Salene quotes from The Tribe

Salene

They’ve all gone now. All of them. First my father, then the rest of my family. Then Ryan, and now my baby. Nobody to love me. Nobody to love.

Salene

[performing the ceremony] I guess we've always relied on Tai-San to do this sort of thing. But she isn't home with us right now. There are a lot of people who aren't here. People we care about and hope to see again soon. This is for them. I know sometimes this world seems just too tough and you wanna give up. But if we do that we're giving up on our friends. We're all they've got. Us and our hope. May we all see our friends again.

Salene

You’re right, Amber. I am the best mother here.

Dal

[Tai-San has found the formula for the antidote] Can you imagine what the Demon Dogs would do to get that formula?

Salene

But what’s to stop the Demon Dogs from thinking we all know what the formula is?

Tai-San

We make it known that no one else knows. Except me.

Bray

But that makes you a target.

Lex

And it makes – us – her bodyguards. Nice one, Tai-San! Free of chores for life, heh?

Ryan

[working at the farm] Come to the country, he said! Fresh air, blue skies, birds singing, he said! Get up in the middle of the night, he said! Come and breathe that sweet, clean, country air!

Dal

Ryan, you’ve been complaining ever since we got here. I never thought you were a city boy.

Ryan

Yeah! And I suddenly understand how Alice was able to leave!

Dal

Well I still don’t.

Ryan

What do you mean?

Dal

She loves it here. Why would she wanna live in the City? All this Tai-San’s stuff, don’t you think it’s a little weird?

Ryan

Tai-San’s weird, full stop! She spooks me sometimes.

Salene

Alice just seems like a big honey to me.

Tai-San is from the moon. Alice will be drawn back. The rhythms of the earth will call her. [she leaves]

Salene

Now, that chick is really weird!

Ryan

Yeah! Moon, earth? What is she, some kind of witch or something?

Salene

Could be. Better be careful what you say around her, Ryan.

Salene

Do you ever wonder what your parents would think if they could see us now?

Ryan

I’m sure yours would be proud of you.

Salene

You know something? I don’t deserve you.

Ryan

That’s crazy!

Salene

No, it’s outside that’s crazy. It’s all around us so much, it doesn’t seem right that we’re so safe in here, with each other! But I’m glad we are.

[about Bray] He might find someone. One day. I mean, he still really seems to miss Amber.

Salene

No one could ever replace Amber, Danni. Even if they tried.

Salene

They’re growing up. They’re getting interested in boys and their appearance and all of that.

Ryan

Oh yeah. But, Dal?

Salene

Well, he’s the only available guy around here.

Ryan

Dal! Does he know this yet?

Salene

I think he’s starting to get the picture

Ryan

Hey, I just thought of something!

Salene

What?

Ryan

There’s two of them and only one of him.

Salene

Yeah, I don’t think they’ve quite worked that one yet.

Ryan

Ah, I see trouble ahead! [they both laugh.]

Salene

I have to think about my baby. They’re not gonna protect me, are they? The Mall Rats … or what’s left of them. You don’t know what it’s like having a baby grow inside you. All you wanna do is keep it safe. And that’s what I was trying to do. No one understands that. Maybe you do? I’ve seen how you are. You’re scared too, aren’t you?

Pride

We’re all scared Salene. Every last one of us.

May

So, what are you doing around these parts, Pride?

Salene

He’s been practicing tai-chi with the Supreme Mother.

Pride

Yeah, just keeping her body, mind and spirit in term for the ceremony.

May

Wow! Tai-San never said anything about it to me.

Salene

I really appreciated that last visit, Pride. It really helped me a lot. Thank you.

May

Visit? You mean you guys have been hanging out? What else don’t I know??

Pride

Sometimes knowledge waits for the bearer to be ready to own it. Have patience, May.

Cloe

It was his own fault. He lost his temper.

Salene

Lex? I can’t believe it.

Jack

It’s not a joke Salene.

Salene

Am I laughing?

Salene

[Talking about Charlie and Mouse] They’re just a couple of kids I found wondering the streets.

Lex

And you brought them here?

Salene

Somebody had to look after them.

Lex

And you chose us?

Salene

It’s what we do, Lex. Remember, we’re the Mall Rats?

Lex

Yeah, what’s left of us.

Salene

Ellie, Jack! I'm thinking of having a little ceremony to remember our friends. What do you think?

What sort of ceremony? What are you saying, that we're never gonna see them again?

Salene

No, that's not what I meant..

Because, you may have given up hopes Salene but I haven't. I know that Alice and Luke and the rest of them are alive out there somewhere and I'm not going through some kind of burial ceremony!!