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Hester Shaw: I was eight years old when my mother died. She loved traveling the world and digging up the past. He used to visit all the time, and then one day everything changed. She'd found something, something he wanted.
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Chudleigh Pomeroy: Sixty minutes is all it took to bring humanity to the very brink of extinction. Mankind mobilized, a new age arose. The Age of the Great Predator Cities. Survival of the Fastest.
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Anna Fang: We have to stop London before it destroys us.
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Shrike: I can remake you, just as I was remade.
Hester Shaw: You're going to kill me?
Shrike: For a little while.
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Tom Natsworthy: See, I said you'd come back for me.
Hester Shaw: Shut up and run.
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Tom Natsworthy: What are they hunting?
Hester Shaw: Us.
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Thaddeus Valentine: [speaking to the mayor] You are a dinosaur.
[shoots mayor]
Thaddeus Valentine: And I am the meteor.
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Tom Natsworthy: [Tom and Hester are shown into a room, Tom looks around and sees there is only one bed] You take the bed, I'll take...
Tom Natsworthy: [Tom sees Hester asleep on the bed] ... the floor.
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Katherine Valentine: How can a society so advanced, so scientific, be so stupid?
Tom Natsworthy: Well, no more stupid than people today.
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Thaddeus Valentine: He's afraid. He's trying to hang on to a way of life that doesn't exist anymore. Municipal Darwinism. It's a dying system. Prey has all but gone. Soon, there'll be nothing left.
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Hester Shaw: You never head south in the Outlands. Not ever.
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[last lines]
Hester Shaw: So, what happens now?
Tom Natsworthy: We go where the wind takes us. See the world. What do you say?
Hester Shaw: I'm coming with you.
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