Æon Flux 2005 quotes

Æon Flux

Shopping for me, Una?

Haven't you heard? Special occasion! My sister's finally coming to dinner. Claudius and I are looking forward to tonight. For once you'll be in the house long enough to sit down.

Æon Flux

That's why I wanted to meet with you here.

Æon?

Æon Flux

I may not make it tonight. I'm sorry. [sees Una's face drop] Don't be upset.

It's not that you can't come to dinner. It's why!

Æon Flux

You know, I use to imagine you'd come with me.

We have different ways of solving problems.

Æon Flux

Yes. You ignore them.

How could I possible ignore them? [looking around] I see the problems. I feel them and I'm trying to make something good out of it…a life.

Æon Flux

What kind of life is it?

There are good things here.

Æon Flux

There's one.

So, I have a surprise for you tonight.

Æon Flux

Tell me!

Tonight. So be careful…come back.

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

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.

Æon Flux

Why am I here?

Trevor Goodchild

I needed to see you again.

Æon Flux

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

She wasn't. [looks down at her gun as Trevor hands it to her] I don't need that to kill you.

Trevor Goodchild

But it would be easier, wouldn't it? Everything changed when I saw you…I know you and you know me.

Æon Flux

Why do I know you? Why?

Trevor Goodchild

Why did you come back? What do you want from me?

Æon Flux

What do I want? I want my sister back! I want to remember what it feels like to be a person. [kisses Trevor]

Trevor Goodchild

Aeon.

Æon Flux

Why do I feel this way around you?

We're sick. And Trevor's trying to cure us. That's all I know.

Æon Flux

Trevor tried to dope me. Tell me what's in this. [hands over a vial]

It's a message.

Æon Flux

Well, what does it say?

You have to drink it. That's how it works.

She escaped.

Trevor Goodchild

Why am I not surprised.

I found her in the library. I think I wounded her.

Trevor Goodchild

You attacked her?

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? Is Oren aware of this?

I can't find him.

Trevor Goodchild

Stay close.

You're certainly killing him kindly.

Æon Flux

Situation has changed.

Our orders haven't.

Æon Flux

I'm not following orders anymore.

Why are you doing this, Aeon?

Æon Flux

Everything has become more complicated!

No. It's simple.

Æon Flux

Trevor may not be responsible for the mistake.

Trevor?

Æon Flux

I'm trying to find out who is.

Your mission was to kill Goodchild. And you can't or won't do that, so…give me your weapon and return to the frontier.

Æon Flux

Didn't I teach you to think for yourself?

You taught me a lot more than that.

Trevor Goodchild

Catherine? Aeon?

Æon Flux

You called me by another name earlier.

Trevor Goodchild

I did and you let me live.

Æon Flux

Give me my gun. We'll try it again.

Trevor Goodchild

Maybe later.

Æon Flux

What was that name?

Trevor Goodchild

You know me, don't you?

Æon Flux

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. I don't know what this is…but it's good to see you.

Trevor Goodchild

I'm getting worried about you, Oren. This edge you've taken. Displays like that aren't helpful to us.

I believe in protecting what we've created. I don'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?

Yes, it is.

Trevor Goodchild

And what of the test results?

All negative…sorry.

Trevor Goodchild

Find me a new test group by morning.

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.

It can be controlled. Contained.

Trevor Goodchild

I think your forgetting that this was all meant to be temporary.

You've always said that, but why should it be?

Trevor Goodchild

Because it's wrong.

Things change…but I know you won't.

Trevor Goodchild

You know me.

Been your brother a long time.

You're right about that.

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.

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…

Trevor Goodchild

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.

Æon Flux

I had a family once, I had a life. Now all I have is a mission.

Æon Flux

Some called Bregna the perfect society. Some call it the height of human civilization. But others know better. The Goodchilds built Bregna to ensure us a future. They built the Relico, a memorial to remind us of what we've survived. They built walls to protect us. They tell us that outside, nature has retaken the world. But the real problems lie within. We are haunted by sorrows we cannot name. People disappear and our government denies these crimes. The Goodchild regime provides for us, as long as we stay quiet. So we trade freedom for a gilded cage. But there are rebels whoe refuse to make that trade, who fight to overthrow a government that silences us, who fight in the name of the disappeared. They call themselves the Monicans. I am one of them.

Trevor Goodchild

This is a war, and people on all sides die.

Æon Flux

To live once…But with hope.