- Jenkins: Magic has three parts. Power, to change reality. Focus, to direct that change, and an effect, that change in the real world.
- Eve Baird: It's not a suggestion. It's an order.
- Cassandra Cillian: And I'm not a soldier!
- Eve Baird: You're right. I am, but you're not. You're Librarians. Librarians win because of what they know. So what do you know?
- Eve Baird: And you're willing to risk your life for him?
- Ezekiel Jones: I won't risk my life. But I assume I can outrun anything, so... I'm in.
- Eve Baird: [to Jenkins] I've gone into the field with experienced soldiers with a good plan, good Intel, and still come home with nothing but dog tags.
- Jenkins: It's the thread
- Eve Baird: The thread. What's all this other stuff?
- Jenkins: Magic has three parts. Power, to change reality. Focus to direct that change and in effect that change in the real world.
- Jake Stone: The effect would be the labyrinth, right? Created by the focus of the Minoan artifacts.
- Jenkins: Mr. Stone, you have a knack for this.
- Jake Stone: But the power that holds it all together, that's the original thread in the myth. Millenia old.