Irons: You see things that other people don't, Sara. You see the periphery, the fringes, the faces in the shadows. Mighten this ability help you solve your crimes?
Sara: Mighten you tell me where I can find your boyfriend, Ian Nottingham?
Irons: Ian is his own man. He is in my employ, although not in that capacity. As you have probably observed, he's got an independent streak. I try not to micromanage him.

Irons: Have you ever eaten monkey's brains?

Irons: A dead body revenges not injuries.

Episode 1.02:
Nottingham: I suspect Sara Pezzini's a more worthy vessel than we - you - give her credit for.
Irons: And on what do we - you - base this opinion?

Irons: Oh, she noticed. Dominique Boucher is a painted veil. Do you know Shelley's sonnet?
"Lift not the painted veil which those who live call life
Though unreal shapes be pictured there"
"Unreal shapes" ? Seen any lately, Sara?

Irons: This world is a dance of predator and prey. The strong take the weak and are taken in turn by those still stronger. To overestimate one's strength is to place oneself constantly at risk until finally one's true measure is taken and one's life force is extinguished.

Episode 1.04:
Irons: Deface a priceless one-of-a-kind masterpiece? What kind of monster of you think I am?
Sara: I'm working on it.

Episode 1.05:
Irons: She grows bolder.
Nottingham: It's to be expected.
Irons: And what if she dies foolishly? Wastes her life on some piece of gutter trash?
Nottingham: Would the blade allow that?
Irons: Never presume to know what the Witchblade would or would not allow.

Irons: You should have stopped it.
Nottingham: Perhaps ...or perhaps such an intervention will prove to be more valuable later on.
Irons: Up until now, I've done quite well trusting you to your own initiative. But I can see that I will start having to be more explicit in my directions.

Episode 1.06:
Irons: No, Sara ... (moving closer) ... that's not what I want. What I want ... is the pleasure of rejecting you ... as you once rejected me.

Irons: You should have cut off her hand.
Nottingham: Next time I will.

Episode 1.07:
Irons: You are a good and faithful servant, Ian. But ? you know not your master.

Irons: Why aren't you with her?
Nottingham: There's nothing I can do for her.
Irons: You can protect her from others with malintent.
Nottingham: She's already got a guardian angel.
Irons: You never used to second-guess my judgments. You were the perfect scalpel. Sharp, precise, directable.
Nottingham: I am nothing but what you made me! Now I have the capacity to evolve. It's only because you gave it to me.
Irons: Hollow words, Ian.

Episode 1.09:
Irons: Titillation ... enigma ... seduction. What do these words have in common? Hmm? I'll go on then. Intimidation ... temptation ... abandonment ... rejection ... opposition ...Is the picture getting clearer?
Nottingham: These are all stratagems for controlling Sara Pezzini.
Irons: For containing her.

Irons: Behold the future, Sara.

Irons: Excuse me. I can only eat so much crow at one sitting.

Irons: You wound me, Sara.

Sara: Did you know I was coming?
Irons: We're linked, you and I. Does this disturb you?
Sara: Not this time. Let's go.

Irons: I'm sorry, Sara. It's a long-standing policy that the VCN newsroom is totally autonomous. No thinking person would want the network's owner dictating what gets covered and what doesn't.
Sara: What? Now you grow scruples?

Episode 1.10:
Irons: Behold - time runs two ways.

Irons: Rest easy. I know what you tried. Had this experiment failed, I could have spared our fair lady. But since it succeeded, you know what you must do. My life is in your hands.

Episode 1.11:

Irons: As you lay dying, Bruno, remember this - I warned you.
Dante: I understand, Mr. Irons. I understand.

Irons: Of course, I did not order your father killed. Nor did I order your lover or your partner killed. I am not the master of the universe, Sara.

Irons: Some women in your bloodline ... yourself, Elizabeth Bronte ... are born with certain biological anomalies. In fact ...it is from the preserved stem cells of Elizabeth and the work of my well-financed researchers that I was able to create Ian Nottingham and then replicate and improve him.
Sara: "Flesh and blood."
Irons: Yes ...the perfect fighting machine.

Irons: If you make one move, Sara ... the last of your friends will die. And, yes, I did order James Pezzini killed. I could never let emotional attachments stand in the way of you fulfilling your ... well, my ... destiny.