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S1 E15Young at Heart

Steve Wallenberg had a wife and two kids. One of his boys is an all-star on his football team now. I pulled that trigger two seconds earlier and Wallenberg would be here to see his kid play. Instead, I've got some dead man robbing jewelry stores and sending me haikus.

What are you going to do?

I know what I'm not going to do. I'm not going to hang around and wait for Barnett to send me another valentine.

I know why you've contacted me. Listen and I'll explain. I am not particularly proud of the way in which this matter was handled, but, like it or not, John Barnett is a fact of life.

I wish Agent Perdue were around to appreciate the irony.

S1 E16E.B.E.

The world's reaction to such knowledge would be far too dangerous.

Dangerous. You mean in a sense of outrage, like the reaction to the Kennedy assassinations or M.I.A.s or radiation experiments on terminal patients, Watergate, Iran-Contra, Roswell, the Tuskegee experiments, where will it end? Oh, I guess it won't end as long as...men like you decide what is truth.

I tied up an air phone for three hours. I don't speak Japanese, but I think some businessman told me to stick a piece of sushi where the sun don't shine.

From the trucker's description, the shape he fired on could conceivably have been a mountain lion.

Conceivably.

The National Weather Service last night reported atmospheric conditions in this area that were possibly conducive to lightning.

Possibly.

It is feasible that the truck was struck by lightning, creating the electrical failure.

It's feasible.

And you know, there's a marsh over there. The lights the driver saw may have been swamp gas.

Swamp gas?

It's a natural phenonemon in which phospine and methane rising from decaying organic matter ignite, creating globes of blue flame.

Happens to me when I eat Dodger Dogs.

Those were the most paranoid people I have ever met. I don't know how you could think that what they say is even remotely plausible.

I think it's remotely plausible that someone might think you're hot.

S1 E17Miracle Man

The boy's been performing miracles every week for the past ten years. Twice on Sundays.

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