Karl quotes from Jessica Jones

Eight years of my life in this case, perfect as the day I designed it.

Trish

Then let's go.

Karl

Do you really need the gun?

Trish

Where were you gonna run?

Karl

Who's running?

Trish

With your new passports. Where were you running?

Karl

Uruguay.

Trish

Lot of cutting-edge science in Uruguay?

Karl

Hardly.

Trish

So you were just gonna go there and you were gonna read? Garden? Learn basket weaving? Or you'll just sit, smoke, wait to die alone?

Karl

You already have me at gunpoint. You don't have to crush my soul as well.

Trish

Maybe you will reflect on your life's work. Hurting people, creating a killer.

Karl

I wanted to save people. I did save people.

Trish

But the science was never harnessed, never perfected. So you failed. That's your legacy. But listen, it doesn't have to be. You wanted to be extraordinary, right? Maybe you still can be. Why don't you tell me, do I really need the gun?

Alisa

You can't send me out there alone.

Karl

I'm not sending you anywhere. I'll get us a little place by the water, somewhere safe. It'll just be you and me.

Alisa

[chuckles] I can't let you give up your life's work for me.

Karl

This is what I want. Not because I'm your doctor, not because you're the most powerful woman I've ever met–

Alisa

I can jump ten stories, but I can't grow hair. What kind of a lame-ass power is that? [laughs]

Karl

I know it's complicated. It's completely unethical.

Alisa

I'm an illegal experiment, and you're worried about ethics? Screw ethics. [kisses Karl]

Trish

How long will it take?

Karl

Jessica took 20 days, but she was near death and I've been honing the procedure ever since. On paper at least.

Trish

That's a plus.

Karl

Jessica and Alisa's abilities were a rare side effect, related to their specific DNA. I was never able to decode it.

Trish

So my DNA is a crapshoot? Just wanna know what I'm getting into.

Karl

Uh, this vaccine is a live virus. Its DNA can unlock yours. It's the first step in editing your personal genome. But it could all–

Trish

Go terribly wrong. You've said.

Karl

Are you changing your mind?

Trish

Do you know what it's like to feel powerless?

Karl

Everyone does.

Trish

Not everyone has an abusive mother and a superpowered sister. I just wanna help people who can't help themselves. [scoffs] God, I sound like an insurance commercial.

Karl

No, no, no. You sound like somebody who wants to save the world. I do, too.