Photos
Quotes
-
Samantha Arias : Some things have been happening.
Patricia Arias : What things?
Samantha Arias : I guess I was just wondering if, growing up, if I ever did anything strange.
Patricia Arias : Well, what do you mean by "strange"?
Samantha Arias : I don't know, did I fall - like, *fall* - and not get hurt? Did I ever lift anything really heavy?
Patricia Arias : No. No, nothing like that.
Samantha Arias : Nothing?
Patricia Arias : No.
Samantha Arias : Okay. Uh... well, maybe you could help me find something out about my birth mother.
Patricia Arias : Well, why do you want to know about her?
Samantha Arias : You know what? Just forget it.
[turning to leave]
Samantha Arias : Sorry I bothered you.
[she stops]
Samantha Arias : I was at a press event. Someone had a gun; they fired it into the crowd. A lot of people got hurt. I got home, and I found a hole in my coat. Found a little piece of metal. A bullet. It was completely flattened. I got shot, and it didn't puncture my skin. I got shot, and I didn't feel it. How could I not feel it? Patricia, what is happening?
Patricia Arias : Follow me.
-
Patricia Arias : [showing Sam the pod in which she arrived] You asked about your birth mom. I lied. I didn't adopt you. I found you, in this.
Samantha Arias : I... I... I just... I-I don't understand.
Patricia Arias : I didn't, either. I didn't know where you were from or who left you in this thing, or why. And you just... you looked so damn helpless that I took you home.
Samantha Arias : Were you ever gonna tell me?
Patricia Arias : I swore that I would tell you when you turned eighteen. But you were gone by then, and I thought "Well, maybe... maybe that's better." That you would be better off out there on your own without knowing.
Samantha Arias : That I'm an alien?
Patricia Arias : Sam, I just wanted you to have a normal life.
-
Patricia Arias : So it's just you? You didn't bring, um...
Samantha Arias : Ruby?
Patricia Arias : I've never met the girl, so I don't think you should expect me to keep her name straight.
Samantha Arias : Well, you kicked me out for having her. I didn't think you'd want to meet her.
Patricia Arias : No, you... you made your choice. You had to know that there would be consequences.
Samantha Arias : I was a kid.
Patricia Arias : You know as well as anyone that the moment you become pregnant, you're not a kid anymore.
Samantha Arias : So I didn't deserve a support system? Married adults have children all the time. They need their parents.
Patricia Arias : I would have just been a crutch for you.
Samantha Arias : You were my mother.
Patricia Arias : And I always wanted what was best for you.
Samantha Arias : So you just let me leave?
Patricia Arias : That's not what I wanted to have happen at all.
Samantha Arias : Do you know how hard it was for me to come here?
Patricia Arias : Well, then why did you?