clark: What’s the feeling?
Miranda Carroll: Cut and run. When a squall comes up so fast, you got to cut the anchor and just go.

Leon Prevant: [over phone] You have to get out of Malaysia. The flu mutated.
Miranda Carroll: Okay. The Chinese canceled the pitch meeting.
Leon Prevant: Forget about the pitch! I need you to listen to me. You have six, maybe seven hours, before Malaysia is on fire.

Leon Prevant: [to Miranda] You can’t trust what you are seeing, or what anyone tells you.

Miranda Carroll: You will know your end point when you reach it. In the early days, before their home is broken, they hardly notice me. It was better to not be noticed. It is better to not be noticed.

Miranda Carroll: [leaves a message] Arthur? It’s me. It’s four in the morning there, I think. You’re my yesterday. Hope the premiere went well. I made a mistake. Just keep yourself safe. Stay wherever you are. I’m coming to Chicago. I’ll find you. Somehow.

Miranda Carroll: To be loved is a calamity. Love will try to see the words before it’s finished. “What is your job?” Love will ask it. And you will ask, “What is my job?”

Miranda Carroll: How are you calling this phone?
Clark: Listen, I wanted to tell you this directly. Arthur died. I’m so sorry. He had a heart attack onstage tonight, doing Lear.

Miranda Carroll: You went away for four months to make that movie.
Arthur Leander: But I came back. But even when you’re here, you’re not here. You’re always locked up in that little room, all by yourself, working on things that nobody is allowed to see.
Miranda Carroll: No one can see because I’m not done.
Arthur Leander: I don’t think you’re going to finish!

Arthur Leander: I don’t want to live the wrong life and then die!

Tesch: How’s your project going, Miranda? When will it be finished?
Miranda Carroll: Soon.
Tesch: I’m assuming you’ll publish when it’s done?
Miranda Carroll: No. No. Probably not.
Tesch: What’s the point of doing all that work if no one’s going to see it?
Miranda Carroll: It makes me happy. It’s peaceful, spending hours working on it.

Elizabeth: I took some art history classes at UCLA, and I just, I wanted to, you know, see the paintings that I’d been reading about. Being there was like, I don’t even know how to, it was like being inside the paintings. You know? Which is a random fantasy that I had as a kid. Stupid.
Miranda Carroll: I don’t think it’s stupid at all.

Elizabeth: [referring to Miranda’s graphic novel] It’s about this spaceman. Well, no, it’s not about that. It’s about someone who survives a tragedy, and how they feel so alienated from, you know, all the day to day stuff. And it’s just really profound.

Miranda Carroll: I stood looking over the damage, trying to remember the sweetness of life on Earth. I was late. Or you were early. Either one. Same mission. Burn every parasite m**herf***er alive.

Miranda Carroll: [referring Arthur’s affair with Elizabeth] When did it start? With Elizabeth?
Clark: I don’t know. He must have gotten scared. That’s usually what happens when he falls in love.
Miranda Carroll: Scared of what?
Clark: F*** knows.

Miranda Carroll: I think that book ruined my life.

Miranda Carroll: To be loved is a calamity for someone with your job. You have work to do. Work. Love will try to see the words before it’s finished. Love makes work impossible. Survival is insufficient. I don’t want to live the wrong life and then die. I am at my best when I’m escaping.

Miranda Carroll: [at her pitch meeting] You all seem to know that the world is coming to an end. So, it’s a good reminder that nothing we have done, or do, matters at all. But it does. It does. The man I loved, died last night. The man I loved died last night, and I went to work. The man I loved died last night, and I went to work instead. And I’m here with you.

Miranda Carroll: Why wasn’t I at that play? Why I wasn’t I with my love when he died?

Jim: We’re all going to die, huh?
Miranda Carroll: I think so, Jim. I’m sorry. I don’t even know if you have family back home.
Jim: I do not. I do not. Do not. Not. Not. I do not.
Miranda Carroll: I don’t either.
Jim: You know, it makes me want to unpack some of my self-esteem baggage big time before we… I went golfing because I thought that’s what a person would do.
Miranda Carroll: I know.
Jim: I’m so scared.
Miranda Carroll: I’m scared too, Jim.

Miranda Carroll: I have a job to do. I still have a job to do. I have found you nine times before, maybe ten, and I’ll find you again. There is no rescue mission. We are safe.

Alexandra: [reading from a poster] “Beware the Prophet. If you see this man, cover your ears and run for your lives. Beware the terrible prophet in these parts and the cult of the children who follow him.” Oh, f***.

Alexandra: [referring to the Prophet] He asked me what it was like to be the only Post-Pan in the troupe. I said I didn’t think about it that way, but he said that I should. That Post-Pans were special, the first human generation to be rid from trauma, and that the survivors were the only liars left.
Kirsten: That’s what the Undersea thought. It’s from Station Eleven.
Alexandra: Maybe he read it.
Kirsten: No. There’s only one copy, and I hid it.

Kirsten: You’re so bad at cards.
Sarah: We should do this more though, for real. I mean, it’s not like we have lives or anything.

Sarah: Don’t attempt to score Hamlet. It will kill you.

Vlad: We just make up the rules as we go. Why?

Young Kirsten: [flashback, Year One, at the cabin, reading from Station Eleven] “To the monsters, we’re the monsters.”
Jeevan Chaudhary: What does that mean?
Young Kirsten: You murdered Big Daddy’s entire family.
Jeevan Chaudhary: Murdered?
Young Kirsten: The wolves think you’re scary like you think they’re scary. We’re the same.
Jeevan Chaudhary: We’re not the same.

Alexandra: [referring to the Prophet] I should have seen what he was doing.
Kirsten: No, it’s hard to see dangerous people.
Alexandra: You knew it though.
Kirsten: Yeah, I knew it. But I was dangerous when I was little. And people really put their guard down when you play vulnerable. I mean, the leg, the dead wife.

Gil: Stop moving! We put the mines back in!
Sarah: Well, hello to you too!
Gil: You’re already in the middle of the minefield! It starts back there at the f***ing green!
Kirsten: Oh, my God.
Katrina: You are surrounded!

Kirsten: Why did you put the mines back in?
Gil: Because he f***ing took everything! The Prophet!
Katrina: The cult came here last fall, and they…
Alexandra: They stole your children!

Kirsten: What did he do, though, specifically? Why did you let him in?
Gil: One day, a man and a boy appear at our front door. They’re on a journey. They are traveling for the first time. He even has crutches. I mean, anyone who would be disarmed by that story in Year Twenty.
Alexandra: There’s something about him though, The Prophet.

Katrina: [to Alexandra] You’ve met him?
Kirsten: We both did, at St. Deborah’s last week. Yeah, we talked to him. I’m not saying I trusted him. The opposite. It was like he knew I knew he was pretending. It was a game.
Alexandra: To me, he just felt honest. Most Pre-Pans don’t.
Katrina: Maybe if you’re young enough, he can be compelling. But he’s not innocent, or kind.

Gil: We gave them some food, and sent them on their way. And he comes back, the very next day. No crutches. Different name, different story, different kid. And we ask him why. And he just smiles, and nods, and says, “There’s no before. The survivors are the problem.”
Katrina: That psychopath stole my grandkids. We let them have a campfire. He told a ghost story, and two weeks later, the only four children of Pingtree were gone.

Gil: Now, honestly, Hamlet is easily the most overrated play of all time. And, yes, I’m including August Osage County.
Dieter: I love that play.
Gil: Oh, of course you do, Dieter.
Dieter: I’m not a great actor. I know that, Gil.
Gil: Well, we all know that, Dieter.
Dieter: I know that. What’s embarrassing is that you don’t know you’re a bad director. You’re not missed.
Katrina: I knew this would just become a resentment festival.

Katrina: Do you know what I think is close-minded? Performing Shakespeare without updating it. Oh, that’s one of the reasons that you left, wasn’t it, Gil?
Gil: It’s one of the reasons, yes. You don’t like risk.
Sarah: We’re artists. Everything is dangerous. We have completely deconstructed Hamlet this season. It’s set in Poland.
Dieter: Portland.
Sarah: Whatever.

Kirsten: Wait, what’s a camcorder?
Wendy: A camera that takes videos.
Kirsten: But phones make videos.

Gil: Never try to write an oral history of the world after it ends.

Kirsten: Is this what you thought it would be? Like living off the wheel?
Gil: Oh, retirement. Ah, not really. No. No. “Our revels are now ended. Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve. We are such stuff as dreams are made on, a little life rounded with a sleep.”

Gil: Katrina just lost everything.
Kirsten: So did everyone, twenty years ago.
Gil: You sound like him, you know? The Prophet. “There’s no before,” right?
Kirsten: I’m just saying you should come home, if that’s what you want.
Gil: This is what I want.

Young Kirsten: [flashback] Station Eleven is the story of a stranger named Dr. Eleven, who we first meet floating unconscious in space, and who then gets stuck aboard a broken space station. Captain Lonegan is in charge, but he has no crew, and is locked inside the bridge, and just drinks scotch, and talks about the past. An explosion destroyed the guyroscope, and…
Jeevan Chaudhary: Gyrsopscope.
Young Kirsten: Gyrsopcope. And spilled half an ocean into the workstations of the crew. This drowned every grown-up. The survivors are kids called the Undersea. They want to go home and build a future Earth by using time travel. Dr. Eleven talks to both sides and doesn’t care what happens, or what they do. He scares everyone.

Frank Chaudhary: [flashback] Hey, Jee. You still scared of the dark?
Jeevan Chaudhary: Yeah.

Kirsten: What did the Prophet say to you? What was so amazing? I want to know. Really.
Alexandra: He asked me to leave the Symphony. And I said yes. Because that’s how I felt that day. And then after the bonfire, I went to go meet him, and he didn’t show.
Kirsten: Well, thank God.
Alexandra: I didn’t want to be with him. You get that, right? I wanted to be the lead, just once.

Alexandra: It’s weird that you do that.
Kirsten: It’s weird that I do what?
Alexandra: Take weapons to a play.
Kirsten: Not to me, it’s not.

Kirsten: My entire family lived and died before we met. That’s true of everyone here. F*** Hamlet.

Katrina: [referring to the Prophet] Well, we’ve been too scared to be out here since he came. The Traveling Symphony isn’t afraid of anything.
Kirsten: We’re artists. We are terrified.

Katrina: [referring to their children] Well, you don’t seem to be. Sometimes I think we should be out there looking for them.
Kirsten: Well, maybe they’ll just come back on their own.

Alexandra: We’ll ride the minefield. There’s no before.
Kirsten: Hey! Don’t say that. That guy’s a psychopath. He probably does the same thing in every town he goes through.
Alexandra: No. That’s you. All of you. Oh, you never deviate. Rules. Routines. “We never split the troupe. We never go off-wheel. Ah, wow! Hooray! They’re here. It’s the terrified carnival of trauma! It’s the Traveling Symphony!”
Kirsten: Hey! Just stop it. The Traveling Symphony raised you. Watch your mouth.

Kirsten: He’s still out there! He didn’t die when I stabbed him! Yes, I tried to protect you at the bonfire, Alex! That’s why he didn’t meet up with you. You’re welcome.
Alexandra: Why are you so mad at me?
Kirsten: I’m not.

Sarah: I never treated you very well.
Gil: Yes, you did. You wrote a brand-new f***ing symphony every year. You actually got better after the world ended.
Sarah: So what? You heard me. You organized me.
Gil: Sarah, you do know that I love everything we made together.
Sarah: I feel the same way. But I didn’t leave.

Kirsten: What are you wearing? What is that? Is that a mine?
Little Boy: They’re beacons for the Prophet.
[as Kristen tries to warn everyone, one of the children with the bomb hugs Gil as it explodes]

Clark: [referring to Elizabeth] I mean, you’d think at a time like this, I mean, she’s famous. Big deal. I’ll tell you what, she won’t be very famous if everyone on the f***ing planet dies.

Clark: [to Tyler] You know, I don’t know what’s going to happen with this flu. Civilization is a complex, self-correcting mechanism. As complex as a person, only self-aware to a degree. You understand. But whatever happens, I’m your uncle Clark.

Clark: The worst I may be yet. The worst is not, as long as we can say, “This is the worst.”

Miles: I think this thing is really happening, man. You can see it out there. Kind of this glaze in people’s eyes. It’s like the whole world is just this now.
Clark: They’re all heroes on board that plane. Every single one of them.

Clark: [as he’s drinking] We’ll get through this. My optimism’s intact.
Miles: You sure that’s not the liquid courage?
Clark: Probably.

Tim: [voice message for Clark] I wish you were here. I’ve been thinking about the “I accept this” thing, Dr. Norman, and I do not. I do not accept this.

Clark: Your assistant never got you a jet. She’s probably dead.
Elizabeth: Oh, Uncle Clark.
Clark: Your plane’s not coming.
Elizabeth: It will! I just have to find my passport.
Clark: This isn’t healthy for anyone, and it sends the message to everyone inside that you’d rather freeze to death than be a part of their community.
Elizabeth: I would.

Clark: Elizabeth, powerful people tend to crash hard when huge pockets of false reality come down. I see it in my work all the time. I’m a corporate consultant.
Elizabeth: Here I thought you were a lounge singer.
Clark: No, I’m a CEO whisperer.
Elizabeth: And you get paid for that? Stroking the ego of powerful men?
Clark: I can use what I know to protect you, all three of us, if you’ll accept my help.
Elizabeth: You sound like a movie villain.

Clark: Tyler needs attention.
Elizabeth: Tyler’s fine. He’s with Shay.
Clark: He’s sitting in front of a plane of corpses!

Clark: What’s happened?
Nun: Mr. Homeland Security apparently went around, and told all the people he liked that he’s leaving for a better world, Miami Beach.

Clark: This is the best thing that could have possibly happened. Okay, they left. They didn’t invite you, or me, because they thought they were better than you. They thought they deserved to live and you didn’t. They were in it for themselves. And the only problem with their plan is, they were taken in by a janitorial con man.

Clark: He was an opportunist, and he took advantage of your fear, and the illusion of his power, and he has likely just led all those people to their death.

Clark: All that matters is the now and what got us to this point. Because the past is a map, and it got us here. And here, at this airport, we have won the post-apocalyptic lottery! And that plane leaving just made all our shares go up!

Clark: Here we are, with much of our hierarchy of needs already met. We have shelter. We have food. We’re a community. And we’re tucked away in a place no one is ever going to find us.

Clark: And we’re in this together, and we’re a family now.

Elizabeth: [to Clark] Well played, Marc Antony. You’re a star.

Clark: [to Miles, Elizabeth] We’ve really got something here. You know? The four of us, including Tyler, because I don’t discount him. You know, the sympathy for the children, the child. Some connotation of Arthur. Your celebrity is a little less relevant in a post-apocalyptic context. I know. No, but it still has a sparkle to it. They remember your fame.

Young Tyler: Why do we need a leader at all?
Clark: Because, Tyler, leaders give us hope. And we won’t survive here long enough to repopulate the Earth if the people here don’t feel hopeful.
Young Tyler: Maybe we shouldn’t though.
Clark: Shouldn’t what, Tyler?
Young Tyler: Repopulate.
Elizabeth: That’s a little bleak, isn’t it?
Clark: No, it’s cute.

Clark: [pretending to talk to Arthur over radio] Listen, I’m sitting here with your son, and I’m sorry to say it, but he’s being a real knob. Yeah, asking all the other kids to pretend, but he won’t play the game. Was he always like this?

Young Tyler: [pretending to talk to Arthur over radio] Hey, dad. Sorry I didn’t get a chance to come see your play in Chicago. I really wanted to. I was really excited. But mom had a night shoot. She really tried. Anyway, it’s cool that you did King Lear. I don’t know what else to say. I’m glad I saw you last month, but I wish I could see you again.

Elizabeth: What your father did really hurt me. I don’t know what it is about being here, but I don’t know, it seems like maybe there’s something good happening, with us. Am I crazy? Do you feel it too?
Young Tyler: Maybe it’s just because dad’s dead.

Elizabeth: He left you something. It’s more of a symbol than anything, but I had it in my bag.
Young Tyler: [referring to Station Eleven] The art’s cool.
Elizabeth: The MC on the cover is for Miranda Carroll, who was your father’s first wife.
Young Tyler: I remember her.
Elizabeth: He sent it to me a couple of weeks ago. And I got it in the mail, and I kept it from you. I’ve been doing that for years. He’s been sending you letters since the divorce, and I burn them.
Young Tyler: Why?
Elizabeth: Because I’m selfish.

Elizabeth: [referring to Tyler] He can tell when people are lying.
Clark: Well, what did you lie to him about?
Elizabeth: That Arthur kept trying.

Clark: I’m making a museum. A tribute to the best of the old days. A reminder of how good we used to have it, something to aim for, to get back to. Talking to the dead through the radio system feels macabre. This will be better.

Clark: Tyler processed the quarantine as some kind of personal humiliation. He needs to grow up and get over it.
Elizabeth: Do you hate Tyler because you hated Arthur?
Clark: I don’t hate Tyler.
Elizabeth: But you did hate Arthur.
Clark: Why? You think I was jealous of him? Because that’s what he thought too.

Clark: Arthur was pathetic. He was a B-list loser who surrounded himself with C-list trophy duds like yourself.
Elizabeth: Oh, yeah.
Clark: And he threw away the only worthwhile wife he had in Miranda. Who he never got over, by the way. He was a s**t father, a s**t husband, which you know. And he died onstage in a puddle of his own pi**, desperate to be taken seriously, trying to do King Lear! And still, I loved him!

Elizabeth: [to Clark] Everyone loved him. I mean, it takes every ounce of your energy every day to get people to even like you, to actually listen to the sentences that you say. But Art, Art didn’t have to try. That must feel awful.

Clark: Tyler will thrive here. I haven’t betrayed him, even if you seem to think I have. In fact, I saved his life, and yours. We all know it was Arthur who damaged Tyler. All of us, we’re all the f***ing wreckage.
Elizabeth: Yeah, you’re right. You’re right.
Clark: Elizabeth, we have to stick together. We can’t let a child play us off against one another.
Elizabeth: I know.
[we see that Tyler overhears them through the radio]

Clark: [over radio] Arthur? Are you there? It’s Clark. I miss you, old friend, despite myself. Listen, I really regret what I said the last time we spoke, in Chicago. I have tried to protect your boy. But I don’t know how to anymore. He’s like you in his way. Bold, indifferent to authority, singular. But he’s a destroyer. And you were never a destroyer. I mean something here to these people. I’ve got responsibilities to everybody now. And I don’t think I’ve done anything wrong. But it’s time for Tyler and Elizabeth to go.

Clark: [over radio] Tyler, what are you doing on board that plane?
Young Tyler: Setting all of you free.

Clark: [over radio] The jet is on fire. He set it on fire! Tyler is still on board!
[we see Tyler stands from afar watching, we then see Tyler is the Prophet]

Kirsten: [referring to the Prophet] He’s going to kill the Traveling Symphony.

Kirsten: Do you not see what’s right behind us?
Sayid: How many Jesus dudes have we met along the way, Kirs?
Kirsten: No. He’s different. This is my fault.
Sayid: None of it is your fault. Those kids were brainwashed. They were terrorists.
Kirsten: That’s not what I mean.
Sayid: So what do you mean?

Kirsten: I did this, okay? I stabbed him in St. Deb’s. He just didn’t die. He was in Alex’s head!
Sayid: Alex is not a child. She doesn’t fall in love with cult leaders. Just don’t spin out.
Kirsten: Well, I’ll feel better when he’s dead. Also, I don’t spin out.

Sayid: Hey, Alex! I knew you’d be okay! Kirsten thought you joined a cult!
Alexandra: I’m already in a cult.

Sayid: She went to kill that dude the Prophet, man.
Dieter: Why did you let her go?!
Sayid: She was just being f***ing Kirsten!

Sayid: Kirsten said that you had plans to meet with the Prophet.
Alexandra: Yeah, I did. But no worries, she stabbed him. Back in St. Deborah’s.
Sayid: Well, did you thank her? Because that dude uses child soldiers.

Sarah: [as they go with Brian to the museum] I’ve had enough silly danger.
Dieter: This is not good.
Sarah: Kirsten will find us. She always does.

Cody: We’re all going to the same place. Say it. Say the Prophecy. He said you know it too.
Kirsten: “My memories are the same as yours. They mean nothing. I feel this again for the first time. I have a job to do. I’ve found you nine times before. Maybe ten. And I’ll find you again. Until the end. I always do. I find you, because I know you. And I know you, because we are the same.”

Cody: [referring tp the Prophet] He won’t let us up. He says he’ll only talk to you.
Kirsten: He didn’t know I was coming. That wound was deep. He’s probably going to die from complications.

Cody: [to Kirsten, referring to the children] They like it when things sound like they’re from the Prophecy.

Tyler Leander: [as Kirsten is holding him by his throat] If I die, I’ll lose control of the story. It happened already. When I was hurt, Haley told the kids a different story, that the mines erased the past. That was Pingtree.

Tyler Leander: Your friends are in trouble. Half of them are prisoners already. The other half are on their way.
Kirsten: What are you talking about?
Tyler Leander: The Museum of Civilization.

Tyler Leander: [to Kirsten, referring to the The Museum of Civilization] There’s real evil in that place. It’s been rotting for two decades. They collect things. They have your friends. They also have something of mine locked in their tower. You’re the key. Get me in, I’ll take you to the Symphony.

Tyler Leander: [to Kirsten] They have snipers. Electrified fences. Surveillance. Who knows what else by now? But if we’re together, you could tell them I’m an actor too. It’s up to you. We don’t force things.

Kirsten: I missed your kidney by an inch.
Tyler Leander: Must’ve been the play. You seemed upset onstage. How come? You remembered something. Who?

Kirsten: If I get you in, how do I know you’ll leave us alone?
Tyler Leander: You can’t.

Kirsten: [referring to the Symphony] They’re my family. I don’t care about anyone but them.

Brian: [as they arrive at the airport] Welcome. Welcome to the Museum of Civilization.

Brian: It’s really a nice place. I left for a while. That’s what they tell me. But I came back. And I have no memory from before, but I’ve been happy here.

Tyler Leander: When I was a kid, someone gave me a comic book. I read it, and lost it. I tried to forget it. It all came to me when I needed it the most. That blue spaceman really calmed me down.
Kirsten: That’s because Dr. Eleven is a kid. It’s K inside the suit, the Rebel Undersea Leader. She’s in a time loop.
Tyler Leander: I never thought about it like that. I do relate though.

Tyler Leander: I’m a Post-Pan. Just born before.
Kirsten: Most Pre-Pans lost their minds.
Tyler Leander: Yeah. That’s the whole problem.

Tyler Leander: My father’s first wife was an artist. Not my mother. They both died before. But when he was alive, he spoke Spanish, and he thought she didn’t. So he would have all these conversations in front of her with his dad about how selfish she was, how crazy, how he loved her, but she didn’t love him, how he didn’t understand her art. After she left him, she called to say that she loved him. And they had that whole conversation in Spanish. She told him he had never asked her anything about herself.
Kirsten: That doesn’t seem fair.
Tyler Leander: [in Spanish] He was a selfish b****rd. But it doesn’t matter. There is no before. Only what is to come.
Kirsten: I don’t speak Spanish.
Tyler Leander: Neither do I.

Kirsten: What’s that game they play? The one like tag?
Tyler Leander: Infection. The only way everybody wins is, everybody gets sick.
Kirsten: Oh. Fun.
Tyler Leander: Sometimes no one wins. Kids just keep on running. They find some town. They tell people their name’s the Prophet. They ask kids if they want to join the Undersea. Is that how you know it? You met one of them along the way?
Kirsten: No.

Cody: So the internet was real, then?
Kirsten: Oh, yeah. Yeah, the internet was real.
Cody: What was it like?
Kirsten: It was like a whole bunch of computers could talk to each other from anywhere in the world. And you could send messages, or pictures. And you could read any book, watch any movie. You could find anyone.
Cody: Sounds beautiful.

Cody: [referring to the Prophet] He says old data’s like a weed.
Kirsten: I don’t know. I liked Instagram.

Kirsten: What about you? What do you want?
Cody: I want him to survive so the Traveling Symphony survives.
Kirsten: You don’t think that we’ll live if the Prophet doesn’t?
Cody: No way. They’ll find you. He’s been building up the Undersea for ten years. They’re coming when he lights the torch.
[then the group is attacked by the Red Bandanas and Cody is stabbed]

Jeevan Chaudhary: What’s going to happen? Really?
Frank Chaudhary: I don’t know. But I’m glad you’re here. How was King Lear?

Frank Chaudhary: [referring to Station Eleven] Just keep reading it. Should be doing my work. It’s good though. I can relate.
Young Kirsten: To which character?
Frank Chaudhary: All of them.

Frank Chaudhary: [referring to Kirsten] She’s moving into the closet.
Jeevan Chaudhary: Why do all kids love little Harry Potter rooms like that?
Frank Chaudhary: To make the world small.

Jeevan Chaudhary: You think she’s okay?
Frank Chaudhary: She just found out her parents died. She’s eight. She’s traumatized.
Jeevan Chaudhary: Makes three of us.

Jeevan Chaudhary: [as he finds Frank’s drugs] I’m sorry, heroin? We’re not heroin people, Frank. We’re barely weed people. You win awards.
Frank Chaudhary: I quit. I’m clean. It’s fine.
Jeevan Chaudhary: People don’t just quit heroin, Frank. Aren’t you in withdrawal?
Frank Chaudhary: I don’t have a cold.

Frank Chaudhary: It’s not sad, Jeevan. It just is.
Jeevan Chaudhary: It’s not great, Frank!
Frank Chaudhary: I can’t ghostwrite sober.
Jeevan Chaudhary: Then stop ghostwriting.
Frank Chaudhary: It’s the only job I can get.
Jeevan Chaudhary: Frank, there are no more jobs.

Frank Chaudhary: Whatever’s going on outside is irrelevant, because I haven’t been out on assignment in two years. Whatever I had, it’s gone. It’ll come back. Journalists have to go outside.
Jeevan Chaudhary: Then write a novel.
Frank Chaudhary: I don’t make s**t up!

Jeevan Chaudhary: If we have to leave, we leave together. You’ll get better. Your hip…
Frank Chaudhary: It’s not the hip, Jeevan.
Jeevan Chaudhary: We have a kid now.

Kirsten: [to her younger self] Don’t write the play. You leave one day too late.

News Anchor: Will likely happen in phases, I think. Networks and television have already stopped broadcasting. Likely the phone system next, and already, it’s failing. Power and the Internet will both hold on, and people who are holed up will continue to find one another online, but this will only conceal the reality that it’s already over. We’ve encountered a flu that does not incubate. It just explodes. We were not ready for a one in one thousand survival rate. Chicago’s not Chicago anymore. It’s just two point five million bodies.

Young Kirsten: What’s your job?
Frank Chaudhary: I’m a ghostwriter.
Young Kirsten: What are you ghostwriting?
Frank Chaudhary: An autobiography.
Young Kirsten: Don’t you have to write your own autobiography?
Frank Chaudhary: Not if you’re rich.

Frank Chaudhary: Listen, Kirsten, my brother does weird s**t sometimes. He brought home a bird once that he found on the sidewalk with a broken neck. He’s a terrible babysitter, and I’m sort of a shut-in, but we’re safe.

Young Kirsten: I had a brother. He died before he was born. Maybe he would have been at home with a babysitter when Jeevan tried to take me to my house.
Frank Chaudhary: I try not to think in maybes.

Young Kirsten: What happened to your leg?
Frank Chaudhary: Someone tried to blow me up.
Young Kirsten: Why?
Frank Chaudhary: I was in the wrong place. Sri Lanka. There’s a war there that never ends.

Frank Chaudhary: The last thing I remember before, I look up at my guide, and he’s running away. So I take a step, and bang. I got blown up. I floated.

Frank Chaudhary: [describing after he woke up in a hospital] I start screaming for help. And I look down and Jeevan is there, asleep on the floor. So I’m thinking I’m either dead, or I’m home.
Young Kirsten: Where were you?
Frank Chaudhary: Military base in Singapore. He got a twenty-four hour flight on Siya’s credit card.
Jeevan Chaudhary: I flew first class, by the way. She never found out.
Young Kirsten: She did.
Jeevan Chaudhary: Really?

Jeevan Chaudhary: By the way, I don’t think the flu is out there anymore.
Frank Chaudhary: You have no data whatsoever.

Jeevan Chaudhary: What’s the ration estimate on the food, Frank?
Frank Chaudhary: Ninety days.
Jeevan Chaudhary: Oh, ninety days? So what is that, twelve days until we starve? There’s your data. We have to leave. First thing tomorrow.
Frank Chaudhary: Autobiography’s not done.
Young Kirsten: Neither is my play, but I’m almost done.
Jeevan Chaudhary: Something tells me neither of you are going to finish.

Jeevan Chaudhary: Do you remember that film with the soccer team, and they eat each other? You don’t remember, you’re eight. Frank?
Frank Chaudhary: Alive?
Jeevan Chaudhary: Alive? Alive.
Frank Chaudhary: Yeah, it was a rugby team.
Jeevan Chaudhary: Okay, great. They were proactive.
Frank Chaudhary: You need more information. They had a plan. They had somewhere to go. They had a map. They knew what they…
Jeevan Chaudhary: Frank, this is what we know! They survived. They survived. Yeah, they had to eat each other, but they survived.

Jeevan Chaudhary: Look, I know it’s hard and it’s scary, but we’re going to starve to death, or freeze to death. And we can’t wait for him to get better. And we can’t just write plays and books.
Young Kirsten: I’m finished writing. We can do it tomorrow, then go. But we have to perform it.
Jeevan Chaudhary: But can we do it like now?
Young Kirsten: The costumes still aren’t done. Tomorrow. I promise.

Young Kirsten: What would you have done if you knew the flu was coming?
Jeevan Chaudhary: I would have come home earlier from LA. And I would have spent time with my mom before she died. And Siya. And that idiot, and we would have been together. I would have just done, I would have made the choice I wanted to make, you know? I’m always late for everything. How about you?
Young Kirsten: Said goodbye to Arthur. I didn’t get to say goodbye to anyone.
Jeevan Chaudhary: Yeah, well, say bye now.
Young Kirsten: He can’t hear me.

Frank Chaudhary: Well, I owe you a present, don’t I? I got this from our dadu, our grandfather. Had it in my pocket that day when I stepped on that mine. It’s a compass.
Young Kirsten: We’re going tomorrow. Just come.
Frank Chaudhary: It’s broken. No matter how you stand, it tells you you’re looking east. Jeev just made me think of it. And that day, when you were looking at the sunrise. That was a good feeling.

Young Kirsten: I made the whole play the death scene.
Frank Chaudhary: Who am I?
Young Kirsten: Lonagan.
Frank Chaudhary: So it’s my death scene.

Jeevan Chaudhary: [in Hindi] You’re leaving me alone.
Frank Chaudhary: [in Hindi] No. You can’t survive helping both of us. But she can’t survive without you. It’s the only way that you’re not left alone.

Jeevan Chaudhary: [doing Kirsten’s play based on Station Eleven] Why did you pull me on board? Why did you let me in here?
Frank Chaudhary: Protocol. Or I was lonely. This strange and awful time, was the happiest of my life.

Frank Chaudhary: [doing Kirsten’s play] You’re the only friend I’ve ever had.
Jeevan Chaudhary: You’re going to die, and I can’t stop it.
Frank Chaudhary: That’s true for everyone.
Jeevan Chaudhary: Good point.

Hooded Man: [enters their apartment as they’re doing the play] Please leave. I live here now.
Jeevan Chaudhary: Okay. It’s okay. You can have the place. We’re all packed. We were just leaving. Right, Frank? Come on, Frank. Let’s go. We’re all packed up. We were just leaving. It’s fine.
Frank Chaudhary: [to Jeevan] I’m really sorry, man.
Jeevan Chaudhary: Don’t.
Frank Chaudhary: I’m not leaving, man.
Jeevan Chaudhary: No, Frank.
Frank Chaudhary: It’s my home.

Kirsten: [as Jeevan is fighting with the hooded man] It’s okay. He survives. You leave here with him.
Young Kirsten: Frank too?
Kirsten: You get to see him again.
Young Kirsten: I shouldn’t have done the play.
Kirsten: This didn’t happen because you did the play. This isn’t your fault. This is just what happened.

Jeevan Chaudhary: [after Frank’s been stabbed and takes out the knife] You can’t just take it out like that, I don’t think, Frank. Siya. Siya. Siya! Siya! Come on!
Frank Chaudhary: Siya’s dead, Jeev.

Frank Chaudhary: I want to lie down in my bed.
[he takes his last breath as he dies]

Young Kirsten: [as they’re about to leave the apartment] You were really good as Dr. Eleven. I almost made you Lonagan.
Jeevan Chaudhary: So what happens next in your book?
Young Kirsten: It’s the two of them, Dr. Eleven, and the Rebel Undersea Leader. For a while.

Kirsten: I should probably go now. Goodbye, Frank. Wanted to say thank you for letting me stay here.

Tyler Leander: Cody died.
Kirsten: I saw. I’m sorry. You guys were together a long time.
Tyler Leander: There’s no before.

Tyler Leander: Why are you helping me?
Kirsten: [quoting from Station Eleven] “You’re going to die, and I can’t stop it.”
Tyler Leander: “Isn’t it that everyone?” I burned my copy when I left here. I remember the words pretty good. Not everything, but most of it. Forgot some parts.

Kirsten: [referring to the people at the airport] Why are you so sure the people who live here aren’t going to recognize you?
Tyler Leander: They don’t want to remember me. They think I’m dead.

Clark: I don’t think I’ve ever said this out loud. But I have always felt like a failure. Every room I’ve walked into, I felt hated. And I know it’s wrong, and I know it’s not true, but I feel it. I feel it, and I accept it.

Clark: This is not what we agreed. I let you get what you want with this theater troupe, but I will not allow it to become a distraction that puts our people in danger.
Elizabeth: Our people want to open the doors.

Elizabeth: You’re a crazy old man.
Clark: Uh-huh.

Clark: [after Kirsten and Tyler make it to the museum] And who are you?
Tyler Leander: Lonagan.
Clark: “What hath you done with the body, dear Lord?”
Tyler Leander: “Compounded it with dust, whereto ’tis kin.”
Clark: Yeah, everybody knows Hamlet though.
Tyler Leander: Yeah, but it’s just so good, you know? Reading it, it’s like being inside a different world. I don’t know, stupid probably.
Clark: I don’t think it’s stupid.

Kirsten: [doing a scene from Station Eleven] I stood looking over the damage, trying to remember the sweetness of life on Earth. But I couldn’t remember. Do you know what I remember? You, as a child. From before.
Tyler Leander: We don’t even know if it’s like it was before.
Kirsten: There is no before. No after. Only now.
Tyler Leander: I don’t buy it. The past is safe. Everything else changes.

Arthur Leander: [flashback, after Arthur introduced Clark to yourn Kirsten] Tanya, the kid wrangler, says that her life is sad. But you can’t tell, right?
Clark: No.

Kirsten: Just someone just say the plan. To get Sarah. We can’t stay. You guys, it’s not safe.
Alexandra: Yes, it is.
Kirsten: No, Alex. It’s not.
Alexandra: They’re excited for us. They’ve never seen a play.
Kirsten: Oh, they’ve never seen a play?
Alexandra: Never. We have to do the play.
Kirsten: What did you say?
Alexandra: I said that we… Well, you know, we made a commitment, and Elizabeth’s been directing us.
Kirsten: We direct ourselves!

Alexandra: Why would we leave the nicest place we’ve ever been?
Kirsten: Because they’re holding Sarah hostage.
Alexandra: No, they saved her! She would’ve died! And quarantine it’s just what they do here.

Kirsten: Sorry, who the f*** is Elizabeth?
Dieter: Elizabeth Colton.
Alexandra: She was a movie star from before?
Kirsten: Yes, I know who she was.
Sayid: Hey, wasn’t she married to Arthur Leander?
Kirsten: [suddenly realizes who Tyler is] Oh. Holy f***ing s**t.

Clark: I listened to you. And I agreed. I wanted the Traveling Symphony to come to try something new, and I’m admitting the museum isn’t doing the job anymore. But I assumed they’d be terrible, or just lighter.
Elizabeth: It’s f***ing Hamlet, Clark.

Clark: I never noticed how insolent Hamlet is to the power structures. The man insults the king.
Elizabeth: Claudius kills his father.
Clark: Yes, but he had his reasons. Nobody ever tells the story from that point of view. But Hamlet, imagine if our teenagers felt that anger, that clearly? And it’s like heroin.
Elizabeth: What are you saying, Clark?
Clark: I’m withdrawing my vote. They can’t perform.
Elizabeth: You can’t do that. Not now.
Clark: Obviously, they can’t be allowed to leave. We’ll have to keep them in custody. They know how to get here. They could bring back others.

Clark: [flashback] I’m a CEO whisperer. Really a lot of CEOs these days are kind of the sensitive types, so they have to learn the alpha moves.
Arthur Leander: You were a violin player in a punk band when we met.
Clark: Yeah, your point?
Arthur Leander: Who cares about alpha moves? The only thing you could do was to show people how you felt.
Clark: I’m aware I’ve changed.
Arthur Leander: And I respect that so much more, Clark. More than this whole chest-bumping macho attitude.

Arthur Leander: What about nice people? Or quiet people? Or even better, people who don’t even think like that at all? People who only make things for their own private reasons.
Clark: Arthur, you like those people because you dominate them from the start.
Arthur Leander: What does that mean?
Clark: They don’t push back against you because you’re a movie star. Oh, come on. You’re aware of that, yeah? What, you think it’s because they love you, or they’re scared of you, but it’s actually because they don’t care about you.

Clark: I’m just saying people in the business world are more honest.
Arthur Leander: Oh, Clark. No! No.
Clark: Yes! And I prefer it, because nobody’s pretending why they’re there.

Clark: I’m not saying I respect, or like these Ruling Elite m**herf***ers. And I’m not saying I don’t love what we used to do. Dressing up, telling stories, making magic.
Arthur Leander: Because that’s what matters. Making things. Miranda knew that. Always. And I don’t mean making things as in an art piece, or music for the elites. No, I mean, making things. And in order for that something to be transcendent, to hold up, it has to be great.

Clark: So that’s what you think you’re doing with Lear, huh? Yeah? Making something great?
Arthur Leander: No, I just think…
Clark: Because Miranda didn’t care if what she was doing was great. She didn’t care if anyone ever even read it. She had to do what she was doing.
Arthur Leander: You didn’t even know Miranda.
Clark: Miranda was my friend too! And I lost her because you needed more attention!

Clark: “I’m at my best when I’m escaping.” She said those exact words to me by the pool that night, after she realized you were f***ing your costar.
Arthur Leander: But I wasn’t. Everyone said. They all assumed. But in the end? I didn’t. Miranda left me. And she burned down my pool house.
Clark: She was tied to a boulder, and getting pulled to the bottom of the sea. And you? You were sad she didn’t like your heist movie.

Clark: Do you know what I really thought watching you today on stage? You’re great. You don’t deserve to be, because you haven’t earned it. And you shouldn’t be that great, but you are. And I’m not jealous. I don’t want to be you. I don’t want to be great. I just miss friendships.
Arthur Leander: Yeah, me too.

Miles: [referring to Kirsten and Tyler] Elizabeth. There’s something about him. I felt it when I caught them out there. I can’t shake it.
Elizabeth: You look like you’ve seen a ghost.

Elizabeth: You don’t actually think it’s Tyler?
Miles: Elizabeth, please.
Elizabeth: My son is dead.

Clark: Do people like me anymore?
Miles: People love you. People know you saved them. You built something great here. You guided us through an impossible time.
Clark: Then why do I feel so terrible?

Clark: [flashback, to Arthur] You know, I thought it would’ve been nice to get to know the boy, finally. But you abandoned me. I feel f***ing sorry for Tyler having you as a father.

Elizabeth: Tyler, say hi to your Uncle Clark. He had what’s called a “bender” last night.
Clark: Nice to meet you, Tyler.
Young Tyler: He’s my uncle?
Elizabeth: Well, he and your dad used to be friends.
Arthur Leander: No, we’re friends. We still are.

Miles: And now it’s a different time.
Clark: What’s different?
Miles: We’re old as s**t.

Tyler Leander: I used to use the jetways to get around. You can get anywhere in the airport.
Kirsten: I guess there is a before.

Kirsten: They’re holding you to get the troupe to perform. This place, it’s not safe. We have to go.
Sarah: So where would I go?
Kirsten: With us.

Sarah: Nineteen times around the lake, and I thought I was going to make it twenty, but my bones is cold.
Kirsten: But I mean, you’ll heal.
Sarah: My heart’s broken. Go. Say goodbye. You got to get better at that. And don’t tell them that I’m dead until after.
Kirsten: After what?
Sarah: The play. The play’s the thing.

Sarah: Nothing’s gone. Nothing’s ever gone.

Tyler Leander: [to Kirsten] Look, I told you, no one leaves this place alive. The Before, it’s coming back. I won’t let it.

Tyler Leander: [referring to the memorial plaque] Of course he took credit. Clark used to take over with his lies.
Kirsten: Who are they?
Tyler Leander: All the people who died out there. Gitchegumee Air, Flight 452. They landed the same day as us. A few hours later. They didn’t let them off though. They were sick. We were inside. Nice and safe. But it’s time for Tyler and Elizabeth to go.
Kirsten: So you ran away. And you let everyone believe that you died. And when you were alone, you thought about Station Eleven.

Tyler Leander: What happened to you in the First Hundred?
Kirsten: I was in Chicago. I was lucky for a kid. I had a grownup who cared about me. Right before the Flu, I was in a play, with Arthur Leander. I knew him. I loved him, actually. He was kind to me. He talked about his son, a lot. We were supposed to meet at the premiere. But then, they were late.

Kirsten: Arthur gave me Station Eleven. And when I read it, it didn’t matter that the world was ending. Because it was the world. Tyler, you didn’t come back here for that.
Tyler Leander: Then why did I come back?
Kirsten: Because they didn’t die. They’re all still alive. You left.
Tyler Leander: I remember being locked up for trying to help someone. I remember that they failed. I remember damage. Then escape. Then adrift in a stranger’s galaxy for a long, long time. But I’m safe now. I found it again. There is a Before. It was just awful. I release you from the Undersea.

Tyler Leander: [as he’s set fire to the memorial plaque] This is all your fault! You brought it back! You brought everything back!
Clark: Tyler? Tyler. Thank God you’re alive.
Tyler Leander: I don’t know you, or you.
Clark: F*** you. You could have spared your mother twenty years of pain!
Elizabeth: Clark, stop talking.
Clark: No. Why have you come back? Why do this to her?
Tyler Leander: I’m not doing this to her.
[then we see the museum blowup]

Frank Chaudhary: [watching the museum burn, Kirsten has flashback] Okay, so what does happen?
Young Kirsten: The story ends before you find out.
Frank Chaudhary: Hold on. What’s your argument? Not what they think. Not what the author thought. What do you think?
Young Kirsten: Are you mad at me?
Frank Chaudhary: No. You’re just not done.

Young Kirsten: Frank told me your nickname.
Jeevan Chaudhary: What nickname?
Young Kirsten: Leaving Jeevan.
Jeevan Chaudhary: You are getting so good.
Young Kirsten: Are you leaving, Jeevan?
Jeevan Chaudhary: [referring to the knife that was used to kill Frank] No. I wish you hadn’t kept that knife.

Young Kirsten: [after failing to shoot the woman who attacked Jeevan] Are you mad at me?
Jeevan Chaudhary: Your reading is out of control.
Young Kirsten: I’m sorry. I should have been watching.
Jeevan Chaudhary: You’re supposed to say that first.

Young Kirsten: She was number eight. The lady who hit you with a beanbag in the head.
Jeevan Chaudhary: Oh, right.
Young Kirsten: She was number eight on the list of other people.

Jeevan Chaudhary: You know, we actually missed one. Beanbag lady, she’s actually number nine.
Young Kirsten: Who did we miss?
[then we see flashback to the hooded man that killed Frank]

Jeevan Chaudhary: [to young Kirsten] I can’t stay here for the winter. You need other kids. I need other adults.

Young Kirsten: Why are you so mad at me?
Jeevan Chaudhary: I’m not. Whatever happens to you is my fault! I haven’t made a single choice for myself since I met you. I was just supposed to walk you home.
Young Kirsten: You made us leave Frank’s.
Jeevan Chaudhary: Yeah, but we waited too long! We stayed for your f***ing play!

Jeevan Chaudhary: [as he’s out looking for Kirsten’s book] You had to keep “Leaving Jeevan” alive? Couldn’t resist?
Frank Chaudhary: We talked. She asked about you.
Jeevan Chaudhary: Put a little “f*** you” in her pocket on the way out the door? “Just remember, Kirsten, he’s unreliable.”
Frank Chaudhary: I never thought that.

Jeevan Chaudhary: [referring to Station Eleven] So pretentious!

Terry: [after they’ve taken and rescued Jeevan] Doctor. You’ve been shanghaied. How’s the head?
Jeevan Chaudhary: Is this the afterlife?
Terry: No. Life’s comeback.

Terry: It’s a solstice miracle. Lara delivered you to us. I needed another doctor, or I knew I’d end up with a mass grave out back in the employee parking lot. What were you doing two hundred and seventy-six days ago?
Jeevan Chaudhary: There’s a little girl.
Terry: The vernal equinox.
Jeevan Chaudhary: Lady, I got to f***ing go. There’s a nine year-old girl in the cabin.

Terry: [referring tp the pregnant women] These women are heroes. We lost close to nine billion last year. Next week, we get fifteen or sixteen post-pandemic babies back. It’s a f***ing time bomb of joy. And I need your help. Yeah. I need another doctor.
Jeevan Chaudhary: I’m not a doctor.
Terry: [turns to the women] Yeah. Yeah, good.
Terry: [to the unconscious Jeevan] You’re a doctor.

Terry: I have a dozen women in this birth center who are prenatally synchronized.
Jeevan Chaudhary: I don’t care!
Terry: And I believe every single one of them will give birth at the exact same time in four days.
Jeevan Chaudhary: I don’t know you! I don’t know any of these people!
Terry: [reveals his amputated toes] Sorry about the amputation. You would have died.

Rose: You’re the one who’s pretending to be a doctor?
Jeevan Chaudhary: Yeah.

Terry: [as one of the women is about to give birth] Would you like to assist? Doctor?
Jeevan Chaudhary: No. But I’ll observe.

Terry: I’m sorry about the foot. What mauled you?
Jeevan Chaudhary: A wolf.
Terry: And who was the girl?
Jeevan Chaudhary: Just someone I ended up with.

Terry: I got fired by Good Samaritan in Pittsburgh. I ran a Ponzi scheme with the orderlies. Lost my medical license. So, I was home when every other doctor died. And then my husband.
Jeevan Chaudhary: My sister was a doctor. And my brother died right in front of me.
Terry: Then you’re already qualified. The courage to bear witness to death is the job, the courage to be there.
Jeevan Chaudhary: I don’t want anybody else to die. Or get hurt, or be in pain.

Jeevan Chaudhary: Who are you waiting for?
Rose: Just someone I ended up with. We need new words. Who was the last person you met before? Who was the first person you met after?

Lara: What, Jeevan?
Jeevan Chaudhary: I need help.
Lara: What are we doing? Are we hugging?
Jeevan Chaudhary: Yeah.
Lara: You okay?
Jeevan Chaudhary: What’s it like being pregnant?
Lara: It’s good. Scary. There’s a person inside me. I don’t like strangers.

Lara: Hi. Can I help?
Jeevan Chaudhary: Well, you’re in labor.
Lara: I can be in labor and still help.

Pregnant Woman: You know, you don’t have to still keep pretending that you’re like a medical doctor.
Jeevan Chaudhary: I’m not pretending.
Pregnant Woman: You’re a healer.

Terry: [after Rose dies from giving birth] She delivered. Dr. Chaudhary helped Rose feel safer. Thank you.
Young Tyler: If I leave the baby here, will it die?
Terry: More likely she’ll die if she goes with you. David, I’m sorry to say that. I’ll find someone. Mothers will keep coming here.
Jeevan Chaudhary: You want to see Rose before you go?
Young Tyler: There’s no before.
Jeevan Chaudhary: [as Tyler leaves] Well, I guess he’s not the father.
Terry: So many orphans in this world.

Terry: I love goodbyes. Death’s worse.

Terry: Names are funny. When my husband died, I figured why not? Take his name. You’ll miss him less.
Jeevan Chaudhary: So what’s your real name?
Terry: Deborah.
Terry: [referring to the name tags in Jeevan’s name and as Dr. Eleven] I didn’t know which one you preferred. Guess you’re both.

Lara: [as they’re about to leave] You ready?
Jeevan Chaudhary: No.

Frank Chaudhary: [as Jeevan returns to the cabin to look for Kirsten] She’s gone.
Jeevan Chaudhary: Yeah.
Frank Chaudhary: Everybody’s gone.
Jeevan Chaudhary: You’re exhausted.

Jeevan Chaudhary: I’m not okay.
Frank Chaudhary: You got her here. She’ll find someone. She’s good at it. She found you.

Jeevan Chaudhary: [in Year Twenty] Frank dropped my stethoscope in the water. They’re so stupid.
Lara: So are you.

Jeevan Chaudhary: [referring to their daughter] Where is Auddie?
Lara: I don’t know.
Jeevan Chaudhary: What did you tell her?
Lara: That sometimes you do house calls. But you’d come back. You always do.

Jeevan Chaudhary: Promise me I’ll see your face again.
Auddie: Promise.
Jeevan Chaudhary: Okay. I love you. Take care of your big brothers. They need you.
[we then see Jeevan going off to do his doctor rounds]

Clark: [over phone] Well, how did it go with Arthur?
Miranda Carroll: He asked me out. We made a plan. Just our paths crossed at the wrong time.

Alexandra: [referring to life in the airport] Is this Before?
Dieter: No. But it’s like Before, only Soylent Green before.

Kirsten: You know, every town we go to has fought for twenty years to survive. Not one of them has ever locked us up, held our members hostage. So I’m sorry about your fire. But f*** you. You’re not special. What? What have you lost?
Elizabeth: The Museum of Civilization.
Kirsten: Lucky you. The world is still full of garbage from Before.
Elizabeth: I’ve lost more.
Kirsten: But he came back.

Elizabeth: My son died in a fire. Ask anyone.
Kirsten: No. Your son ran away. And now, he came back. No one finds people from Before. The flu took everything from everyone. So it matters getting anybody back.
Elizabeth: I thought my son burned himself alive, in front of me. And he did that to me so that I would have no hope. I didn’t even get to have the dream. Who’s back? I have no idea who my son even is. He won’t even speak to me. He just stares back at me like I’m a f***ing ghost.

Elizabeth: [after Kirsten suggests she play Gertrude in their play] I’m not an actor anymore, I’m directing.
Kirsten: No. I’m the director. But this is how you talk to your son. We do one show, then we leave. The entire Symphony.

Alexandra: Who’s playing Hamlet? You?
Kirsten: The Prophet. When we got separated, I went to find him. To kill him, to protect you, to protect all of us. And when I found him, there were just children everywhere. And he said that you were in danger, and he knew how to find you. And I didn’t.
Alexandra: I don’t care. I saw you leave with him, last night.

Jim: I did not realize you were also a graphic novelist.
Miranda Carroll: I started the day my family died.
Jim: Your whole family died on the same day?
Miranda Carroll: They did.
Jim: I’m sorry.
Miranda Carroll: I’m glad they’re not here.

Jeevan Chaudhary: [as he’s treating Clark for his burn wounds, he finds Sarah] What are you feeling, Sarah?
Sarah: I’m ready.
Jeevan Chaudhary: Okay. It’s okay. You can let go. We’re not alone.
Sarah: [as the lights go out] Do you hear that?
Jeevan Chaudhary: [Sarah then takes her last breath] Rest in peace, Sarah.

Kirsten: [as Elizabeth shows her where Tyler is being held] You guys have a real prison thing.
Elizabeth: He gets out of everything. He’s like Houdini.

Kirsten: Your mom’s playing Gertrude.
Tyler Leander: Why?
Kirsten: Because you’re Hamlet.
Tyler Leander: Cody was the one who wanted to be an actor, not me.
Kirsten: You should talk to your mom.
Tyler Leander: You should get out of here, with all your friends.
Kirsten: After the play.

Jeevan Chaudhary: [to Miles, refering to Clark’s wounds] There’s a lot that can be done in the next few weeks that will help. Having just one person, it’s a big deal. Just one other person.

Clark: The answer is still no. You can’t play Gertrude, and Tyler can’t play f***ing Hamlet, because it isn’t f***ing art therapy. It is civilization.
Elizabeth: It’s the only way he’ll talk to me, Clark. It’s all I want.
Clark: And all I want is a f***ing time machine!

Kirsten: You’re right. Tyler’s dangerous. I tried to kill him. I wanted to. But I couldn’t.
Clark: Why not?
Kirsten: [shows him Statio Eleven] Do you know what this is?
Clark: It’s Miranda’s book. How?
Elizabeth: Did Tyler give you that?
Kirsten: No. Arthur did.

Kirsten: I was Young Goneril in King Lear. We met backstage.
Clark: My God. You’re Kiki. Arthur loved you.
Kirsten: He loved Tyler too.

Clark: [to Kirsten] We’ll do your goddamn play. I’ll be Claudius. It’s what Arthur would’ve wanted.

Alexandra: [as they’re about to begin the play] How do you feel? Right now.
Tyler Leander: Like I don’t know what I’m going to do.
Alexandra: That feeling’s perfect for the scene.

Tyler Leander: Kirsten. Why are you helping me?
Kirsten: Stabbing you didn’t work. Break a leg.

Clark: [as Tyler is pointing Kirsten’s knife at him during the play] I loved him too, Tyler.

Tyler Leander: I’m sorry for burning down your tower.
Elizabeth: Oh, well, I’m glad you did. I hated that f***ing place. I’m sorry too. For what happened here. For everything. I would’ve gone with you. Why didn’t you just ask me to come?
Tyler Leander: You wanted to stay.

Elizabeth: Were you happier? After?
Tyler Leander: Yeah.
Elizabeth: Okay. So you’ll leave again. I understand.
Tyler Leander: Mom. Just come.
Elizabeth: Okay.

Miranda Carroll: [over phone] Captain, I need you to go against every single instinct you have and let the dead be gone. You don’t know me, but my name is Miranda Carroll. I’m forty years-old, I was born in the Virgin Islands, and I lost my whole family to a hurricane. Hurricane Hugo. Maybe you know it.
Captain Hugo Bennett: I was named after it.
Miranda Carroll: Then you get it. It’s over. There is no rescue mission.

Miranda Carroll: [over phone] Lock the doors. Don’t let them out.
Captain Hugo Bennett: Who?
Miranda Carroll: Your passengers.
Captain Hugo Bennett: Why would I do that?
Miranda Carroll: The people on that plane are dead already. They’re all ghosts. So am I. So are you. But the people in that airport…
Captain Hugo Bennett: The people in here don’t deserve to die like caged animals.
Miranda Carroll: No. They don’t deserve it.

Miranda Carroll: Everybody I loved and who loved me died right in front of me, Captain. A live wire came through our flooded home. I should’ve died too. But I was coloring up on the countertop. So I survived. The people in the airport…
Captain Hugo Bennett: They’re on the countertop.
Miranda Carroll: That’s right. They’re all up on the countertop now.

Miranda Carroll: Have you got family, Captain?
Captain Hugo Bennett: I do. A small one. My wife’s not answering. Left a message.
Miranda Carroll: What message did you leave?
Captain Hugo Bennett: That I’d be home soon.

Clark: They’re all heroes on board that plane. Every single one of them. Those people saved us.
Miles: So did you. All those big speeches at the perfect time.
Clark: I was f***ing good at the big speeches, wasn’t I?
Miles: They got me.
Clark: But you, Miles, you turned on the lights.

Alexandra: I love you, Kirsten.
Kirsten: I love you.
Alexandra: Goodbye.
Kirsten: Wait, now?
[Alexandra then rides off on her horse to join Tyler]

Kirsten: [after their emotional reunion] What’s it called, your island?
Jeevan Chaudhary: Delano. Lara’s from there. Islands are great when you got kids. There’s only so far they can run. Raising kids is hard, you know? You go in and out of sync. It’s like a yo-yo. You love them, but you get angry. You scare them, they run away.
Kirsten: I was never scared with you.
Jeevan Chaudhary: I was always scared. Then I met this girl. Said I’d walk her home. It was so cold. She forgot her key.
Kirsten: [she embraces him] You walked her home. Thank you.

Jeevan Chaudhary: There goes your family.
Kirsten: Yep. I’ll put the airport on the wheel. Bring your family next year.
Jeevan Chaudhary: Yeah. They know all about you. Frank, and Key, and Auddie. I tell them the story. Goodbye, Kirsten.
Kirsten: Bye. Bye.