Supergirl (1984)

Peter O'Toole: Zaltar

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• [as Kara goes through the Binary Chute] 

  Alura : She'll be killed.

  Zaltar : Oh, no, she won't. She will be safe. Through the binary. Through the warp. Into another register.

  Zor-El : Another what?

  Zaltar : Gravitational radiation. A pathway from inner space to outer space.

  Alura : Then she'll never be the same, ever.

  Zor-El : At least she'll be alive.

  Zaltar : And my fate is sealed. I've lost the Omegahedron. I must be sent to the Phantom Zone. Your suffering will be short. Mine... forever.

• Supergirl : Earth, Zaltar. A tree, a horse. You keep making things from Earth.

  Zaltar : The place intrigues me.

  Supergirl : Then let's go there.

  Zaltar : Certainly. When is the next train?

  Supergirl : What is a train?

  Zaltar : [laughing] 

  Supergirl : What's so funny? Don't laugh at me, Zaltar.

  Zaltar : I'm only laughing at myself. For you I weep.

• Kara : [about Zaltar's creative illusion]  Oh, it is beautiful. What's that gonna be, Zaltar?

  Zaltar : I think, a tree.

  Kara : A tree. What is a tree?

  Zaltar : A lovely thing which grows on Earth.

  Kara : Earth? You mean where my cousin went?

  Zaltar : And to where one day soon perhaps I might venture as well.

  Kara : I don't believe you. How?

  Zaltar : In that.

  [points to a transportation device] 

  Zaltar : Through there.

  [points to the Binary Chute] 

  Kara : The Binary Chute? But you could never survive the pressure. It would destroy you...

  Zaltar : [interrupting]  That I can, zip zap, and I'm gone.

  Kara : But you'd never leave us, Zaltar. You'd never leave Argo City.

  Zaltar : Indeed I might, Kara. Too much of a good thing here. Perhaps I'll try Saturn instead. Yes, I think I might.

  Kara : Saturn is... Is that further away than Earth?

  Zaltar : Silly question. Did you not study sixth-dimensional geometry at school? Do they not teach you anything anymore?

  Kara : Well, of course they do. Uh, I know the equations. Uh - I just can't see them in my head.

  Zaltar : Most great artists find mathematics troublesome, Kara. Only use your imagination. Saturn and Earth are in outer space, but we - we are in inner space.

• Zaltar : Our city has two great power sources. This is one of them. Look.

  Kara : An Omegahedron. The Guardians let you have it?

  Zaltar : Not exactly. I borrowed it.

  Kara : You stole it. Oh, Zaltar, they're going to...

  Zaltar : No. Borrowed it, for the afternoon. For inspiration.

• Alura : Zaltar, my husband tells me you talk of leaving Argo City. For where?

  Zaltar : Parts unknown. It is, alas, a fact. You and Zor-El have a life here. You have each other, and you have Kara.

  Alura : But, Zaltar, you founded this city. It's yours.

  Zaltar : As far as the eye can see, right to the veil, smack, and then what? What is beyond? Alura, I cannot contain myself to Argo City only. My head is boiling with ideas. My imagination is too vast. It's uncontrollable.

  Alura : If you want my opinion, Zaltar, you're starting to repeat yourself here with all this airy, glittery stuff.

  Zaltar : Exactly. That's why I'm going to Venus.

  Alura : Venus? When?

  Zaltar : Tomorrow. Or the next day, at the latest.

  Alura : Zaltar, have you thought about this? It doesn't make sense to me.

  Zaltar : I have thought, intensely. My mind is made up.

• Zor-El : You took the Omegahedron.

  Zaltar : That's not correct. I lost the Omegahedron.

  Kara : Oh, no, Father. I did.

  Zaltar : Shh, Kara.

  Zor-El : No matter who. Without it, this city can't survive more than a few days.

  Alura : Our lights will grow dim, and the very air we breathe so thin.

  Zaltar : I know. So I shall find it. I shall go right to the end of inner space and I shall return it.

  Zor-El : Impossible. How? No one can leave Argo City, and you know it. This is our universe, and you've destroyed it with a game, a childish game.

  Zaltar : I think it can be done. Through there. The Binary Chute, in the Traveler.

• Supergirl : I can't. I can't

  Zaltar : You can. On, girl.

• Kara : [in response to Zaltar's pessimism about escaping the Phantom Zone]  You're right. You're absolutely right. There is enough doom and gloom in the air already. And, it is better to accept defeat than to take a chance and try like fools to redeem ourselves, and save our city and all those who we love there, plus all the people on Earth that this wicked sorceress is going to make suffer, just because of us. Cheers!

  [raises nozzle in mock toast] 

  Zaltar : We could die trying.

  Kara : We won't. We won't. Come on!