- Erin: I can't believe they're sending us up in this. Is it even safe to fly?
- Davis Mackie: Erin, relax. If I could take off in a Black Hawk under fire in Fallujah, I think I can handle a News Chopper 9 with a hangover.
- Erin: Hangover?
- Mayor Wally: What about the rest of the world? Have you heard about anything from Europe or Asia?
- Vince Isaacs: Total blackout. It's exactly what they want, everyone in the dark.
- Erin: Who exactly are "they"?
- Vince Isaacs: Them! The royal "they". The Illuminati. The New World Order. Puppet masters that control everyone. CIA, DARPA, the Kremlin.
- Erin: And what exactly do they do?
- Vince Isaacs: Area 51. MK Ultra. GM crop manipulation. Weather control. Mind control! You think that's fluoride in the water?
- Sutton: And the damn chem-trails, pumping chemicals in the atmosphere, making us all impotent.
- Amos Cade: [chuckles] Maybe they're making you impotent, Sutton, but my gear works just fine.
- Davis Mackie: I hate to do this to you, Karen, but... you're just gonna have to be stronger, all right?
- Karen Cavanaugh: Stop it!
- Davis Mackie: Get them there any way you can! Especially Ashley. She... She deserves to have a life.
- Karen Cavanaugh: In a couple of days, you're gonna feel so embarrassed about this speech you just gave.
- Davis Mackie: I really wish I'd met you before the end of the world.
- Karen Cavanaugh: Don't do this, Davis.
- Davis Mackie: You know, it's funny. All these Black Hawk missions and I get taken out by a little mist.
- [dies]
- Amos Cade: [to a group of marauders] Maybe we can help each other. You got something I want, I got something you want. You tell me what happened to the folks in that truck, and I'll serve you dinner.
- Vince Isaacs: What?
- Amos Cade: [shoots Vince] Dinner's served.
- Mayor Wally: [eating fish] After what we've been through... it seems this is the finest meal I've ever had.
- Larry Vogel: Clear water! Stars in the sky. If this is the New World Order, count me in.
- Erin: I wonder if they made it.
- Mayor Wally: Cade probably ate them.
- Erin: That's not funny.
- [all laughing]
- Erin: He might've.
- Amos Cade: This isn't something you can win, Karen. It's not a negotiation. There's nothing you can offer me that I couldn't just take from you.
- Karen Cavanaugh: And what is it that you want, Cade?
- Amos Cade: I want my radio back. You know, if it wasn't for you, I'd be safe and sound with all the comforts at home right now.
- Karen Cavanaugh: If it wasn't for me, you'd be dead in a hole in the ground where Pleasant Creek used to be!
- Amos Cade: Don't bet on it. I'll tell you one thing, I wouldn't be out there in the middle of nowhere with nothing to eat!
- Karen Cavanaugh: If you're mad at me, take it out on me! Let the girl go!
- Amos Cade: It's not gonna happen. You took everything from me. And now I'm taking everything from you, and I do mean everything.
- Karen Cavanaugh: You know you were wrong, Cade.
- Amos Cade: Wrong about what, Karen?
- Karen Cavanaugh: Being a leader isn't about who's willing to take it the furthest or choosing the right path. It's about how far is too far, and knowing when to stop.
- Amos Cade: I'll write that in the marker we leave over your bones after we lick them clean.
- [last lines]
- [Karen and Erin watch Yellowstone erupt]
- Erin: What was that acronym Cade used to use? Teo-toky or something?
- Karen Cavanaugh: Teotwawki. The end of the world as we know it.
- Erin: I'm not sure what to believe anymore.
- Karen Cavanaugh: It's gonna be a long winter.
- Karen Cavanaugh: Amos.
- Amos Cade: Doc.
- Karen Cavanaugh: I'm really glad to have somebody like you on our team.
- Amos Cade: We're not on the same team. We're just travelling in the same direction.