Without a Trace quotes

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[Jack talks to a homeless woman who may have witnessed their missing person.]
Jack: Did you see anything?
[She stares blankly]
Jack: Here's twenty bucks; did you see anything?
woman: Yeeah...

[Leah and her teenage son jokingly argue as she answers the door.]
Leah Robinson: Oh sure, fine, don't answer it.
Pete Robinson: It's not for me.
Leah: Yeah, well one day it will be and the beautiful girl standing on the other side of the door is getting sent home.
Pete: Fine, no grandchildren for you.

[Martin and Samantha are interviewing an alien enthusiast.]
Duncan: You're not, like, men in black?
Samantha: The movie?
Martin: You mean the government-alien conspiracy?
Samantha: [to Martin] Wait, what conspiracy?
Martin: Well, it's basically a pact between the gray aliens and the secret rebel faction of the government intent on destroying the human race.
Samantha: [amused] Really?
Martin: [serious] Yes.

[Martin has been fielding calls about the team's latest case, and marking locations on a map.]
Samantha: Lots of little red dots.
Martin: Phone's ringing every 15 seconds. Must be a lot of little brown-haired kids unaccounted for. Look, I know people are trying to be helpful but...for example, this lady? She keeps calling me. She's convinced that she saw Gabe on T.V. this morning ringing the bell to open the stock exchange.
Samantha: Trouble is, just when you think you've got every nutcase in America calling your number that's the exact moment you get a live one.
Martin: Well, one better come in soon, 'cause I'm running out of push-pins.

[Martin has just tackled a suspect, and they have both landed in a pond.]
Jack: Where did you learn that? White collar?
Martin: No, sixth grade swim class.

[Martin is going through some files and eating a sandwich when Danny walks up to his desk.]
Martin: It's about time. I saved you half.
[Danny takes a bite out of the sandwich.]
Martin: I was talking about the files.
Danny: Do you mind?

[Martin is on the phone with Jack, who is inside a bookstore with a suspect.]
Martin: I'll take care of it.
[Martin hangs up the phone and turns to the other agents.]
Martin: Jack wants us to send in a pizza.
Season 2

[Martin is unconscious in a hospital bed.]
Samantha: I'm sorry I didn't come to see you sooner. I, ah, I guess I was scared to see you like...like this. I want you to know that I know that I haven't been very good about...being there for you. But I'm here now. And...I'm not going anywhere until I know you're alright.

[Martin's father has just made a brusque exit.]
Jack: Didn't even wait for me to say, "Yes, sir."
Martin: He never does.

[Paige Hobson has shot the Makeban leader General Gamba, whose head of security killed her pregnant friend.]
Paige Hobson: Adisa says there's a moment that makes people take action. I guess that was my moment.

[Samantha and Vivian are talking about a suspect.]
Vivian: Wounded and cunning. Dangerous combination.
Samantha: Yeah.
[Martin, using a cane, walks over.]
Martin: Talking about me?

[Samantha is looking through Eve's modeling photos.]
Samantha: Eve Cleary as J-Lo. Eve Cleary as Britney. Who the hell are we looking for?

[Talking to the stepson of a missing person]:
Danny: You know what I used to do when I was your age and I missed someone?
Robert: What?
Danny:: I used to lay in my bed at night and I used to look out the window and I'd stare up at the sky and I would name each of the stars after someone that I missed. So whenever I felt lonely, I'd look up at the sky and I'd see Daniella, Erica and Andrea right there. It made it a little better.

[The team has found their missing person, a friend of Jack's, gravely injured in a warehouse filled with chemical weaponry, the use of which he was trying to prevent.]
Danny: We've secured the building and took out Simmons, but we also found the the chemical they were going to spray at the convention- there's a lot of it. We need to clear out.
Jack: [quietly] I'm not leaving.
Danny: Jack, we need to go. Once this place is safe we can get help for Max.
Jack: [Jack has been crying.] I'm not. Going. Anywhere.

[The team investigates the disappearance of a middle school teacher, and find it connected with the plight of one of her students and her family's own dark past.]