Æon Flux (2005)
Marton Csokas: Trevor Goodchild
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Quotes
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[Æon plans to destroy the Relico]
Trevor Goodchild : This isn't the answer, Æon! There's no guarantee I can find the cure again! Cloning is all we have!
Æon Flux : It's not enough! Our minds are unravelling and every time you bring us back it gets worse!
Trevor Goodchild : If you do this, we end!
Æon Flux : We're meant to die - that's what makes anything about us matter. Living like this is torture - we're just ghosts...
Trevor Goodchild : That's not how I feel - not now...
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[Æon, looking for an explanation, hands Trevor the photo she found in his lab. He takes it from her without a word and sets off]
Æon Flux : Trevor... the name you called me?
Trevor Goodchild : ...Catherine.
Æon Flux : That was my name...
Trevor Goodchild : You were my wife. We had a life together just like anybody else...
Æon Flux : [grabbing his hand] Wait! You need to tell me!
Trevor Goodchild : I lost you during the disease and you couldn't be brought back. I've lived and died seven times since then, and each time I taught myself about you. You were an idea I kept alive, something I had to imagine. But when I saw you, what I felt was real, and I knew you, I remembered you. What we had together has survived all that time...
Æon Flux : ...and I was looking for you.
Trevor Goodchild : ...and I've been waiting.
Æon Flux : We were different people.
Trevor Goodchild : We were.
Æon Flux : Those people are gone...
Trevor Goodchild : ...but something in them came back.
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Æon Flux : You cloned her...
Trevor Goodchild : I cloned everybody.
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Trevor Goodchild : There was a complication when we cured the industrial disease. The vaccine had an unintended side effect: sterility. Only one more generation of our species could survive. It was a desperate time. Cloning had never been used on humans, successfully. Now when a person dies, their DNA is recycled. Oren and I built the Relico to store DNA and to conceal the cloning process. The Keeper finds a suitable couple and using food additives, we induce a chemical pregnancy. When a woman comes in for an exam, we implant a cloned embryo. From there things happen naturally. In nine months, a citizen who died is reborn. For seven generations, Oren and I have cloned ourselves, taught ourselves, so that I could keep trying to find a cure... while we all live on.
Æon Flux : That's what we are? Copies?
Trevor Goodchild : We're more than that! It wasn't supposed to be permanent - I've been trying to cure the infertility. Una was part of my test groups. Oren lied to me - he told me her test had failed, like the others. But she had become pregnant. He killed all my subjects, your sister included.
Æon Flux : He killed her because he was pregnant...
Trevor Goodchild : Una didn't know it, but her baby would have been one of the first new children in 400 years. Oren's changed - he doesn't want to go back, he doesn't want a cure...
Æon Flux : He wants to live forever.
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Trevor Goodchild : [walking outside] I'm getting worried about you, Oren. This edge you've taken. Displays like that aren't helpful to us.
Oren Goodchild : [shrugs] I believe in protecting what we've created. I own't apologize for that.
Trevor Goodchild : This was created to allow me to do my work. I can't do that if you can't control yourself. Understood?
Oren Goodchild : Yes, it is.
Trevor Goodchild : And what of the test results?
Oren Goodchild : [lying] All negative... sorry.
Trevor Goodchild : Find me a new test group by morning.
[starts to walk away]
Oren Goodchild : Maybe it's time to give up on the tests, Trevor. We're living the solution already. This is perfection. Why can't you just embrace it?
Trevor Goodchild : You see what's happening to people. You know how desperate this has become.
Oren Goodchild : It can be controlled. Contained.
Trevor Goodchild : I think your forgetting that this was all meant to be temporary.
Oren Goodchild : You've always said that, but why should it be?
Trevor Goodchild : Because it's wrong.
Oren Goodchild : Things change... but I know you won't.
Trevor Goodchild : [smiling] You know me.
Oren Goodchild : Been your brother a long time.
Oren Goodchild : You're right about that.
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Trevor Goodchild : [to Aeon, in her cell] Catherine?
[she wakes up and take in the cell, before Trevor appears]
Trevor Goodchild : Aeon?
Æon Flux : You called me by another name earlier.
Trevor Goodchild : I did and you let me live.
Æon Flux : [provokingly] Give me my gun. We'll try it again.
Trevor Goodchild : [smirks] Maybe later.
Æon Flux : What was that name?
Trevor Goodchild : You know me, don't you?
Æon Flux : [raged] No!
Trevor Goodchild : Do you know who you are?
Æon Flux : I know I came here to kill you.
Trevor Goodchild : That's why you're in a cell. But we're both still alive for a reason.
[turns to walk away]
Trevor Goodchild : I don't know what this is... but it's good to see you.
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Æon Flux : We can't go to a Monican safe house.
Trevor Goodchild : Nowhere's gonna be safe for us.
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Æon Flux : I know I came here to kill you...
Trevor Goodchild : That's why you're in a cell.
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Trevor Goodchild : This is a war, and people on all sides die.
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Trevor Goodchild : [message to Aeon, with shocks] Aeon. I'm sorry for the pain. It's not safe to talk in the open. Nothing's as it seems... You had your chance, why did you hesitate?... You know where to find me.
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Æon Flux : [in Trevor's quarters, coming from the shadows] Why am I here?
Trevor Goodchild : [turns to face her] I needed to see you again.
Æon Flux : [begins circling the room] You killed my sister!
Trevor Goodchild : I didn't know anything about it... I'm sorry.
Æon Flux : And the excuses you?
Trevor Goodchild : No. But this is a war. People on all sides die.
Æon Flux : She shouldn't have. She had nothing to do with this.
Trevor Goodchild : Everyone's involved in this.
Æon Flux : [furious] She wasn't.
[looks down at her gun]
Æon Flux : I don't need that to kill you.
Trevor Goodchild : [smiles] But it would be easier, wouldn't it?... Everything changed when I saw you... I know you and you know me.
Æon Flux : [grabs up her weapon, starts walking backwards] Why do I know you? Why?
Trevor Goodchild : [lowers her arm with his hands, advancing slowly] Why did you come back? What do you want from me?
Æon Flux : [grabs his jacket, forcing him to the wall] What do I want? I want my sister back! I want to remember what it feels like to be a person.
[begins kisses Trevor]
Trevor Goodchild : [breathless] Aeon.
Æon Flux : [shoves him away] Why do I feel this way around you?
[begins kissing him again]
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Freya : [about Aeon] She escaped.
Trevor Goodchild : [amused, rubbing his neck] Why am I not surprised?
Freya : I found her in the library. I think I wounded her.
Trevor Goodchild : [standing] You attacked her?
Freya : She's a Monican agent, who tried to kill you. I assumed it was obvious what I should do.
Trevor Goodchild : Freya, I want her alive. Do you understand?
[walking to the door]
Trevor Goodchild : Is Oren aware of this?
Freya : I can't find him.
Trevor Goodchild : Stay close.
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Trevor Goodchild : This is an empty gesture.
Æon Flux : [cocks assaults rifle] It's a leap of faith.
Trevor Goodchild : It's not for you to decide.