- Max Guevara: I think I'll call you Alec, as in Smart Alec.
- X5 494/"Alec": I can live with that.
- Max Guevara: Good, cuz my second choice was Dick.
- Logan Cale: You're a thief?
- Max Guevara: Girl's gotta make a living.
- Logan Cale: Thank God.
- Max Guevara: First time I ever heard that one.
- Logan Cale: You have good taste. French, 1920s, attributed to Chitarus.
- Max Guevara: Whoever that is.
- Logan Cale: Oh. So... what, you liked it 'cause it was shiny?
- Max Guevara: No, because it's the Egyptian goddess Bast, the goddess who comprehends all goddesses, eye of Ra, protector, avenger, destroyer, giver of life who lives forever.
- Ben: Nothing went wrong with me! I'm doing what I was made to do, what we were taught to do!
- Max Guevara: Hunt people down to perform amateur dental surgery? I must've missed that class.
- Logan Cale: Do not attempt to adjust your set. This is a streaming freedom video bulletin. This is a secure cable hack that will last exactly sixty seconds. It cannot be traced, it cannot be stopped and it is the only free voice left in the city.
- Donald Lydecker: Alcoholism is not a disease, it's a failing. You've turned it into a church. You worship the altar of self-pity. I come to these rooms for one reason, to remember what I don't want to become... helpless, impotent, and weak.
- [Original Cindy and Max are playing Scrabble. Max is in heat, and Original Cindy says it's obvious because of the words Max is making in the game]
- Original Cindy: Jus' look at the words!
- Max Guevara: What?
- Original Cindy: Hung?
- Max Guevara: Like a noose around your neck!
- Original Cindy: Prick?
- Max Guevara: Like from a needle! YOU have a dirty mind.
- Original Cindy: Yeah well what about this one? Which I'm not even gonna say cause I kiss my momma with this mouth!
- Rafer: [Max is in heat and runs into Rafer] Hey. It's Max, right?
- Max Guevara: [She looks at him dreamily, then realizes what she's doing and freaks out] Normal! I need to take a personal day!
- [She goes into Normal's office and he's ironing his shirt in his tank. Max is mesmorized by him and before she realizes what she's doing she tries to maul him. Original Cindy comes and pries Max off Normal and punches her in the face]
- Max Guevara: Thanks. I needed that.
- Original Cindy: [to Normal] Max needs a day off.
- Normal: Take a week.
- Original Cindy: [as O.C. and Max leave] Damn girl. I didn't think your condition was that bad.
- Normal: Well, well, well... so far, your moron colleagues have come up with the following excuses for why you're strolling in here at the crack of noon - you had a dental emergency, your aunt died... again, and my personal favorite from this idiot - you were detained by the sector police for practicing witchcraft. Now, would you care to further insult my intelligence?
- Max Guevara: I overslept.
- Original Cindy: By the way, some of those black-helicopter storm-trooper folks stopped by, asking about a transgenic teenage killing machine. I said you were out.
- [after Max has beaten him five times in a row in chess]
- Logan Cale: Isn't it against the superhuman code to use your powers to take advantage of we mere mortals?
- Max Guevara: Logan, you've got nothing to be sorry for or ashamed of. It's never been about you not being able to walk. Not for me.
- Logan Cale: Will you look at us!
- Max Guevara: Pathetic.
- Logan Cale: Hopeless.
- Max Guevara: Lucky we hooked up.
- Logan Cale: Happy Anniversary.
- [while Max is giving Alec a fake lap dance to fit in at a strip club]
- Max Guevara: Can we concentrate on coming up with a plan?
- X5 494/"Alec": I'm thinking.
- Max Guevara: You're talking!
- X5 494/"Alec": I can do both.
- Max Guevara: I doubt that.
- X5 494/"Alec": Well you just lost your tip...
- Original Cindy: [There is a rat on the counter and Max yells out] What's wrong?
- Max Guevara: Mickey's cracked out cousin thinks he's settin' up house in our crib.
- Jace: Feels like I just woke up from a bad dream.
- Max Guevara: I know. One of the reasons why I don't sleep. Let me know if it's a boy or a girl.
- Jace: Either way, name's gonna be Max.
- Max Guevara: I had to have radical emergency amateur brain surgery to remove a nanochip from my cerebellum before I stroked from a neurochemical overload."
- Logan Cale: In case you haven't caught on by now, this girl's gonna do what she's gonna do no matter what you or anyone else says, so you've got two choices: back off or pitch in.
- Max Guevara: What he said.
- Donald Lydecker: It was the best of you that ran away that night.
- Max Guevara: Yeah, well, we wanted to start a rock band.
- Original Cindy: He's from Manticore, huh? Say what you want - they sure know how to make 'em pretty.
- Max Guevera/X5-452: Try spending an afternoon with him. He'll drive you crazy with his laughing, and his talking, and his breathing...
- Original Cindy: Sugar, you got issues.
- Logan Cale: Good luck.
- Zack: There's no such thing. Success depends on a well thought out plan that's executed with precision.
- Logan Cale: Right.
- Donald Lydecker: You're in one hell of a situation, soldier.
- Jace: Yes, sir.
- Donald Lydecker: Do you mind explaining why?
- Jace: Because I am dumb! I am so damned dumb it would take ten acts of divine providence to raise me to the sublime height of blissful ignorance, sir!
- Donald Lydecker: And what am I supposed to do about you now?
- Jace: That is not for me to speculate, sir.
- Donald Lydecker: You're damn right it's not. Your mission was to eliminate this individual here.
- [He pulls out his gun and shoots Vertes. She collapses and he replaces the gun]
- Donald Lydecker: Mission accomplished. Now was that so difficult?
- Max Guevara: What's that?
- Alec/X5-494: It's a hole in my body made by a bullet.
- Max Guevara: Been there, done that. Check the news.
- Normal: I don't want to interrupt your social life with my petty concerns so why don't we just close down the business and live off the charity of strangers.
- Max Guevara: Are you sure about all this? Pierpont Lemkin and the Taliban after some Star Wars widget in a robotic arm somewhere? Next thing you're gonna tell me aliens are involved.
- Logan Cale: Wouldn't rule it out.
- Alec/X5-494: You know, this whole tough-chick act thing is really unbecoming. "I'm gonna bounce you on your ass. I'm gonna smack your bitch head." It's so unfeminine.
- Max Guevara: [while riding on Max's motorcycle, Brain puts his hands on Max's chest] Brain.
- Brain: Yeah?
- Max Guevara: Watch the hands!
- Brain: I'm just trying to hang on here.
- Max Guevara: Hang on a little lower.
- [Brain moves his hands really low]
- Max Guevara: Not that low!
- Max Guevara: [Max is carrying Brain on her back, and he's a heavy load. Then he informs her that he turned himself in to the police on purpose] You what? I'm dying because you turned youself in on purpose!
- Brain: I thought you were supposed to be strong.
- Max Guevara: I'm not Superwoman!
- Max Guevara: At Manticore, Lydecker used to tell us the same thing - "there are no limits. "What the mind can conceive, the body can achieve... With the right training." Only we could still get shot and killed like Eva starve to death... Or drown. I've often wondered why we didn't just turn on him. We were stronger, faster. Any one of us could have snapped his neck before he knew what hit him, but we were too scared and he knew it.
- Max Guevara: I'm not that high-minded. Lydecker's the one guy that knows what's going on in this freak show body of mine... Whether or not this bar code has an expiration date. I guess I couldn't let him die with that secret.
- Logan Cale: Whatever you have to tell yourself. Fact is, you saved a man's life.
- Max Guevara: A bad man.
- Joshua: Alec, I'm so glad to see you.
- Alec/X5-494: Uh-huh.
- Joshua: This is Gem. She's having a baby.
- Alec/X5-494: Oh, so naturally you thought of stopping by Jam Pony in broad daylight.
- X5 494/"Alec": We're living on borrowed time. And if you don't put your heart out there on the line, you're never really living at all.
- Zack: Did you look in the yellow pages under "black helicopter operations"?
- Logan Cale: Oh, another Manticore wit.
- X5 494/"Alec": You know, this isn't exactly a plum assignment for me either. You spent half your life out there in filth and degradation. I could catch something.
- Logan Cale: All set?
- Zack: Would I have come back here if everything wasn't all set?
- Logan Cale: It's a figure of speech.
- Kendra: Where did you find cold-pressed virgin olive oil from Tuscany in this economy?
- Max Guevara: I broke into the Italian embassy.