- Dr. Lefkowitz: You were at Ground Zero when the buildings came down, yes?
- Owen Strand: Yeah.
- Dr. Lefkowitz: Then I don't have to tell you by the 20th anniversary of 9/11, more survivors who were there that day and during the cleanup will get sick or die than people killed on 9/11 itself.
- Owen Strand: This is going to kill me, isn't it?
- Mateo Chavez: My teachers all said I was a little slow.
- Owen Strand: I don't know what your teachers told you in the past, but I know what you're not. You're not stupid.
- Mateo Chavez: I'm not?
- Owen Strand: No. You're thorough, you're relentless, and you're exactly the kind of man I want in the 126.