- Donald Ressler: Reddington. I *will* find you.
- Raymond 'Red' Reddington: As my father used to say to me, just because you've been bumped up to first chair in the orchestra, doesn't mean you can compose a symphony.
- [last lines]
- Elizabeth Keen: [taking refuge at the Russian embassy] My name is Masha Rostova. I'm a Russian agent. I work for the FSB, and I'm seeking diplomatic immunity.
- Raymond 'Red' Reddington: Chin up, Chang. Believe in yourself and others will, too.
- Bo Chang: What is that? Another one of your dumbass literary quotes?
- Raymond 'Red' Reddington: Fortune cookie.
- Elizabeth Keen: [Red is speechless about her new appearance] She was blonde, wasn't she? That picture of my mother in your apartment; she was blonde. I look just like her, don't I?
- Elizabeth Keen: [Red's contact looks younger than she is] This is him? This is the Troll Farmer?
- [Chang shuts the door in their faces]
- Raymond 'Red' Reddington: I should have warned you. He doesn't like that name.
- Raymond 'Red' Reddington: But that didn't mean your mother is gone. I see her in you everyday. She is as much a part of you as the air you breath.
- Elizabeth Keen: I can't do this.
- Raymond 'Red' Reddington: You can. You must.
- Matias Solomon: [exerting pressure on the CIA Director] I pine for the days when conquered generals had the sense and good taste to fall on their swords. Now they hold press conferences, negotiate advances for their memoirs while the rest of us clean up their messes.