- Allison: We blame the rebels for erasing our history, right?
- Sheriff Holston: Yes.
- Allison: So why can't we ask questions about that stuff? And if losing our history is so bad, why can some goons from Judicial send you down to the mines if you happen to have a relic from the before times?
- Gloria Hildebrandt: [to Allison] Do you really think you're the kind of person they want having children?
- Sheriff Holston: "We do not know why we are here. We do not know who built the Silo. We do not know why everything outside the Silo is as it is. We do not know... when it will be safe to go outside. We only know that day is not today.
- [cries]
- Sheriff Holston: Allison Becker. On behalf of the people of the Silo, I hope that you will clean so that we will better see the world outside our sanctuary as it is and thereby be reminded that here is safe and there is not." Have you any last words?
- Allison: I love you.
- Sheriff Holston: I love you.
- Mayor Jahns: Allison Becker. You have been charged with and convicted of violating the cardinal law of our society. Any spoken request to leave the Silo is granted, but it is irrevocable. Once uttered, it is determinative. You have been asked to clean and have been provided with materials to do so. But you cannot be forced into cleaning. Once outside the air lock, you are outside the law.