- Chrisjen Avasarala: I have a file with 900 pages of analyses and contingency plans for war with Mars, including 14 different scenarios about what to do if they develop an unexpected new technology. My file for what to do if an advanced alien species comes calling. It's 3 pages long, and it begins with "Step one: find God".
- Alex Kamal: What the hell are you doing here? You live here or something?
- Amos Burton: Yeah, I got a flop next door.
- Alex Kamal: Next door's a brothel.
- Amos Burton: Yeah.
- Chrisjen Avasarala: We both know how the world works. When the stakes are this high, many things are possible.
- Sadavir Errinwright: I can reach out to his family; his two sons, and a daughter he adores. They'll be able to reach him. Maybe they can help him turn himself in.
- Chrisjen Avasarala: Good. And please let him know that, if they can't, I will rain Hellfire down on them all; I will freeze their assets, cancel their contracts, cripple their business. And I have the power to do it, because I am the fucking hero who helped save Mother Earth from the cataclysm that Jules-Pierre Mao unleashed. Tell his children the government is more powerful than any corporation, and the only reason they think it feels the other way is because we poor public servants are always looking for some fat private sector's payoff down the road. And I'm not looking. And by the time they can pull the strings to force me out, it will be too late. Their family will be ruined. Their mother, their children, *their* children! All of them: pariahs! outlaws! Hunted and on the run for the rest of their days, until we find them, and nail each and every last one to the wall. Make sure you tell them that.
- Jim Holden: Hey I'm glad that me and Naomi being together isn't an issue for you.
- Amos Burton: Oh, no. She's a good person and I like her. But she's like a sister to me.
- Jim Holden: Right.
- Amos Burton: I mean, don't get me wrong, I'd do her if she'd let me.
- Jim Holden: [long pause] I'm glad we had this talk.
- Dr. Iturbi: Eros station was under quarantine, a result of a mysterious bioweapon unleashed by Mars, which Mars believes was unleashed by us, which we did not.
- [pause]
- Dr. Iturbi: Did we?
- Chrisjen Avasarala: We did not.
- Dr. Iturbi: Ah, I never doubted that for a moment.
- Solomon Epstein: Because with my drive, the Epstein drive, Mars would be able to move outward. Mine the asteroids. Colonize the belt. And remake the Solar System. My drive would give us the edge we need to finally break free from Earth. And build a new world for ourselves. That's the wonderful and terrible thing about technology. It changes everything.
- Col. Frederick Lucius Johnson: We want the same thing, you know. We're on the same team.
- Jim Holden: That's the thing with all of you. Earth, Mars, the Belt, the OPA. It's all bullshit. There shouldn't be any teams.
- Col. Frederick Lucius Johnson: That's a beautiful dream, son. And I hope I'm around to see it come true. But in this world that we live in, in order to survive, you have to pick a side.
- Amos Burton: The way I see it, there's only three kinds of people in this world, bad ones, ones you follow, and ones you need to protect.
- Alex Kamal: What, so I'm the one you need to protect? Is that right?
- Amos Burton: Yeah, there's nothing to be ashamed of.