- Lauren: Michael. Please, I need you to understand. When the Covenant asked me to marry you, I knew eventually they wanted me to coax you back into the CIA. But two years went by and I hadn't heard from them. And by then I'd convinced myself I never would. I prayed I wouldn't because I'd fallen in love with you.
- Michael Vaughn: Shut up! I am gonna erase you! I'm gonna remove any evidence you ever existed! You used me. You used my grief, my work, who I am. You took that from me... I'm taking it back. This is hydrochloric acid. You'll be unrecognizable.
- Lauren: Michael, I swear I was gonna tell you everything. You remember that night we went downtown and had dinner? Instead you told me Sydney was back.
- Michael Vaughn: Don't say her name.
- Lauren: She came back and you didn't need me anymore. I could see it in your eyes. Sydney came back and...
- Michael Vaughn: I said don't say her name!
- Lauren: Sydney came back and I lost you.
- [Vaughn shoots gun above his head]
- Michael Vaughn: I hate you. But I love Sydney more. That's the only reason you're not dying tonight.
- [Vaughn gets stabbed in the back]
- Lauren: Thank god.
- Julian Sark: [Lauren is disguised as Sydney] I must say, your disguise, it addresses a certain proclivity of mine.
- Lauren: If this works, I'll happily make your sick little fantasy come true.
- Michael Vaughn: Last time we were together, our roles were reversed. Funny how things happen.
- Julian Sark: I'm afraid the irony is lost on me.
- Michael Vaughn: [to Sark] You like the electric batons, the injections... I'm not into accessories...
- Michael Vaughn: Ready to talk?
- Julian Sark: Yes. When I first learned of your wife's true allegiance, I almost felt pity for you. How embarrassing it must've been to learn that the woman you shared your bed with was only using you as an unfortunate means to an end.
- Michael Vaughn: I wouldn't do this, if I were you.
- Julian Sark: But then, she wasn't sharing your bed lately, was she? She was in mine. Or in my car. Or the elevator. Or a garage. There is one time... this is my favourite... we were engaged in an alley and she called you to tell you she loved you.
- [Vaughn twists Sark's arm]
- Julian Sark: That woman was deliciously filthy.
- Michael Vaughn: [to Sark] I'm not gonna kill you. That would be too easy. But I'll leave you so disfigured that when you walk down the street people will pity you. Lauren is gonna pay for the damage she's done to the people I care about, not for having had an affair with you. I don't give a rat's ass who she's sleeping with. So for the last time: where is she?
- Sydney: [On the phone with Vaughn] Eric said you took off, need some company?
- Michael Vaughn: No, I'm good.
- Sydney: Where are you?
- Michael Vaughn: It doesn't matter.
- Sydney: What does that mean?
- [Vaughn doesn't respond]
- Sydney: Vaughn, what's going on?
- [Again no response from Vaughn]
- Sydney: Sark talked, didn't he? You know where Lauren is.
- Michael Vaughn: I'm taking care of it.
- Sydney: I don't know what you're thinking, but you cannot do this Michael. If you kill her, you will be arrested and charged with her murder. If you're not, if you get away with it, it will haunt you Michael. God, after everything we've been through... I'll lose you all over again.
- Michael Vaughn: [a car pulls up near Vaughn] I have to go.
- [He hangs up the phone]
- Agent Foster: At seven twenty-two this evening, you were logged in at the safe-house where Nadia Santos is being held. Is that accurate?
- Sydney: It was around dinner. I brought her a sandwich.
- Agent Foster: Where were you before that?
- Sydney: Buying her the sandwich.
- Agent Foster: Last week, Ms. Santos was in the custody of the Covenant.
- Sydney: As a prisoner they nearly killed.
- Agent Foster: If Lauren Reed broke in using your identity, she would need to be sure you were out of the office. Did your sister call you to come see her?
- Sydney: If you want to arrest me, hold me under the Patriot Act. We're through talking.
- Sydney: I want that tape.
- Agent Jack Bristow: No you don't, not if you want what's best for Vaughn.
- Sydney: You know what he's going to do if we don't stop him.
- Agent Jack Bristow: Yes; he'll get closure.
- Sydney: You want him to kill Lauren.
- Agent Jack Bristow: If he doesn't, it will eat at him like a cancer. The only cure it is to end it now! She destroyed Vaughn's life.
- Sydney: Vaughn's life, not yours, this is about what Lauren did to Vaughn, not what mom did to you. I don't know what you've told him, or how much of all this you've orchestrated. In some twisted way, you've got Vaughn carrying your burden; trying to get you closure by doing the one thing you never had a chance to do, kill the person who betrayed you.
- Agent Jack Bristow: I did have a chance, and I didn't take it. And not a day went by that I didn't regret letting her go. Vaughn will feel the same way. He will end up like me, and I love you too much to let that happen.
- Sydney: You were right. Lauren has to pay.
- Agent Jack Bristow: Vaughn is going to be okay, and when he is, he has to end it, not you.
- Sydney: If it's okay for Vaughn it's okay for me.
- Julian Sark: [Sydney pulls of her Lauren disguise] This little trick of yours means Vaughn failed. Tell me, is he dead?
- Sydney: No, he's not. But thanks to you, Lauren won't be so lucky.
- Agent Jack Bristow: Let me go instead.
- Sydney: I can't.
- Agent Jack Bristow: I'll cover for you with Foster...
- Sydney: What is it?
- Agent Jack Bristow: Nothing. We'll talk when you get back.
- Katya Derevko: [Katya tries to shoot Sydney but nothing happens. Looks at Sydney, holding the cartridge] How did you know?
- Sydney: I didn't. Now I do.
- Nadia Santos: When I was drawing, there were moments as the fluid wore off. I altered the equation. I didn't want to give you what you were looking for.
- Arvin Sloane: Which means the Covenant has the wrong coordinates. They're looking for the sphere in the wrong place.
- Nadia Santos: We should go. We have a long journey ahead of us.
- Lauren: [to Sydney] You think the CIA couldn't find you when you went missing? Or that you learned what happened to you by chance?
- Lauren: [to Sydney] But if your mother has really been helping you since she left, why haven't you spoken to her?