- Jake Lawson: [on Dutch Boy] This was my life's work, Max. You know, they said it was impossible, but we pulled it off. And it worked perfectly, without fail, day after day, year after year, so what do people do with it? Turn it into a gun.
- Leonard Dekkom: I've given you an opportunity, Mr. President. You should take it.
- President Andrew Palma: An opportunity? It's genocide, Leonard!
- Leonard Dekkom: You say genocide, I say preemptive strike.
- President Andrew Palma: You've lost your mind!
- Leonard Dekkom: Tomorrow the sun will rise. All our enemies will be gone. Wiped away as if by the hand of God.
- President Andrew Palma: Why would you do this?
- Leonard Dekkom: Because no one else would. I'm turning the clock back to 1945, when America was a shiny city on a hill, not just a bank disguised as a country.
- Leonard Dekkom: What the hell is Dutch Boy if not playing God? Ask Max. Science is all about playing God. Sometimes God doesn't play so nice.
- Max Lawson: You know what my brother would say?
- Leonard Dekkom: What?
- [Max punches Dekkom]
- Ray Dussette: [Incredulous after Duncan starts a chain reaction] Self-destruct? Why would you build that into the station?
- Jake Lawson: [Abruptly] In case it fell to Earth.
- Leonard Dekkom: How the hell did you...
- President Andrew Palma: How? Because I'm the goddamn President of the United States of America. You're done, Leonard.
- Jake Lawson: [Confronting him] Come on, man. Why'd you do it?
- Duncan Taylor: Well, you know well what us lowly scientists get paid. Take that a thousand times.
- Jake Lawson: What difference is it gonna make? If you don't stop, there's not gonna be a planet to spend it on.
- Duncan Taylor: Please. We're gonna keep all the best bits. Aren't you a little bit curious to watch the world burn?
- Jake Lawson: No. 'Cause millions of people are gonna die. And one of them's my daughter.
- [after Sarah shoots the secret service agents and flips the car]
- President Andrew Palma: [looks at Max] Marry her
- [first lines]
- Hannah Lawson: [narrating] Everyone was warned, but no one listened. A rise in temperature, ocean patterns changed and ice caps melted. They call it extreme weather. They didn't know what "extreme" was. In the year 2019, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and droughts unleashed a wave of destruction upon our planet. We didn't just lose towns or beachfronts. We lost entire cities. The East River swallowed Lower Manhattan. A heat wave in Madrid killed two million people in just one day. But in that moment, facing our own extinction, it became clear that no single nation could solve this problem alone. The world came together as one, and we fought back. Scientists from 17 countries, lead by the U.S. and China, worked tirelessly. Not as representative of their nations, but of humanity. They found a way to neutralize storms with a net of thousands of satellites each deploying countermeasures designed to impact the basic elements of weather, heat, pressure and water, all overseen by the International Space Station. They gave the satellite net a technical name, but we all came to call it Dutch Boy after the story of a child who plugged a dam with his finger. This is what saved us all. And it was built by a team led by one man... my father.
- Ute Fassbinder: Let me introduce to your team.
- Duncan Taylor: Oh, of course, an American.
- Jake Lawson: Actually, my brother and I were born in in the UK, but thank you.
- Duncan Taylor: Yeah, but you've got the old Stars and Stripes on your arm there and a cowboy look in your eye. Oh, no offense.
- Lammy: Lawson? You're the Dutch Boy guy, right?
- Jake Lawson: Yeah.
- Lammy: Man, I need to shake your hand.
- Jake Lawson: Oh, okay.
- Lammy: Tornado? Zap! Blizzard? Zap! Monsoon?
- Jake Lawson: Zap?
- Lammy: Zap!
- [last lines]
- Hannah Lawson: You can't undo the past. All you can do is face what's ahead. NASA maintained the satellites while we rebuilt the space station. We made it safer, made it stronger. It belongs to all of us now. One planet, one people. As long as we remember that we share one future, we will survive.
- Max Lawson: I gotta show you something. Take a look at this.
- Jake Lawson: [watching video] You remember that day Dad took us fishing? He dropped his cell phone in Key Biscayne.
- Max Lawson: Our dad never took us fishing.
- Dana: Oh. That's sad. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm not any good at the, like, "talk about your daddy issues" kind of friend thing. I just...
- Max Lawson: What? No, no, no... It's a code.
- Sarah Wilson: Assistant Secretary Lawson, I'm not permitted to engage in casual conversation while I'm at a post. We are being watched. We're always being watched.
- Max Lawson: Well, if we're always being watched, then what's the point of hiding anything?
- Sarah Wilson: You're interfering with my duties. I'd rather not shoot you.
- Max Lawson: Well, it would be an honor to be the first person that you kill.
- Max Lawson: All right, Dekkom is trying to change the map of the world.
- President Andrew Palma: And what? Blame it on a computer glitch?
- Max Lawson: Yeah, well, that and a dead president. He'll take office after wiping out everyone in the life of succession.
- [the arena is destroyed by the lightning storm]
- President Andrew Palma: Dear God.
- Ute Fassbinder: This is Mr. Jake Lawson.
- Duncan Taylor: You're Jake Lawson?
- Ray Dussette: THE Jake Lawson? Y-You look much older than I would've thought. I-I mean, you look good, but y-your physical appearance is not does not match the-the amount of time that has elapsed in your life... Am I getting fired?
- Hannah Lawson: Are you going back up to space?
- Jake Lawson: No.
- Hannah Lawson: Yes, you are! You're leaving today to fix Dutch Boy.
- Jake Lawson: What did I tell you about eavesdropping?
- Hannah Lawson: You never told me anything about eavesdropping. You don't really do much parenting.