Marcos Diaz quotes from The Gifted

Clarice Fong

I just wanted to say… thanks for, you know, saving me. Even though I threw a coffeepot at your head.

Marcos Diaz

And a mug.

Clarice

And a mug.

Clarice

You ever burn anyone with that?

Marcos

Uh-huh.

Clarice

What about your girlfriend? You ever burned her?

Marcos

Yeah. She doesn't care. That's why she's my girlfriend.

Clarice

Kinky.

Caitlin

You and my husband had a deal to help our family.

Marcos

Yeah, we did.

Caitlin

I expect you to honor that deal. We need to get Reed back and we need to get out of the country.

Marcos

Do you know your husband was trying to send my girlfriend to prison, right?

Caitlin

He was following the law. Has he prosecuted mutants? Yes, but–

Marcos

But some of his best friends are mutants?

Caitlin

Try his children.

Marcos

That's exactly my point. Tell me this: if it wasn't your kids in that gym, would you be standing up for them? Would your husband?

[after stitching up Marcos' arm] So, how exactly did this happen?

Caitlin

It was an accident.

Marcos

I was fixing stuff on the roof, and you know that sticker on the ladder that says "don't step above the step"? I stepped above the step.

Well I guess we learned a lesson today.

Caitlin

Is it always that bad for mutants?

Marcos

You thought that was bad? That doc actually stitched me up before he called the cops. That's top-flight mutant healthcare right there.

Caitlin

I mean there are protections though. The Civil Rights Act.

Marcos

Uh yeah, mutant rights. They're a nice idea, but there's always an exception for public safety. All they have to do is call you dangerous and you know what happens to those so-called rights? Poof, they're gone.

Marcos

There's seven deep out front. Anything out back?

John

Yeah, there's four of them and then more outside the kitchen door. We're surrounded. Look, I can get us through a wall, but if they start shooting while we run, there's gonna be a fight.

Andy

Run? Why should we have to run?

Lauren

Didn't you hear them? There's an army out there.

Andy

Yeah, so what? We can take those guys.

John

Yeah, of course we can take them, but we do that people are gonna die.

Andy

Well maybe it's time these people learned.

Caitlin

Andy, you don't mean that.

Andy

Yes, I do. Listen to them mom, they hate us!

John

I'm not gonna sugarcoat this. We're talking about attacking the Sentinel Services.

We lost six people the last time we went up against them directly.

John

I know that better than anyone.

Marcos

It won't be like last time.

You're right. Last time we just hit a relocation center with a fence and some guard towers. This time it's a prison. Their systems have improved extrapolating from other attacks. We've got an 86.5% chance of failure.

Marcos

And if we do nothing, there's a 100% chance we never see them again.

Caitlin

I know we're new here, but please...

Marcos

Lorna's risked her life for everyone here in this room. Harry, your parents would be dead without her. Sage, she pulled you out of a gutter and she got you clean. I mean, she's... she needs us.

Doesn't change the math, Marcos.

Marcos

I don't care about the math, I care about Lorna.

We were good together, you and me. Why didn't we work out?

Marcos

We cared about different things.

I cared about taking care of my family, a family you were a part of before you ran off to go play hero.

Marcos

And I was fine with the family, it was the business...

Is it so different from what you're doing now? Moving drugs from Mexico, moving mutants to Mexico, these days which one is more illegal?

Marcos

I heard from the prosecutor... I heard...

Lorna

About the baby.

Marcos

I know you've been through a lot. I just want to know, is it alright?

Lorna

Yeah, I think. I can feel it, almost the way I can feel my auroral electricities in there, inside me. My baby. Our baby. I haven't even said those words aloud until just now.

Marcos

Are you happy?

Lorna

Look, when I was gone, I thought a lot about the world I was bringing a baby like ours into.

Marcos

[takes Lorna's hand] You know what I thought about when you were gone? How I couldn't wait to meet this kid. How I couldn't wait to be a father.

Lorna

[as she holds Marcos' hand the auroras manifest] Marcos.

Marcos

We're gonna have a weird kid.

Lorna

If it's a girl we should call her Aurora.

Marcos

Did you always want to be a dad?

Reed

Yeah, yeah I guess I did. You're gonna be a father. How about you?

Marcos

I don't know. I didn't know my dad much really. Even before he kicked me out for being a mutant. I was the oldest, supposed to run the family business, make him look good. Safe to say I disappointed him.

Reed

Listen, if we all turned out just like our fathers, I wouldn't be much of a dad myself.

Marcos

Yeah. How'd you figure it out? Parenting?

Reed

I haven't. But I can tell you this: nothing that they can do would make you love them less. You start there, and then you do the best you can.

Marcos

Babe, I'm sorry I'm late.

Lorna

How's Marietta?

Marcos

It's fine. They just had some delays, so I had to wait a bit, but I got what they could give us. I ran down an old contact, explained our situation, and he managed to give us some cash. Should be enough to keep the lights on a few weeks.

Lorna

An old contact?

Marcos

Yeah, in support of the cause, you know?

Lorna

Yeah, I know. [breaks off Marcos' lucky amulet] So how's Carmen doing?

Marcos

Okay, babe, you don't understand.

Lorna

I saw you with her. I think I understand perfectly.

Marcos

No, you don't. When you were in jail, the only way I could get you was to go to Carmen, for information. But I had to agree to work for her.

Lorna

And you weren't gonna mention this to me? It just never came up?

Marcos

I did this for you! And for our baby! The only reason I kept it from you was because... I just... I didn't know how to tell you, Lorna. I didn't know.

Lorna

Well, now you've told me. [throws amulet on the floor and walks off]

Lorna

Is this a joke?

Marcos

What?

Lorna

Weren't you the inquisitor for your cartel friends, but it's okay when you do it for Carmen, but it's not okay for us?

Marcos

Look, it's hard to explain.

Lorna

It seems like a lot of things are hard for you to explain these days.

Marcos

Listen, we need to talk about the other night.

Lorna

It was a nightmare, it's nothing.

Marcos

Nothing? It's not nothing. I think all the furniture in our room would disagree. Look, if you're worried about the baby–

Lorna

If? Of course I'm worried about the baby.

Marcos

Why?

Lorna

I'm not sure this place is gonna make it.

Marcos

No matter what, I will protect you, and that kid. It's a promise.

Lorna

I don't know if that's a promise you can keep.

John

This would've been so much easier if we had Pulse with us.

Marcos

Yeah.

John

He could've taken out every automated gun in that place.

Marcos

Of course we'd be hearing tales of his awesomeness for months.

John

I miss him.

Marcos

Yeah, me too. But John, you weren't the only person who left him there that night. That's on all of us, not just you. Today we get to make it up to him.

Turner

[at Weeks' funeral] Edward Weeks was a good man. He was a good agent and he was my friend. He lived a life of service and he gave the ultimate sacrifice.

Lorna

[at Dreamer's funeral] Everything Dreamer did, she did it for everyone here. She could've disguised herself as a human forever, but she chose to live here with us, her true family.

Turner

I grew up in my grandad's church. There's a story that I learned there that I think is relevant today. In the beginning the God loved one angel above all of the others. To him he gave special gifts, he made that angel beautiful and powerful. But one day that angel decided that he wanted to rule over heaven. That angel disobeyed God and for that he was cast down out of heaven. That angel was Lucifer. We have, living among us, some who have been given special gifts. Some who, like Lucifer, have followed their pride into darkness. They ask for understanding, they ask for tolerance. But I am done tolerating evil.

Marcos

It's days like today that remind us that we're up against people that don't think of us as human. And they will point to our differences, but the simple fact is this: we love like they do, we die like they do, we grieve like they do. We share that today. And Sonya will not be forgotten, and I promise, we will find justice for her.

Turner

I promise you, we will find the mutants responsible for this and bring them to justice. And we will never ever forget our friend.