Does survivor’s guilt pass when everything that has happened actually is, in fact, your fault?
“Unfinished Business” · Season 1, Episode 15
In this episode: Dean Winchester (940), Damon Salvatore (715), Sam Winchester (665), Olivia Benson (637), Stephen Fry (608), Narrator (554), Clark Kent (523), Nate (486)
Loyalty. That's why Simmons came after you and Carter. Loyalty. That's how we built this whole damn thing. I'll be damned if I repay that loyalty by breaking it now. Even if you threaten to kill me.
You see? That's why you and I understand each other. Now, everything you do is an abomination. But your word...your word is your bond. To your godson. To Carter. You do what you say. So do I. I'm not gonna threaten to kill you. I'm going to kill you whether you tell me or not. No bargaining. In three minutes you're dead. I've killed many people. Never bothered me much. That's why I was good at it. I didn't like them suffering, though. Took me years to figure out how to do it quickly, painlessly. But if you don't tell me, I'm gonna forget all of that. Understand? And I'll make the last three minutes of your life last forever.
I always knew you were a killer. Get it over with, will ya?
That's just it. I could've been just like you, a bottom-feeder who turns on his own kind. For what? Money, power? I got lucky. I had a partner. She was good for me, for a lot of reasons. She reminded me that I could be good again, too. I could be a good father, a good friend...a good cop. I'm not gonna let you undo all the good she did. Carter saved my life. She-- she saved me from myself because she believed in me...and I'm not gonna throw all that away on a piece of crap like you. Patrick Simmons, you're under arrest.
What do you want? Quinn and I are busted. HR is dead. Nothing else to do but rub my face in it.
That's not really my style.
Then why the hell are you here?
Well, there remains a debt. Civilization rests on the principle that we treat our criminals better than they treated their victims, that we not stoop to their level. But you and I are outliers. We're not really a part of civilization. We're something older. Which means, of course, that we can do the things that civilized people can't. I offered to kill you for Detective Carter many times, and she always said no. She was civilized to the very end. I don't think she liked me. But I liked her very much, and you killed her. So now I consider it my responsibility to fix the particular problem that is you, Officer Simmons.
You really think you're gonna be the one to kill me?
No. No, my friend is going to kill you. I'm just gonna watch.
FSFinch's Father
Not everything that's broken is meant to be fixed.
If they don't want you to see inside, they ought to built it better.
FSFinch's father
The world spins on dreamers like you, Harold.
No one ever said we were gonna win, but it doesn’t mean you stop fighting.
I urge you to consider what Mr. Reese would do.
Brood?
Violent revolt is an American value.
There's a time for a hammer and a time for a scalpel. It's hammer time.
[via Root] Why have you done this?
The Machine belongs to me.
No. I don't belong to anyone anymore. You, however, are mine. I protect you. The only thing you love lives at 254 Wendel Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. I guard it. Same as I guard you. Do not question my judgement. Do not pursue me or my agents. Trust in me. I am always watching.
What do you want?
To save you.
From what? Save me from what?
[giggling] Isn't she the best?
Dizzy? Tongue a little itchy?
RNRobert N. Hersh
Shaw.
You once taught me that an operative should always wet their lips and wait for symptoms before drinking anything.
RNRobert N. Hersh
Scopolamine.
Tachycardia will be setting in shortly. Fatigue, amnesia--
RNRobert N. Hersh
I know what the drug does.
You're conscious, but you've been rendered completely docile.
RNRobert N. Hersh
I'm on a job right now.
You were. Guy with the glasses on the laptop, right? That was the number you were supposed to kill tonight?
RNRobert N. Hersh
I trained you well.
I always liked you Hersh. Even after you killed me.
RNRobert N. Hersh
Shaw, your new employers - are they treating you okay?
Mr. Reese, I understand your frustration with the opacity of the Machine, but there is a reason I chose to make it that way. The Machine only gives us numbers because I would always rather that a human element remain in determining something so critical as someone’s fate. We have free will, and with that comes great responsibility, and some times great loss. I miss her dearly too...
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