Backwards and Forwards

The Flight Attendant 2×8

Cassie Bowden: God. The fucking traffic. Why did I ever move to LA?
Dot Karlson: After ten or 15 years, you'll get used to it.

Alter-Cassie: Cassie, I'm you. I'm you. Do you get it? And the world is a fucked up, unfair place where dads die and moms hate you and you lie to yourself and everyone around you and it doesn't get better. But you already know that. You already believe all that or I wouldn't be here saying it, so why don't you just fucking admit it?

Dot Karlson: Cassie. Your breathing is quicker. Your pupils are more dilated. I mean, this is a side effect of increased adrenaline.

Benjamin Berry: Let's just... let's go with the very adult, "I don't remember what happened in the office."
Cassie Bowden: I don't remember either. What office?

Shane Evans: I got a flight to catch.
Cassie Bowden: Is it a work flight or a work flight? Man, I gotta stop yapping about this job that we do not have, or Benjamin is going to cut me loose.

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No Exit

The Flight Attendant 2×7

Cassie Bowden: Why would I kill these people? What would my motive even be?
Shane Evans: Honestly, I have no clue.

Cassie Bowden: Why do you have a North Korean in your trunk?
Megan Briscoe: Where was I supposed to put him?

Alter-Cassie: Stop asking questions and go to the pier. Go to the fucking pier! I mean, it's like a suicide run. Maybe we'll all get lucky and you'll get yourself killed.

Lisa Bowden: You can't control how I feel, Cassie, no matter how much you want to. You're powerless to make me forgive you, Cassie. You're powerless when someone puts a drink in your hand. You're powerless to pull yourself together. ... Honey... you can't do anything but accept it.

Lisa Bowden: Just be patient with others. With me, if you can. And with yourself.

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Brothers & Sisters

The Flight Attendant 2×6

Annie Mouradian: Okay, look, you fell off the fucking wagon. That happened. Now what?.. You know what? I'm gonna make a list of all of the things that you can do.

Cassie Bowden: Carol... Whoa! Yay. Hi.
Carol: Hi.
Cassie Bowden: I'm like your lucky rabbit's foot following you around.
Carol: No, you're not lucky. You're a bad penny.

Annie Mouradian: Well, no matter how bad a person I think I am, I guess there's always gonna be some insane couple out there kidnapping and torturing people to make me feel better about myself.

Annie Mouradian: Max... pull yourself away from your laptop and come eat your words along with this epic meal that I prepared for us. It's sort of too late for lunch, and it's too early for dinner. So, is this supper? Did I make supper?

Lisa Bowden: Cassie... Honey. I love you. I do. But I don't like you... at all.

Cassie Bowden: Okay, so one of my friends may have sold secrets to the North Koreans, and then my other friend might have killed one of the North Koreans' friends.
Davey Bowden: Jesus, Cassie, make better friends!

Cassie Bowden: Listen, I texted Annie and so she sent me back a skull and crossbones, angry face and prayer hands. So we're good.

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Drowning Women

The Flight Attendant 2×5

Shane Evans: You sound crazy, but doesn't mean you're wrong.

Cassie Bowden: This stuff makes me look insane, okay? This is... this is nuts. "Narcissistic delusions, "borderline sociopathic tendencies?" Come on! "Needs constant praise." That's probably... That's probably true. But that's not me.

Shane Evans: ...stealing CIA files is a felony. They will take you away. They will put you in cuffs. They will cut the bangs off.
Cassie Bowden: I didn't steal anything, okay? I just documented a picture in an envelope on a desk.

Cassie Bowden: Jenny, listen. Don't drink because of a man. All right? And then when you find out that man is horrible, don't drink then, either. Okay?

Cassie Bowden: Let me tell you something. I want you... I want you to listen to me. Sobriety is about the journey, not the destination.

Annie Mouradian: It's just a fucking ring!
Max Park: Yeah, you're right. It's just a ring. It's a shiny rock overvalued by capitalism. But I picked it out after looking for months, and when you opened the box, and I saw your face. I knew, I just knew I got it right. I got it fucking right.

Brenda: Lived my whole life here, I can count on one hand the times I've gone to the beach, so thanks for the text message.

Brenda: Even when you have a year, the disease waits for you and picks up right where you left off.

Brenda: That next drink is like having sex with a gorilla. You're not done until your gorilla is.

Brenda: None of this works without rigorous honesty, which means you tell the truth even when it's easier to lie.

Cassie Bowden: So, now I'm just back at square one?
Brenda: Cassie, the point is you never left square one. You built your recovery on a house of cards. And it fell over. That's what a house of cards does. And until you take that first step and admit that you're powerless over the dark parts of yourself, you just keep knocking down cards.

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Blue Sincerely Reunion

The Flight Attendant 2×4

Megan Briscoe: You just overshot a few thousand miles.

Megan Briscoe: We just dance.
Cassie Bowden: Is that what they call it?

Megan Briscoe: We're gonna K-I-L-L him.
Cassie Bowden: Okay, spelling it does not make it better.

Max Park: You guys are psychos.
Gabrielle Diaz: No, we're fully sane. We just care about money more than we care about your comfort. Actually, we don't care about you at all.

Max Park: Okay. You okay?
Annie Mouradian: I'm sorry I took off the ring.
Max Park: I'm sorry you took off the ring, too.

Megan Briscoe: Hildegard Bouffant?
Miranda Croft: Well, if you don't like it, then feel free to use your own carefully crafted fake identity.
Megan Briscoe: Hildegard's just fine.

Miranda Croft: Cassie, Cassie, Cassie. All righty. I find you fascinating. I seriously, honestly, I do. But no more Miranda Ex Machina.

Brenda: But, Cassie, how are you doing?
Cassie Bowden: Good. I'm doing good. Thank you. Thank you for asking. Thank you. I'm really... I'm really, really, really good.
Brenda: Okay. Your vibe is very manic. So I am not going to accept that answer. Let's try this again... How are you doing, Cassie?
Cassie Bowden: Well, I'm, um... trying to be a hero and I'm holding on so tight that my hands are burning, and I would really like a drink, but I didn't have a drink. So, yay me. And, um, yeah, I feel like I'm maybe one little tiny accident away from a complete collapse.

Brenda: This whole sobriety thing, it's never not hard.
Cassie Bowden: Should it feel like... like walking a tightrope above a pit of broken glass that I'm about to, like, completely fall into?
Brenda: Only sometimes.
Cassie Bowden: Only sometimes?
Brenda: Hmm.
Cassie Bowden: Good.

Shane Evans: A moth?
Cassie Bowden: I'm not really a butterfly girl.
Shane Evans: You're not a moth either, Cassie. You're the whole goddamn flame.

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The Reykjavik Ice Sculpture Festival Is Lovely This Time of Year

The Flight Attendant 2×3

Cassie Bowden: No. I... I just wanted... I wanted to get away.
Shane: And you landed on Iceland?

Marco: I know you didn't want to talk about your interview at dinner last night, but, um... people fall off the mountain all the time. They just have to keep on climbing.
Annie Mouradian: Yes. Um, thank you. I... I... I will, yes.

Cassie Bowden: I have to find Megan and get the hell out of here. There's like ten people in this country. It can't be that hard.

Max Park: [My parents]'re chill, okay? You're lovely, they're lovely, you're gonna be fine. I promise.

Sara Park: Demir, what is that proverb, honey?
Damir Park: A person without a hobby is like a dog without a face.
Max Park: Annie, my father. Everything he says is a proverb.
Damir Park: Everything is a proverb.

Tea! Tea time. It's tea time. Ginseng or chamomile?

Max Park: Papa, just... let it chill for a little.
Damir Park: Tell a woman there's a wedding in the sky, watch her look for a ladder in the blink of an eye.
Max Park: Don't say things like that. That's not a proverb.
Damir Park:

Dot Karlson: Oh. And stop fixating on an asset using fun semantic gems like "leash." Someone in HR might mistake it as a crush on Cassie Bowden. And that's messy.

Cassie Bowden: I'm confused.

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Mushrooms, Tasers, and Bears, Oh My!

The Flight Attendant 2×2

Cassie Bowden: I have a little side job... I'm an asset for the CIA.

Annie Mouradian: You say blackmail... I say misunderstanding.

Grace: I guess, the way I see it I play, like, they fentanyl fairy godperson to deserving cancer patients. Fuck the pharmaceutical industry. Honestly, sometimes you have to, like, break the system, you know what I mean?

Max Park: Annie, she's... she's like an octopus. She's skittish. Smart. Always has an escape plan.

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Seeing Double

The Flight Attendant 2×1

Cassie Bowden: Hi, I'm Cassie, and I'm an alcoholic.

Cassie Bowden: I'm two days away from being a year sober.

Annie Mouradian: I don't know what face you're attempting to make, but if it's a happy one, you are not succeeding.

Dot Karlson: How many people do you know who could wake up next to a dead body in a foreign country and get back to the US without incident?
Benjamin Berry: How many people do I know that would even end up in that situation at all?

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Arrivals and Departures

The Flight Attendant 1×8

First Class Passenger: Long flights are the worst, huh? But Rome is just so beautiful... Traveling for business or pleasure?
Miranda: I have to stop a woman from being killed, and I'm not sure that I fully understand my feelings about that, because I've never done anything purely selfless before. But she grew on me, and I'm anxious about her safety and my leg is bleeding. So now might not be the time for a wee chat.

Cassie: You know, we can make choices and we have to live with them, but other people's choices, how...
Nonna: Who of us has the space to carry other people's choices?

Alex: Honestly... it wasn't me you were falling in love with.
Cassie: Alex, I can't handle any more introspective bullshit. Will you just kiss me?

Cassie: Actually, about that. I am not drinking... I am... trying... not to drink. That's closer to the truth, but yeah.

Ani: I'm here for you. I mean, emotionally I'm here for you. Not financially 'cause I have no job and no prospects of a job. But we can collect unemployment together, so that'll be fun!

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Hitchcock Double

The Flight Attendant 1×7

Cassie: Can I have maybe one final request? Like a vodka, or a please don't kill me sort of a request?

Miranda: Okay, that is quite a lot... I thought you said you were just a flight attendant.
Cassie: Don't underestimate flight attendants, okay? We do more than serve drinks. We're here for your safety.

Cassie: Please just keep talking about how Alex was good.

Cassie: This is Miranda. The Miranda.
Ani: Um, so, she's, like, a real person?

Sarah: You're new, right? It's okay. You're okay. What's your name?
Cassie: Um, what... my name? My name... my name is Alessandra, and I am not an alcoholic, so sorry about the rest of you.

Alex: It's okay. Sometimes a little stealing can be good. Yeah. It might even make you feel great.

Miranda: Okay... "Would not one tiny crime be wiped out by a thousand good deeds?"

Cassie: Here!
Miranda: Seriously? That only works in the movies.
Cassie: How am I supposed to know?

Cassie: Wow, all right. Let's, uh... let's catch a killer.

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After Dark

The Flight Attendant 1×6

Miranda: Oh, come on. Outside of this, we're friends. Jesus, I even let you take care of my cat.
Cecilia: For two years! It's not your cat anymore! It's my cat that I never wanted just like these fuckin' phone calls.

Cassie: Thing is... hey, hey, hey, hey.
Buckley: Hm?
Cassie: I think he's an assassin.
Buckley: Wait. Is this... is this some sort of fantasy role play thing or something?

Buckley: Ask to see his, uh... his passport. Or... or his license to kill.

Cassie: I... okay. This is good. Wink. Just give me, like, a... Just give me a wink and then I'll know. Then I'll know. It's like a sign... Okay. That was not a wink but it was something. You're FBI!

Cassie: You're the worst.

Buckley: Do you always hang out in your friends' apartments when they're not home?
Cassie: No. They gotta come home sometime, right?

Annie: You're right. That's... maybe, um... maybe our friendship only works because, uh... we don't show each other the messy bits. You never had to call me a liar and I never had to call you a drunk but that's what we are, Cass.
Cassie: I am not a drunk.

Cassie: You know, you're gonna feel really bad when I wind up dead.

Davey: Do you wanna tell me what's going on? Because I know something is going on. Just so maybe I can help.
Cassie: No. Just, you know, ruining my life one person a time.

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Other People's Houses

The Flight Attendant 1×5

Cassie: All I wanted to do was help people...

Cassie: I'm... starting to think this is my fault.
Annie: She means metaphorically. That was not an admission of guilt.

Max: That sounds too good to be true, so I'm gonna just remove myself from the situation.

Cassie: Drink this and calm the fuck down. Let's get some answers.

Cassie: Wait, wait, wait, wait. When I was in Westchester at Alex's, there was a sticky note that said, "Alex: 7226..." Ha!
Max: How do you remember that?
Cassie: Flight 7226 is JFK to Johannesburg. I know my flights.

Cassie: Vintage fetish collection... In chronological order. Getting less sexy.

Alex: How would you like it if I waltzed through your apartment and started piecing things together without any context?

Max: Why do you keep looking over your shoulder?
Cassie: It's a thing I do now.

Cassie: You are so not the good guy anymore.

Alex: You say you wanna help people, but really, you're just attracted to disaster. You weren't concerned. You were excited.
Cassie: It wasn't about helping people. I was... I was running towards the crash.

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Conspiracy Theories

The Flight Attendant 1×4

Max: Babe, these aren't even cross-shredded. Taping these together wouldn't be the craziest idea.
Cassie: Max thinks it's a good idea.
Max: No, I don't think it's good. I just don't think it's crazy.
Cassie: He's supportive, though. I like that.

Alex: Now you're getting on that plane? You cannot do that.
Cassie: The plane is where whatever is happening on the plane is happening.

Davey: So what's the deal with the apartment? Did you call the police?
Cassie: Oh, God, this isn't Denver, okay? We only call the police if we're getting, like, decapitated or something.

Davey: Making my kids like me less isn't going to make them love you more. You want love, you should... just probably get a dog.

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Funeralia

The Flight Attendant 1×3

Cassie: I think you're a little drunk-y.
Megan: I can be drunk. You have no idea what I can be...

Cassie: Oh, my God. Shit. I've seen "Dateline." They zero in on one person. That person is me. I'm going to jail.

Megan: Mr. Ro, I don't have any issues with... borrowing files from my husband's company. I mean, it's just a facial recognition thing, right? I mean, it's not like it's a big secret.

Shane: Honey, did you bring me to 3C's funeral?
Cassie: Actually, it's a-- it's a memorial. I think they do that when there's no body.

Shane: Am I crazy? I mean, who invites somebody to a memorial service as a plus-one? It's just...
Boy at Memorial: Bitches, am I right?
Shane: What did you say? Tell you something... We don't call women bitches, okay? That is a phrased used for delinquent fuckbois and sometimes male politicians.

Cassie: Oh, my God, lay off. It's a light beer, okay? It's practically flavored sparkling water by adult standards.

Cassie: Yeah, if I were a paper shredder, first thing I'd do is, I'd probably stop talking to myself.

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Rabbits

The Flight Attendant 1×2

Cassie: Oh, I mean, come on, guys. It is shocking, but people get murdered every day, so... Sorry, I don't... that's awful. I don't know why I said that.

Cassie: Okay, I have to ask you a really embarrassing question... What is a hedge fund?

Van: How's 10:00 a.m. tomorrow? Oh, if you've retained counsel, feel free to bring them.
Cassie: Was I supposed to retain counsel?
Van: Perfect answer. Looking forward to it.

Cassie: Honestly, if that was me in the photo, you know what? Then I guess my life would be freefalling down an insane pit of traumatic shit. So I guess I go out to a very, very loud place to drown out all the crazy stuff that's going on in my head, and you can bet that it would feel fucking crazy! But... It's not me in the picture!

Cassie: I need to shut my brain off for a few hours, you know?

Kim: It's nice to see you again, Ms. Bowden. I'm glad you could make it in.
Cassie: Yeah. Yeah, my dad always said, "You should be the fix, not the hitch."
Kim: See, I appreciate that wisdom.
Cassie: He also hated the police, so it's probably...

Van: Well, someone seems to like my aggressive attitude and tactics, because I've been here half as long as you, and we have the same job.
Kim: Is that right?
Van: Not to put too fine a point on it, but yes, I think that's right, ....
Kim: Okay, real talk?
Van: Always.
Kim: I like you, Van, but you have to know that you fit the FBI's male, pale, and Yale culture to a tee. I mean, hell, you probably had a lacrosse scholarship. I mean... And that's all fine for you, but I am a Black woman in a job that can still feel very much like a boys' club. So even though I served in the Navy, even though I have an outstanding tenure as a federal agent, I could never get away with the kind of brash bullshit that you don't even think twice about, because you don't have to think twice about it. So tell me one more time how your attitude is why we have the same job.
Van: ..... I hear you.
Kim: Good.

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The Flight Attendant

The Flight Attendant 1×1

Cassie: I... I gotta shower.
Ethan: Okay.
Cassie: No, no, no. Not in a fun way.

Alex: You know, these long flights they can get a little tedious.
Cassie: You know, that might have something to do with your very depressing reading material. I mean, "Crime and Punishment"?
Alex: This book's amazing.
Cassie: Okay. Tell me how it works out for any of the women in that book. I just am more of a "Doctor Zhivago" kind of girl.
Alex: Really? ... Well, that book's messy.
Cassie: What's wrong with messy?

Megan: What is your obsession with rescuing every single animal on this planet?

Alex: Okay. Well, Bangkok can be really magical. Will you think about it?

Cassie: I don't need a man to show me the magic of Bangkok.

Cassie: Mmm. Vodka. No!

Ani: What city?... Bangkok. Oh, speaking of getting arrested in foreign countries, do not get arrested there. The laws are like Byzantine.

Cassie: Okay. You made it on the plane. Get to Seoul, back to New York. And then, you're free. All right? Because you did nothing wrong.

Cassie: I did not kill you. Okay? I am not that kind of drunk. I am... I am public nudity yelling in the subway kind of drunk, okay?

Alex: Being a flight attendant seems like fun.
Cassie: It is. .... It is fun. You know, I get to see all these beautiful places and I don't know, look at passengers right in the eye and say the word trash. It's great.

Kim: I got a pal at CIA who says flight attendants are the most likely to be foreign assets, because of the unfettered travel.

Megan: Cassie? Yes. I believe that Cassie did take care of him. I mean, not take... took care him. She dealt with him more. Yes, yes.

Megan: Yes, she's my best friend... No. I... I don't know where she went after we landed. So um, you know, that's... basically, that's none of my business. So... but... All right. Listen.....

Cassie: Who was that woman?

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