Revolution quotes

What you gotta understand... is things used to be different. We used electricity for everything. For our computers, our phones, even to grow food and pump water. But after the Blackout, nothing worked... not even car engines or jet turbines. Hell, even batteries. All of it, gone forever. People starved. Sickness without medicine. Fires without fire trucks. Governments fell. Militias rose up. If you were smart, you left the city. If you weren't, you died there. So, what the hell happened? What caused the Blackout?

Capt. Tom Neville

I was an insurance adjuster. Most of my job was figuring out whether the things people said lined up with the truth. Lucky for me, it's a skill that never goes out of style.

Miles Matheson

[To the militia] You know, you could just let me go. I'll drink myself to death.

Miles

If Monroe got the power going, that would mean tanks, and planes, and factories. He'd steamroll the entire continent and he'd butcher the other Republics.

Charlotte 'Charlie' Matheson

Why did Monroe want my Dad? Why does he want you?

Miles

Monroe thinks your dad knew something. Something important. And he thinks your Dad told me, so I must know it too.

Charlie

What?

Miles

Why the lights went out. Maybe how to turn them back on.

Neville

To tell you the truth, when General Monroe finds out, he's gonna be irate and he might even have my head.

Let's hope.

Aaron Pittman

Yeah. I used to work at this place called Google.

Charlie

That was a computer thing, right?

Aaron Pittman

Now... it's nothing. $80 million in the bank, and I would trade it all right now for a roll of Charmin.

Morning, Aaron.

Aaron

Hey, Ben.

You look terrible.

Aaron

I was up all night. Had a menage-a-raccoon in my backyard.

Charlie

Where are you going?

Miles

Huh, this little place called - Shut up and stay here!

Aaron

Great. They're having a sale on heroin.

Miles

There are a lot of men out there, okay! And sooner or later, they're coming in. So we are gonna Shawshank our asses outta here.

Nora

Wow, can you boil everything down to getting laid?

Miles

Yeah.

Miles

He's their CO (Commanding Officer). We can trade him. His life for ours.

Miles? Its really you, isn't it!

Who's Miles?

Charlie

You know this guy?

Jeremy

Oh, you really don't know. Do you?

Charlie

How do you know him?

Miles

Well, they're gonna find out sooner or later. Go ahead. Tell them.

Jeremy

This is Miles Matheson. Commanding General of the Monroe Militia. Damn founding father of the Republic. Second only to Sebastian Monroe himself. He taught me everything I know.

Jeremy

This is so dramatic. You guys remember "One Life to Live"?

There are no more tall ships, no more steam boats. They were all destroyed in the war or ripped apart for lumber. Or the militia's got em. Hell, getting to England is like getting to the moon.