Stephen quotes from The Tomorrow People

Stephen

You say this war is to protect humanity. You don’t know the first thing about being human.

Stephen

I’m sorry I think I’m having a stroke. Did you just suggest we break a rule?

Stephen

Until I figure out how to stop time, I’m sure as hell not going to waste it.

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

You think I'm crazy.

I didn't say that.

Stephen

No, no. I'm telling you, there's a reason for everything that I've been through, okay? Every unexplained symptom, every misdiagnosis, and you're taking their side?

Astrid

No, I'm not.

Stephen

You want me to be crazy, is that it?

Astrid

Listen, I stuck by you, and your whole year of crazy, because I care about you. And just so you know, everybody didn't leave. You pushed them away. Which is exactly what you're doing to me.

Astrid

Well, are you taking your meds?

Stephen

Yes! Astrid, I'm taking my meds, but maybe I need something a little stronger like an ice pick lobotomy, or maybe I should just save everyone the trouble and check myself into the loony bin.

Astrid

Okay. Let me see your pills.

Stephen

Why?

Astrid

I just want to check to see if being a raging dick is a side effect?

Stephen

Okay, good one.

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.

Stephen

You sent in a kill squad to mow down a 17-year-old kid?

Okay, first of all, he's not a kid, he's not even human. No offense. He's a paranormal menace.

Stephen

And that gives you license to put him down like an animal?

Jedikiah

Look, I told you from the very beginning, we were in a shadow war with your kind and mine. You didn't think there'd be any casualties?

Stephen

Okay, enough with the war lingo. This isn't a war, it's genocide.

John

We all made sacrifices, Stephen, but somehow, you think you're special.

Stephen

You don't think I know what it's like to lose someone? Up until last week, I thought my dad, your great hero, was just some human loser who left me. Now I don't know what to think other than he's alive. But how are you gonna find him if you're hiding down here like a bunch of paranormal refugees? I will do whatever it takes to find my dad. If that means working for Ultra, fine.

John

Jedikiah's goal is to eliminate our species from the face of the planet. I worked there, Stephen. I know. Getting inside your head, it's just the beginning. You haven't even scratched the surface of what they can do. And as long as you're down here, the rest of us aren't safe!

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.

Astrid

Where'd you come from? I was waiting for you outside.

Stephen

Hey, uh, I teleported. Kidding. Kidding, kidding. Uh, my-my mom gave me a lift.

Astrid

Great. I see we've moved into the comedy portion of your psychotic break.

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...

Stephen

One of my classmates, who's been having pretty serious mental problems, is thinking about killing herself.

Jedikiah

Oh, that's tragic.

Stephen

So... I-I should try to help her?

Jedikiah

What was it that Stalin once said? "When one man dies it's a tragedy, when millions die, it's a statistic." Well, obviously he was a monster. And he had it backwards. Because what happens if by using your powers to help this person, you accidentally reveal to the rest of the world that there's a new species living amongst them? One that could read their thoughts, steal their secrets, prey upon them. Humans would either try to exploit you or kill you and then millions would die, of your kind and mine. And that would indeed be a tragedy.

Stephen

So what does make Emily? Is she the statistic?

Jedikiah

You can't save everybody.