- Dr. Clare Winslow: [check listing earthquake kit] $500 cash.
- Heather Winslow: Why so much money?
- Dr. Clare Winslow: Computers will be down, the banks could be closed for days.
- Heather Winslow: You knew it would be this bad.
- Dr. Clare Winslow: I had a good idea.
- Heather Winslow: Nobody listened.
- Dr. Clare Winslow: Oh they listened. They just didn't want to hear.
- Dr. Clare Winslow: Do you think I like predicting the end of the world for hundreds, maybe thousands, of people?
- Steve Winslow: Yes, I do.
- Dr. Clare Winslow: No!
- Ray Goodrich: Does the name Wendell Cates ring a bell?
- Dr. Clare Winslow: Yeah, like Big Ben.
- Ray Goodrich: Who is he, anyway?
- Dr. Clare Winslow: He thinks he's the Donald Trump of the West Coast.
- Kevin Conrad: [choking back sobs] The injuries are in the... hundreds of thousands! The deaths... The deaths... are in the... tens... this must be the worst national disaster since the Civil War. I'm sorry!
- [he shakes his head and turns away as the screen goes to snow]
- [last lines]
- Todd Harris: Kevin Conrad? Kevin Conrad? This is Tom Harris? Can you hear me? I'm sorry. It seems we have lost our connection with Los Angeles.
- Dr. Clare Winslow: Look at these factors. Now according to my theory.
- Chad Spaulding: Which hasn't been put to the test yet.
- Dr. Clare Winslow: What about Mexico?
- Chad Spaulding: You said it. Once isn't enough.
- Dr. Clare Winslow: How many times is enough three, four ten? Or will you only be satisfied when you look out that window and see the city leveled. Chad, we may be sitting on a major disaster here. People have the right to know. That's our responsibility.
- Chad Spaulding: You're telling me what my responsibilities are.
- Dr. Clare Winslow: Why are you fighting me on this?
- Chad Spaulding: I'll take your suggestion under advisement.
- Dr. Clare Winslow: Why is it that the Japanese see quake prediction as an opportunity? Yet we see it as a threat.