- Luke Cage: Just so we're clear... what could go wrong?
- Dr. Noah Burstein: Well, your skin could peel off, like wax paper, and, uh, after about ten seconds, you'd beg me to put a bullet in your head because the pain would be so bad, but your head looks fine, so I guess the bullet would ricochet off your skull.
- Luke Cage: Sweet Christmas.
- Misty Knight: I apply foot to ass. And match lead for lead. I put murderers in handcuffs. I don't just seek justice. I stalk it.
- Willis 'Diamondback' Stryker: Two rule books got me through the darkness. The Bible and The 48 Laws of Power. Do you want to know what the 49th is? "Luke Cage ain't dead until you find his goddamn body."
- Dr. Gabe Krasner: No husband. A boyfriend?
- Misty Knight: The last time somebody set me up, I ended up arresting the guy at the table.
- Dr. Gabe Krasner: No.
- Misty Knight: Yeah. I did a background check, and he was wanted for robbery in three different states. They gave the dude a nickname at my precinct.
- Dr. Gabe Krasner: Yeah?
- Misty Knight: Called him the "Love Bandit." I still get shit about it.
- Claire Temple: This could work. If you go down his throat...
- Dr. Noah Burstein: We can puncture his mucus membrane.
- Claire Temple: Exactly.
- Dr. Noah Burstein: I like the way you think.
- Luke Cage: [Looks at the needle] I don't.
- Mariah Dillard: Have you even seen the dashboard footage that's all over the news? You don't you see the opportunity? You see a man you want dead who won't die. I see a marketer's dream. Why spend all your time killing and intimidating your criminal customers in the dark when you should be selling guns to police departments in the light? Guns that can handle these new threats.
- Willis 'Diamondback' Stryker: Go on.
- Mariah Dillard: Word is you have a weapon that can take him down. Kill Luke Cage. But if you do, and you go big, everyone else will come to you to help take down the rest of these super-freaks that are upsetting the natural order of things. You gotta go big pharma on this shit. You invent the disease, then you sell the cure.
- Hernan 'Shades' Alvarez: You don't have any friends.
- Willis 'Diamondback' Stryker: A man of too many friends comes to ruin, but there is a friend who comes closer than a brother. Proverbs 18:24. Cornell Stokes was that friend for me. And I could trust him like I could my own... brother.
- Luke Cage: What if this is a one-way trip?
- Claire Temple: Hey, hey, you are gonna make it. You hear me? You're gonna make it just fine. We're gonna fix this. Don't even. You're not dying in my mom's car.
- Luke Cage: He's putting me in a rotisserie spit?
- Claire Temple: I think he wants to deep fry you, like a turkey.
- Dr. Gabe Krasner: I'm not here to break you. You've already done that yourself. The question is, how broke are you, and can you be fixed?
- Misty Knight: Look, we're wired differently. We run towards gunfire. We drink when we're sad. We screw when we're mad. And people hate us until they need us. And I hate that. But I love it, too.
- Inspector Priscilla Ridley: We walk a higher path. It's not simple. It's very hard. And that is why people will always need us.
- Neville: Diamondback, what are you doing here?
- Willis 'Diamondback' Stryker: You invited me by not inviting me.