Amanda: You don't know how you made it to the surface?
Nolan: No, but the purple skins do.
Amanda: Purple skins?
Nolan: I'll tell you on the way

Nolan: The tech is Indogene. Looks like our visitors are from your neck of the woods kiddo.
Irisa: I'm from Denver.

Nolan: You know what she is?
Doc Yewll: She's a predator, designed by evolution to conquer, kill, and devour.
Nolan: She moves like a predator.
Doc Yewll: Yeah, she eats like a cannibal

Alak: You sounds like my parents
Pilar: You mean the ones that killed my daughter? Your wife? His mother? No, I very much do not sound like them.
Alak: You murdered these people, how does that make you any different?
Pilar: I killed strangers to take care of my family. Your parents killed family to take care of themselves.

Come with me if you want to live

Pilar

No, no, not now, daddy is reading

Nolan

How did you miss the car?

Rahm Tak

Datak: What does that mad man want now?
Stahma: He wants us to blow up the St. Louis Arch.

Nolan: Not you
Irisa: Come On!
Nolan: Benched!
Irisa: They blew up the arch!
Nolan: Don't care, you're staying here. And the two of you (points at Berlin) are working together to figure out who blew it up.

Amanda: Niles?
Nolan: Awwww, nuts.

Pottinger: Listen, had you shot me the whole base would have exploded.
Amanda: (shoots him in the leg) Looks like we're all still here.

T'evgin: why do you want me dead?
Stahma: actually, I don't.
T'evgin: And I don't want to be killed! So I guess that puts us on the same page, as the humans say.

Defiance Quotes

Tommy: [To Nolan] Come on, give me your wrists.
Nolan: You took too long, I got bored [handing Tommy the handcuffs]

Garrett: Tommy, I told you to watch him, not cuff him.
Tommy: He was armed.
Garrett: Now he's unarmed. See that patch on his shoulder? If he really wanted to hurt you, those cuffs wouldn't stop him.