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You tell me of Abraham's sacrifice. The Akeda, the story of a cruel and merciless God who designed a cruel and merciless world. Who could worship a deity who commands a man to sacrifice his own son? Those days have come to an end. The true lesson of the story comes not from Abraham, but from Isaac. The chasm between father and son was never bridged. They never spoke again. And justly so! For any man willing to sacrifice his child should die. As should any god!
I'm 250 years removed from everything I ever knew. I shall need a job. A permanent abode.
Mm, 401(k), a mortgage, health insurance, credit cards, Social Security, an accountant, a dentist, your own set of wheels.
Point made, Lieutenant.Point made. I may indeed have spent the past six weeks traipsing the woods with a loaded weapon because it is the only purpose I know. Without the threat of apocalypse, what is my place in the world?
Is something wrong?
Quite the opposite. I was locked in purgatory for over 200 years. Since I've been free…sunrise, the call of a bird…rare pleasures indeed.
Does heaven exist? Why are we here? Did creation really take seven days?
No.
"No" to creation taking a week, or "no," you won't answer? [beat] How about dinosaurs? You ever seen a dinosaur?
Before my time.
When we waver in our duty, monsters get loose and people die! We are not jailers, we are not reformers! We are soldiers, and I think that we all understand what the stakes are here!
Judge mankind? By what criteria?
By their capacity to visit evil on each other.
And you'll be the judge and carry out the sentence?
As the Angel of Death passed over Egypt and took the pharaoh's firstborn. As the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were burned for their wickedness. As the waters of the great flood washed the world clean of man's iniquity. My blade will cleanse humanity of its ills.
I have deciphered every code from Caesar shift to Morse, yet the one that will always elude me is modern dress. How can one be both business and casual?
It seems we've both outlived our expectations, and Adams's.
[to Thomas Jefferson] Yours is the greatest mind I've ever known.
[in response to hearing 2015 Abbie Mills make mention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation] Most of us oppose a national police force.
Where's my package?
You can file a claim for seized items online.
Now look here: The right to personal property is a fundamental—
Crane, I'll make sure you get your stuff back later.
This is precisely the abuse of centralised federal power that Thomas Jefferson warned us against.
The American Dream is dead! What else are we to conclude when the door to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is so cruelly slammed in our faces?! This nation was forged so that anyone who came to her shores may have the opportunity to place yet another brick on her imperfect masonry.
[to herself] Here comes Jefferson.
Quoth Jefferson, "We have more machinery of government than is necessary".
Lieutenant, I'm going to do it.
Do what?
Become a full citizen of this country. Yes, I have rejected my fealty to England, but I am yet to consummate my allegiance to this nation.
[upon Seeley Booth taking a bite of her edible, gelatinous brain mould prop] Whoa, Booth! That was a model; that was an actual brain I brought back from the lab.
Ugh, oh, God!
Gotcha!
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