Torchwood (TV Series)

Miracle Day: The Blood Line (2011)

Chris Butler: The Cousin

Quotes 

• Rex Matheson : So, you found The Blessing and worked out this morphic field.

  The Cousin : The Blessing exists in a symbiotic relationship with the human race. It transmits the morphic field around the planet, binding us together like magnetism, like sunlight.

  Esther Drummond : But binding it wasn't enough. You had to experiment on it.

  The Cousin : No, we fed it.

  The Mother : We fed it the blood of an immortal. We had one remarkable artifact. We found a second remarkable artifact.

• Rex Matheson : You've seen immortality. I'm living it. Why would you want this?

  The Cousin : This is only stage one.

  Gwen Cooper : But you ruined the world out there!

  The Mother : The Miracle shocked the economy. The economy collapsed. We tear down in order to rebuild. And now it's almost within sight - the new world.

  Gwen Cooper : Yeah, with no room for the poor, the weak and the ones who don't fit in.

  The Mother : That's the way the world works now. We're just making it official. The families have just been waiting. Now we can step in to control the banks. The banks control the government. The government controls the people. Soon we'll be able to decide who lives, how long, where and why.

  Jilly Kitzinger : [relieved sigh]  It's about time.

  Gwen Cooper : Oh great, so it's about the world according to Kitzinger, is it?

  Jilly Kitzinger : Listen, you can bleed your liberal heart all over the place, but are you really going to tell me the world was working before? 'Cause I have worked for the rich, the powerful, and the obese. I have stared into the high end of the Western Society and let me tell you, it's like shoveling an open sewer. These families - they want to make the world fitter, more compact, more disciplined. I like the sound of that. That sounds like salvation.