TRON: Legacy Quotes
The son of a virtual world designer goes looking for his father and ends up inside the digital world that his father designed. He meets his father's corrupted creation and a unique ally who was born inside the digital world.
Kevin Flynn: I had a feeling you'd be here.
Clu: The cycles haven't been kind, have they?
Kevin Flynn: No, you don't look so bad.
Clu: I did everything... everything you ever asked!
Kevin Flynn: I know you did.
Clu: I executed the plan!
Kevin Flynn: As you saw it...
Clu: You- You promised that we would change the world, together. You broke your promise...
Kevin Flynn: I know. I understand that now.
Clu: I took this system to its maximum potential. I created the perfect system!
Kevin Flynn: The thing about perfection is that it's unknowable. It's impossible, but it's also right in front of us all the time. You wouldn't know that because I didn't when I created you. I'm sorry, Clu. I'm sorry...
Clu: The cycles haven't been kind, have they?
Kevin Flynn: No, you don't look so bad.
Clu: I did everything... everything you ever asked!
Kevin Flynn: I know you did.
Clu: I executed the plan!
Kevin Flynn: As you saw it...
Clu: You- You promised that we would change the world, together. You broke your promise...
Kevin Flynn: I know. I understand that now.
Clu: I took this system to its maximum potential. I created the perfect system!
Kevin Flynn: The thing about perfection is that it's unknowable. It's impossible, but it's also right in front of us all the time. You wouldn't know that because I didn't when I created you. I'm sorry, Clu. I'm sorry...
Quorra: [showing Sam his father's book collection] Flynn shared them with me. I've read them all.
Sam Flynn: Huh. Light reading. Tolstoy, Dovstoyevski, I Ching. "Journey Without a Goal". Must have a killer ending.
Quorra: Flynn is teaching me about the art of the selfless. About removing oneself from the equation. But between you and me, Jules Verne is my favorite. Do you know Jules Verne?
Sam Flynn: Sure.
Quorra: [delighted] What's he like?
Sam Flynn: Huh. Light reading. Tolstoy, Dovstoyevski, I Ching. "Journey Without a Goal". Must have a killer ending.
Quorra: Flynn is teaching me about the art of the selfless. About removing oneself from the equation. But between you and me, Jules Verne is my favorite. Do you know Jules Verne?
Sam Flynn: Sure.
Quorra: [delighted] What's he like?
Sam Flynn: Your disc. Dad, it's gone.
Kevin Flynn: It is.
Sam Flynn: I'm sorry. I know I messed up. We can go back. I can go back.
Kevin Flynn: No, we stay together.
Sam Flynn: Dad, I can do this.
Kevin Flynn: You've done enough already! Sam, you're really...
[pause]
Kevin Flynn: You're messing with my Zen thing, man.
Kevin Flynn: It is.
Sam Flynn: I'm sorry. I know I messed up. We can go back. I can go back.
Kevin Flynn: No, we stay together.
Sam Flynn: Dad, I can do this.
Kevin Flynn: You've done enough already! Sam, you're really...
[pause]
Kevin Flynn: You're messing with my Zen thing, man.
[first lines]
Kevin Flynn: The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships? motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways? I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see. And then, one day...
7 Year Old Sam Flynn: You got in.
Kevin Flynn: That's right, man. I got in.
Kevin Flynn: The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships? motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways? I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see. And then, one day...
7 Year Old Sam Flynn: You got in.
Kevin Flynn: That's right, man. I got in.
Sam Flynn: You remember that night when you didn't come home? You said...
Kevin Flynn: I said I'd show you the Grid. Should have seen this place back then. Couldn't wait to show it to you.
Sam Flynn: Must have been something before Clu screwed it up.
Kevin Flynn: No, no, he's... he's me. I screwed it up, chasing after perfection, chasing after what was right in front of me.
[turns to look at Sam]
Kevin Flynn: Right in front of me.
Sam Flynn: Look what you've accomplished. It's incredible.
Kevin Flynn: [puts his hand on Sam's shoulder] Sam... I'd have given it all up for one more day with you.
Kevin Flynn: I said I'd show you the Grid. Should have seen this place back then. Couldn't wait to show it to you.
Sam Flynn: Must have been something before Clu screwed it up.
Kevin Flynn: No, no, he's... he's me. I screwed it up, chasing after perfection, chasing after what was right in front of me.
[turns to look at Sam]
Kevin Flynn: Right in front of me.
Sam Flynn: Look what you've accomplished. It's incredible.
Kevin Flynn: [puts his hand on Sam's shoulder] Sam... I'd have given it all up for one more day with you.
Kevin Flynn: Clu! Remember what you came for.
[Bridge retracts as Clu approaches Kevin Flynn]
Sam Flynn: [Clu punches Kevin Flynn] Dad!
Clu: I knew I beat you, and still you did all this, for him?
[identity disc reveals Quorra's face]
Clu: No... no, why?
Kevin Flynn: He's my son!
[Clu throws the disc down by Kevin Flynn and leaps across the retracted bridge]
Kevin Flynn: Go!
Sam Flynn: Dad!
Kevin Flynn: [Rectifier approaches the portal] Sam! It's time!
Quorra: Sam, it's what he wants!
Sam Flynn: I'm not leaving you!
Kevin Flynn: Take her!
[Quorra hands Sam Flynn the disc, he raises the disc into the eye of the portal]
Kevin Flynn: Yes!
[flashback of Sam skipping a rock as a child]
Kevin Flynn: [crying] Goodbye, kiddo.
Clu: [Clu manages to get onto the other side of the bridge and runs towards the portal, Kevin Flynn uses mass integration to force pull Clu into himself] No!
[Mass integration causes huge explosion that destroys the Rectifer and the portal at the same split second Sam and Quorra get out]
[Bridge retracts as Clu approaches Kevin Flynn]
Sam Flynn: [Clu punches Kevin Flynn] Dad!
Clu: I knew I beat you, and still you did all this, for him?
[identity disc reveals Quorra's face]
Clu: No... no, why?
Kevin Flynn: He's my son!
[Clu throws the disc down by Kevin Flynn and leaps across the retracted bridge]
Kevin Flynn: Go!
Sam Flynn: Dad!
Kevin Flynn: [Rectifier approaches the portal] Sam! It's time!
Quorra: Sam, it's what he wants!
Sam Flynn: I'm not leaving you!
Kevin Flynn: Take her!
[Quorra hands Sam Flynn the disc, he raises the disc into the eye of the portal]
Kevin Flynn: Yes!
[flashback of Sam skipping a rock as a child]
Kevin Flynn: [crying] Goodbye, kiddo.
Clu: [Clu manages to get onto the other side of the bridge and runs towards the portal, Kevin Flynn uses mass integration to force pull Clu into himself] No!
[Mass integration causes huge explosion that destroys the Rectifer and the portal at the same split second Sam and Quorra get out]
Sam Flynn: [the Sirens have formed a circle around Sam] Uh, can somebody tell me what the...
Sam Flynn: [two of the Sirens hold up their pointer fingers which light up and begin dragging their finger down Sam's sides which cut away Sam's clothes] ... Hey, Hey. It's got a zipper...
Sam Flynn: [a new uniform materializes over Sam] This can't be good.
Computer Voice: Attention, Program. You will receive, an identity disc. Everything you do, or learn, will be imprinted on this disc. If you, lose your disc, or fail, to follow commands, you will be subject to immediate de-resolution.
Siren Jem: [the identity disc is attached to Sam's back, Sam's eyes flash] Marrying complete, disc activated and syncronized, proceed to games.
Sam Flynn: Games?
[the Sirens back away and return to their compartments. Sam sees one of the Sirens hesitating before stepping into her chamber]
Sam Flynn: What am I supposed to do?
Siren Jem: Survive.
Sam Flynn: [two of the Sirens hold up their pointer fingers which light up and begin dragging their finger down Sam's sides which cut away Sam's clothes] ... Hey, Hey. It's got a zipper...
Sam Flynn: [a new uniform materializes over Sam] This can't be good.
Computer Voice: Attention, Program. You will receive, an identity disc. Everything you do, or learn, will be imprinted on this disc. If you, lose your disc, or fail, to follow commands, you will be subject to immediate de-resolution.
Siren Jem: [the identity disc is attached to Sam's back, Sam's eyes flash] Marrying complete, disc activated and syncronized, proceed to games.
Sam Flynn: Games?
[the Sirens back away and return to their compartments. Sam sees one of the Sirens hesitating before stepping into her chamber]
Sam Flynn: What am I supposed to do?
Siren Jem: Survive.
Jarvis: [to Clu after the introductions on the light cycle grid] Excellent words, sir. Were you pleased with my execution? The crowd seemed quite energized.
Clu: It wasn't meant for them.
[the baton case opens and Clu picks his baton out of it. Jarvis turns to Sam, holding out as if to avoid standing near him. Sam picks out the other baton]
Sam Flynn: What's this? What do you do with this?
[holding it like a sword]
Jarvis: I'll give you a hint, not that.
Clu: It wasn't meant for them.
[the baton case opens and Clu picks his baton out of it. Jarvis turns to Sam, holding out as if to avoid standing near him. Sam picks out the other baton]
Sam Flynn: What's this? What do you do with this?
[holding it like a sword]
Jarvis: I'll give you a hint, not that.
Alan Bradley: Excuse me?
Richard Mackey: Yes... Alan?
Alan Bradley: Given the prices we charge to students and schools, what sort of improvements have been made in Flynn... I mean, um, ENCOM OS-12?
Richard Mackey: This year we put a "12" on the box.
[Board laughs. Bradley looks at Mackey coldly]
Edward Dillinger: OS-12 is the most secure operating system ever released. The idea of sharing our software or giving it away for free disappeared with Kevin Flynn.
Richard Mackey: Yes... Alan?
Alan Bradley: Given the prices we charge to students and schools, what sort of improvements have been made in Flynn... I mean, um, ENCOM OS-12?
Richard Mackey: This year we put a "12" on the box.
[Board laughs. Bradley looks at Mackey coldly]
Edward Dillinger: OS-12 is the most secure operating system ever released. The idea of sharing our software or giving it away for free disappeared with Kevin Flynn.
Sam Flynn: [Alan has come to visit Sam in his storage container/apartment, which has "Dumont Shipping" on the outside and overlooks the harbor] Why are you here, Alan?
Alan Bradley: [holds up his pager] I was paged last night.
Sam Flynn: Oh, man, still rocking the pager? Good for you.
Alan Bradley: [looks down at the pager and smiles, then back to Sam] Yeah, your Dad once told me I had to sleep with it, and I still do. Page came from your Dad's office at the arcade.
Sam Flynn: [looking at a magazine, pauses] So?
[puts the magazine down]
Alan Bradley: So? That number's been disconnected for twenty years. Sam, two nights before he disappeared, he came to my house. "I've cracked it," he kept saying. He said he was about genetic algorithms, quantum teleportation. He said he was about to change everything. Science, medicine, religion. He wouldn't have left that, Sam.
[sits down next to Sam and playfully punches him in the arm]
Alan Bradley: He wouldn't have left you.
Alan Bradley: [holds up his pager] I was paged last night.
Sam Flynn: Oh, man, still rocking the pager? Good for you.
Alan Bradley: [looks down at the pager and smiles, then back to Sam] Yeah, your Dad once told me I had to sleep with it, and I still do. Page came from your Dad's office at the arcade.
Sam Flynn: [looking at a magazine, pauses] So?
[puts the magazine down]
Alan Bradley: So? That number's been disconnected for twenty years. Sam, two nights before he disappeared, he came to my house. "I've cracked it," he kept saying. He said he was about genetic algorithms, quantum teleportation. He said he was about to change everything. Science, medicine, religion. He wouldn't have left that, Sam.
[sits down next to Sam and playfully punches him in the arm]
Alan Bradley: He wouldn't have left you.
Sam Flynn: [about Quorra's programming] She's an ISO.
Kevin Flynn: Yeah. The last ISO.
Sam Flynn: All this time, you were just protecting her.
Kevin Flynn: She's the miracle, man. Everything I ever worked for. "A digital frontier to reshape the human condition."
Sam Flynn: I always thought that was a plug line.
Kevin Flynn: In our world, she can change everything.
Kevin Flynn: Yeah. The last ISO.
Sam Flynn: All this time, you were just protecting her.
Kevin Flynn: She's the miracle, man. Everything I ever worked for. "A digital frontier to reshape the human condition."
Sam Flynn: I always thought that was a plug line.
Kevin Flynn: In our world, she can change everything.
Castor: Greetings, Program! I'm Castor! Your host. Provider of any and all, entertainment and diversions.
[bows]
Castor: At your service.
Sam Flynn: [nods] I'm looking for Zuse.
Castor: [smiles] Indeed.
[raises eyebrows]
Castor: Many are.
Sam Flynn: Where can I find him?
Castor: This, prettiness,
[takes Sam by the arm]
Castor: is a conversation best had behind closed doors. Perhaps we should retire to my private lounge.
[Sam and Castor step forward, glowing steps materialize in front of them which lead up]
Castor: Ah! Designed it myself, you know. It's true! I'm steppin' away for moment, boys!
[motions to the DJs in the window above with a flourish of his cane]
Castor: Change the scheme, alter the mood. Electrify the boys and girls if you'd be so kind.
[bows]
Castor: At your service.
Sam Flynn: [nods] I'm looking for Zuse.
Castor: [smiles] Indeed.
[raises eyebrows]
Castor: Many are.
Sam Flynn: Where can I find him?
Castor: This, prettiness,
[takes Sam by the arm]
Castor: is a conversation best had behind closed doors. Perhaps we should retire to my private lounge.
[Sam and Castor step forward, glowing steps materialize in front of them which lead up]
Castor: Ah! Designed it myself, you know. It's true! I'm steppin' away for moment, boys!
[motions to the DJs in the window above with a flourish of his cane]
Castor: Change the scheme, alter the mood. Electrify the boys and girls if you'd be so kind.
Quorra: [talking to Sam, in Flynn's guest room at his safehouse] There's someone I once knew. A program named Zuse, who fought alongside the ISOs. I, haven't seen him in a long time. But they say, he still runs the underground, manages the dissident factions, forges data, for the rogue programs. Moves them around the grid. They say he can get anyone, anywhere.
Sam Flynn: Where do I find him?
Quorra: [hands Sam a glowing data disc] This is his sector. Make it there alive, and he'll find you.
Sam Flynn: Where do I find him?
Quorra: [hands Sam a glowing data disc] This is his sector. Make it there alive, and he'll find you.
Quorra: [Sam has just been rescued by Quorra. She holds out her hand in a handshake while driving] I'm Quorra!
Sam Flynn: [looks back at the pursuing light cycles] They're turning around!
Quorra: Not by choice. Their vehicles aren't designed to go off grid. They'll not function on this terrain.
Sam Flynn: What about us?
Quorra: [laughs] Obviously not.
Sam Flynn: Where are you taking me?
Quorra: Patience, Sam Flynn. All of your questions will be answered soon.
Sam Flynn: [looks back at the pursuing light cycles] They're turning around!
Quorra: Not by choice. Their vehicles aren't designed to go off grid. They'll not function on this terrain.
Sam Flynn: What about us?
Quorra: [laughs] Obviously not.
Sam Flynn: Where are you taking me?
Quorra: Patience, Sam Flynn. All of your questions will be answered soon.
