Cara quotes from The Tomorrow People

Cara

Next time you want to recruit a sweet, young telepath, don’t corner her in an empty subway car.

I know you have a life here. A family. But the people who are like us? The ones we found? The ones we will find? They are my family. I'm not gonna let anything happen to them. And I won't let anything happen to you. Now, please, Stephen. Just come with me.

You know, when you first started talking to me the mysterious voice in my head. Even when I thought I was crazy I trusted you. I have to find out what happened to my dad, okay? Whether or not he's a hero, if he's alive, I have to know. But there's only one way I can find him without losing everyone else. Now, I know you're gonna think I'm crazy for doing this--

Cara

Stephen, you have no idea what you're getting yourself into.

Stephen

Cara. It's your turn to trust me.

Stephen

Okay, okay, wait wait wait, wait. Where are we? How-... Who are you?

John Young

You're in an abandoned subway station 100 feet below the streets of Manhattan. You teleported here. Actually... I teleported you.

Cara

We're called Tomorrow People. And we didn't choose the name, I swear.

Stephen

[laughing, seeing the others] This isn't happening. It's just another one of my crazy dreams.

Cara

[telepathically] It's not a dream, Stephen.

Stephen

How did you do that?

Cara

You've heard of telepathy? It's another one of our powers.

John

The three Ts, the third being telekinesis.

Cara

[to John] He doesn't believe us.

John

It's funny, the teleporting usually sells it.

Stephen

No offense, but any second I'm gonna wake up someplace awful. Maybe another three-way at the neighbors' place.

Cara

You don't understand, Stephen. You're one of us. You're breaking out.

John

You're waking up in weird places, Stephen? You're not sleepwalking. You're teleporting. You hear Cara's voice in your head, that's telepathy. Your latent powers are starting to appear. Soon, you'll be able to do this.

Stephen

Okay, oka- okay! Okay! Put me down! Put me down!

John

You got it.

Stephen

No, no, I'm having a psychotic break. My meds are off or something.

John

No, no, no more pills. They're obviously addling your brain.

Cara

What he means... is the drugs are just going to get in your way.

Stephen

Get in my way? You have no idea what my year has been like.

Cara

[with a hurt expression] Stephen, I know exactly what it's been like. I know how alone you've felt, how scared. You feel like you're turning into a different person, like your mind isn't your own. All those hours on your therapist's couch? I was there with you, Stephen. When we're connected, I feel what it's like to be you.

Stephen

That sounds, um, awful.

Stephen

If I'm not human, what the hell am I?

You, my friend, are a Homo Superior.

Cara

We didn't pick that name either.

Russell

Look, we get that you're looking out for us, but Stephen called it. At some point we have got to stop playing defense, and fight back. I mean we've hiding out down here for two years.

John

Which is two years longer than any of us would have survived up top.

Cara

We are all for survival. But if we're not going to stand up for our own, what's the point of surviving?

Stephen

That's why I have to find him. I can't let that be my last memory of my dad.

Cara

What are you gonna do?

Stephen

I'm gonna do what he asked me to do. I'm gonna take care of my family. I'm going to be a better brother, a better son, and a better friend, to both of our species. Because what I've realized, is that I can't turn my back on either of them. The only way I can do all this, is by pretending to be a good soldier, by working for my uncle, staying one step ahead of him. And that is what I'm going to do.

Cara

You can't change what happened.

Stephen

No. You also don't have to let it define you. Maybe we were given these powers for a reason. You know? Our being able to help people like Emily, it's not playing God. It's just being human.

Cara

You're a real cup's-half-full kinda guy, aren't you? I like that.

Cara

You're right. The real reason not to help these people isn't because it's reckless. It's pointless. They don't deserve saving.

Stephen

You don't mean that.

Cara

The people you love, they don't know the truth about you. If, when, they discover there's a freak living in their midst, then you'll find out who they really are...

Cara

You dig around in people's minds, you'll find everyone has a sad story.

Stephen

You talking from experience?

Cara

Not that I'd like to share.

Stephen

Okay, wait... So what? We just ignore them?

Cara

Forget about their kind. We'll be lucky if we can save our own species.

Cara

Making deals with Jedikiah it's not like John.

Stephen

He did what he had to do. I know I'm usually the one criticizing him. The way he runs things down here. I have accused him of being cowardly, and overly cautious. I have even questioned what it is you see in him. But today was different. Today I saw it.

Cara

You're not developing a guy crush on him, are you?

Stephen

The guy's a leader, Cara.

Cara

(about his ability to kill people) This is what you've been hiding from me all these years? This is why you've been keeping me at arm's length? Do you see what it has done to us, John?

John

What choice did I have? How do you think they'd take the news? That Jedikiah had turned their fearless leader into a freak. That I wasn't one of them anymore.

Cara

I'm not talking about them. Why didn't you tell me?

John

'Cause of the way... because of the way you're looking at me right now. Like I'm some monster.

Cara

I don't care what your secret was. It's that you kept it from me. That is what you were seeing, John.

Stephen

Hey!

Cara

(about his black-eye) Nice shiner. Darcy?

Stephen

Different chick.

Cara

Chick. No wonder she clocked you.

Cara

I think a night out could do all of us a lot of good.

John

It's not worth the risk.

Cara

John, what's the point of surviving if we don't get to really live? We're dying down here, John. All of us.

Cara

(about partners) All right, Romeo. What about you?

Stephen

More than one.

Cara

But no Tomorrow People.

Stephen

So?

Cara

So, you're a televirgin?

Cara

So, what you're saying is that you only date girls with stripper names and who start with C?

Stephen

Well, then I guess you're in luck. Cara.

Cara

Cara's not a stripper name.

Stephen

Okay.

Cara

Is it?

Stephen

No. No. It's pretty... strippery.