Falling Skies

Dai:
They die just like we do. You just have to get close.

Matt Mason:
I was in school when the ships came. They were really big, and they said that we weren't gonna attack them with the nuclear bombs, because they might have wanted to be friends. But they didn't want to be friends... not at all.

Karen:
You see, every living thing, every grain of sand on a beach, every star in the sky, is linked by an intricate web of causality. If you can comprehend that web in its entirety, down to the movements of the smallest subatomic particles, then you can predict the course of events and alter them.

Tom Mason:
And no matter how each of us survive, maybe we owe it to those who didn't, to become the best of mankind.

Tom Mason:
[Voice-over] Despite the horror, the loss, the death, the war with the Espheni might have ultimately made us better human beings. We can actually christen a new melting pot; a world wide one. Our first goal: to welcome those, especially those whose methods we don't always understand. But our new found openness, our egalitarianism, should never come at the expense of our vigilance. For as the man said; 'those who fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it'. And we will forever more, be keeping our eyes on the skies. Now begins the work of rebuilding our world. And in that work we have both the responsibility and an opportunity to apply those lessons, and if we do, we have a chance to maybe build it just a little bit better than we did before.

Tom Mason:
[On-screen speech] Once upon a time, there was a place called America. [Audience cheers] But now, going forward, borders don't mean what they used to... because before we were countries, we were human beings. And despite the horror, the loss and the death, the war with the Espheni might very well have made us better human beings... because we've discovered, we are not alone.

Hal Mason, Margaret:
Tick... tick... boom.

John Pope:
I'll take a rest for a little while. Being the leader of a post-apocalyptic gang of outlaws has been exhausting.

John Pope:
Nice work boys, looks like you dropped us all in the middle of a good old fashioned coup.