- Ye Wenjie: On the stage where my father was killed, there was a poster. I saw it all over Beijing that year. A man with a hammer smashing the Buddha, Jesus, and a rock and roll record. The slogan said, "Destroy the old world." "Forge the new world." It's the only thing I ever agreed with the Red Guards about.
- Jin Cheng: Didn't you see the Eye in the Sky? Do you really think they're still trying to save us?
- Ye Wenjie: No. They learned the truth about us. We lie. We deceive. There's a darkness in us that they cannot understand. We're too dangerous to coexist with.
- Jin Cheng: And it never occurred to you that you were risking everything, inviting a more advanced species to conquer our world?
- Ye Wenjie: I was willing to risk everything. I saw the path we were on. I saw where it led...
- Jin Cheng: "I," "I," I," "I." Who gave you the right to decide for all of us? You know, Vera always said you were a great physicist, but that's not how you'll be remembered. You're a traitor.
- Jin Cheng: The night you got back from Panama, you said it was an ordinary training exercise.
- Raj Varma: I had to.
- Jin Cheng: How could you not be bothered when 1,000 people were killed?
- Raj Varma: The people on that ship murdered scientists. They crippled our research so the San-Ti can murder the rest of us more easily. These are the people who murdered Jack. If you had the chance, what would you have done?
- Jin Cheng: What bothers me is that you seem so comfortable with the result.
- Raj Varma: You do realize that the work you're doing for Wade is in preparation for war. If you're not comfortable being part of a war, it doesn't make sense for you to lead a reconnaissance mission.
- Jin Cheng: Don't drag me into the mud. What I'm doing and what you did don't even compare.
- Raj Varma: Some of us have to do the ugly stuff so you can keep your hands clean.
- Auggie Salazar: What are you even working on for that piece of shit?
- Jin Cheng: I need a radiation sail, about five square kilometers in area, but with a mass of less than 50 kilograms.
- Auggie Salazar: No.
- Jin Cheng: Everything depends on this nanosail, and there's no one who can design it besides you.
- Auggie Salazar: I said no.
- Jin Cheng: We've got some of the best physicists working on this. The resources are insane!
- Auggie Salazar: The last time we gave the best physicists in the world insane resources, they gave us Hiroshima.
- Jin Cheng: No, I'm not designing a weapon.
- Auggie Salazar: Not yet.