- Wells: [First lines] I'm told that there are points of space. Points of singularity, that transforms everything that reaches them. In heaven there was God. On Earth, we had the plague.
- Wells: Let me ask you something. When you go to take a carrier away, and go to knock on the door, you're not worried you might get infected?
- Marie: [about someone she knew with the plague] Actually, once she got infected, I never saw her again.
- Wells: [Narrating] Scientists couldn't explain it, doctors couldn't cure it. So government instituted a system of surveillance to protect us from the carriers of the disease.