Jack: She didn't take your family, Nick. Deep down you know that's true.
Nick: Don't you think I want to be on her side, Jack. Don't you think I want that? But all of the evidence, all of it, it all points to her. So if you have some way that it doesn't, just tell me.

If I gambled and lost I can live with that, but I'm betting that you want someone to tell her side.

Laurie

You think I don't know what you're doing here? You think I can't see through this? You're trying to pump me for information and you are just going to twist it and turn it and use it however you want against her. So no, I have nothing for you.

Jack

I feel like I've been given a second chance. This is the first day of my sobriety.

Jack

Gibbs: The FBI hotline is definitely not helping us. We get like a hundred bogus tips an hour.
Lt. Campbell: This reward is killing us. She's like a walking Lotto.

I know Mom's alive. Everyone said she was dead before, but they were wrong. She'll come back this time too.

Flynn

Nick: I thought my past was behind us, and then it came back out of no where, but this is what I want now. This is my life. You and me and our children. I'm done with the past, I swear to you.
Alice: I think you want to be, but you won’t be. Not until there's closure. Find her, Nick. End this and then we’ll talk.

Our whole life together, it's just a consolation, isn't it? Admit it, I'm only in the picture because she left it. This, us, this was never your choice, not your first choice. This is you settling and I can't be that.

Alice

Nick: Was she unhappy?
Jack: No, no, it was quite the opposite. She couldn't handle being happy. It was like she thought it was all going to fall apart any second, and that my parents were going to kick her out or I was plotting against her, so I guess she figured she might as well just reject my whole family first.

Nick: Warren, she killed an FBI agent.
Warren: Did you see her pull the trigger?
Nick: She shot at Detective Gibbs and me.
Warren: I taught her to shoot myself, if she shot at you you'd be dead.

Don't sit here and lie to me like you care about her. Six years she was out there. Took only one before you threw in the towel. Nothing would have stopped me if it were my wife. Remarried. You're a poor excuse for a man, now get out.

Warren

Nick: The only thing that you are getting closer to, Emily, is getting shot dead in the street. Think about our son.
Emily: I am. I'm not going to let him grow up thinking that I'm a murderer. I'd rather die trying to clear my name.

Absentia Season 1 Quotes

If you don't believe me, Nick, why are you even asking me the question?

Emily

Alice: I know she would have loved to be at your race, every race, but she wanted to make your life safer, and mine. We kind of owe her, don't you think?
Flynn: You're my Mom.