- Raymond 'Red' Reddington: [about the seller the FBI is tracking] If you really want her to talk, I should meet with her.
- Donald Ressler: Every time you "meet", someone ends up dead.
- Raymond 'Red' Reddington: We've gotten off to a rocky start.
- Harold Cooper: You've killed three people.
- Raymond 'Red' Reddington: I'm not perfect.
- Elizabeth Keen: You're not telling us everything.
- Raymond 'Red' Reddington: Let me put your mind at ease. I'm never telling you everything.
- Raymond 'Red' Reddington: Thank you.
- Elizabeth Keen: For what?
- Raymond 'Red' Reddington: For being honest with me. In my life, I don't encounter that frequently.
- Agent Meera Malik: [interrogating the Courier with Ressler] Good cop/bad cop isn't working. Let's try bad cop/worse cop.
- Raymond 'Red' Reddington: Have you ever wondered how criminals who know they can't trust one another are still able to conduct business with each other?
- Elizabeth Keen: They replace trust with fear and the threat of violence.
- Raymond 'Red' Reddington: The next target on the Blacklist is the physical embodiment of both. He's known as the Courier, and his involvement in a transaction virtually guarantees its success. Once he's hired to make a delivery, he can't be bribed, he can't be stopped. If either party attempts to double cross the other, he kills them both. The perfect middleman for an imperfect world.
- Agent Meera Malik: [Ressler knocks out a doorman and forces his way into a nightclub] That was hot.
- Elizabeth Keen: You know he can hear you, right?
- Agent Meera Malik: Yup.
- Elizabeth Keen: [while talking to Ressler about Reddington, her phone rings] Speak of the devil, it's the devil.