Jed Chandler, CDR Thomas Chandler and others in “Unfinished Business”

Gonna be puttering around all day?

Just getting the place in order.

[sighs] Well, I thought you might just be procrastinating... 'cause you don't know how to go back to the ship and tell that crew of yours that you're quitting. Do you not realize that they... that they can't do it without you? What kind of message are you gonna send to them, that you're, uh, George Washington and you've come back to work on your farm? You think because you got a... a lab in Baltimore and six planes with the cure that everything's in hand? The world is in chaos. There's a lot more to do.

Tom

And that crew is trained to do it, with or without me.

They need you.

Tom

And they don't? [referring to Ashley and Sam] And what if I don't come back? I'm gonna make my kids orphans?

You think you're the first soldier that had trouble leaving their family behind? Huh? During World War II, English naval captains put their wives and children in bunkers in London and went back out to sea... to fight the Nazis for years.

Tom

Wives and children, Dad. The wives were there.

[remembers what happened to Darien] I know you, and I know you're beating yourself up, but if you're looking for someone to blame, blame me. I should have never let her go to that town. So cut the shit and quit laying this guilt trip on yourself. There's no time for it. Whether you like it or not, you're Noah and that ship is your Ark.