Out of the Past

Altered Carbon 1×1

Quellcrist Falconer: First thing you'll learn is that nothing is what it seems. Ignore your assumptions. Don't trust anything. What you see, what you hear, what people tell you, what you think you remember... We are Envoys, and we take what is offered.

Quellcrist Falconer: Let experience wash over you. Absorb it like a sponge. Expect nothing. Only then can you be prepared for anything.

Quellcrist Falconer: One thing I can promise you: coming back from the dead is a bitch. Every single time.

Quellcrist Falconer: Make it personal. It is you. You are the weapon. You are the killer and the destroyer.

Kristin Ortega: What were you in for?
Takeshi Kovacs: You know, little bit of this, little bit of that. Blew some shit up and killed some people. Some people just need killing.
Kristin Ortega: And how do you decide who deserves to die?
Takeshi Kovacs: Depends on the day. I mean, anything can set me off. Interstellar dictatorship, genocide, people who talk too much.

Kristin Ortega: Everyone knows Bancroft. He's one of the first founding Meths-- You don't know what's a Meth? How can you not know? You're dressed like one.
Takeshi Kovacs: Like I said, I'm not from around here.
Kristin Ortega: "And the days of Methuselah were 969 years."

Takeshi Kovacs: I don't want your money or your pardon. I'll take eternity on ice, thanks.
Laurens Bancroft: You should take the day, Mr. Kovacs. Go into the city, remember what it is to feel alive, and then give me your answer. Oh, and please do take the book. Like everything else I'm offering you, it's yours... if you want it.

The Raven Hotel: Ask this of your microwave, miscreant! Apologies.

Quellcrist Falconer: Two hundred and fifty years is long enough. Move on.

Quellcrist Falconer: There's more here than you're willing to see. It's not the threat. It's the unanswered question. The mystery that needs to be solved. The box that needs to be unlocked. Envoys take what is offered, Tak. Take this chance. This is how you finish the mission.

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