- [first lines]
- Man #1: [over radio] This is Team 3. We are in position and ready for transport.
- Man #2: [over radio] Team 3, ready that.
- Londo Mollari: This is madness! How much longer will this Council be held hostage to its missing members? Their behavior in inexcusable.
- Lennier: Ambassador Delenn remains indisposed.
- Londo Mollari: Indisposed. She's in a cocoon!
- Lennier: Yes?
- Londo Mollari: [to Na'Toth] And you. Do you have any idea when Ambassador G'Kar will decide to grace us with his presence? For that matter do you have any idea where he is? - There you see. One deserts his post without any explanation. The other one picks the most breathtakingly inconvenient moment possible to explore new career options. Like becoming a butterfly.
- G'Kar: [quotes Yeats' "Second Coming"] Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned. And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
- [last lines]
- Capt. John Sheridan: So he's gone and all the evidence with him?
- Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova: I'm afraid so.
- Capt. John Sheridan: Have you notified President Clark?
- Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova: He's not taking any calls.
- Capt. John Sheridan: Gets cold up here sometimes, doesn't it, lieutenant commander?
- Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova: Yes, sir. It does indeed.
- Londo: But what happens if I'm asked for another of these... little demonstrations?
- Morden: Then we'll provide it. Simply choose your target. A colony. An outpost.
- Londo: [laughing, not fully grasping the situation] Why don't you eliminate the entire Narn homeworld while you're at it?
- Morden: [Deadly serious] One thing at a time, Ambassador. One thing at a time.