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Mutant X Episode Quotes 217-222

Mutant X Quote Corner

These quotes are from my viewing, with additions from princessbryn, belle_marie, ssgt_m_l_batt, and tptigger. Special thanks to kincsem and love_conquers for providing me with S1 and S3 DVDs.

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Mutant X Episode Quotes: 101-111 ~ 112-117 ~ 118-122 ~ 201-209 ~ 210-216 ~ 217-222 ~ 301-311 ~ 312-317 ~ 318-322

Final Judgement
Adam: It’s been so long, I almost forgot how to contact you.
Marsden: You never forget anything. That’s the source of your power.

Shalimar: Think he’s gonna be okay?
Emma: Yeah, he’s Adam. No matter what’s happening to him, he’s still got his mind and his will. And that means he has resources other people wouldn’t even dream of.

Janet Nicholls: You’re accused of manipulating the DNA of over one thousand human beings. Of attempting to create a master race of super powered mutants with which you plan to shift the balance world power for your own ends.
Adam: Shift the balance–wait, are you serious?
Janet: The prosecution intends to prove that you not only inflicted your victims with pain and suffering, but that the mutants you created have wreaked havoc on society.
Adam: That’s absurd! Who’s bringing these charges, the government?
Janet: Mr. Kane, this is an impartial body. A case doesn’t come this far unless it has been fully researched.
Adam: You mean, unless it’s been fully decided already that I’m guilty. Now tell me something, are you even going to pretend to mount a defense for me?
Janet: That’s the job I’ve been given.
Adam: The job you’ve been given? My life is in your hands!
Janet: I am aware of that.
Adam: All right, look. My entire scientific career has been dedicated to helping people. And the people that I work with are not dangerous mutants. They’re human beings. They are heroes who risk their lives every day trying to help people.
Janet: That’s good. That passion, that forthright quality, you’re gonna need all of that and more. Because once you get into that room, you should be aware that there is likely not going to be one person rooting for you to be innocent.

Adam: This is some kind of neural imager, isn’t it? Where did you get this? I invented this technology.
Warren: I realize that your arrogance makes it difficult for you to believe that there’s anyone else creating things in the world of science, but it is true.

John Warren: Somewhere along the line, Adam Kane became a monster. He is personally responsible for the creation of a seemingly endless stream of deadly monstrosities.
Adam: I fixed the genetic flaws that were killing those children.
Warren: You fixed them? You fixed them. Who did you fix? Did you fix Michael Ward? Is he one of your crowning achievements? June 29th of this year, the location a national park upstate.
Adam: I had nothing to do with Michael Ward!
Warren: Your technology created him. And when your mistake was about to become public, you and your mutant army destroyed him. Tell me. How many other mistakes have you made? Why don’t you show us how you fixed Lorna Templeton. That’s impressive. But his most terrible creation was the first. The one known as Patient Zero, Gabriel Ashlocke. Enlighten us, Adam. Show us how your monster traveled back through time to brutally murder his own parents. You see, Ashlocke was a killer’s killer. He was more powerful than all the rest and completely insane. And I’m told damage was caused by mutants who fell under Ashlocke’s mental domination. Even then, when you realized that he didn’t fit in with your twisted plans, you had him destroyed. All of this in the name of science. Or was it simply a string of terrible crimes that mankind need never have seen? A confession would make things easier. Otherwise, as you know, we have much more to see.

Adam: You know, as a defense attorney, you leave something to be desired.
Janet: And what do you expect? I can’t exactly argue with images from your own memory.
Adam: They’ve taken them out of context! Whoever’s trying to destroy me has orchestrated this. They’ve taken specific dates, specific times, they’ve fed them to Warren to make me look as bad as possible.
Janet: We witnessed the abominations.
Adam: Look, there are many people living productive lives out there who wouldn’t be there if it wasn’t for me!
Janet: Okay, and what about the crimes committed by your mutants?
Adam: My mutants. You make it sound like they’re my science project. They’re human beings; they have free will. I am not responsible for their moral choices! You have to believe me about this! But see, it doesn’t make any difference if you believe me or not, because the whole trial is a setup, isn’t it? All right, but tell me something. Did you go to law school? Did you believe in justice? I mean, isn’t that why you went to law school? How can you divorce what you’re doing here from what you actually believe in? See, you’re a good person. I don’t think you can.
Janet: When I was offered this position, it was to be a part of ridding the world of our worst nightmares.
Adam: Janet, our worst nightmares are running this trial. And doesn’t the possibility of that scare the hell out of you?

Marsden: You don’t think I’ve survived 40 years to be threatened by a bunch of made-to-order superkids?

Adam: What could I possibly tell you that would alter the outcome of this trial? Now, I could tell you that what you have seen today has not been the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. It’s been half-truths. That images from my life have been deliberately taken out of context by the prosecution to portray me as some sort of a criminal, as a terrorist, and my teammates as some sort of genetic monsters. I will tell you this: that the genetic therapies I performed at Genomex saved hundreds of lives. And I will tell you that I made mistakes, and that some of my patients developed extraordinary abilities that I could never have forseen and that these abilities have complicated their lives. But I will also tell you that if this had been a real trial, and I were allowed to really defend myself, and you invite those patients here and you would hear the vast majority of them say thank you for what I have done, which is to defend them against the forces that would exploit or eradicate them.
Warren: Objection. Conjecture.
Judge: Mr. Kane, you will confine yourself to the facts.
Adam: The so-called government forces that the prosecution says that I tampered with, that I battled with, that was the Genetic Security Agency. It’s a rogue agency whose job it was to hunt down, to torture and to murder these specially gifted human beings.
Warren: Objection.
Janet: Let the man speak!
Adam: All right, there’s another fact. The team of brave young people that I work with, called Mutant X, have saved hundreds of their lives. But you were not allowed to see those images today because the prosecution chose not to show Your Honors those images. Now why is that? Well, because this trial is a joke, right? It’s a sham, and I still don’t know why. Is it really about some sort of an elaborate revenge that is orchestrated against me by enemies whose names I am not allowed to know? But I will tell you this. That I am extremely proud of what my teammates and I have accomplished. And that I face whatever verdict you send down with something you justices may never again enjoy: a conscience which is clear.

Judge: Mr. Kane, prepare yourself for execution.
Adam: If you can contact my friends, let them know they were in my final thoughts.

Adam: Who. Set. Me. Up.

Emma: I can’t believe he’s still out there.
Adam: He’s out there, all right. And he was able to tell Warren everything we’d done, minute by minute, since we last saw him.
Brennan: You think his organization is still intact?
Adam: Well, he didn’t accomplish that alone.
Jesse: So what are we gonna do? Just wait for him to make another move?
Shalimar: I say we hunt that psychopath down and put him away for good.
Brennan: He was in a pod, I thought that was already done.
Adam: Well, should’ve known the pod wouldn’t hold him. Now we all have to face the grim fact, our worst enemy is out there again. He’s not gonna rest till we’re all dead.

Inferno
Shalimar: I can walk into a fight with 12 killers and not bat an eye, but fire? It’s just that I got there, flames blazing out the windows, and the smoke, and I could feel the heat from the other side of the street. And I just lost control. God, it’s just like my head shut down and I was just running on fear.

Emma: I saw his whole life right along with him. His friends, his family, his wife, and then the strangest sensations like the taste of chocolate and the smell of his wife’s hair.
Brennan: That’s intense.
Emma: It’s wild how fast it can all be gone.

Jesse: I’ll say this for you, you don’t give up easy.
Shalimar: I don’t give up period.
Jesse: Shalimar, you’re making yourself crazy. Fear of fire is primal for ferals.
Shalimar: Thanks for your vote of confidence.
Jesse: That’s not what I’m saying. You’ve got nothing to prove.
Shalimar: Can’t let my fear conquer me. I can get over this.
Jesse: You’re the bravest person I know. But maybe you should just accept your weakness and move on.
Shalimar: Sorry, not ready to do that just yet.

Emma: When I was a kid, my mom was involved in the occult and spiritualism. Though I don’t think she ever encountered anything other than her own imagination.
Brennan: Yeah, but we’re talking about you here.
Emma: She didn’t know about my abilities yet. One day she was doing a seance, calling up the spirit of some young girl, and I was in the next room, playing a game. Suddenly, there’s this little girl in the room with me, she sat down we started playing. She had on this old fashioned dress and shoes with buttons down the side.
Brennan: Let me guess, she was dead.
Emma: She came to me, instead of my mom and her friends.
Brennan: So what are you saying, that Ray has come back to play with you?
Emma: I think he has.
Brennan: You need to be careful of where this is going.
Emma: It’s okay. I’m okay with it.
Brennan: Emma, you have no idea what this guy’s spirit or his emotions, whatever the hell this is, wants from you.
Emma: He wants the same thing we do, to stop whoever is starting these fires.
Brennan: And how far is he willing to go to get it? Huh? Is he willing to kill you too?

Emma: You know how he used to say that he had an angel on his shoulder?
Lisa Larkin: That was always his parting line.
Emma: That angel was you. Goodbye, Lisa.
Lisa: Goodbye, Ray.

Adam: Emma, I know you can hear me.
Ray Larkin!Emma: Emma’s not here right now.

Jesse: What makes you think this guy’s gonna strike again?
Brennan: Because Emma's on the trail. She’s figured it out, and now she’s planning to take him down on her own.
Shalimar: Why would Emma do that?
Brennan: Emma wouldn’t! Ray’s taken over.
Shalimar: Okay. I don’t know about you guys, but I am sufficiently creeped out.

Ray!Emma: Tell me why you set those fires.
Billy Larkin: Because I can. Because it’s something I can do. You were the hero and I was the wannabe. Do you know what it’s like, living under that shadow day in and day out? Constantly being reminded what a failure I am? Until one day I discovered there’s something I can do that no one else can. And it feels good. And for once, something feels good.

Emma: Shal, how did you? How did...
Shalimar: I don’t know. I guess my fear of losing you was stronger than my fear of the fire.

One Step Closer
Shalimar: You and Adam are a lot more alike than either one of you would care to admit.
Brennan: Shal, Adam’s not the one whose body is falling apart.
Shalimar: He’s on it. You can’t lose faith.
Brennan: That’s easy for you to say, standing in your shoes.
Shalimar: Hey, you know what? I know you’re hurting right now, so I’m gonna let that one go. But let me make one thing perfectly clear. If this is about your mutation taking another step, then it is about me. It’s about all of us, and you know what? I still have faith.

Jesse: Maybe what’s happening to Brennan was supposed to happen. Maybe his accident wasn’t an accident at all, but was just a natural progression of his mutation.
Emma: No, that’s not true.
Jesse: Come on. None of us want anything bad to happen to Brennan. God, he’s closer than my own family. But we are all continuing to mutate, and sooner or later that mutation’s gonna go out of control.
Emma: You don’t know that.
Jesse: You’re right, I don’t know that. But maybe I’m right. Maybe we’re like a comet or lightning bolt that burns brightest right before we die.
Emma: Brennan is not dying.
Jesse: I hope to God you’re right. But right now, Adam doesn’t have the answers, which means that nobody does, and that’s scaring me.

Jesse: What does it mean for the rest of us, Adam?
Adam: All right, look, I know that you’re all worried that your powers are mutating. But right now there is no reason to think that any of you are in any danger.
Emma: Yet.
Adam: I am not gonna give up here. I am gonna find a way to stabilize Brennan and I am gonna make sure that nothing bad happens to any of you. You just have to trust me.
Brennan: I could have killed Jess. I could have killed any of us.
Adam: Believe me, I am gonna do everything in my power to make sure that that doesn’t happen. See, I know you’re all thinking about Gabriel Ashlocke. You’re all wondering whether you’re gonna self-destruct like he did, right?
Brennan: Why don’t you look me in the eye and tell me that’s not gonna happen?
Adam: Ashlocke’s genes were at the point of ripping themselves apart. Your genes are highly unstable, but I believe that that is a result of a reamping of your power. And I have to find a way to allow you to control it.
Brennan: So what if you don’t? Do we all just go up like a big bang?
Adam: All right, Brennan? Right now you have to learn how to control your emotions because I believe that that is triggering the problem.
Brennan: Adam, do you have any idea how it feels like to walk around like a living time bomb? To know that at any second I could explode and kill Shalimar, Jesse, you, anyone? I walk around with these thoughts in my head every single day and you want me to control my emotions? Are you out of your mind?
Adam: All right, I know that I don’t know how you feel, but I do know that every time you lose your temper, your power overloads. So until I can allow you to restore conscious control, you have to stay calm.
Brennan: Stay calm? Adam, there’s a little girl that’s in danger because of me, okay? And one minute I go from owning this to feeling my body tear itself apart.

Brennan: Why don’t you just admit that I’m dying?
Adam: Cause I’m not gonna admit that and you shouldn’t even think it.
Brennan: I don’t believe you, Adam. You know, you don’t even believe it yourself. I fought for you and what you stood for. But what you did to us? Adam, I accepted my fate. I made it my own. But you lied to us. I’m not doing it your way anymore.
Adam: Listen, I can help you. I just don’t want to put you in any more danger. Now why can’t you understand that? I am not gonna let you die.
Brennan: It’s too late! Okay, I’m sorry. I’ve got something I’ve got to do.
Adam: Anything you do you put yourself in danger, do you understand that?
Brennan: You know, the reality is, Adam? I got nothing to lose.

Shalimar: That is by far the dumbest move you have ever made.
Brennan: Is he dead?
Shalimar: No, we’ll bring him with us.
Brennan: Bring him where?
Shalimar: Back to Sanctuary, Brennan. Back to Adam. And I’m not asking you to come with me, I’m telling you. Look, I know you’re scared. We all are. I don’t care about that anymore. What I do care about is you..
Brennan: I’m sorry.
Shalimar: At least you’re consistent. Did he tell you where Megan is?
Brennan: Yeah. He told me everything.
Shalimar: Fill me in on the way. Let Adam take care of you, Brennan. He says he has a fix and you have to try it. Whatever he works out for you might just save all of us.

Shalimar: What was that you strapped to his chest?
Jesse: Oh, hell if I know. Some adhesive tape and old computer parts.

Adam: The truth is, I can’t even predict which one of you is gonna be the next to mutate out of control, much less how I’m gonna treat it.
Brennan: That’s gotta make you feel pretty helpless.
Adam: Yeah, it does. Okay? Because I’m supposed to be the guy with all the answers, and I don’t have them. And until I do, I can’t rest until I know exactly what makes you all tick.
Brennan: And hopefully what keeps us ticking.
Adam: Yeah, that too.

Brennan: Hope I’m not shocking your Chakra.
Emma: Come on in.
Brennan: So I just wanted to come by and tell you that I thought you were pretty terrific last night.
Emma: Are you sure you don’t have that the other way around?
Brennan: Emma, if it wasn’t for you, I wouldn’t be here right now.
Emma: I doubt that very much.
Brennan: Please. You saved my life, and I will never forget it. Why did you do it? I mean, you had no idea what could have happened. You could have died.
Emma: Look, it’s not like I have a choice, Brennan. I mean, we’re all in the same boat. What do you think you would have done if it was my powers spinning out of control? Run and hide?
Jesse: If that was an option. It’s not our style.
Shalimar: No, we stick together till the bitter end.
Brennan: All right, so let me ask you all a question. Which one of you actually thought that I was buying my last ticket out of here?
Jesse: You kidding? That never crossed our mind, man.
Emma: Yeah, we knew you’d bounce back.
Shalimar: Never doubted if for a minute.
Brennan: Hm, really? Man, you guys are lousy liars.

Reality Check
Brennan: Well, what did you expect, a thank you? What are you doing?
Shalimar: I was saving someone. I thought that’s what we were about.
Brennan: You know exactly what I mean. You’re running around, showing off your powers.
Shalimar: I feel different now. I need to be out in the night. I need to hunt. Alone.
Brennan: Where is this going, Shal?
Shalimar: I don’t know, Bren. All I know is that whatever’s happening to me isn’t something I can just turn off or ignore.

Emma: You know, I still can’t believe we got access to Rydell so easily.
Adam: Well, I’d like to think it was their knowledge of my specialty in dealing with exotic medical problems. But I think it has more to do with the fact that I funded the hospital’s new MRI machine last month.
Emma: Nice. And here I was worried to ask for a raise.

Jesse: Turns out our man Rydell had just finished giving a lecture at a scientific conference at Bower University three hours before he disappeared.
Shalimar: You’re telling us he was abducted by scientists?

Brennan: I’ve always wanted to go to a party at the embassy.
Shalimar: Well, let’s hope they remember to count the silverware afterwards.

Adam: Emma, I know you’re afraid. But you might be surprised at what you can do.

Brennan: All right, keep your eye out for the trade commissioner. According to Adam, he’s got a serious eye for the ladies.
Shalimar: Well, I assume that’s why I was the one wearing this dress.
Brennan: Trust me, you in that dress is always a good idea.
Shalimar: Hey Bren, Novatny 2:00. Ready for action?
Brennan: Yeah. Just remember, if you do get him alone, don’t get too far out of my sight.
Shalimar: Had to say that, didn’t you? When we were doing so well here.
Brennan: What’s that supposed to mean?
Shalimar: I could have taken out the security of this entire embassy. I don’t need you to play daddy.

Shalimar: What’s down that way?
Prime Minister Novatny: That’s where we keep the secrets. Can you keep a secret?
Shalimar: Not really.

Jesse: I thought you would have learned by now not to try to win arguments with women, especially not Shalimar.
Brennan: This isn’t about an argument. This is about Shalimar playing as part of the team.
Jesse: Really? Some private conversation I’ve been missing here?

Mason!Levak Ivanov: Shalimar, I know none of this makes sense to you, but you have to believe me. I’m trying to help you.
Shalimar: You don’t want to help us. You’ve been trying to capture us, all mutants and put us into pods.
Mason!Levak: That’s what Adam had you think. But all this time it was me trying to help you. He’s the one who’s been manipulating you from the start.
Shalimar: No. You’re lying.
Mason!Levak: All this time, he’s been using you all to service his own selfish needs. And to create the perfect mutant. Why do you think all of your powers are continuing to mutate? Each day bringing you closer and closer to your own demise.
Shalimar: No, he’s coming up with a cure for that.
Mason!Levak: He’s the one causing it.
Shalimar: No, that can’t be.
Mason!Levak: Shalimar, you know it’s true. Why do you think they’ve all turned against you? I’m trying to protect you, but you have to help me. We can’t let Adam win. Not now, not ever.

Shalimar: Who are you gonna pretend to be next, my mother? My first grade teacher? I hated that bitch!

Brennan: Shalimar, it’s me! What are you doing?
Shalimar: How many times do I have to kill you for you to stay dead?

Adam: Even with Ivanov’s mind control, I don’t think he’d be able to break her completely.
Levak Ivanov: Then you underestimate my power, Mr. Kane. She’s gone. But it’s a shame, really. All this time I was trying to get her to lead me to you, when it seems I had it the other way around. A mind is a terrible thing to waste, don’t you think?
Adam: You’re sick.
Levak: Oh, to crawl inside your head. Your secrets will bring in a hefty price, Dr. Kane.
Emma: You first.

Emma: You’re not real.
Levak: No? I’m as real as anything else in your mind, and I’m much more dangerous. You were stupid to pit your mind against mine.
Emma: Are you sure you don’t have that the other way around? You know you should really learn to stay out of other people’s minds.
Levak: Nice trick. I’ll pry it out of you along with the rest of your secrets.
Emma: There are things I can do that I haven’t even shown my partners. And it really doesn’t matter that you’re gonna see, because you won’t be able to tell anybody.

Adam: Ivanov has been locked up in a state mental facility. I don’t think he’ll be getting into anybody else’s head very soon.
Emma: Yeah, well, with the blast I sent him, he’ll be lucky if he can ever remember his own name.
Adam: You don’t have to enjoy it so much.
Emma: Look, he was the predator, and then he was the prey. He doesn’t deserve any sympathy. If that makes me cruel, then so be it. So how’s Shalimar holding up?
Adam: Well, physically, she’s normal. Psychologically, you know Shalimar, she says she’s fine.
Emma: Well, she’s never been one to let her guard down. I’m sure now more than ever.
Adam: Yeah, well, it’s gonna take some time for these scars to heal.
Emma: No, they’re not gonna heal. She’s just gonna learn to deal with it.

Brennan: Off on another solo rondezvous into the night?
Shalimar: Something like that.
Brennan: Well, I don’t have to be a telempath to get inside your head.
Shalimar: Really? Tell me.
Brennan: Well, we all know you’ve got a wild side, right? That’s what we all love about you. Just seems like lately it’s gotten a whole lot wilder.
Shalimar: I guess. Can you deal with that?
Brennan: Well, like you said, I guess I don’t have much of a choice, do I? Don’t forget where home is.
Shalimar: I won’t forget.

Reawakening
Adam: How’s the Helix?
Jesse: Oh, it’s fine. For use in every climate except the one we’re going to. Adam, you know we should test the Helix for use in extremely cold weather before we go.
Adam: No, it’s gonna be fine. Don’t worry.
Jesse: I’ll consider that a great comfort when the turbines freeze and we plummet into the Atlantic.

Shalimar: See the way she reacted to that video?
Brennan: Yeah, I saw.
Shalimar: Ever known her instincts to be wrong?

Adam: This isn’t just some ancient artifact. This is a lost species. This thing was thought to be the ultimate predator, so you can imagine the secrets that are locked in its DNA.
Jesse: Not to mention all the frequent flier miles we’ve logged on this trip.
Adam: How are you doing? If I’d known you were gonna react like that, I would’ve warned you.
Emma: I don’t know why I got such a bad hit off that thing.
Adam: You think it was just your flight response? You know, you see a snake and you back off?
Shalimar: I think our programming for this thing goes pretty deep. I got a weird feeling about it too.
Brennan: Where’d this thing come from anyway?
Adam: Well, you’d have to go back to the precatazoic period. You know, but this thing is a biped, right? So there are some scientists who actually theorize that this thing is related to man.
Brennan: Wait, hold up. You’re saying we might have evolved from this thing?
Adam: Yeah. Well, if evolution hadn’t taken a different turn.

Emma: What is that?
Dr. Louise Koby: Pretty loud, I know. It’s the sound of the ice closing in around the ship. But don’t worry, these freighters can withstand anything. You’ll get used to it.
Emma: I doubt it.

Louise: Adam, you realize what this could mean to science.
Shalimar: Is that all you care about, Doctor? A man just died.
Louise: I understand that, but I’m just–
Shalimar: But what? It wasn’t enough that your own father lost his life and the lives of all of his men?
Adam: Shalimar, you are way out of line. Nobody could have anticipated this.
Brennan: Well, that’s just it, Adam. We have no idea what to expect from this thing.
Emma: What if all we’re doing is serving up its next meal?
Shalimar: Or did that even factor into your equation?

Shalimar: Plan on doing this alone?
Louise: Look, I know none of you signed up for this...
Shalimar: Oh, we are way past that talk.

Jesse: Would you please stop that? It’s a little distracting.
Emma: I can’t help it.
Jesse: How about giving yourself a little telempathic hit of tranquility?
Emma: I wish, but unfortunately, it doesn’t work like that.
Jesse: Then how about giving me a little hit of patience, cause I’m just about to snap here!

Emma: You want fear? Come and get me.

Jesse: Adam, you think the world will ever see that thing again?
Adam: Well, it will be a couple of thousand years of global warming before that glacier melts, and hopefully by that time, people will have evolved enough to be able to handle whatever the protocanth can throw at them.
Emma: They’ll never be able to deal with it. It’ll get free and it will keep killing.
Adam: We don’t know that.
Emma: I know it.
Adam: Look, Emma, I know that you connected with this thing on some--
Emma: I knew, and you should have trusted me.
Adam: We will next time.
Emma: Yeah. Well, next time, I won’t give you a choice.

Lest He Become
Brennan: No, we should have taken them, Shal.
Shalimar: Were you unconscious when he was beating the crap out of the rest of us?

Emma: Look, if you two are through with your macho posturing, let’s just think about this for a minute, okay? These were not just mutants. They were mutants with powers that we have never seen before.
Adam: Brennan, let me see the flex scan. Good, thanks.
Shalimar: It was pretty wild. See, the guy with the telekinetic punch, I mean, that’s similar to some of the other brain-based stuff we’ve seen. But the guy that ties people into his pain centers, I mean, that’s a whole other deal.
Adam: I agree.
Jesse: He said that when they made him, they made him with his pain centers permanently on. Adam, that’s just freakin’ sick.
Shalimar: Well, who knows how to do that?
Adam: All right, look, obviously I was not the only scientist out there dealing with genetic research. We’ve got someone out there playing around, trying to crack the genetic code. If he succeeds, then, you know, dealing with these made-to-order mutants will be the least of our problems.
Brennan: What are you saying?
Adam: I’m saying he could create a superplague. He could send a genetic ripple through an entire population as easy as choosing flavors of an ice cream cone.

Brennan: I got a bad feeling about this, Shal. You saw Adam’s face when you asked him who was behind it. He knows something.
Shalimar: Yeah, well, maybe he’s still trying to figure it out. You know Adam doesn’t throw around wild guesses.
Brennan: More like Adam not telling you you’re on fire until you can see the flames.
Shalimar: Hey, you know what? I don’t want to get into your issues with Adam, okay?
Brennan: Look, if someone is messing around with human genetics at this level, there can’t be more than a handful of people who could do it. He knows every one of them.
Shalimar: Yeah, and he’ll tell us when he figures it out.
Brennan: No, as usual, he’ll tell us when he feels like it. Shal, you’re way too supportive. I hope he deserves it.

Shalimar: Let me tell you a little story about a kid 10 years old. Different from her friends. Different from her parents. Stronger, faster, and a whole lot wilder. And because those parents didn’t see her fitting in, instead of loving her for what she was, they threw her into a psychiatric institution. Can you imagine being 10 years old and scared out of your mind in a place like that. They pumped me full of enough Thorazine to put ten kids under, but it didn’t work on me. So when they found they couldn’t sedate me, they turned to beatings to keep me down. Three or four grown men laying into a little kid.
Jesse: Your parents must have known something was wrong, Shal.
Shalimar: Yeah, my father knew. He told them to keep it up. Whatever it took to make me normal. But what they didn’t know, was that my powers were still growing. And then one night when the orderlies came for me, I was ready. I showed them what it was like to be really scared. That was the night I ran. So when you’re asking me to reconnect with my loving father, that’s what I’d be going back to.
Adam: Shalimar.
Shalimar: Adam, until you came and found me, I didn’t have a father. Please don’t make me do this.

Brennan: Hey, what you’re doing is brave.
Shalimar: Masochistic or stupid might be more to the point. Families are supposed to love each other. The only thing any of us ever felt was bitterness and hate. Not much like your typical sitcom family, huh?
Brennan: More like a real family. Nobody’s family is perfect. Look, I’m not making excuses for the guy, okay? But people change. Maybe he is interested in making things right.
Shalimar: Yeah, well if that were the case, he would already stopped breathing.

Nicholas Fox: Shalimar? I can hardly believe it.
Shalimar: I look different out of a straight jacket, don’t I?

Adam: Once I’ve reconstructed the search, I can confirm the names of the people that the killers are looking for.
Emma: Confirm? So you have some idea who they’re looking for.
Adam: No, I didn’t mean confirm.
Emma: Are you okay?
Adam: Yeah, I’m okay. I just, you know, I wanna find the people before the killers do.
Emma: What do you want me to do? Pretend that I believe you?
Adam: I want you to stay out of my head. You’re not invited.

Shalimar: Surprised you haven’t moved into genetic research. You know, modified grains, that sort of thing.
Nicholas: That’s a science that betrayed me once. I have no interest in giving it another chance.

Nicholas: But you’re okay? I mean after what that bastard did to you.
Shalimar: Who?
Nichloas: The doctor from Genomex. Adam Kane. You were too young to understand, but I found out a lot of things about him afterwards.
Shalimar: What are you talking about?
Nicholas: It’s not important now. He’s water under the bridge.

Shalimar: Look, I’ve told you guys before, I don’t think my father is involved.
Jesse: Shalimar, it’s a hell of a time to develop a set of family values.
Brennan: You know what, Jess? Why don’t you pour yourself a big glass of shut the hell up!

Emma: So what the hell is your name doing on a list of people needed by somebody manufacturing mutants?
Adam: My name is on a lot of lists.
Emma: That’s not the right answer, Adam.
Adam: It’s the only answer available right now.

Shalimar: I’ve hated him for so long, and then I see him again and it feels like none of that bad stuff ever happened.
Brennan: Well, we look at things differently when we get older.
Shalimar: You know what? It’s more than that. Okay, my father said something about Adam carrying out some kind of plan.
Brennan: Plan?
Shalimar: C’mon, you saw the way he’s acting. He’s hiding something.
Brennan: No, he was as shocked as the rest of us.
Shalimar: I don’t know anything anymore.

Brennan: Listen, Emma. Did you get any kind of a strange hit off Adam back there?
Emma: Look, if I sense something from someone, it’s like a priest hearing a confession. I can’t talk about it.
Brennan: Okay, Emma, it’s good to have morals, but you gotta know when to cut them loose.

Emma: She’s going through what we all go through. Adam is more of a father to me than my own father was. All of you guys are my family. But sometimes I wish that my mom had done the right thing, you know? That she had been there to worry about me instead of going off on whatever new age kick was popular at the time. But I mean sometimes, I still think about looking her up.
Brennan: So why haven’t you?
Emma: Because when you can see into someone’s soul, you don’t have the same illusions that other people do. You want to believe that people can change, but they don’t. Shalimar has to realize that.

Rucker: Nowhere to run?
Emma: Guess not.

Shalimar: Okay, Adam we’ve been patient. I wanna know what the hell Eckhart’s doing at my father’s company.
Adam: He’s tricked your father into providing him with the resources he needs to support his new project.
Brennan: Which is?
Adam: Well, according to the material on these hard drives, Eckhart is on the verge of controlling the keys to life. And what he plans to do with it, of course, we’ll have to ask him in person.
Shalimar: Okay, if he’s so close to having his hands on such big secrets, why are his mutants so messed up?
Jesse: The guy who died in the flower shop had the metabolism of an 80 year old, Adam.
Adam: Eckhart is attempting to do selective mutation from a specific blueprint, but he doesn’t have the required DNA to perfect the process. The samples that he’s collecting will allow him to do that.
Brennan: How do you know all this?
Adam: It’s not important how I know it. What’s important is that we get in there, we get him. We shut his operation down as quickly as possible. So I’m gonna ready the Helix for immediate takeoff, and then you four are going in.
Emma: No.
Brennan: Wait, Emma, what are you doing?
Emma: You were right, Brennan. There’s a point where you have to go past your usual moral code. Now I’ve understood what’s been going on for a long time, and I think the rest of you deserve to know too.
Adam: Emma. Stop it.
Emma: I could make you talk, Adam. But you’re gonna do it yourself. So tell them about the third name on the list. Tell them what it all means.
Adam: All right, so you want to know how Eckhart got the blueprint for making mutants? He got it from me.
Jesse: What?
Adam: After I realized the genetic mutations that my therapies were causing, I stopped using them to treat people. But I couldn’t just throw that information away, so I gathered specific genetic samples, including my own DNA, and
I experimented on selected mutations in secret.
Shalimar: Yours was the third name on the list?
Adam: He needs my DNA to complete my work. He wants to recreate it.
Shalimar: That’s what my dad was trying to tell me. You’re no better than Eckhart.
Adam: I was on the verge of cracking the genetic code. The possibilities for humanity? They were limitless.
Brennan: So you were just in it for the knowledge? Oh, must be hard to go back to being plain ol’ Adam Kane after playing God for so long.
Adam: All right, look, I knew nobody should have this information. It was too dangerous for anyone to have. So what did I do? I stopped my experiments. I encrypted information. I took it out of Genomex as quickly as I could.
Shalimar: You can’t hide anything from Eckhart. You should know that.
Brennan: For all we know, you wanted him to have it.
Adam: What does that mean?
Brennan: I don’t know, okay? All I know is we’re having a hard time believing anything that’s coming out of your mouth right now.
Adam: Wait, wait. Where’re you going?
Shalimar: To Naxcon. I’m gonna get my father away from Eckhart before he gets in too deep.
Adam: Shalimar, it’s too late for that.
Shalimar: I spent all these years hating him. Thinking you were my family. And now it turns out he might be the only one telling me the truth.

Brennan: You keep your eyes open.
Shalimar: I thought I had my eyes open. I was looking right at Adam and I didn’t see him at all.
Brennan: Yeah, I know. All I’m saying is just make sure. You know, before you go putting your faith in someone else.
Shalimar: Thanks. I can always count on you, can’t I?
Brennan: Always.

Nicholas: Eckhart came to me, yes. He offered me money for my business. But he offered me a chance to get you back.
Shalimar: What?
Nicholas: The way you were. Before Adam Kane changed you. He’s working on a cure.
Shalimar: There is no cure. It’s not a disease! I am what I am, and I like what I am. Can’t you understand that? And I would have liked myself a whole lot sooner if I thought for one moment that you and mom liked me too.
Nicholas: But we loved you! Do you know what it was like watching the pain you were in? Losing control of your anger, your fear. What did you want me to feel, Shalimar?
Shalimar: You were supposed to treat me like a daughter. Not like some kind of freak.
Brennan: You know, this man that you put your trust in is a murderer. You know that he’s killed hundreds of people?
Nicholas: He said you would say that. It’s for the best, Shalimar. You’ll see.

Mason: Hello, Adam. Have you missed me?
Adam: You’re looking more like your old self, Mason.
Mason: Feeling like a million bucks. It’s amazing what a new hairstyle can do for one.

Emma: Where do you think you’re going?
Adam: Well, you should know. You seem to know everything else.
Emma: Look, Adam, I didn’t want it to happen this way.
Adam: None of us did.

Jesse: It took me 28 years to find someone to believe in, Adam. I’m not just gonna throw that away.

Mason: Adam. It’s been a long time. Of course, being in the pod made it seem even longer.
Adam: How’d you get out?
Mason: You don’t think I’d devise a trap without a back door for me to wriggle out? Six months in, any pod that I hadn’t coded the locks on was automatically reopened.
Adam: I was hoping that you’d have used some of that time to think about all of the damage that you’d done.
Mason: Beautiful. As sanctimonious as ever. Actually, I did use my time for thinking. I thought a lot about you and what I planned to do when I got out.
Adam: How long have you had my files?
Mason: I had your files as soon as you saved them. But it took my people until just a few months ago to break the encryption. You always were the best. And now your brilliance and your DNA will change the world in a way you never had the courage to.
Adam: It wasn’t about courage. It was about the fact that there are some things that people shouldn’t try to control.
Mason: Adam, I thought you’d understood. Destroying disease. Creating a race of perfect humans. Turning on genes to make people live forever. These are dreams that people like you live for. Thanks to your research and your DNA, I’ll be father to a whole new race.
Nicholas: What’s going on? That’s not the agreement. You can’t do it. I won’t let you.
Mason: I’ll keep my end of the bargain. Your daughter will be returned to you cured, as soon as I get what I want.
Adam: What about your friends here? What have you given them besides a lot of pain? All he’s given you is a life that’s gonna end very soon.
Silva: What is he talking about?
Adam: Why do you think he needs my DNA? He needs it to perfect the process of mutation because you’re just rough drafts. I mean, that’s why your friend died. That’s why you’re gonna die. What, you forgot to tell them this, Eckhart?
Mason: That’s enough. I need the samples. Take him.
Adam: I don’t think so. This is an electromagnetic pulse generator. This is strong enough to fry every piece of electronic equipment in this building.
Mason: Really, Adam? It showed up on the sensors the moment you walked through the front door. And that’s when it was rendered unworkable. When are you going to learn that I really am a step ahead?

Silva: Lady, you are about to have the worst day of your life.
Emma: I don’t think so. It’s hard to share pain that you don’t feel, isn’t it?

Mason: You idiot! What did you do?
Nicholas: I opened up the steam valves. I released the pressure. It’s all about to go up!
Mason: You always have to screw things up, don’t you Adam?