As humans, we struggle to accept our own mortality. One holds onto events that are long gone. We long in vain for a way to turn back time...to reverse death. But when time is relative and nothing really ever passes, and the simultaneous overlapping of different realities is possible, shouldn't it then also be possible to bring back something that was believed to be dead long ago and to create a new reality in which the dead live again? If our life is defined as everything between birth and death, it exists there ad infinitum. Could we succeed in cheating death by finding a way to bring back life? There, in between time.
“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)
[after Noah cuts the rope Jonas tried to hang himself with] What are you doing here? Are you following me?
You made me a promise. Adam made me a promise. You said that the apocalypse must happen. So we can get saved. So all of us can be saved. You cannot die.
[Noah gives Jonas a gun, who tries ro shoot himself, but the gun will not fire. Noah takes it back and the gun again fires, to the side]
You cannot take your own life. Because your older self already exists. Time won't permit it. No matter what you try, a force, or someone, will always stop you. Elisabeth and I, we found the passage. You must keep your promise. It will open up again. And then you take us...Adam takes us...to paradise, finally. He said we will become friends. Before you betray me.
Fate is playing a cruel trick on us. And yet we will always believe that there is a way to turn the tide in our favor. If we only want it hard enough. Man is able to pursue any goal, no matter how unattainable it may seem, over the course of an entire lifetime. No resistance, no obstacle is great enough to stop the human will in its tracks. Isn't this stubbornness in our striving what distinguishes us from animals that know only short-term desire? And throughout the ages, is not this unquenchable thirst at the heart of any progress that is ever made? No matter what motivates our will, it guides us on our path. We will only be able to let go once we've reached our goal.
Why do you think it still isn't working?
Maybe Claudia doesn't want it to work.
Why do you even trust her? Why did you trust him? Adam? He lied to you. There is no paradise. There is no world besides this one. I know you think I'm becoming him, but I'm not.
I know the portal will work. I've seen it. In the future. Everything repeats itself. If I travel back, I know I can change everything. My older self tried it before. But this time it's different. The components in the passage have changed. This time it'll work.
She told you all that? Claudia? What do you really know about her? She sometimes disappears for days. How does she know all the things she knows? She said that not all that's here should exist here. What did she mean by that? ...Claudia's hiding something from us. We can't trust her. I hope you know that.
You can choose as you want, but your wants are chosen for you. All the paths we take in our lives, every choice we make is guided by our deepest desires. It's pointless to fight this sense of want. It determines every one of our actions, no matter how difficult and unimaginable they seem.
[voiceover] Every journey has a beginning. But yours has no end. It goes on forever and ever. [to Adam] I'm here to finally make your journey come to an end.
This is impossible. You should be dead. I had you killed.
You still have no idea just how this game is played. You want to destroy the knot, but every action you take continues its existence.
This can't be. I have killed it. I have killed the origin, and the origin within her.
Your world and Eve's world, they both should have never existed. You thought that the origin lies in the bindings of both worlds. But in reality, it's outside of both worlds. Our thinking is shaped by dualities. Black, white. Light and shadow. Your world and Eve's world. But this is false. You need a third dimension to fulfill it all.
The triquetra. [sighs] That means... a third world?
The world that gave birth to this knot. Where everything originates. Where a single mistake was made. Tannhaus, in the origin world, like you, he lost someone. And like you, he tried to bring that person back from the dead. But instead he divided and destroyed his world...And created our two worlds. But there is a way to destroy the knot. Through preventing, in the origin world...the invention of travel through space and time in the first place. I'd have liked to have spared you all that. But your path has to remain unchanged. Every step has to be taken as before. Up until this very moment.
This here... Has this happened before?
Your trying to destroy the origin has happened an infinite number of times. But this here, you and I... this is the first time. It's time for you to understand how everything is really connected.
A man lives three lives. The first one ends with the loss of naivety, the second, with the loss of innocence and the third… with the loss of life itself. It’s inevitable that we go through all three stages.
Life is a labyrinth. Some wander around until their death in search of a way out of it. But there is only one path, and it leads ever deeper inside. Only when one reaches the center will one understand. Death is incomprehensible. But one can reconcile oneself with it. All that we've done...is ultimately forgotten. We are responsible... for this never-ending déjà vu. And we're the ones who have to end it. We...are the mistake.
Both of our fates are bound together in eternal damnation. Across both worlds. All is cause and effect. Every pain tempts us to act, forms our will. Tannhaus lost everything that ever meant anything to him in the origin world. His son, his daughter-in-law and his granddaughter died in a car accident. They were forced off a bridge and drowned in the river. He could never let go of his pain. Jonas and Martha...must take his pain away. So that he never looks for a way to undo everything. They must go to the origin world... and prevent our two worlds...from ever being created.
These are actually more powerful than the JATOs—
But they're smaller; how's that possible?
Well, we're gonna use more of them.
[The '67 Impala they just bought has broken down on an onramp.]
We are 8.5 miles from where we bought the car.
RLRob Lee (US Narrator)
It's 100 degrees, we're three hours from the shop, and—thanks to a blocked fuel filter—our rocket car is doing exactly…zero miles per hour. Thank goodness Adam's got the gold breakdown package.
[Adam's cellphone rings in the middle of his work.]
Who the hell could be calling me? I can't answer that, I'm tying a pig stomach into a skeleton.
[To Kari] That's probably the best shot that you'll ever see of your own butt.
She'll have a huge hicky!
A huge butt hicky. It is hard to explain.
I've only never broken one bone in my body—my neck.
[After they've inflated over 40 weather balloons for the test.]
I think we've used up all the helium in the Bay Area.
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