Jim Caviezel credited as playing...
John Reese
- Jessica Arndt: I waited for you.
- John Reese: I didn't ask you to.
- Jessica Arndt: No. No, you didn't. You just left because you thought you'd get killed over there and that would hurt me. But I think the truth is that it was easier for you to be alone.
- John Reese: That's one of the things you learn over there. In the end we're all alone and no one's coming to save you.
- Detective Joss Carter: [Via radio] I keep looking for you. I keep finding myself in some bad situations.
- John Reese: You could always stop looking for me.
- Detective Joss Carter: Not an option. Now I've got two more bodies. I don't think you killed those guys. But I think you know who did.
- John Reese: I'll take care of it.
- Detective Joss Carter: Playing a dangerous game. And I'm not sure I understand why.
- John Reese: I've got my reasons.
- Detective Joss Carter: Maybe you do. But every killer I locked up thought they had a good reason. And that is how this ends. Sooner or later, I lock you up. Or find you bleeding out somewhere.
- John Reese: I will take my chances.
- Joey Durban: Six years, all I thought about- dreamed about- was coming home. Finally I come home and there's nothing. There's no money, no jobs. Bankers gone and lost it all. Robbed the country blind. I mean, it's like, what the hell are we fighting for, you know? Joke's on us.
- Businessman #1: [Sitting behind them] Hey! You guys were soldiers, right?
- Businessman #2: What like Iraq, Afghanistan? Some serious stuff.
- Businessman #1: Yeah, but you volunteered. Nobody asked you to go. It's not like the country owes you a living.
- Joey Durban: We got it, pal.
- Businessman #1: No. You don't "got it" - Talking about bankers, like you know anything. It's not been easy for us either.
- John Reese: Really sorry about that, but we're talking here.
- Businessman #1: Hey, so are we. Guys like you got to adapt. It's the knowledge economy now. Time to use this, my friend.
- [Taps Johns head]
- John Reese: Okay
- [Headbutts him]
- John Reese: Good morning, Finch.
- Harold Finch: [Startled awake] Don't you knock...?
- John Reese: Not if I can help it...
- John Reese: Killing in battle, in combat, is one thing. Killing someone up close, someone who can't fight back, that takes a different sort of killer. And Joey's not one of them.
- Harold Finch: So you think Joey's the target. Then who's gunning for him? One of the gang? One of the women? Do we even know why he's such a mess? He's got a job, pretty girlfriend, good service record - he's throwing it all away. He's going to end up in prison. Or dead.
- John Reese: You're right, but... not every ex-soldier meets a reclusive billionaire.
- Harold Finch: Okay. But if Joey's bad choices mean he's about to walk into a bullet, we have to find out who's firing it
- John Reese: I've got some experience you could use - Skills.
- Sam Latimer: What kind of skills?
- John Reese: You have a .45 under the counter and a shotgun next to the register, and I can get to them both before you.
- Jessica Arndt: John? I didn't know you were back from over there.
- John Reese: Jessica. I'm not. I'm just heading back, actually.
- Jessica Arndt: Where's your uniform?
- John Reese: Uh, I got a new job.
- Jessica Arndt: One of those jobs you can't talk about?
- John Reese: I felt bad about blowing your cover identity. I've been looking for a new job for you. Dog walker maybe... or concert pianist?
- Harold Finch: I have a job Mr. Reese... and so do you.
- John Reese: Hey, Finch, I just got the call. Gang's picking me up. I get told the target en route.
- Harold Finch: You're not going in with them?
- John Reese: I got to watch Joey's back. I don't trust his friend Straub one bit.
- Harold Finch: I did not understand "infiltrate the gang" to mean "join them in their robbery."
- John Reese: What the hell is this about? I thought Latimer wanted you to meet me.
- Joey Durban: He also told us to put a bullet in your head if we didn't like you. And right now, we don't.