"Nobody owns freedom, and nobody can give it away, either. Each of us takes it, as much as we can handle and usually a little more, and if we screw it up we can’t blame anybody but ourselves. Maybe I had taught her, but I still hadn’t learnt what Gibbs had been trying so hard to teach us all: to be grown-up enough not to need other people to tell us what to do." - LIFTER, Crawford Killian.