Æon Flux quotes from Æon Flux

My name's Æon Flux. I'm here on a mission to assassinate Trevor Goodchild. Is everybody listening? Do you believe me? Everybody happy now?

I'm commandeering your libido under Monican aegis. This is an authorized police action, lover. You're mine.

Green light, go. Red light, stop. Green light, stop. Red light, GO!

Trevor Goodchild

The dream to awaken our world!

You're out of control.

Trevor Goodchild

I take control. Whose side are you on?

I take no side.

Trevor Goodchild

You're skating the edge.

I am the edge.

Trevor Goodchild

What you truly want, only I can give.

You can't give it, can't even buy it, and you just don't get it.

Trevor Goodchild

My work offends you – why? Human beings are not so unique. Just a random arrangement of amino acids.

Suits me.

Trevor Goodchild

Yes it does.

These people you're copying are already superfluous. You're trafficking in excess.

Trevor Goodchild

The issue is not excess but access. Others take away reproductive rights; I grant them.

You're psychotic. You no longer have a common conscience with your fellow man.

Trevor Goodchild

I never did. You see, I understand the will to evil. The will to evil is like an iron in the forge. There is only one way to shape it [right] – with a conscience that is the fire. My children, Judy, Bambara, it was for them I created the Custodian; an artificial conscience, a fire for those that had none!

But you lost the substance. You lost the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Trevor Goodchild

You wish to know if you have been implanted. You wish to confirm your autonomy of will.

Yes.

Trevor Goodchild

You would also like to leave this place alive. Yes?

Yes.

Trevor Goodchild

You shot Rubio and not me! Now why is that?

Trevor, don't trouble me with your thin smile.

Trevor Goodchild

Stop! There's a pain in my back!

Can you describe it in words?

Trevor Goodchild

What?

I want you to tell me about the pain.

Trevor Goodchild

Sharp, stabbing, piercing!

You're telling me nothing.

Trevor Goodchild

It feels like a nail, twisting into my spine!

Yes. But there is no nail—

Trevor Goodchild

No.

—so there is no pain.

Please, tell me what you know!

We won. We must have been right.

You know something! Tell me what you know!

What I know? He said the light was beautiful. Yes, it was. No use, see, because the truth isn't even pretty. What else? Oh, right. Love isn't the answer. It's the problem.

The only reason I don't shoot you has nothing to do with duty or principle. It's simply a matter of knowing who I am.

Trevor Goodchild

Is that why you won't let it see you, why you can't bear the gaze? Because you've done terrible things. Then there are the transgressions you never even knew you committed, those are the worst! Because those you can never forget, all you can do is suspect.

I'm not in the habit of arguing over the color of red herrings.

What the flame does not consume consumes the flame.

Everyone's dead?

Unborn

Been here a long time, have you?

Forever.

You have to tell me what happened here.

Nothing happened. Nothing happens. That is the secret.

I knew you'd come eventually. I never did catch your name.

I am before names.

Good for you! How long does this go on?

Always.

I'm bored already.