- Wyatt Logan: So if you exist, that means grandpa was, like, way deep in the closet.
- Lucy Preston: It's 1954. You could be arrested for being gay.
- Wyatt Logan: [spotting someone checking him out] He's looking at me like I'm a piece of meat.
- Lucy Preston: [sarcastic] Can't imagine what that's like.
- Wyatt Logan: I dig the '50s.
- Lucy Preston: I don't know. A bunch of racist, repressed Ward Cleavers. This whole place is a powder keg.
- Wyatt Logan: But the cars are cool.
- Connor Mason: In their haste to find our rogue team and get the Lifeboat back, Rittenhouse... handed me an all-access pass to government servers.
- Denise Christopher: I am the government, remember?
- Connor Mason: Not your pathetic servers, which, by the way, get hacked by the Russians on a regular basis. No. The other servers. The ones no one talks about.
- Denise Christopher: You mean the NSA? That's...
- Connor Mason: Illegal? Immoral? Yes. Well, you can thank me later. But instead of searching for our intrepid time travelers, I found... this. Everything you've ever wanted to know about Benjamin Cahill. Enough to convict him seven times over. See, anyone, even you, can play the, um, crusading cop, but I was playing the long game. Rittenhouse thinks we were playing checkers while I was playing 3-D chess.
- Denise Christopher: Why are you telling me all this?
- Connor Mason: Because... you're dull, but honest. So you can take this to the dull, honest authorities.
- Denise Christopher: Why should I believe you after everything you've done?
- Connor Mason: Um, because, um... once Jiya can pilot the Lifeboat, Rittenhouse is going to eliminate Rufus. Just... see, I have no illusions about who I am. Whatever's coming, I richly deserve it. But Rufus... Rufus deserves better.
- Lucy Preston: Connor Mason invented a time machine, and it's real. Time travel is real, and when I went on my first mission, I went to the Hindenburg in 1937, and when I left, I had a sister, and when I came back... she was gone.
- Carol Preston: Lucy, a sister?
- Lucy Preston: Yes, I have a sister. You have another daughter, and her name is Amy, and she is smart, and she is funny, and she has a degree in sociology, and a black belt in karate, which is super weird, and she has no idea what she wants to do with her life, but, oh my god, does she know how to live it, and she is my best friend.
- Carol Preston: Lucy, this person doesn't exist.
- Lucy Preston: Yes, this person does exist. If you could remember the way that we were as a family... if you woke up one day and I was suddenly gone, you would have to do the same thing.
- Carol Preston: Do what?
- Lucy Preston: I have to get her back. I have to get her back. And the problem is that in the timeline that Amy existed, you were sick. You were very... you were very sick. And I am gonna do everything that I can to save you, but time travel is super unpredictable, and I don't know if I'm gonna be able to, so I just want to tell you that I... I love you.
- Carol Preston: Oh, sweetheart. Lucy, you won't lose me. I promise. Rittenhouse would never allow it.
- Wyatt Logan: Any ideas where this Rittenhouse summit could be?
- Lucy Preston: If I had to pick a place to start, I'd start with Joe McCarthy. McCarthy thought that there were communists everywhere; State Department, writers, journalists. He's in the middle of one of his most famous hearings, looking for reds in the army. The guy's practically wearing a giant neon sign that says "Rittenhouse".
- Senator Joseph McCarthy: I've suspected a communist infiltration among our troops for some time now. Never imagined one would be so bold as to walk right up to my front door.
- Wyatt Logan: Really? The man with the Eastern European accent told you I was the communist?
- Senator Joseph McCarthy: Who are you working with? You cooperate now, you give us their names... you give us those names, or I'll put you up in front of a Senate subcommittee.
- Wyatt Logan: No, you won't. Because you're a coward. You're arrogant and loud-mouthed and terrified that people will find out you're a fraud, just like every bully.
- Wyatt Logan: Is it just me, or is Rittenhouse way more gay than I thought it would be?
- Lucy Preston: I don't think this is the Rittenhouse summit. I think this might be a gay bar.
- Wyatt Logan: Well, when why is your grandpa... oh!
- Lucy Preston: Rittenhouse would never allow you to take the Lifeboat, to make me sick all to get back some girl that no one but you knows or even cares about.
- Lucy Preston: What are you talking about? How do you know the name Rittenhouse?
- Carol Preston: No, no, no, Just listen. Just listen. How do you think I met your father? We both come from good, strong Rittenhouse families. And that almost makes you royalty. Sweetheart, you've made me so proud. You've made everybody so proud. And you have such... such an incredible future. And as we speak, Rittenhouse has an operative on the Mothership, and soon they will control everything. The past and the present... the future. And together... we will change history.
- Senator Joseph McCarthy: Listen, I'm a busy man. You know a communist spy in the military, you tell one of my aides.
- Garcia Flynn: Well, I'll tell you what I told them: that I only trust the great Senator Joe McCarthy himself.
- Senator Joseph McCarthy: Where's that accent from, son?
- Garcia Flynn: Look, I'll tell you what I know, but first I need to find out something from you: where the Rittenhouse summit is tonight.
- Senator Joseph McCarthy: What are you talking about?
- Garcia Flynn: Oh, come on. I think you're, um... how do you like to put it? A card-carrying member?
- Senator Joseph McCarthy: I don't know what you're talking about, and I don't have time for this nonsense. Now, if you'll excuse me...
- Garcia Flynn: [he picks up the phone receiver] I wouldn't, unless you want your enemies to find out you faked thirty-two aerial missions to get that fancy Flying Cross on your wall.
- Senator Joseph McCarthy: That's a lie.
- Garcia Flynn: Not so fun being on the other side of a witch hunt, is it? Now, the address, please.
- Connor Mason: You need to come with me.
- Denise Christopher: Why the hell would I go anywhere with you?
- Connor Mason: Because I've disabled the security systems, and the guards still work for me. They'll look the other way. Trust me.
- Denise Christopher: I'll take my chances.
- Connor Mason: With what? There's no due process here. Please, come with me, or let your family spend the rest of their lives wondering what happened to you.