The Best Elena Reyes Quotes

[first lines]
Madison: [Madison looks at the refugees outside the gate, in Spanish] I'm sorry.
Female: [in Spanish] Please, let us in!
Elena: [in Spanish] We can't let you in. We're sorry.
Female: [in Spanish] What will happen to my son?
Elena: [in Spanish] We will figure something out.
Male: [in Spanish] We have nothing, and you have that castle.

[Alicia meets Elena for the first time]
Alicia: You put the signs on the doors. You moved the infected onto the floor.
Elena: Yes, I contained the problem.
Alicia: What was the problem?
Elena: You. You were. I moved the dead to protect myself from all of you.

[Elena confesses her secret to Alicia of what she did to the wedding guests]
Elena: I locked them in... Hector and I... till help could come. It never did. There was no one there to save us. People die. Now they hate me.
Alicia: I've seen worse. We've done worse. I won't let them touch you. I promise.

[Alicia tells Elena that her mother Madison would die for her]
Alicia: Look, Hector needs you. My mother needs me.
Elena: Would she have you risk your life for hers?
Alicia: No, but she would do it for me. My mother would die for me.

[Elena tells Alicia that the Rosarito Beach Hotel is home]
Elena: I have keys to every hall, every building. This place is a maze and I know how to run it. Whoever has the keys can control the hotel.
Alicia: [about the other guests] Give them the keys.
Elena: No, they'd kill us or exile us. Either way, it's the way.
Alicia: Go home. Leave.
Elena: The hotel is home. It has been for a long time.