Amanda: Is this a conversation or a seduction?
Pottinger: Hopefully both.

Stahma: I poisoned him with enough swimbo to kill a bell beast.
Datak: But is the Omec dead? No. He's at home smelling my wife on his fingers and chuckling about how he cuckolded Datak Tarr!
Stahma: I doubt T'evgin knows your name.

Datak: Why would T'evgin help us?
Stahma: Must I draw you a chart?
Datak: Contrary to what you think, darling, your chivo is not magic.
Stahma: On many occasions, you've said different.

Doc Yewll: Now the ark-tech adapted itself, keeping the connection going through a spread-spectrum signal.
Amanda: Like Bluetooth?
Doc Yewll: You're adorable. But sure, why not, let's call it "Bluetooth for the brain."

"Gee, thanks Doc for saving us from certain death." Hey, no problem kids, any time. (glares at Irisa and Nolan) Grab a lollipop on your way out.

Doc Yewll

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.

Live together, die together, works when you have to keep on fighting. Totally sucks in real life.

Nolan

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

Rafe, you can do the right thing by your dead child, or you can do the right thing or by the two living ones. But you cannot do both. You make your choice right now.

Nolan

Amanda: So what's it going to be Datak? Pointless blood shed or are we going to work out our differences together, peacefully?
Datak: Madam Mayor. Your passion has touched my heart. We are indeed one community. Enough blood has been spilled. Tonight let us bury our dead with dignity. And later, who knows perhaps, we could revisit these cultural differences with cooler heads.

Nolan: You except me to believe you got woozy over a little blood? This was one of your episodes, wasn't it? I though you told me they stopped.
Irisa: I just stopped talking about them. They been getting stronger came here.

Rafe: Why Christie? Why my daughter?
Nolan: Maybe because she is your daughter. What can you tell me about Boyd Bowan and Dalton Tager.
Rafe: What the hell do they have to do with this?
Nolan: I'd ask them but they're dead, so I'm asking you.

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.