- Agent Verona Parker: I believe you. But there are laws for that.
- Adam Clay: There are laws for that. Until they fail. Then they've got me.
- Director Janet Harward: [answering the phone] Why are you calling me on the "never call me on this line" line ?
- Adam Clay: I know you're the middleman. Who's above you?
- Rico Anzalone: No -- they'll kill me.
- Adam Clay: I'll torture you, *then* kill you.
- Agent Verona Parker: She got scammed. Somebody emptied out all her accounts, her savings, her retirement. Got every penny. Maxed out all her cards. She was an educator, and director of a charity for kids. They got two million out of that account.
- Adam Clay: You know who did it?
- Agent Verona Parker: I talked to an agent in our cyber-crimes office. This crew's been operating for two years, and we don't even have names. And even if we did, good luck building an indictment that would stand up in court. Some defense attorney would just argue that the elderly victim agreed to wire a complete stranger his entire life savings.
- Adam Clay: Taking from an elderly person is as bad as stealing from a child. Maybe worse. Someone hurts a child, there are parents. People who care, ready to step in. Someone hurts an older person... sometimes, they're left to face the hornets alone. Because either it goes unnoticed... or no one cares.
- Agent Verona Parker: I care. And I'm stubborn. And so help me God, I'm going to get these motherfuckers who did this.
- Adam Clay: I need to take care of the hive.
- Agent Verona Parker: You've been up all night.
- Adam Clay: The hive is more important.
- Pettis: Can't somebody just pick up the phone, and tell this yahoo to stand the fuck down?
- Wallace Westwyld: That's the one thing Beekeepers don't do; stand down. Not unlike bees themselves, Beekeepers keep working until they die.
- Wallace Westwyld: [speaking to Derek] For someone who has elevated fucking up into an art form, this might well be your Mona Lisa.
- President Danforth: You're a good looking kid. You really are. You know that?
- Derek Danforth: [suspiciously] What does that mean?
- President Danforth: It means that God doesn't give with both hands.
- Adam Clay: [Spoken twice, to the call-centre staff] Repeat after me, "I will never steal from the weak and the vulnerable again".
- Derek Danforth: You're scared.
- Wallace Westwyld: Dead right I'm scared. Terrified. So should you be.
- Derek Danforth: Wallace, just tell me what the fuck this guy is.
- Wallace Westwyld: He's probably the last pair of eyes that you're going to sneer at.
- Adam Clay: Nobody's untouchable. Sometimes, when the hive's out of balance... you have to replace the queen.
- Mickey Garnett: What if I find this guy? Then what?
- Derek Danforth: You -- you get a wrecking crew together, and you go Goodfellas on him. I mean, come on, you're a connected guy, right?
- Agent Verona Parker: Now, who the fuck are you, and what are you doing in my mother's house?
- Adam Clay: Verona... I'm so sorry.
- Agent Verona Parker: Well, how do you know my name?
- Wallace Westwyld: [Speaking to Pettis and his men] When I was sworn in as director, I was read into programs I never imagined existed. Well... there are programs even I wasn't privy to. Like the Beekeepers. The honeybee has always had a special relationship with humanity. A sacred relationship. Why? No bees, no agriculture. No agriculture, no civilization. Our nation is not unlike a beehive, with its complex systems of workers, caretakers, even royalty. If any of the beehive's complex mechanisms are compromised, the hive collapses. Someone, a long time ago, decided that a mechanism was needed to keep our nation safe -- a mechanism outside the chain of command, outside the system. Its one mission -- to keep the system safe. Beekeepers are given all resources, empowered to act on their own judgment. For decades, they have quietly worked to keep the hive safe. That is, until now. It appears that a retired Beekeeper has gone off program, and is acting in what he mistakenly believes is the hive's best interest.
- Mickey Garnett: [Looking at the burned-out shell of the call center] It seems we had a disgruntled customer.
- Derek Danforth: Uh, I just can't comprehend why you're bothering me. Just get in touch with the attorney, and start shoving back.
- Mickey Garnett: Well, yeah, I -- I -- I don't think that legal's gonna -- gonna help much.
- Derek Danforth: Okay, tell me what the fuck is going on, right now.
- Mickey Garnett: This dude just strolls in, saying we're stealing from people, and he just tears through all my security guys like fucking tissue paper and, um...
- Derek Danforth: And what?
- Mickey Garnett: And he burns the place to the ground. Yeah. The call center is gone. I'm standing here staring at a $30 million building. It's, it's now -- it's just a giant fucking ashtray. Four people didn't get out.
- Derek Danforth: You're telling me that this asshole burnt the entire building down, and dropped four fucking bodies? Yeah, that's not exactly a disgruntled customer, is it?
- Wallace Westwyld: Just hear me out. Now, you know who I work for, don't you?
- Director Janet Harward: Oh, yeah. God help you, Wallace.
- Wallace Westwyld: Exactly. Well, Director Harward, my young friend seems to have caught the unwanted attentions of... I don't know how else to say this... of a Beekeeper.
- Director Janet Harward: Wait, a -- a *Beekeeper* Beekeeper?
- Wallace Westwyld: As in.
- Director Janet Harward: Well, that's not good.
- Wallace Westwyld: No, it's not.
- Director Janet Harward: What's the body count?
- Wallace Westwyld: Seven today.
- Director Janet Harward: You busy making funeral arrangements?
- Wallace Westwyld: I need help, Janet. Not jokes.
- Agent Verona Parker: [reading] In a beehive there's something called a queen slayer. It's a bee that will rise up and kill the queen if she produces defective offspring.
- Detective Chen: [referring to Adam Clay] Until we can clear him, he's our best and only perp.
- Agent Verona Parker: [stunned] Clear him?
- Detective Chen: Agent Parker, I know that's your mother. I understand. But there's a world where she committed suicide.
- Agent Verona Parker: Suicide? You can't be serious. That woman loved life more than anybody I know. But by all means, let's just completely ignore the big white dude in her house with a knife.
- Adam Clay: [speaking to Derek Danforth via Mickey Garnett's cell phone] Who do I have the pleasure of speaking with?
- Derek Danforth: Fuck you. That's who. You burned down my million-dollar fucking call center.
- Adam Clay: Now I'm gonna burn you down. You haven't told me your name.
- Derek Danforth: I told you my name. It's fuck you. Mr. Fuck You. You better fucking remember it, because you don't burn *me* down -- I burn *you* down. You understand me? You are fucking with forces that you cannot comprehend.
- Adam Clay: You sound young. I bet you don't have estate planning.
- Derek Danforth: I'm fucking 28-years-old. Why would I need that?
- Adam Clay: I'm about to show you.
- Wallace Westwyld: [answering his cell phone] Does this mean you've taken pity on an old man?
- Director Janet Harward: So your problem? He's retired from the program. No longer active.
- Wallace Westwyld: Well, that changes everything.
- Director Janet Harward: The current active Beekeeper is aware of the issue, and is going to be taking things from here. You can rest easy, old friend.
- Wallace Westwyld: Oh, no. Janet, the current active Beekeeper is a fucking lunatic who should've been removed months ago. God help us now.
- Agent Verona Parker: Okay, listen. Remember our favorite burning building? United Data Group. The guys who work there are hackers, con men, fraudsters, et cetera, et cetera.
- [showing Matt Wiley a photo of Mickey Garnett]
- Agent Verona Parker: Guy who ran it. Garnett. He's in the book. He's a known mob associate. He's missing, but I've got P.D. chasing him down.
- [puts the photo down]
- Agent Verona Parker: Okay, so I had some analysts run some shit, and I think I'm starting to get the shape of the animal. Dude, I think United Data Group is one of several call centers. So there's gotta be, like, a central office that's controlling all of them, and that's what we've gotta find. Wiley, this could be, like, a billion-dollar-a-year operation.
- [throwing a handful of chips at a silent Wiley]
- Agent Verona Parker: Hello?
- Agent Matt Wiley: Hey!
- Agent Verona Parker: Did you hear a single word I just said?
- Agent Matt Wiley: Yeah.
- Agent Verona Parker: And?
- Agent Matt Wiley: I was just thinking you come in here, hung-over on your day off, and gain more yardage on this thing than the whole squad has in two years.
- Agent Verona Parker: Yeah, well, they fucked with my family.
- Adam Clay: [speaking to Rico Anzalone] You've stolen hundreds of millions from people who've done nothing but work hard all their lives.
- [showing Anzalone a photo of Eloise]
- Adam Clay: She was an educator. A mom. Dedicated her whole life to helping people. Yesterday, she shot herself because you took two million from a charity she ran. She was the only person who ever took care of me.
- Anisette: You don't have to do this, you know? Why not let Clay do his thing? Your mom is dead because of these people.
- Agent Verona Parker: Wherever it's headed... I swore an oath. I can't stand by and watch it happen.
- Anisette: Even if he's right?
- Agent Verona Parker: [looking unsure] Even if he's right.
- Lazarus: Fuck, bruh! How'd you piss this oak off, huh?
- Wallace Westwyld: I...
- [points to Derek]
- Derek Danforth: You're looking at me?
- Wallace Westwyld: Mm-hmm.
- Derek Danforth: How is any of this my fault? Wasn't your supersecret CIA data mining software supposed to, I don't know, maybe filter out un-fucking-stoppable killing machines?
- Wallace Westwyld: Don't you fuck with me, young man! Any other life, you'd be in jail!
- Lazarus: [speaking to Adam Clay] Beekeeper, huh? God's right hand? You aren't shit.
- [whips out his gun and aims it at Clay's head]
- Agent Verona Parker: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
- Lazarus: Hey, take a step back. I'm putting this asshole's brains on the lawn.
- Agent Verona Parker: What are you doing? He's not even armed.
- Lazarus: Armed? As long as this motherfucker's breathing, he's armed.
- Agent Verona Parker: I wanted to thank you for taking care of my Mom. I tried to stay in her life as much as I could. Obviously, I could've done a better job.
- Adam Clay: Being old can be a lonely thing. Turn a certain age, you cease to exist. Cease to matter. Used to be a part of life, of the family. Part of the hive, I guess you could say.
- Agent Verona Parker: There's some British Isles hiding in your accent.
- Adam Clay: I was born there.
- Agent Verona Parker: I hated that she was out here alone. She wouldn't leave. There's too many memories.
- Wallace Westwyld: [speaking to Derek Danforth] I put up with you. I've put up with your tantrums, kept you out of the tabloids, kept you out of jail... the endless stream of sex workers... you're a drowning man. Do you know that?
- Derek Danforth: [trying in vain to hide the cocaine he was snorting] Hey, uh, you -- you look fucking great, by the way. I mean, power just -- it just looks so good on you.
- President Danforth: Doing blow on your father's desk... God, how I wish he was still alive so I could kill him.
- Agent Verona Parker: [disgusted with the call reps at the call center] Fucking scumbags. I want IDs on all of them.
- Agent Matt Wiley: You know this is just the tip of, like, 20 spears, right?
- Agent Verona Parker: Can I just have this moment?
- Wallace Westwyld: [in the President's beach-side mansion] Get the Secret Service out of the house. I don't want them here. They're C team. B team at best.
- Derek Danforth: Uh, Mom's detail is not gonna like that.
- Wallace Westwyld: Well, if Mom's detail gets in the way of what's coming for us, they're dead men, and so are we.
- Wallace Westwyld: He's not like you. You're tier one operators, former SEAL team six, Delta group. You are, in other words ... pussies. If you were in the same room, he would kill you.
- Agent Verona Parker: So, help me understand, because I'm a little confused. What's the nature of your business?
- Sleazy Call Rep: Don't know nothing about no business.
- Agent Verona Parker: So then why are people just wiring you their entire life savings?
- [sarcastic chuckle]
- Agent Verona Parker: Must be your winning personality.
- Sleazy Call Rep: They got us lawyers, so maybe you wanna talk to them.
- Agent Verona Parker: [looking at the call rep's shirt] You know, this is a really nice shirt, by the way. Did you steal it out of a casket, you dog fucker?
- Deputy Director Prigg: What do you know about a classified algorithmic data mining software package developed by the intelligence community?