Jace Turner quotes from The Gifted

Jace Turner

Was I unclear? Your job was to stay in the van.

Reed

You were clear enough.

Turner

You just made the biggest mistake of your life.

Reed

No, but I got pretty damn close.

Turner

We had a deal, Mr. Strucker.

Reed

And you can shove that deal up your ass.

Wow, hey, Agent Turner, what are you doing here? You're not supposed to be here.

Turner

You know what it's like to lose your only daughter? Twice? You have no idea what I've been through. [to an off-screen agent] What are you looking at Suarez?

Jace, when was the last time you slept? You're in no condition to be at work.

Turner

Where else would I be?

You're on a mandatory leave of absence. Everybody's heart broke for you and for Paula, but you're not supposed to be here.

Turner

[takes Weeks's badge and opens his office door] You're gonna call security? Tell them I'll be in my office.

[answering phone] What can I do for you Agent Turner?

Turner

For starters you can tell me what the hell happened in the conference room today.

To our associate from the DOJ? That's gonna be hard to tell without an MRI. My guess, she burst a blood vessel in her brain. She'll live, but–

Turner

No doctor, I mean: what happened?

Well, I think that's pretty clear, don't you? Our bureaucratic friend suffered an unfortunate medical incident.

Turner

So you're saying that it was a... coincidence? I'm saying it was convenient, and it was damn suspicious.

How so? You were making a case for our program, I saved a woman's life. I think it's time to move on.

Turner

Listen, they're not just gonna leave us alone, okay? The DOJ will just send somebody else.

Maybe, in a few weeks. Meanwhile, our work can proceed.

Turner

This is not–

Glad to say Agent Turner, I liked your passion in there. Grace would've been proud.

Turner

Miss Simonson, do you remember the last time we met? Of course, it's a little hazy for me because you scrambled my brain to cover your tracks, but it turns out that you took my memories of the last few days of my daughter's life. I went home that night to read her a bed-time story, and my wife had to stop me and remind me that she was dead, and that she had been for four years. So, thanks to you, over the last few weeks I've had the opportunity to lose... my only child. All over again.

Sonya

[shaking her head] That... that was an accident. [tearing up] I'm so sorry.

Turner

You're sorry? [bangs the table angrily] You think I want an apology from you? [shakes his head] No. I want you to pay, and I want you to know that this is extremely personal for me.

Reed

They're in there now! Please, you know this is wrong.

Turner

No, I know this is legal. I know this is authorized.

Reed

Just because it's legal, it makes it right?

Turner

I'm not gonna debate this with you! [pause] I don't know what you two expected to come out of this. I'm not in the habit of helping people who threaten my family.

Reed

I'm trying to save my children!

Turner

Yeah, you're children, who were apprehended attacking a key infrastructure facility, which makes them terrorists.

Reed

Terrorists? They are high school students.

Turner

You wanna talk about how bad off your kids are? Our child is gone! [pause] Whatever their circumstances, your kids are alive.

Reed

But for how long? That's your justification for experimenting on them? Torturing them? A 15-year-old and a 17-year old–

Caitlin

Reed, please. [to Jace] I know how upsetting this must be. When you came into my house with a gun, I was terrified. Believe me, this is the last place I want to be right now. So I'm going to say this, and then we're gonna go. The program our children are in, I've seen what it does first-hand. They pump the mutants full of drugs until they are hopelessly addicted. They're given mental conditioning so they have to do what they're told and... and then they are sent to kill everyone they love. They may be alive, but that... that's worth than death. [gets up and leaves, followed by Reed]

Agent Turner, this is a surprise.

Turner

[looks around the room] What happened here?

Nothing to worry about. What can I do for you?

Turner

I've been reviewing the status of the detainees here. I'm not satisfied that any of this is legal.

Uh, we had a deal, I believe.

Turner

Yeah, we did. I'm revisiting that deal, and I'm taking the mutants. [looks at the security feed] Where's the redhead? Sonya Simonson?

There was an incident during one of our experiments and she didn't make it, I'm afraid.

Turner

[pause] An incident? [Campbell nods] We're gonna talk about that incident right after I take all of the detainees back to Sentinel Services. Let's go.

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.