NATIONAL ANCHOR: And we are approaching the hour, once again, when the eyes of the world are fixed on one place: Hope Plaza, at the base of the Ozarks, here in southern Missouri. One thousand brave men and women, preparing to embark on the most incredible journey ever taken. Some are specialists, chosen for their skills or knowledge. Most are average citizens, chosen by a global lottery. All carry with them the hope of humanity. For it was at this exact spot on Earth, twenty five years ago, that a coalition of top scientists finally found what they were searching for the world over: a tiny fracture in the fabric of space and time itself. A fracture that may be expanded, with the help of the largest particle accelerator ever constructed, into a doorway that leads to an amazing world: our world, an estimated one hundred and fifty four million years in the past.

FRANK: You are safe within these walls! And you are free within these walls, as long as you obey the law. We value hard work and free trade. Ben Duirwyn runs the barter exchange. Register with him, establish a line of credit, and receive points for your supplies. The good people of Taylor have been as eager to meet you as I have. They’ve planned a welcome week to help you get started. Let me be the first of them to say: Citizens of Terra Nova, welcome home!

ELIZABETH: Once I figure out how to cook this stuff, it’ll be better. I’ll make a, you know, "stew."
JOSH: Even better, once I get out on a hunt, I’ll bring us back some meat.
MADDY: I thought we all agreed to go vegetarian here. We don’t know how human presence affects the food chain yet. 
JOSH: Um, I do. We’re a the top of it. You don’t wait for research to tell you that. You just go out there and take the title.
MADDY: Now you sound like Frank Taylor.
JOSH: Survival of the fittest, sis.
MADDY: We’ll see.
JOSH: What’s that supposed to mean?
JIM: You’re right, Josh. Everything has changed. It doesn’t mean we have to let it change us. The only people we can trust in this town are sitting at this table right now. Remember that.