The Girl from Tomorrow (TV Series)

Don't Tell Mum (1991)

John Howard: Silverthorn

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• [Alana and Silverthorn are looking over Sydney Harbour] 

  Silverthorn : Look. It's beautiful, isn't it? By the year 2500, all this will be gone. In my time, Alana, the harbour's dead. The city destroyed by war. Packs of starving people fight each other in the rubble over every last tin of food. I had to live like an animal. Just try to imagine it. Without a mask, the air would choke you. Clean water's more precious than gold. We're a special people, Alana. You and I know what's in the future. But who's to say we can't change it for the better? We can do it, Alana. You and me. But there'd be people here who'd be jealous. They'll try to destroy us.

• Alana : Why should I help you, Silverthorn? If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't be here.

  Silverthorn : I'm sorry, but nobody's perfect. You left me to die in a rubbish dump.

  Alana : I was scared.

  Silverthorn : So was I! Look, I'm not blaming you. We do what we have to to survive.

  Alana : Where's the Time Capsule? I want to go home.

  Silverthorn : It's gone. Buried in the dump. We're stuck here for good.