- Joan Girardi: So, you're all confident about the Physics final?
- Grace Polk: I don't study for finals. It's against the laws of anarchy.
- Adam Rove: How can there be laws of anarchy?
- Joan Girardi: It's a brilliant idea, hiding in plain sight.
- Ryan Hunter: I'm not hiding, Joan.
- Joan Girardi: I'm onto you.
- Ryan Hunter: Beyond what we've discussed?
- Joan Girardi: Beyond that. Like vandalism and arson.
- Ryan Hunter: You can't imagine how lonely I've been all these years, Joan. And frustrated knowing there had to someone out there with a similar experience, wondering who it was, and if we'd meet, and when we did, if that person would be a worthy opponent. I have to admit, I never pictured a sixteen year old girl.
- Joan Girardi: Seventeen. With a working knowledge of physics, not to mention a real bug up my ass about anyone who wants to hurt my friends.
- Ryan Hunter: The point is, I'm impressed. And I'm excited. I think this is gonna be a fair fight, don't you?
- Joan Girardi: I have a slight advantage. I have God on my side.
- Ryan Hunter: Mmm. So far, I have the cops, the newspaper, and the school board. He didn't stop any of that from happening. I think this is going to be the challenge of a lifetime.
- Judith Montgomery: Man, you're a deep sleeper. I thought you'd never wake up.
- Joan Girardi: [groaning] Oh, I've had this dream before.
- Judith Montgomery: Look, I don't have much time. Let me do the talking.
- Joan Girardi: How do you not have much time? You're dead.
- Judith Montgomery: Whatever. That's your perspective.
- Joan Girardi: I swear I listened all year, I took notes, I-I got B's, but it's like I never even saw this stuff before.
- Luke Girardi: Physics is hard to retain. It's counterintuitive to the way we day-to-day see the world. I mean, we ignore the quantum and trust the Newtonian. It's habit.
- Grace Polk: I have no idea what you just said.
- Friedman: That's because men understand science better. They've done studies, Grace.
- [she and Glynis slap the back of his head]
- Friedman: Ohh! Not you, you don't count.
- Grace Polk: Girardi, what's with the zombie look?
- Joan Girardi: I saw Rocky.
- Adam Rove: Wait, Rocky?
- Friedman: Dead Rocky?
- Grace Polk: Every year this time, she breaks down. It's like her warranty's up.
- Police Officer: Guy out here, he says he has an appointment. I pretended to be your assistant, which I thought was kind of fun.
- Will Girardi: Who is he?
- Police Officer: Uh, new president of the Citizens' Watchdog Committee.
- Will Girardi: Oh, here we go.
- Police Officer: Now, now, you promised to play nice with the citizens.
- Will Girardi: I don't remember that.
- Police Officer: [scoffing snicker] He's about twelve. Don't eat him alive.
- Will Girardi: I promise to cook him first.
- Will Girardi: Out of curiosity, why would a young guy like you want this job?
- Ryan Hunter: I have the dubious distinction of being independently wealthy.
- Will Girardi: I always meant to do that.
- Little Girl God: Matter is neither created nor destroyed.
- Joan Girardi: Okay, I've been studying physics. I get that part.
- Little Girl God: I know you understand it, but you have to believe it, because it's going to be on the other test, which is unlike any test you've ever had.
- Joan Girardi: No chance you could help me study for this one, maybe give me an advance copy?
- Little Girl God: Just start with the question.
- Joan Girardi: What question?
- Little Girl God: The one you asked the first time you saw me. Think about it.
- Joan Girardi: "Why me"?
- Little Girl God: That's the one.
- Joan Girardi: So, when did it all start for you?
- Ryan Hunter: Oh, I was fourteen. I was a lonely, emotional kid. And when my parents got divorced, I needed someone to talk to. So I made him up. And suddenly, he was real.
- Joan Girardi: You know why you were chosen and all that?
- Ryan Hunter: I don't really care.
- Joan Girardi: Where do you think it's leading? I mean, there must be some kind of big plan. Right? That's why we're meeting. It's all coming together.
- Ryan Hunter: Like I said, Joan, I just don't care.
- Joan Girardi: What do you mean?
- Ryan Hunter: Well, he's master of the universe, he created everything. I'm supposed to be impressed? With this universe? You do watch the news occasionally?
- Joan Girardi: Well, yeah, but...
- Ryan Hunter: If he were really that divine, not to mention smart and merciful, he would have scrapped the "free will" idea. We would have been like computers; intelligent, capable, infallible even, but not free.
- Joan Girardi: I don't get it.
- Ryan Hunter: We don't have to be bossed around by some love-starved egocentric deity. I didn't ask to be born, but now that I'm here, it's all up to me. I like it that way. My life is a gift? Okay, thanks. He can't ask for it back.
- [series last lines]
- Joan Girardi: Okay, God, so what's the message here? Ryan is the adversary?
- Goth Kid God: I told you before, he's a connection.
- Joan Girardi: He's evil.
- Goth Kid God: Connections are mostly neutral, Joan. Ryan is human, and every human, by virtue of free will, has the choice of how to direct his actions for good or evil.
- Joan Girardi: Yeah, he's made it clear how he's directing his.
- Goth Kid God: He saved Adam. He got him a job.
- Joan Girardi: He trashed churches and burned down a synagogue.
- Goth Kid God: The universe is kinetic, Joan. Every day, you have to make a choice. Make it better or worse. Most people do a little bit of both. And there are those powerful enough to overbalance the scales on either end.
- Joan Girardi: So is this fancy talk for you expect me to save the world?
- Goth Kid God: Counterbalance is a better word.
- Joan Girardi: You want me to fight back?
- Goth Kid God: I expect you to fulfill your true nature, same as it ever was.
- Joan Girardi: I really don't think I'm up to this.
- Goth Kid God: I think you are, or else you wouldn't have met him.
- Joan Girardi: This... this is seriously going to cut into my normal high school routine.
- Goth Kid God: You never liked high school that much.
- Joan Girardi: If you want me to do this, I get it, but I can't do it alone. My own father doesn't believe me. My ex-boyfriend is siding with the Devil. I have no weapons. Other people who have fought back, you know, like, the other Joan, she had an army, okay? I don't have anything like that. I-I-I... where's my army?
- [God glances at her group of friends]
- Joan Girardi: Yeah. So basically I'm on my own.
- Goth Kid God: You have everything you need, Joan.