On Thin Ice & Collateral Damage

Falling Skies 3×1 & 3×2

On Thin Ice

& Pope: Aw, come on, Cap. The fat lady just sang. Let’s celebrate.
    Weaver: It’s colonel now, Pope. And, besides, it ain’t over until...
    Pope: It’s over.

& Pope: Oh, I got to get me one of those.

& Mr. President Professor Mason: The deal, as I recall, was that, if elected, I wouldn’t be stuck behind a desk or called President.
    General Bressler: Yes, but that’s the...
    Tom: I fight. We all fight until the last damn alien occupier is off the planet.
Ω Abraham Lincoln himself nowadays, huh?

& Tom: See you in the war room, Dan, in about an hour?
    Weaver: You can count on it, Tom... uh, sir, Professor... Mr. President. What exactly am I supposed to call you now?
    Tom: “Tom” will do. Nothing’s changed, Dan.
Weaver: Oh, I’d say, in these past seven months, plenty has changed.

& Cochise: Espheni know and understand large offensives, General. What bedevils them is our consistent skirmishing.
    General Bressler: That makes no logical sense!
    Cochise: Well, human logic is to be discarded when at war with extraterrestrial beings.

Ω Why kill John Locke (AKA Terry O'Quinn) all the time?

& Tom: Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m about to become a father.

& Tom: You think Roosevelt and Churchill wanted to work with Stalin? They knew what he was about. They needed him to win the war.
    Weaver: This is our war, Tom. It’s a human war. And the minute we start forgetting that, the minute we start depending on somebody else to do this work for us, we’re on a bad road... and you’re never gonna get me to change my mind on that.

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Collateral Damage

& Weaver: We need to know if there’s a way... to safely destroy the Wakonda Reactor.
    Dr. Roger Kadar: By “safely,” I assume you mean you do not want to rain radioactive waste over the state, leaving it uninhabitable for the next 24,100 years?

& Anne: She’s a very different little girl.
    Tom: Different? Different in what way?
    Anne: She’s very... advanced.
Ω Game changer?

& Tom: It’s a solid plan. It’s gonna work.
    Weaver: They’re all solid plans till the first bullet flies, and then they’re as relevant as yesterday’s racing forms.

& Tom: Hey, Dan... Stay frosty.
    Weaver: Like a winter in Buffalo.

& Kadar: Okay, if we’re out of here in 15 minutes, we should be able to get home with a little nausea and no hair loss.

& Tom: Where do we set these charges, Doc?
    Kadar: There and...There... And there...
    Tom: “Could”? We need to do a hell of a lot better than “could.”
    Kadar: Call it a high order of probability, then, if it makes you happy.

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On the IMDb: 3.1 — & 3.2 —