“No Ordinary Beginning” quotes from No Ordinary Family

[points gun at Daphne] I'm running out of patience, J.J.

J.J. Powell

I already told you everything. I swear.

And somehow I don't believe.

Daphne Powell

J.J., please!

J.J. Powell

I'm sorry. I just can't think, okay? Stress overstimulates the hippocampus, my glucocorticoid receptors haven't been this saturated since... Since the plane crash. Oh, my God. Look, I know why our powers are permanent. Please, just let my family go, and I'll tell you everything you wanna know. I promise.

J.J., I will. I will let them all go.

J.J. Powell

Okay, you've been mixing the trilsettum with epinephrine - synthetic adrenaline - but what you need was real adrenaline. Now the serum wasn't wrong, the circumstances were. Look, in moments of extreme stress, like life and death, like a plane crash, the receptors in the hippo campus are wide open. And the trilsettum can be absorbed enough for its effects to become permanent. So please...

Thank you, J.J. You have been most helpful.

Give me ten seconds, then put a bullet in each of them.

Jim Powell

[to Dr. King] A word of advice - when you shoot a man and leave him for dead, you better be sure his kryptonite hasn't worn off.

[to Jim] You'll kill me? That's a bold prediction. Good luck trying to kill a man who can't die.

Jim Powell

That's horrible, but why do you think this has to do with any us?

Because it has recently come to our attention that the four of you are no ordinary family. And these were no ordinary passengers. Mr. and Mrs. Powell, the government needs your family's help.