- Lily Palmer: I want a divorce.
- [pause]
- Lily Palmer: What, you've got nothing to say?
- James Palmer: How do you want me to respond? I'm dealing with real problems.
- Lily Palmer: And our marriage isn't a real problem?
- James Palmer: Not compared to our survival, no.
- Benji Henry: The system tells you three lies. It tells you that you're free. You're not. It tells you that you can change it from within. You can't. And if you try to change it from the outside, it tells the rest of the world you're a violent criminal.
- [first lines]
- James Palmer: [narrating] "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, and see if I could learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." That's Henry David Thoreau in 1854. And it made sense to me 150 years later.
- James Palmer: So when you were still in your mama's belly, we sold our company, left our old friends, and moved here to Northern California. You see, I knew the great collapse was coming. Everyone says that now, but I knew.
- James Palmer: It didn't take much to tear us apart. Just a quick ripping away of the things we'd come to depend on. Our world was like a bubble waiting to pop.
- Benji Henry: Are you sure you can handle a convicted felon?
- Becky Snider: You sure you can handle a grown woman?
- Benji Henry: Only one way to find out...
- Becky Snider: Where in the middle of an apocalypse,the property value is going to shoot threw the roof!