- Alex Parrish: [distraught] I missed the bigger picture.
- Natalie Vasquez: How could you think straight? You were running for your life.
- Alex Parrish: For someone with a bomb strapped to their chest, *you're* thinking straight.
- Natalie Vasquez: I was always better than you.
- Miranda Shaw: I've told you before about the dangers of secrets. Now it is time you learn their value. In the field, secrets can very quickly become currency.
- Liam O'Connor: This week, we are going to talk human intelligence. Who knows what that means?
- Will Olsen: Intelligence gathered by means of interpersonal contact, as opposed to more technical intelligence-gathering disciplines, such as signals, imagery, messaging, and signature intelligence.
- Liam O'Connor: It was a rhetorical question, Dr. Olsen.
- Miranda Shaw: Which he answered correctly, by the way.
- Natalie Vasquez: I think this is all a bunch of B.S. Put a gun to his head, or mine, and we'll find out already.
- Alex Parrish: Flattery is the way to go with Caleb. Make him feel pretty and important. Let him call you any celebrity names that he wants.
- Will Olsen: Or not? Studies on FBI sourcing techniques show that money is effective 45% of the time, coercion 75%, and a sense of civic duty 83%. But if you feel that hollow platitudes are the best method, who am I to quibble?
- Iris Chang: What gave me away?
- Waiter: You walked in here with a group and immediately split up. Plus, a girl like you doesn't slum it with the busboy unless her parents are watching.
- Iris Chang: [recruiting an informant] So, I call this number, you get a gold star. What do I get? What do you want?
- Waiter: I might need some help at Customs. Deal?
- Iris Chang: How do I get in touch with you?
- Waiter: Here's my card with my name.
- [presents his FBI business card]
- Counterintel Agent #1: [to Alex] You make everything so personal. See, when I walk through those doors, I leave my personal life outside. Now, if we were to run into each other on the street, at a cafe, on the subway, two feet outside the front doors, sure maybe then I'd tell you how much I don't like you, or respect you, or particularly enjoy the fact that you used my ex-husband and his considerable feelings for you as a bulletproof vest not once, but twice in your fugitive escapade.
- Counterintel Agent #1: But in here? In here, we talk only about the work, and we do so without question because that's our job. So what you're gonna do is you're gonna keep your head down and your nose clean and perform mostly clerical duties for agents upstairs, and you're gonna do so with no questions. Do you have any questions? No, you don't, because there are no questions.
- Miranda Shaw: [teaching about human intelligence techniques] It is a transaction that you can lose from as much as you gain.
- Miranda Shaw: Human intelligence can give you the information you want. But once you have it, the question remains... who can you trust with it besides yourself?