The Speed of Thought (2011)
Mía Maestro: Anna Manheim
Quotes
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Anna Manheim : You know why people like us don't trust anybody? Because we never have to. Knowing isn't trusting.
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[Josh and Anna run into each other at a market]
Anna Manheim : Hi!
Joshua Lazarus : Hey.
Anna Manheim : You're staying on the outside?
Joshua Lazarus : We don't believe in being in people's heads if they don't want us there. Unless they're normals.
Anna Manheim : Who's 'we'?
Joshua Lazarus : There are others like us. Not many.
Anna Manheim : You know, when I said, yesterday, "Get out," I didn't mean you had to get out of the house. I meant, get out from...
[she touches her forehead]
Anna Manheim : ...here. I wasn't prepared for it.
Joshua Lazarus : You are now?
[He focuses, and they appear, facing each other, in the dark, dreamy area that is telepathy]
Joshua Lazarus : Better this time?
Anna Manheim : Better.
Joshua Lazarus : You're fuzzy, you know.
Anna Manheim : I know - I thought it had to be this way, but you're not.
Joshua Lazarus : [He smiles] We'll fix it for you.
Anna Manheim : I'm - it's okay, it doesn't bother me.
Joshua Lazarus : Don't worry. It's an easy technique.
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[Joshua is in a restaurant when Anna enters and takes a seat, many tables away. She shuts her eyes and concentrates. He enters her mind, where she is sitting in a room with rectangles of different colors on the walls, as in paintings by Mondrian]
Joshua Lazarus : Nice place you have here. Very... organized.
Anna Manheim : [Teasingly] Are you talking to me? I don't recall inviting you in.
Joshua Lazarus : No, I was talking to the busboy. He's a telepath, too.
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Joshua Lazarus : We need order. It's how Sandy teaches us to deal with the chaos.
Anna Manheim : Who's Sandy?
Joshua Lazarus : Sandy taught me everything. Who trained you?
Anna Manheim : What do you mean?
Joshua Lazarus : I mean, who taught you to use your abilities?
Anna Manheim : No one.
Joshua Lazarus : That's not possible. You can't fight the voices on your own.
Anna Manheim : You don't have to fight them. It took me years to learn that.
Joshua Lazarus : I don't follow you.
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Anna Manheim : I've been wanting to ask you, how could you be so unethical with my father? It's not like you.
Joshua Lazarus : [He looks down, then meets her eyes] I'm just doing my country's bidding. The NSA loves us. We're like wiretaps without wires. No warrant required.
Anna Manheim : Give me a real answer, Josh.
Joshua Lazarus : Sandy teaches us that these jobs are for the greater good, and the NSA payments he uses to help other scopers.
Anna Manheim : I don't like that term, "scopers." It's an ugly word, and you use it to justify the ugly things they make you do. How would you like it if I were cheating your father?
Joshua Lazarus : I haven't seen my father in twenty years, so...
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Anna Manheim : You've been taught to keep everyone out, but if you let everyone in, you'd be happier.
Joshua Lazarus : No thanks. All that selfishness, the million petty hatreds and prejudices, it's too much.
Anna Manheim : There is the other side. There is the rose that blooms in the lover's heart.
Anna Manheim : [She smiles at him] You just have to let yourself see it.
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Anna Manheim : [Referring to the postcard she gave him] Look on the other side.
[He turns it over. She has written, "To many years together." He looks up at her and her smile fades]
Joshua Lazarus : Anna, I should... I should tell you more about Windman's Syndrome. You have a chance. You're only 26. Maybe they can find a... a cure in time for you.
Anna Manheim : I'm not actually 26. I'm sorry. I made you think I was 26.
Joshua Lazarus : [He is stunned] You can't lie in a merge.
Anna Manheim : Well, I kinda did.
[She giggles]
Joshua Lazarus : So, then, how old are you?
Anna Manheim : [softly, but smiling] I just turned 31.
Joshua Lazarus : That's not possible.
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Joshua Lazarus : Anyway, they don't... they don't trust me anymore. They wanna send me back to New York.
Anna Manheim : Then I'm coming with you.
Joshua Lazarus : They'll be watching me. They always are. If they see us together...
Anna Manheim : What else can I do? I'm in love with you.
Joshua Lazarus : I'm so used to being alone. I thought it had to be that way.
Anna Manheim : I think we deserve some happiness.
Joshua Lazarus : We don't have much time left.
