Jedikiah quotes from The Tomorrow People

Jedikiah

So this wasn't your plan. That explains the profound recklessness.

Jedikiah

(to John) I don’t want you to kill anyone. I want you to save someone.

Jedikiah

Folks, this is a Paranormal intervention.

Jedikiah

You’re absolved, kid. How does that make you feel?

Jedikiah

Yeah, well, you know what? I’d rather be alive than the blueprint for somebody else’s skin, thank you very much.

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.

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.

John

I left Ultra because you made me kill. I swore to myself I'd never do it again.

Jedikiah

And you haven't. Till tonight.

John

You think it's an imperfection. But I think there's a reason we were born unable to kill. It destroys something. A part of your soul you don't get back. I felt it today. Just like I felt it years ago. I hate you for what you made me.

Jedikiah

I made you strong. Perfect.

John

We're not running anymore. From here on, we do everything to stop you. We see you on the street, we don't turn, we fight. Got it?

Jedikiah

Kill or be killed, John.

John

Kill or be killed.

Jedikiah

You're wasting your time, Cara.

Cara

I've got nowhere to be.

Jedikiah

Well, all humility aside, I am a very important person and very powerful people are searching for me, so...

Cara

Shut up.

Jedikiah

Such hostility.

Cara

You're lying.

Jedikiah

And how would you know? My nephew stripped you of your powers. How different it must feel living down here, like some scared, paranormal rat when you really belong on the surface with the rest of our species.

Cara

I see more rats up there than I ever do here.

Morgan

Do you remember how we met?

Jedikiah

Coney Island. You were posing as a psychic, using telepathy to tell poor saps what they wanted to hear. And then I made the mistake of letting you read me. And in that instant you took my hand, you knew more about me than anyone, and you weren't repulsed or scared.

Morgan

I'd never met someone like you, of any species. So passionate. So intelligent. So vulnerable. You, my darling, are a web of contradictions. You need me inside that tangled head of yours.

John

I trusted you like a father and you used me. Don't you get it? I lost everything that day.

Jedikiah

You were just a boy looking for a family. That's what you'll always be.

John

You don't get to decide what I am.

Jedikiah

(referring to the change of the leadership) Well, you were always better at taking orders than giving them.

John

You know, one day, Cara's going to order me to kill you. And I won't say no.

Excuse me, Dr. Price, sir? I just wanted to follow up with you regarding your nephew's human confidante, Ms. Finch.

Jedikiah

Yes, I have the situation under control.

And Stephen will be reprimanded, the same as everyone else, right?

Jedikiah

I don't answer to you, Ms. Cole. And, uh... you know, a strong work ethic is to be commended, but internal sabotage based on ruthless ambition and personal vendetta won't be tolerated.

Yes, but, the girl, you're going to kill her?

Jedikiah

If I say "yes," and you smile, you're next, you got it? Yes. But I want you to understand something. You and everyone like you have the privilege of working at this agency for the exclusive benefit of human beings. And when one of them has to be sacrificed for the greater good, it's not a cause for celebration or personal achievement, you got it?

Yes, sir.

Where is Mr. Jameson?

Jedikiah

He quit.

See, that word implies he had a choice in the matter.