2001

JOE: … I know a restaurant that beats your Mess hands down.

SAM: I’d like that.

JACK: Well, General. I think it might be time to reconsider this retirement thing.

This guy’s different.  He’s the one I’ve been waiting for.  Worrying about.  The one that could tale her away.  Younger.  Smoother.  Suit and tie.  The kind that will win her heart, her trust, her body.  But never her soul.  That belongs to me, and we both know it.  For better and worse, that’s the part he can’t have.  That’s the part I won’t let go.  Not now.  Not ever. 

 

Why did she tell me before him?  Why did she ask for my help and not his?  Maybe she also realized that we made a lot of mistakes; trusting the Aschen was one.  Not trusting each other was worse.  And so I’ll do it, as she knew I would when she came to ask me.  Another suicide mission, but this one is for the right reasons.  And if it works, I’ll know why I did it.  There could only be one reason.  Our future. 

2010

 

SAM: I wonder why you sent it... I wonder when.

JACK: Yeah. You gotta wonder…