Sonya quotes from The Gifted

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!

Sonya

So you never told me, how did your conversation go with Clarice?

John

She left, so I'd say not well. It's about par for the course these days.

Sonya

If you're talking about Pulse, that wasn't your fault.

John

How do you figure that? I left him, I let Sentinel Services take him.

Sonya

You thought he was dead.

John

I was wrong! I should've saved him. I'm starting to think that maybe the X-Men made a mistake, choosing me to be part of The Underground.

Sonya

Johnny! You can't think that way. I know you want to live up to who your father was, but you're doing all you can.

John

It's not enough. We have more refugees in there than we could possibly save. I can barely protect a bunch of veterans.

Sonya

You were chosen for a reason. The X-Men said: "A war is coming".

John

They didn't say we'd win.

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.

Sonya

Johnny, are you alright?

John

How can I be alright? Maybe Esme has a point.

Sonya

But she's just a scared kid, Who has no idea what she's talking about.

John

She was right about one thing. Pulse. I left him behind and they took him to that lab.

Sonya

That's not on you, Johnny. And continuing to blame yourself is not doing anybody any good. Besides, don't you think it's strange that she knew about Pulse? I mean, she just got here.

John

She's a telepath, Sonya. Maybe she picked it up off me. It doesn't change the fact that I gave up on my friend, and they turned him into a monster. I'll be damned if I let that happen to anybody else.

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.