Clarice Fong 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.

Clarice

All this damage, was it me? Is everyone okay?

John Proudstar

You were a little hard on the trees and some furniture, but people survived.

Clarice

This place needed a remodeling anyway.

Clarice

Something changed after I got sick. I woke up with this new beauty mark here. [points at a scar over her right eye] And my powers... I don't know... they're broken.

John

Hey, abilities don't break. Most mutants first access their abilities from strong emotions: fear, anger, pain. But those are all unreliable. The challenge is to tap into something positive.

Clarice

Positive?

John

Mm hm.

Clarice

Like what? We do some hot yoga and find my spirit animal?

John

Umm.. no, thanks. I'm pretty sure your spirit animal would bite me.

Clarice

No, it'd rip your head off.

John

That's impossible, my head can't be ripped off.

Clarice

Literally I have the power to bail out of bad situations. So, being scared is just a big part of it.

John

It's not all of it. In the Marines, when you want to give up they train you to focus on what you care about most. To hold onto it like your life depended on it, because at some point it will.

Clarice

Okay, so what did you care about?

John

Back then I had a lot to prove, about being Apache, a mutant.

Clarice

But what if I don't have anything?

Clarice

I need to talk to you! Did you mess with my head?

What do you mean?

Clarice

I was watching you with the Sentinel Service guy, and then I remembered something. Last week, the two of us started to have a conversation, and now that conversation's just gone. And now I can't go ten minutes without this memory of John coming back to me. I'm asking you straight up: did you mess with my head?

Sonya

You couldn't use your abilities, Johnny was in trouble, and if you were going to help you needed a connection to him.

Clarice

You had no right. Were you ever gonna tell me.

Sonya

Look, I know that you're angry, but you have to understand, people's lives were at stake.

Clarice

I don't have to understand anything! What you do is wrong! You decided that you needed to fix me, and now I get to live with the memory of loving someone I barely know, someone who doesn't love me.

Sonya

I can take it away if you want, I can remove the memory.

Clarice

Just stay away from me!

John

Clarice, there's a federal building in Baton Rouge that we need to get into. I know it's a lot to ask, but we think there might be information in there about Sentinel Services and what they did to Pulse.

Clarice

So, is that all? That's all we need to talk about? You need the 4-1-1 on your old Marine buddy, so I just blink you into a building? I'm just a portable door-maker?

John

What?

Clarice

Fine, if you're not gonna bring it up, I will. Your friend, Dreamer, stuck a memory in my head, without mentioning it to me, or I don't know, asking my permission. A memory I'm sure you're familiar with, because it's a memory of you.

John

Alright, I'm sorry. I asked her not to do that.

Clarice

But when she did, you decided not to say anything about it.

John

It was an emergency. She did it to save the team and afterwards... we still needed your help.

Clarice

Oh, I get it. You didn't want to tell me because you wanted to use me. FYI, you're not making this any better. I've got my own issues to sort out, my own people to find.

John

You're tough to track, you know that? You didn't leave much of a trail.

Clarice

Yeah? That was intentional.

John

Hey, listen. Sorry, alright? What happened with you and Sonya, I should've told you.

Clarice

You think? You know I still see that memory she put in my head? It's like a bad soap opera I can't escape.

John

I'm here to convince you to come back. You're not safe out here right now.

Clarice

You're concerned for my safety. That's why you came?

John

No, that's not all. The Underground needs you.

Clarice

The Underground, got it. Sorry, but that's your battle, not mine.

Sonya

Hey, I know things have been awkward since you got back. I hope there's no hard feelings between us.

Clarice

Well, I'm gonna have to disappoint you. I'm only here for one reason. My foster parents were slaughtered by the Sentinel Services, and I'm going to fight back. This is a war and we're on the same side. It's the only relationship we need.

Clarice

I need a favour, and you're the only one that can help.

Sonya

What is it?

Clarice

There's a new kid that came in, a refugee. She had the same foster parents as me. When I got sick and my portals went crazy, I kept trying to portal back there and that's how they found them. She watched them die, and now she can't stop dreaming about it. It's all my fault. I can't take those memories away from her, but you can.

John

We need to decide what to do.

Marcos

As far as I'm concerned, the psychics are a non-starter.

Lorna

Because their tactics make you uncomfortable?

Marcos

Uncomfortable? They murdered a dozen people without even blinking! We don't know the first thing about them!

Clarice

We do know one thing about them. They saved our asses.

Marcos

They saved themselves, and pulled us right into an all-out war with Sentinel Services.

John

Congress could declare martial law.

Clarice

So? They didn't need martial law when they killed my foster parents.

Lorna

Exactly. Why should we fight with one hand tied behind our backs? We need all the allies we can get! Do you want to cling to your ideals or do you want to survive?

Marcos

We can't just chuck our principles because it's convenient! You know, the X-Men chose us for a reason, and it's not because we can kill. If we wanted to kill people, we would've done it a thousand times already, but we didn't! We have to be better than that. Now, we need to take out the Hound program, and we will, Lorna, but we have to do it our way.

Lorna

I don't see a move here. The Hounds are already out there. They're kicking our asses.

It's a secret program. We can kill it, but it has to happen soon. Our sources tell us Dr. Campbell is working his political connections to take it national.

John

What do you mean?

He's attending the Humanity Today Summit in Charlotte, tomorrow.

Clarice

"Humanity Today?" Is that seriously what they call it?

I guess they thought it sounded better than "Kill the Muties."

Clarice

Back in Clark County, I had trouble with some purifiers, basically got run out of town. I was pissed, started looking for people who felt the same way. I found some mutants who were pushing back and it turned out that they were part of the Brotherhood.

John

You joined the Brotherhood?

Clarice

I didn't join anything! I helped them with a few things and when they asked me to do stuff I wasn't down for, I bailed.

John

Why didn't you tell us?

Clarice

Sage asked me what I was arrested for. Nothing I did with them.

John

That's not how it works and you know it!

Clarice

I know I shouldn't of worked with them, but–

John

It's not about that. It's about hiding it from us.

Clarice

Look, I didn't tell you this before because for the first time in forever I felt safe. I just didn't want to lose that.

Clarice

Something piss you off? Was it the Frosts? [off Lorna's look] Yeah, they tried working on me too. Their whole "we're not so different" thing.

Lorna

Yeah, well... they might have a point with that.

Clarice

What are you talking about?

Lorna

They uh... They talked about the guy they think is my birth father. Said he was a part of all of this.

Clarice

So what if he is? Lorna, I know about this. You don't get born looking like me without having major X-genes in your family tree. You know, for a while I thought that mattered. I thought that all the bad guys in my family's past made me one too. Took me too long to realize that a tiny speck of DNA, it doesn't take charge of who you are. I really hope you realize that sooner than I did.

John

Hey, the hell's going on?

Something wrong?

Marcos

Yeah, something's wrong. We can't find Lorna.

John

She left with your sisters.

They're doing what you couldn't. Campbell and Montez filed a flight plan. They flight out of Morrison Air Center in 20 minutes. The most important thing is to make sure he doesn't get to D.C., ever.

Clarice

Woah, it's an assassination now?

John

Look, I hate that son-of-a-bitch, but that goes against everything we stand for!

John, please.

John

No! If we start killing, it's gonna make life worse for mutants, everywhere.

John, life is already worse for mutants everywhere. You know I'm right!

Marcos

Oh shut up!

Marcos–

Marcos

Don't say another word! We are gonna go get Lorna, right now. And if I see your eyes turn blue, I swear to God I will be the last thing you see.