- Megan Hunt: All the internal organs are a beautiful burgundy discoloration. They're autolyzing. The cell membranes are breaking down. It's nature's way of putting us back into the food chain.
- Megan Hunt: I really want to figure out what's going on in his brain.
- Kate Murphy: Why is it that every time you can't find an answer, you assume someone else made a mistake?
- Megan Hunt: Uh, because I'm right.
- Megan Hunt: What is going on with you?
- Peter Dunlop: They're just circling the wagon 'cause they know Anthony is guilty as hell.
- Megan Hunt: No, what is going on with *you*?
- Peter Dunlop: [sighs] I met my birth father.
- Megan Hunt: Oh.
- Peter Dunlop: Yeah, I let Dani push me into it.
- Megan Hunt: Oh?
- [Peter nods]
- Megan Hunt: Oh!... Oh, you and Dani.
- Peter Dunlop: Yes, me and Dani. I'm sorry, I should have said some...
- Megan Hunt: No, no, it's fine. It's-It's, no, it's great. It's great. She's really smart and you needed a push, and well, a shove actually. So hey, you should thank her.
- Peter Dunlop: But it was a very bad idea.
- Megan Hunt: Why? What happened?
- Peter Dunlop: Long story short, it just... wasn't the... happy ending I'd hoped for.
- Megan Hunt: Well, at least you know the truth. And believe me, that's... much better than not knowing.
- Peter Dunlop: Why does it feel like it was a huge mistake?
- Megan Hunt: Because you did something really hard. That doesn't make it a mistake.
- Ethan Gross: It's not a normal human pathogen.
- Curtis Brumfield: Sounds like an extremophile. And if you can't identify it in the usual ways, think outside the lab.
- Ethan Gross, Curtis Brumfield: DNA sequencing
- Ethan Gross: Yeah, I said it first!
- Curtis Brumfield: Aren't you brilliant?
- Megan Hunt: On the way over here, "Rocket Man" was playing on the radio.
- Kate Murphy: It's a good song.
- Megan Hunt: Couldn't listen to it for years.
- Kate Murphy: Why not?
- Megan Hunt: It was playing on my father's car radio the day that he drove my mother and me into New York City. It was a great trip. Shopping at Bonwit Teller's, Russian Tea Room, Broadway. I was really happy... It's the last time we were together as a family. The next week my father was dead... And every time I hear that song on the radio, I am twelve years old again and...
- [sighs]
- Megan Hunt: man, it still hurts.
- Kate Murphy: It's funny how the brain works, right?
- Megan Hunt: Yeah. But you know... I would never want to forget that pain. It makes me who I am, you know? I can't imagine... losing that.