(to Nate)
Sophie: This is a new low, even for you. We both know, you're cold, you're distant, you're emotionally unavailable, but you're always punctual.

Parker: Is there a time machine?
Eliot: There is.
Parker: Yeah.
Eliot: Yeah, not so much a machine though, as probably a portal. You don't really sit down as much as...
Parker: I am gonna go get that portal and I am going to go--I am going to take...

Sophie: Fine. Off to the U.S. Patent Office, then. Let's go steal a...
Parker: Let's go steal a time machine.

Special Agent Elaine Delacourt: In Homeland (Security) we're not paid to think. We're paid to act.

Alec: It's like the game Operation, except I'm the tweezers.

Operation is a board game where you attempt to remove plastic body parts from a board representing a human body, and contacting the metal edges with your metal tweezers sets off a buzzer, meaning you "lose."

Alec: Hello, and welcome to the Island of Misfit Inventions.

The Island of Misfit Toys is from the children's classic Christmas special, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. The Island of Misfit Toys holds abandoned and discarded toys such as Charlie-in-the-Box, Bird Fish, Spotted Elephant, and a squirt gun that shoots grape jelly.

Eliot: Who am I? I'm just a fly in the ointment, pal.

Nate's plan and much of Eliot's dialogue is from the 1988 movie Die Hard.

Alec: That's a bow-tie. Bow-ties are cool.

"Bow-ties are cool" is a common expression of the Eleventh Doctor on Doctor Who.