inFamous (2009 Video Game)

Jason Cottle: Cole MacGrath, Alden Tate

Quotes 

• Title Card : Day 1

  Cole MacGrath : [narrated lines]  While sliding into unconsciousness I could somehow, I don't know... hear the voices of dying. Thousands crushed by falling buildings, or burned alive in the fires. Trish lost her sister. Almost lost me. Zeke was always there, somehow sure that I'd wake up.

  Title Card : Day 4

  Cole MacGrath : [continue narrating]  While outside, the city fell apart. A plague struck. Followed by rioting. Thefts. Rapes. Civilization committing suicide. In a bullshit attempt to contain the biological threat, the federal government locked down all access in and out of the city. Now we're stuck in this cage with the psychos. Cops are all but gone off the streets. Either dead or too chickenshit to stand against the gangs that control things now. Outside, things were bad, but inside - inside of me - something was beginning. Scary as hell at first. Gonna understand there was no one to talk to, no experts to consult. But with time, I'm learning to control it. Master it. Just hope it's not too late...

• Cole MacGrath : [post credit scene with good karma]  I thought this would be the end. That with Kessler and the Ray Sphere gone, my life would go back to normal. But now I understand that this IS my life, that there's no going back. That the gift of these powers will be my burden until the day I die. The people around here... They love me. But how long will that last? What's going to happen the first time they expect me to be there for them, and I'm not? I don't even know who to trust. Moya's still running around, planning God knows what. And Zeke? I don't know what to think. I've never been more alone...

• Zeke : Hey Cole, before we head over to Archer, I gotta go pick up a new six shooter.

  Cole MacGrath : Oh, here we go...

  Zeke : Nah, that was badass! The second you touched it, the electricity in your hand cooks off the gunpowder, and the whole thing goes KA-BAM! Look on your face was priceless.

  Cole MacGrath : Damn near blew my hand off.

  Zeke : Which is why you won't be touching the new one! Traded this guy one of my homemade batteries for it.

  Cole MacGrath : The ones that explode when you use 'em?

  Zeke : Hell, he doesn't know that!

• [last lines] 

  Cole MacGrath : I looked down at Kessler, reveling in my victory. And then I heard him whisper: "Trish, I love you. Please forgive me." Then he was on me, fingers digging into my face. As Kessler's secrets played out in my head, I finally began to understand.

  [Cole is shown a vision] 

  Cole MacGrath : I saw his nemesis, a beast intent on extinguishing all life. In those early days, Kessler could've used his powers to stop it... But instead, he fled with his family, leaving others to fend for themselves. Hunted for years, Kessler and his family watched as the rest of the world went to hell... And then it was too late, too late to fight, too late to save anyone. In that moment of failure and grief, he used his newest and most dangerous power... He went on a one way trip back in time. Attempting to rewrite history, Kessler seized control of the First Sons and accelerated the Ray Sphere's development. Decades spent plotting the blast, organizing the quarantine, finding me. Yet the thing that drove him forward, Kessler's sole link to the past, was a picture from his wedding day...

  [the picture shows Cole, Trish, and Zeke] 

  Cole MacGrath : When he married Trish, with Zeke as his best man. My brain lurched, unable to accept that Kessler and I were the same person. That he'd come back in time to mold me into the savior he failed to be. Going so far as to kill the woman he loved, I loved, so that I wouldn't be tied down by emotions. No, Kessler wanted me strong, ruthless... So that when I faced the Beast, I'd be capable of making impossible decisions... All for the common good.

  [Kessler's vision ends] 

  Cole MacGrath : And then Kessler fell back, dead. His final message, my final message, burned into my brain. I take one last look down at myself, my future self, and turn away, the rage curdling inside. I hate everything about Kessler. But when the time comes, I WILL be ready.

• Zeke : Hey Cole, remember that time we were coming home from Duffy's, and I had to take a leak, and that bike cop was yellin' at me to put up my hands?

  Cole MacGrath : You pissed all over him.

  Zeke : He told me to put up my hands! Well, while he's out back covered in piss, I hop in and we take off! Haha, awesome!

  Cole MacGrath : Yeah, awesome. Until we run into a wall of cops.

  Zeke : Like I said, awesome! Shame we won't be able to do anything like that again.

  Cole MacGrath : Yeah, not unless some genius invents a car that doesn't explode when I sit in it.

• Zeke : That Ray Sphere thing must dish out powers to anyone controllin' it! You gotta bring it back here!

  Cole MacGrath : Sure, I could use a sidekick.

  Zeke : Aw, hell with that. Zeke Jedediah Dunbar is his own man.

  Cole MacGrath : Your middle name is Jedediah?

  Zeke : Yes it is, after my grandfather. Strong man for a man his size, not sure where Zeke comes from, but i'm certain...

  Cole MacGrath : You need to take a nap, and and a bath. I got things to do.