You asked me to teach you chess, and I've done that. It's a useful mental exercise. And through the years, many thinkers have been fascinated by it. But I don't enjoy playing. Do you know why not? Because it was a game that was born during a brutal age when life counted for little and everyone believed that some people were worth more than others. Kings and pawns. I don't think that anyone is worth more than anyone else. I don't envy you the decisions you're gonna have to make. And one day I'll be gone and you'll have no one to talk to. But if you remember nothing else, please remember this chess is just a game. Real people aren't pieces. And you can't assign more value to some of them than to others. Not to me. Not to anyone. People are not a thing that you can sacrifice. The lesson is that anyone who looks on the world as if it was a game of chess, deserves to lose.
“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)
Root, no offense. You're hot, you're good with a gun. Those are two qualities I greatly admire. But you and me together would be like a four-alarm fire in an oil refinery.
Sounds cozy.
Who the hell do you think you are, Travers?
Mr. Travers is my eyes and ears inside your operation. We gave you a marvelous car. Surely, you didn't think I'd let you drive it yourselves.
This must be your dream come true, Grice. Investigating someone before you put a bullet in their head.
Yeah. Just like the old days. I've never been happier.
Either you talk to me now or I'm gonna invite Root in here to re-create the events of your last conversation.
Good cop, bad cop? Really?
There are no good cops here.
I admit to not seeing your angle here, Harold. Why spin this tale?
A shootout beneath the beating heart of the American economy and you don't know anything about it? You're in the dark. And you're being kept there for a reason. How long until your employers decide to kill you?
Oh, I see now. You're trying to turn me against my employers. Against my country. You expect much success with that, Harold? So desperate to find Shaw, you're willing to say anything to me.
You foolish woman. You don't understand. You're not in control of anything. You're just a cleanup crew. You're the janitor.
Hey, eyes on the road. Keep your mind on navigating. Can't afford to lose any more time.
You really are sure she's alive.
You know about Schrodinger's cat? There's a cat trapped in a box with something lethal. There's a 50% chance the cat's been killed, but until you open the box, there's no way to know one way or the other. Quantum physics says before you open the box, the cat isn't dead or alive. It's both.
What about after you open the box?
Reality collapses back onto itself. Cat's either alive, or it's dead.
Well, we're gonna see reality soon. But you don't bet against Shaw.
No. Nothing kills that cat.
You elevate abduction to an art.
[Root grunts]
Always travel with an empty suitcase. Never know what you might pick up.
Sierra. Tango. Oscar. Papa. Sierra. Tango. Oscar. Papa.
"Stop."
Sierra. Tango. Oscar—
The Machine is asking us to stop looking for her. Perhaps the Machine does know. Perhaps it has a plan. But for our own survival, our sanity, I believe we must reconcile ourselves with never knowing the truth. Otherwise, our pursuit of it will consume us entirely.
Good-bye, Harold.
No, I can't think of anything that would prejudice me in this case. I mean, except for the larger issues with our government.
Issues?
Well, one can't really call it government of the people by the people anymore, can one? Because we're all being watched by an intelligent supercomputer that's slowly but surely taking over the world.
You can return to your seat in the gallery, Mr. Whistler.
That's Professor Whistler, actually.
Professor Whistler, your number's up.
Hello, John. Been a while.
Zoe. What are you doing here?
I do a lot of business here. Especially when high-ranking officials get arrested in a hot tub with hookers and blow and they need me to clean up the mess.
[to John] Did you really think you could fix the Chad Bryson trial without calling me for help?
We were trying to swing a verdict, Zoe, not ruin their lives.
Well, a little leverage never hurts.
I thought we agreed not to involve any more innocent people in our work.
Well, Zoe's not exactly what I'd call innocent. Besides, she insisted.
And saying no to Ms. Morgan was never your strong suit, was it?
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