- [last lines]
- Control Voice: The inheritors are on their way. In a universe of billions of stars, there are places of love and happiness. On this Earth, in this spot, magic settled for a moment, wonder touched a few lives, and a few odd pieces fell smoothly into the jigsaw of creation.
- Lieutenant Minns: You tried to contain me once. Didn't work.
- Adam Ballard: Our weapons are pitiful against you, aren't they?
- Lieutenant Minns: [smiling in an effort to set Ballard at ease] I didn't mean it that way.
- Adam Ballard: I did. You smile at me, and I get a chill. You're smiling with a piece of your mind that doesn't belong to you.
- Lieutenant Minns: [as he closes the hatch on the children now loaded into the spaceship] And help each other. Learn to help each other.
- Art Harris: The lieutenant... is probably the smartest man you will ever come up against. Maybe the word is brilliant. He has extraordinary abilities. He's pleasant, genial, agreeable, unstoppable, and as far as we know deadly.
- Adam Ballard: What's it for?
- Lieutenant Minns: I don't know.
- Adam Ballard: [angrily] Does it matter that it may be heinous?
- Lieutenant Minns: [angrily] Yes it matters!
- [hopelessly]
- Lieutenant Minns: There's nothing I can do about it.
- Adam Ballard: [angrily] You can fight it!
- Lieutenant Minns: [calmly] Not any more than you can fight me.