Legion (2010)

Adrianne Palicki: Charlie

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• [first lines] 

  Charlie : [voice-over]  When I was a little girl, my mother would remind me each night before bed, to open up my heart to God, for He was kind, merciful, and just. Things changed when my father left a few years later, leaving her to raise me and my brothers in a place on the edge of the Mojave Desert. She never talked of a kind and merciful God again. Instead she spoke of a prophecy. Of a time when all the world would be covered in darkness and the fate of mankind would be decided. One night, I finally got the courage to ask my mother why God had changed, why He was so mad at His children. "I don't know," she said, tucking the covers around me, "I guess He just got tired of all the bullshit."

• Gladys Foster : [Charlie brings Gladys' steak to her table]  Oh, thank you dear. How far along are you?

  Charlie : Oh, just about there.

  Gladys Foster : The father must be very proud.

  Charlie : Nah I wouldn't know.

  Gladys Foster : He's?

  Charlie : Out of sight, out of mind.

  Gladys Foster : I see...

  [Charlie tries to wave the flies away from the steak] 

  Gladys Foster : So I take it you're not married.

  Charlie : No.

  Gladys Foster : That's too bad.

  Charlie : No. Yeah I prefer it that way. I don't need a man telling me what to do.

  Gladys Foster : But what about the baby?

  Charlie : I got it under control.

  Gladys Foster : But it's gonna burn.

  Charlie : [pauses, staring at Gladys]  What did you just say?

  Gladys Foster : I said your fucking baby's gonna burn.

  [the whole diner stares in stunned silence] 

  Charlie : Go to hell, lady!

  [Charlie slams the bill on the table and storms off to the kitchen] 

  Charlie : [Charlie says to Jeep and Bob]  Fucking Jesus freak!

  Bob Hanson : What happened?

  Gladys Foster : [chuckling as she begins to eat her steak]  All those little babies are gonna burn!

  Percy Walker : [trying to get Gladys to quiet down]  Ho... Ho...

• Michael : Now at least the child will have a chance to grow up. A chance to lead the world out of darkness.

  Charlie : What happens until then?

  Michael : You need to show him how.

  Charlie : What makes you think I can do that? What makes you think I want to do that? If he's so important, why don't you take him?

  Michael : Because this journey is yours.

• Charlie : Wait, wait a minute, this can't be happening to me. I'm nobody. I'm just a waitress! I don't even own a car.