"Ah, you see, that voice you can hear, err, that's Eric! And his job is to make sure that the show runs smoothly, and (laughs) as you've witnessed he is not doing a very good job. 'Cause you see, when Eric makes a mistake, you know it's not him who looks like a prick, is it, ladies and gentlemen? NO! No no no. No, it's me. I'm the prick! You know... I mean, I trained at a serious drama school, you know? There is more to me than this- this- this- this- this fucking horrible cruise ship jacket!"
— Eamon Tightly, Day -49
"I can’t do this anymore, you know I-... I- I- I- I don’t even wanna be here. You know I- I- I- I didn’t train… for THISSSSSS! You know I- I wanna sing the big swing numbers. Come sail with me, come on let's sail away! Let's say goodbye to the 9 to 5 down in Palmerino Bay! Dance Break! Yeah obviously i- i- i- it’s better with the tap shoes, you know? Y- i- i- it’s just better, you know? It’s perfect for a cruise around the bay, they say! Come Sail with me, come on, let's sail away!"
— Eamon Tightly, Day -49
"It's a steal, with Crazy Neil!"
— Crazy Neil, Day 1
"JESUS HORATIO FACEFUCKER!"
— Peter Clement, Day 153
"And quite frankly as me old mam used to say, you're a bit of a cunt."
— Peter Clement, Day 232
"Good evening. You know who we are. You've seen our symbols on your walls. You've heard them talk about us on the news. We are Disrupt. We are the Resistance. And it's time you knew the truth. You know Advance are lying to you. You know the elderly are not a burden. You know the rich were not all evil. And you know the Team Membership Card is an ID card, no matter what they try to tell you. But why should you trust us? Another faceless organisation. A shadowy figure with a distorted voice. You've seen it so many times in the movies. Well... This is not a movie. (unmasks self) My name is Alan James. I used to try and shock people for a living. For entertainment. But now we live in a time, where perhaps you need to be shocked. Perhaps we need to wake up. Advance are coming for our freedoms. They are coming for the fruits of our labors. They will take our wealth. They will euthanise our parents, smiling throughout. They will turn our children against us if we voice our concerns. But you don't have to accept it. A great many people already won't. You can Resist. You... can Disrupt. Find us. Talk with us. Join us. It isn't hard. We're everywhere."
— Alan James, Day 296
"Good evening. You know who we are. You've seen our symbols on your walls. You've heard them lie about us on the news. We are the Resistance. We are Disrupt, and we're going to tell you the truth. Advance, aided by the mass media, are lying to you. The elderly are not a burden. The rich were not all crazy. And the Team Membership Card is an ID card, no matter how tempting the prizes are. But who am I to tell you this? A voice from the shadows trying to tell you that everything you know is wrong. Why would you trust a man too scared to show his own face? (unmasks self) Don't switch off. Please. Don't switch off. My name is Alan James, and I think that certain rights are worth fighting for. The right to keep the rewards of our own hard work. The right to be kept alive in our dotage. And the right to question our government, without worrying what our children will report to their fellow Go-Getters. I love this country. It made me what I am, and I'll fight for it. In fact, I'll die for it, if I have to. But I can't do it alone. Disrupt are a growing movement, but we need your help, your support, please. Look for us. Find us. And if you also know in your heart that there is something deeply wrong in this country... Join us. Resist. Disrupt."
— Alan James, Day 296, if more choices are made in favor of Advance
"This new regime of ours is so... Seductive. I understand that. But before we all hand off our freedoms, shouldn't we ask to whom we're handing them over? Don't you wanna know what's being done in your name? How many people were transitioned last month? A record high. Again. If you care. Shouldn't someone ask Advance how they plan to deal with this blockade? How many years or months of supplies we have? Why aren't we asking these questions, instead of 'Whose shit is this'? There's a cat backstage, dressed as a fucking goalie for Christ's sake... He's even got the little gloves. Anyway. That's why I arranged for you all to see that broadcast in the last break. I didn't know it was going to be him. But I guess that just about sums it up. We are all up shit creek, with a paddle made of Alan fucking James. Christ, it's all so fucking pointless... I was gonna quit tonight. Take a holiday. Try something else. Out of the limelight. Maybe try having a relationship. I hear they're nice. Never tried it. I... I loved the news. And now, well... I've tried my best to be honest with you, but... this just isn't the news anymore. And I'm sorry! I've lost this fight. I've let you down. All of you. My name's Jeremy Donaldson. If you can... Somehow. And I envy you if you can. Have a peaceful night."
— Jeremy Robert Donaldson's last words on air, Day 296, if the Disrupt tape is played
"There is no glory in observation. That's what my father told me. He was an academic, and an alcoholic, and he died in a car accident when I was in my teens. But, before he left, he taught me the lessons I live my life by. And he is, and always was, right. There is no glory in observation, in rotting in your chair. The world rewards action. So, take action tonight. Like we are. Join us in the streets. Fight for a future worth living in. It won't take many more of you to make an unstoppable force. Stop observing and choose to live."
— Alan James, Day 912
"My name is Stacey, I guess you know that by now, I don't know why I put that in there. I don't watch the news, you hear all the important stuff from your mates. So I don't know what's considered important anymore, but I'm pretty sure it's not rehashed news and boy bands. I'm gonna talk about what's important to me. When Advance were first elected six years ago, I was nine and in a home. Not a family home like you'd call a home. This was a state children's home. It was... well it was fucking awful actually. It was like a Charles Dickens book. The roof leaked and the walls were damp some mornings. The food was bad. Drug and alcohol was everywhere. No-one cared. You had to watch your back all of the time because there weren't enough staff to manage us. And yes, as you'd imagine, there was a lot of... some bad stuff went down there with some of the staff, OK? Not all of them. But the others knew and they didn't stop it. And then Advance won the election and, like a miracle, things started to change. They got better. We had nicer food. The home was not just repaired, but redecorated and kitted out with boots and sports stuff and musical instruments and video games. Most of the staff were fired and the new ones - which there were more of - spent time talking and working with the bullies. And you know what? A second miracle. It worked. The bullying stopped. Life - my life - got better. Because finally there was enough money to do the good things. And Advance had the guts to do it. I joined Go-Getters, and on Liberation Night that gave me a group of friends that I could talk to and when the bombs went off and the power went out. Another miracle. I wasn't alone anymore. And that was the night I finally understood the importance of being in a Team. So here's my final thought: I know the people who were doing better under the old system long to go back. You say "we were freer" but what you mean is "we were richer." But for every one of you there is a hundred of me. And even now, after all you've had taken away, you are still doing better than I am, than I likely ever will. You still have homes of your own. And families of your own. Who love you. And I'll never have that. So maybe you should stop looking for the worst interpretation of everything this amazing government does and realise: It's not for you. It's for the millions like me. And you can cry and bleat all you want, but you're never going to get your money back, because it's already been spent. On miracles."'
— Stacey, a guest host on "Bring Your Daughter To Work Day", Day 1975
"Oh, please! The footage does nothing but lie. It can be made to show anything. To prove any point. Surely you don't need me to tell you that. You're the Territory's leading expert in massaging the facts into... into whatever shape we want. How do you think you rose so high so quickly? It's not your journalistic integrity, after all. That was Jeremy Donaldson's thing and... and look where that got him."
— Julia Salisbury, to Megan Wolfe, Day 2606
"I want to apologise to anyone who might have been upset with what they've just seen. Might have been? Sorry. No. I want to apologise to all of you because you will have found tonight's program upsetting. No. Not that either. I don't think I want to apologise. Because you should be upset. You should be incandescent. You should be marching on Team Headquarters demanding answers. I know I will be. And if the footage we've seen tonight turns out to be genuine, as I have no doubt it will, you should be asking yourself how we got here. And I think you'll conclude... that it had an awful lot to do with me. And people like me. People who should have been asking questions on your behalf. We were journalists. The gatekeepers of truth. And now? We're this shit-show. The great misdirection played out nightly. So bright and fun and shiny that you can't see what's happening right in front of your face. Well, that's on us. That's on me. And I thought that if I compromised a little I could still do a lot. That it was impossible to make a change unless you were on the inside. So... so I bent a little. And I went along with the small things. And now the small things are all that's left. Because when the change is happening so slowly... when... when it's only one cut a day... well, then it's easy to forget that you're bleeding. And one day there's no blood left. Just dust. And celebrity chefs. My name's Megan Wolfe. And I'm sorry for misleading you. Night after night. Only you can make tomorrow better."
— Megan Wolfe, Day 2606
"They want a government to keep them safe, happy, equal, and free. That's our job, you see. To... to make a perfect circle out of that impossible square. And if we can do just that one impossible thing, then they don't ask a lot of questions. They're not like you two. They... they don't want to see how the magic trick's done. They just want to gasp at the miraculous effect."
— Julia Salisbury, to Jeremy Donaldson and Megan Wolfe, Day 2606
"Forty five seconds. What can be said in forty five seconds? In a soundbite? A headline? How do you convey the shades of grey when there's only enough air-time for crass blacks and whites? And even if I could, would you watch? Or would you change channel; look for something more exciting? Less boring than the news. And if that really is what you'd do... is this really all my fault? Or could this, in some... profound... incredibly complex way, also be yours? My name is Julia Salisbury and I will make tomorrow better."
— Julia Salisbury, Day 2606
"There are so few times in a person's life where they face a decision that could actually make a difference. We're so disempowered. But in those moments the choices we make combine with the billions made by everyone else. That defines us. We remake the world one small choice at a time."
— Alan James, Day 2606
"And isn't that the heart of all this? You don't trust us to choose. You think you know best. You know what's good for us. And if we disagree with you, then you'll send us to Betterment. That's why there's no news any more. Because there's no choice. So there's no point."
— Jeremy Donaldson, Day 2606
