On the NPCs

Jack Bennet

On Mary Beth Manly: Beth.. poor beth, She umm Shes not so well after everything that happened got no family and that fuckin Psychopath Booth craved up her baby and cloned it.. I think hes alive somewhere I mean the rest of us all lived I think Booth stole her kid. Im not saying it in front of her but Ill make it my mission to find out the truth and when im done Ill ruin booth he wont have enough change for a bigmac meal when im done with that sick perverted little fucker, I mean you can hind behind science but Beth is just a kid her self Damn and thats her baby, What the hell! she most of all needs us right now, I mean without us to look after her whos she got?

On David Jaffe: "It's not that David and Miriam got divorced that bothers me. It's not that David remarried, or even that he had another son. They're my parents and if they're happier apart than they are together then I'm happy for them. What bothers me is that things changed at all. Maybe it's naive of me, but after more than thirty years I'd just sort of assumed that, no matter how much things changed for me, they'd stay basically the same. But now, with things changed, if I'd have to get to know these two people from scratch. I don't know if I can do that now."

On Vivian Janell: "I have the world's best secretary. I really hate her, sometimes. Vivian's insanely competent at her job, too good to work for me; if she has any sense at all, she'll jump ship for a management position somewhere else within a year, or at least demand one at Hopewell. But, of course, Vivian hasn't got any sense. That's what makes her so frustrating; she can keep track of the positions of a hundred Senators on a thousand issues, but it's a wonder if she doesn't lock herself out of her apartment every morning. If there's anything out there that can kill me, it'd have to be her."

On Mary Beth Manly: "I'm not even going to pretend that I can understand the pain that Beth's going through right now; I've never lost anything as big, as important, as she has. I don't know her story - if she has a boyfriend out there, parents who are looking for her; right now, we're all she's got and we're going to have to do our best to take care of her.
"But right now, much as I hate to even think this, Beth is our worst enemy. She may be getting control over her powers, but she doesn't have control over her mind. Her reaction at the Lincoln Memorial... we should've seen that coming, we should've been fast enough to stop her. We weren't, and look what happened to Jack. We can do a better job of it in the future, but if we always have to have one eye on Beth, what else is out there that we're going to miss?"

On Julie Young: "Julie's the reason I got into politics. Or people just like her, at least. People who have kids to raise, jobs and relationships to worry about; who don't have time to follow every bit of bullshit that goes through Washington; real people. The sort of people who can get by in life, but just wish things could be a little easier. That's why I want Julie on Hopewell's board so badly; she's the only one of us who has any real perspective on what's normal."

On Agent Vernon Marks: If there is anybody in this whole mess that I will have a problem liking and getting along with it'll be him. He's a good man, and very competant at his job. He is not lacking in the courage department nor is he undisiplined. However, there has always been a longstanding rivaly and bad blood between Secret Service and the Militart service. Part of it is the mentality. Both of us are trained very similarly. Only his job is to protect a single person or family, and mine is to protect the whole country. Plus in general the SS has a bit of a superiority complex about their job and tend to think of themselves as above a regular serviceman. His parting line said it all. "Rein in your dog Jack." *Yes, I know Arthur is being a little hypecritical about this* He's a good man, we just won't get along.