[s9e5] Leave Your Emotions At The Cabin Door -

Elias reached over and switched off the master battery. The cockpit went dark.

“Whatever you’re carrying—the grief, the fear, the 'what-ifs'—leave them at the cabin door,” Elias commanded. “Right now, you aren't a daughter or a person. You’re a series of calculations. If you feel, we fall. Do you understand?” [S9E5] Leave Your Emotions at the Cabin Door

Behind them, in the galley, the lead flight attendant, Sarah, was doing the same. A passenger in 4B was hysterical, screaming about a mechanical sound he thought he’d heard. Sarah didn't comfort him with a hug or a soft word. She stood over him, her expression unreadable, and gave him the only thing that would save him: a set of precise, icy instructions. Elias reached over and switched off the master battery

Elias didn't move. He sat in the dark, staring at the cabin door. He had told them to leave their emotions there, but he knew the truth: once the flight is over, you have to open that door and pick them all back up again. And they always felt twice as heavy as when you left them. “Right now, you aren't a daughter or a person