Mr.Maxwell, I already have a key to the city and you would be amazed at how few doors it unlocks.
I hate to sleep. It is such a precious waste of time.
We all need to sleep. We need to dream.
I know about dreams.
[showing the picture of the tower] This is the stuff that dreams are made of.
You have built skyscrapers before.
They were just buildings. This, I have waited my whole life to build this tower. Look at it. Is is 152 stories of offices and apartments and shops. Theatres. Botanical gardens. 9 restaurants. A six story waterfall in the Atrium. A city within a city.
Restaurants and a waterfall will not make it any less... less...
Large?
It is going to impact the lives of thousands of people. It will change the whole neighborhood, the city.
Change is not always bad, Cathy. (showing the slides) I remember the first time I saw the skyline of New York. Empire State. Chrysler Building. I looked at them and I knew this was where I belonged. This was a town where anything was possible. The town is what I am and now, I am going to give something back.
[with Catherine in the painted tunnels] Your world and mine. She tells our stories on these walls. Reminds us that we are all part of one great city.
She must be an extraordinary woman to take bare, gray walls and fill them with so much color and beauty.
Elizabeth is a mystery even to us. No one knows when she left the world Above or why. She refuses to speak of such things.
[after explosion rocks tunnel] Most excavations stop well above our levels, but this new tower sinks its roots deep into the Earth, deeper than any building has ever gone before.
The Birch Tower?
...if it is not stopped. Father thinks it will be the end of our world.
Vincent! Come closer, child! Come see what I have been doing. (Shows painting of Vincent and Erik)
It is as if you saw it with your own eyes.
I did in a way. You are not my only visitor, you know. Mouse brings me my paints. Sometimes Mary comes or Sarah. They tell me stories and I put the stories on the wall. So, it is not magic after all. I leave that kind of thing to Narcissa.
You have your own magic.
...I am not finished! You have to finish what you start.
This is my life, Vincent. Here on these walls. You didn't think that I was going to live forever, did you child?
The excavation will reveal at least four levels, possibly five or six. And even if we start sealing up all the surrounding tunnels today, there is no way to minimize the exposure. Evacuation is the only answer.
Elizabeth says they are her life. Who are we to tell her she is wrong?
[about Mouse's plan] Your heart does you credit.
Sometimes our commitment can blind us.
It is all being taken away from us, Vincent. The work of a lifetime. Everything we built, lost.
What is lost can be found again, built again. As long as we have each other our world will survive.
I wish I could believe that.
Look, just another stupid tower. They've got plenty Uptop. Don't need this one.
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