Quotes for
Daniel Faraday (Character)
from "Lost" (2004)

"Lost: Because You Left (#5.1)" (2009)

Daniel Faraday: The rules, rules don't apply to you. You're special. You're uniquely and miraculously special.
Desmond Hume: What are you talking about?

Daniel Faraday: [to Desmond] I need you to go back to Oxford University. Go back to where we met. I need you to go there and find my Mother. Her name's...

James 'Sawyer' Ford: So when are we now?
Daniel Faraday: We're either in the past or we're in the future.

Juliet Burke: So that's why our camp is gone? Because the island is moving through time?
Daniel Faraday: Yeah, either the island is or we are.

Daniel Faraday: Whatever Ben Linus did down at the Orchid Station, I think it may have dislodged us.
James 'Sawyer' Ford: Dislodged us from what?
Daniel Faraday: Time.

Daniel Faraday: There's that.
James 'Sawyer' Ford: It was.
Daniel Faraday: We don't know when the next flash is coming.
James 'Sawyer' Ford: So how can we stop it?
Daniel Faraday: We can't stop it.
James 'Sawyer' Ford: Well then who can?

Daniel Faraday: [to Sawyer and Juliet] Your campers are gone. It hasn't been filled yet. Think of the island like a record spinning on a turn table, only now that record is skipping.

Daniel Faraday: Desmond, my name is Daniel Faraday. Right now me and everyone else you left behind, we're in serious danger. You're the only person who can help us.

Neil Frogurt: What happened? What was that light?
Daniel Faraday: We must have been inside of the radius.

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"Lost: Jughead (#5.3)" (2009)

Daniel Faraday: Miles?
Miles Straume: Wait! Don't move!
Ellie: Who's in charge here?
Miles Straume: [pointing to Daniel] He is.
Ellie: [to Daniel] You just couldn't stay away, could you?

[last lines]
Daniel Faraday: [to Charlotte] Charlotte! Charlotte! No, no, no. It's okay.

Miles Straume: We just walked over a fresh grave.
Daniel Faraday: What?
Miles Straume: Four U.S. soldiers. Dead just under a month. Three of them were shot. One died of radiation poisoning.
Daniel Faraday: Miles, hey. Hey. Did any of them happen to mention what year it is?

Daniel Faraday: Okay, listen to me. Do you people have any access to lead or concrete?
Ellie: For what?
Daniel Faraday: There's a crack in the casing. It needs to be filled with lead, and you need to take it off this platform, carefully, and bury it.
Ellie: You brought me all the way out here to tell us that we have to bury it? You told Alpert you could disarm that thing.
Daniel Faraday: You don't need to worry. You do what I say, you bury it, it won't go off.
Ellie: How do you know that?
Daniel Faraday: I need you to trust me.
Ellie: I don't trust you.
Daniel Faraday: Just bury it. Bury it and everything will be fine. Remember, your superior...
Ellie: How can you be so sure?
Daniel Faraday: You want to take care of this bomb...
Ellie: How?
Daniel Faraday: ...you bury it!
Ellie: How do you know that?
Daniel Faraday: Because, 50 years from now, this island is still here.

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"Lost: Confirmed Dead (#4.2)" (2008)

Kate Austen: Dan? Your name's Dan, right? Listen, Dan, I know that you don't want anyone to get hurt, right? So why don't you put the gun away.
Daniel Faraday: Because Miles would kill me?

George Minkowski: [on the radio phone] Dan, the chopper com went dead. What the hell happened up there?
Daniel Faraday: Yeah, I don't know, George, there was an electrical storm. All the instruments, I think they just went down. Listen, I made contact with some of the survivors and we just, uh...
George Minkowski: Dan, am I on speaker?

Daniel Faraday: Rescuing you and your people... I can't really say is our primary objective.
Jack Shephard: Then what is?

Daniel Faraday: The light... it's strange out here, isn't it? It's kind of like, it doesn't, it doesn't scatter quite right.

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"Lost: The Little Prince (#5.4)" (2009)

Charlotte Lewis: Where did these come from?
Daniel Faraday: That's a good question. They're pretty old.
Miles Straume: They're not that old.
James 'Sawyer' Ford: Let me see that.
[reads a bottle label]
James 'Sawyer' Ford: "Ajira".
Juliet Burke: Ajira. It's an airline. It's based out of India, but they fly everywhere.
James 'Sawyer' Ford: Great. Maybe they've got a flight out of here to Vegas.

James 'Sawyer' Ford: Who came in these? Are they others?
Juliet Burke: Don't look at me.
Daniel Faraday: My question is when are they coming back?
John Locke: Let's not wait to find out.

Daniel Faraday: Are these your people?
Juliet Burke: No. Are they yours?
James 'Sawyer' Ford: Shut up and keep paddling!

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"Lost: The Constant (#4.5)" (2008)

Daniel Faraday: Who are you calling?
Desmond Hume: I'm calling my bloody constant.

Desmond Hume: Set your device to... 2.342 and make sure it oscillates at 11.
Daniel Faraday: OK, now, you... You're gonna tell me who told you those numbers.
Desmond Hume: You did.
Daniel Faraday: Wait a second. This is ridiculous.
Desmond Hume: I know about Eloise.

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"Lost: LaFleur (#5.8)" (2009)

Daniel Faraday: The record is spinning again. We're just not on the song we wanna be on.

Juliet Burke: Who do you think they are?
Miles Straume: Who cares who they are? We don't even know when they are. Hey, Dan, we don't get involved, right? That's what you said.
Daniel Faraday: It doesn't matter what we do. Whatever happened, happened.
James 'Sawyer' Ford: Well, thanks anyway, Plato. I'm going over there.
[to Juliet]
James 'Sawyer' Ford: You still got my back?
Juliet Burke: Absolutely.
James 'Sawyer' Ford: Alright, drop the gun. Drop it!

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"Lost: There's No Place Like Home: Part 1 (#4.12)" (2008)

Daniel Faraday: We have to get off this island... right now.

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"Lost: The Lie (#5.2)" (2009)

Daniel Faraday: Well we can't just sail out on any course. For us to leave, I need to calculate a new bearing, and uh to do that I need to determine where we are now in time.

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"Lost: There's No Place Like Home: Part 2 (#4.13)" (2008)

Daniel Faraday: Charlotte. There is no "for now". If you don't come with me, "for now" could be forever.
Charlotte Lewis: Nothing's forever.

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"Lost: The Variable (#5.14)" (2009)

Daniel Faraday: You knew all along - you knew this would happen. And you sent me here anyway...
Eloise Hawking: Who are you?
Daniel Faraday: I'm your son.

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