- Martin Bohm: There were so many things I wanted to teach you. That's how it was supposed to be; that's what being a father was: me teaching you. Now it turns out, it's you teaching me... and I want you to know that I'm OK with that.
- Jake Bohm: 7 billion people on a tiny planet, suspended in the vastness of space, all alone. How we make sense of that is the great mystery of all of our existence. Maybe it's being alone in the universe that holds us all together, keeps us needing each other in the smallest of ways, creating a quantum entanglement of you, of me, of us. And if that's really true, then we live in a world where anything is possible.
- [first lines]
- Jake Bohm: There are 3 million species of animals living in the tropical rain forests, and one of them, the red fire ant, lives underground, under constant threat of annihilation from flash floods. Nature doesn't care. If a species wants to survive, it has to prove it deserves to. When the floods come, the fire ants hold on to each other, creating a living raft that can float until the water recedes. Months, if necessary. So how does a species figure something like that out? Instinct? Trial and error? Was there one fire ant who was being swept away by the rushing water and grabbed on to another ant, only to find that together they could float?
- Jake Bohm: What if you were the one who knew what needed to be done, but you had no words? How do you make the others understand? How do you call for help?
- [Martin's cellphone beeping]
- Martin Bohm: If I keep chasing down these numbers, they're gonna take him away from me.
- Arthur Teller: Maybe I should go check it out.
- Martin Bohm: No, no, please. Thank you. They think I'm crazy enough.
- Walt King: I had a magic sword. The only sword powerful enough to slay the Dragon. I offered it to the King, but he thought it was a trick. He buried it deep within the Mountain of Clare, behind a wall of stones.
- Martin Bohm: Well, can't you get it back?
- Walt King: You don't know much about magic swords, do you?
- Rush Middleton: [about revealing information] Why would you give this to me?
- Martin Bohm: Same reason I chose you to get my coffee. I always thought you were gonna be a great reporter.
- [last lines]
- Martin Bohm: [beginning a bedtime story for Jake] Once upon a time there was an invisible knight, who served the Silent King, and together they helped people that didn't even know they were there.