Æon Flux (2005)

Marton Csokas: Trevor Goodchild

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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...

• [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.

• Æon Flux : You cloned her...

  Trevor Goodchild : I cloned everybody.

• 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 : [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.

• 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.

• Æon Flux : We can't go to a Monican safe house.

  Trevor Goodchild : Nowhere's gonna be safe for us.

• Æon Flux : I know I came here to kill you...

  Trevor Goodchild : That's why you're in a cell.

• Trevor Goodchild : This is a war, and people on all sides die.

• 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.

• 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] 

• 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.

• 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.