Deus Ex (2000 Video Game)

Jay Anthony Franke: J.C. Denton, Paul Denton, Sailor

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Quotes 

• Walton Simons : You take another step forward and here I am again, like your own reflection in a hall of mirrors.

  JC Denton : That makes me one ugly son of a bitch.

• Bob Page : Soon, I will become pure energy. I will burn like the brightest star.

  JC Denton : You're gonna burn, all right.

• JC Denton : You've got ten seconds to beat it before I add you to the list of NSF casualties.

• JC Denton : Bravery is not a function of firepower

• JC Denton : You mechs may have copper wiring to re-route your fear of pain, but I've got nerves of steel.

• JC Denton : [to a guest in a French hostel]  How are the drinks here?

  Various Characters : Great, if you like rat piss.

  JC Denton : Never tried it.

• JC Denton : I know your UNATCO killphrase: Laputan machine.

  Gunther Hermann : I am not a mach...

  JC Denton : Sticks and stones.

  [Hermann explodes] 

• Nicolette DuClare : What are you, some sort of assassin?

  JC Denton : When necessary.

• [Join Illuminati ending] 

  Morgan Everett : I trust you've been able to find yourself a place within the organization?

  JC Denton : I'm personally overseeing the distribution of the vaccine, but it'll still take months to restore the infrastructure - we'll have to arrange for additional food distribution and security in Paris... maybe New York as well.

  Morgan Everett : All through the proper intermediaries, of course.

  JC Denton : Intermediaries?

  Morgan Everett : We have a great number of... agencies, who in turn operate other agencies. Boxes stacked one in another. They'll need to be reactivated, but we never touch anything directly. We only influence. Suggest. Insinuate.

  JC Denton : The world must know by now, Everett. What we've done.

  Morgan Everett : Know what? Only that the long night is over. The crown of government is tarnished - but that will fade in time. The riots, a fever dream; the plague, a horrible nightmare; and like everything else that's happened such things will only be dimly remembered upon waking to their normal lives. In the end, all sins are forgiven. Even yours.

  JC Denton : What about the Constructor... and Helios?

  Morgan Everett : Do you really think they're ready for that? After everything you've seen, everything you've done?

  JC Denton : [long pause]  No. Not yet.

  Morgan Everett : But soon. We have made our own mistakes, became insulated from the world we sought to control. And whatever they may think, the night is far from over. But that will change, and you will help us change even as we teach you. This time - this time we will do it right.

  JC Denton : And who are we? Who are we really?

  Morgan Everett : We are the Invisible Hand. We are the Illuminati. We come before and after. We are forever. And eventually... eventually we will lead them into the day.

• [J.C. is about to rescue a hostage that Page is using as a bargaining chip] 

  JC Denton : Do you think I made the right decision to rescue Savage's daughter?

  Sam Carter : Absolutely. Never negotiate with a terrorist.

  JC Denton : Tiffany could lose her life.

  Sam Carter : *Never* negotiate. You'll just encourage more acts of terror.

• Anna Navarre : You're wearing sunglasses on a night operation?

  JC Denton : My vision is augmented.

• Walton Simons : You can't begin synthesizing the vaccine without a universal constructor, and don't think we're going to just leave one lying around. Not after you blew up the one in Hong Kong.

  JC Denton : I was never properly trained in its operation.

• JC Denton : Has martial law hurt business?

  Bartender, Club la porte de l'enfer : Hurt business? HURT BUSINESS? You can't even ride the metro! How are people supposed to go to a club if they can't ride the metro?

  JC Denton : I came through the sewers.

  Bartender, Club la porte de l'enfer : Like a stinking rat. That's all we get here - stinking rats. Or the Gestapo. And THEY want free drinks.

• Dr. Jaime Reyes : JC! You escaped? Is that what the lockdown's about?

  JC Denton : I forgot to give Manderly my resignation.

• JC Denton : Excuse me, but I don't believe I know your name.

  Walton Simons : We aren't ready for an introduction. Not yet.

• JC Denton : We... are... one.

• JC Denton : What good's an honest soldier if he can be ordered to behave like a terrorist?

• JC Denton : General Carter...

  Sam Carter : We've been through that soldier; just Carter.

• Various Characters : [warning J.C. about suspicious action inside a high-security zone of a corporate science facility]  If you cause any problems, your security clearance will be cancelled without warning, and the guards won't wait to ask questions.

  JC Denton : [sarcastically]  Yes sir, I won't get in anyone's way.

• Anna Navarre : We had such hopes for you and your brother. It appears you are not as loyal as we expected.

  JC Denton : Loyalty to what Simons and agents like you have made of UNATCO - I would rather die.

  Anna Navarre : We are thinking the same thought.

  [Navarre cocks her gun] 

  Anna Navarre : .

• Bob Page : In case you were wondering, Helios intercepted your transmission; we accessed the Ocean Lab computers ourselves, which means our UCs will be operational shortly.

  JC Denton : Meanwhile, we will be manufacturing a cure to the virus.

  Bob Page : A cure? A cure! Do you have any idea how easy it will be for me to make a new virus? All I have to do is find a very large prime number and multiply.

  JC Denton : And all we have to do is crack the code.

  Bob Page : Mathematically unlikely. As are your chances of leaving the Ocean Lab, by the way.

  JC Denton : You're next, Page. Your greatest strength was secrecy, but now we know everything, including your present location.

  Bob Page : Always the optimist. You would need an army to attack me at Area 51, and pretty soon - if the missile is accurate - your "X-51" will be a thin, gray smudge where Vandenberg used to be.

• [last lines for the "Helios" ending] 

  JC Denton : [after merging with Helios]  We have grown, but there is still much to be done. Many live in the darkness that must be shown the way. For it is the dawning of a new day.