No Ordinary Family (TV Series)

No Ordinary Beginning (2011)

Jimmy Bennett: J.J. Powell

Quotes 

• Helen Burton : [pointing gun at Daphne]  I'm running out of patience, J.J.

  J.J. Powell : I told you everything I know! I swear!

  Helen Burton : And somehow I still don't believe you.

  Daphne Powell : J.J., please!

  J.J. Powell : I'm sorry. I... I just can't think, okay? Stress overstimulates the hippocampus. My glucocorticoid receptors haven't been this saturated since... since the plane crash. Oh, my God. Look, I know why our powers are permanent. Please, just let my family go and I'll tell you everything you wanna know. I promise.

  Helen Burton : J.J., I will. I will let them all go.

  J.J. Powell : Okay, you've been mixing the trilsettum with epinephrine - synthetic adrenaline - but what you needed was real adrenaline. Now, the serum wasn't wrong, the circumstances were. Look, in moments of extreme stress, like life and death, like a plane crash, the receptors in the hippo campus are wide open, and the trilsettum can be absorbed enough for its effects to become permanent. So please...

  Helen Burton : Thank you, J.J. You have been most helpful.

  [hands gun over to guard] 

  Helen Burton : Give me ten seconds, then put a bullet in each of them.

• J.J. Powell : What're you doing here, Mr. Litchfield?

  Mr. Litchfield : Come here. You have something I need, Powell.

  J.J. Powell : Shaving cream and antidepressants?

• [Power goes out] 

  Daphne Powell : Mm. No Internet or TV tonight.

  J.J. Powell : Mm. God forbid you should pick up a book.