Absentia
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Julianne: If you were convinced that your government was conspiring against you to usher in the coming police state, what would you do?
Crown: I don’t know, take off my tin foil hat and go get some fresh air.
Julianne: Many domestic fringe groups are convinced that FEMA responding to a real or manufactured disaster or threat will use their emergency powers to round up American patriots and take them to government concentration camps.
Cal: My Uncle Frank listens to crap like that on talk radio all day long.
Flynn: The guys who did this, do you think they’re going to do it again.
Emily: I think you hope for the best and prepare for the worst and that’s what we’re doing.
Emily: I don’t care what forensics thinks, what they found or didn’t find, I can feel it. Do you think I’m being paranoid?
Tommy: No, after what you’ve been through, it’s…
Emily: I wish I could remember more. It could help.
Tommy: Maybe you don’t want to remember that shit anyway.
I’m not a drunk, Jack, that’s your thing.
Emily
Emily: Oh, Christ.
Warren: Not quite. Just your Dad.
Emily: Nick, in the hotel room, I didn't know if I was going to see you again, and I just wanted to relive it.
Nick: I did to.
Emily: But I'm not the same. I mean, we're both not the same. And things are different now.
Nick: I know.
Nick: I'm sorry I doubted you.
Emily: I almost got you killed.
Nick: But I should have believed you all along. I hope you forgive me.
Agent Crown: So Logan Brandt killed Shen as revenge for the experiments.
Detective Gibbs: Can't say I blame her.
Agent Crown: Then she digs into his files, finds out about the switch that leads her to Emily.
Detective Gibbs: She dedicates her life to revenge, reinvents herself as Laurie Colson, and in Harlow she finds the perfect partner. He hated Emily. A match made in heaven.
Six years breaking you down, taking everything away from you, recreating you and setting you free to watch your life crumble around you once and for all. It all went beautifully. Nothing would have been more satisfying than to see you kill your husband's new wife and show the world the truth about Emily Byrne. Sadly I watched as you did nothing. Shen would have been so surprised to learn that all of his work could have been undone by a mother's love for her child.
Laurie/Logan
You see, Shen believed children who survived early trauma like yours and weren't crushed by it could be forged into killer soldiers. Clinical, dispassionate, weapons that could be turned on and off like a switch.
Person in Mask
He promised he'd kill us if we told anyone. Who could we tell? We had no one. He had the power. For six years he tortured us.
Person in Mask
