- Jasmine: How long does a rabbit live?
- Dr. Peter Hamilton: Um, well that depends. If you take care of them they can live six, maybe seven years.
- Jasmine: But does the rabbit know that? He grows and eats and sleeps. He doesn't know his life is short, he just lives it. Every second means so much.
- Jasmine: Don't trees have leaves?
- Dr. Peter Hamilton: Trees? Ah yeah, yeah. Well part of the year, and in the spring they grow back and then they grow all summer.
- Jasmine: And in the fall they die?
- Dr. Peter Hamilton: Yeah, but then they grow in the spring. It's like a cycle kind of thing.
- Jasmine: I hope I get to see it, spring... summer.
- Dr. Peter Hamilton: [upon seeing Jasmine's elderly face] It's... it's okay. You're beautiful. You're beautiful.
- Jasmine, 80 Years Old: It's too late.
- Dr. Peter Hamilton: [tearfully] I'm sorry. I'm very sorry. Can... can I do something for you? Anything?
- Jasmine, 80 Years Old: [last words] You already have. I've had a lifetime with the one I love. Summer must be beautiful. I wish I could see it with you.
- Dr. Peter Hamilton: [embracing Jasmine] It's okay.
- Jasmine, 4 Years Old: I'm still hungry Peter.
- Dr. Peter Hamilton: Ah you can't be.
- Jasmine, 4 Years Old: I'm a growing girl remember?
- Dr. Peter Hamilton: Yeah. You can say that again.
- Jasmine, 4 Years Old: That shouldn't be necessary.
- Jasmine, 4 Years Old: [holding a jasmine branch] What's this?
- Dr. Peter Hamilton: That is called jasmine.
- Jasmine, 4 Years Old: Smells pretty. I like jasmine.
- Dr. Peter Hamilton: Yeah, jasmine. That's a pretty name.
- Jasmine, 8 Years Old: When will it stop being cold outside?
- Dr. Peter Hamilton: In the springtime.
- Jasmine, 8 Years Old: When is spring?
- Dr. Peter Hamilton: Well, spring is when uh, the snow melts and it gets warm out.
- Jasmine, 8 Years Old: [smiling] I think I'll like spring.
- Dr. Peter Hamilton: Yeah. I think you will too.
- Jasmine, 12 Years Old: Where did I come from?
- Dr. Peter Hamilton: Uhh... well, can't say for sure. Umm... you know, somebody left you here so I could help you.
- Jasmine, 12 Years Old: But then who am I? I know about the conception process. I know I have a mother and a father.
- Dr. Peter Hamilton: Well...
- [looks at the now 12-year-old Jasmine]
- Dr. Peter Hamilton: Oh boy...
- Jasmine, 12 Years Old: I've grown again, haven't I?
- Dr. Peter Hamilton: I'm just... basically shooting in the dark.
- [12-year-old Jasmine looks at Peter with a puzzled expression]
- Dr. Peter Hamilton: Oh that's just an expression.
- Dr. Peter Hamilton: [after showing Charlie footage of Jasmine's rapid development] I have a newfound respect for you raising your kids through teething and potty training.
- Charlotte 'Charlie' Tanzi: Least I didn't have to do it in a single night!
- Dr. Peter Hamilton: When I was a kid, um, I was very smart, kind of like you and uh, my parents made a deal with Concord University that if they paid for me to stay here and study here, uh, they could do some tests on me, to try to figure out why I was so smart.
- Jasmine, 12 Years Old: So you grew up here too? Just like me?
- Dr. Peter Hamilton: Yeah. Yeah, you could say that.
- Jasmine, 12 Years Old: Did you grow up fast too?
- Dr. Peter Hamilton: Uhh...
- Charlotte 'Charlie' Tanzi: How goes the battle?
- Dr. Peter Hamilton: Well, I'm narrowing it down from... hopeless to impossible if you want to call that progress.
- Jasmine: [looking at a rabbit in a cage] Why do they have to be in cages?
- Charlotte 'Charlie' Tanzi: Well, uh because otherwise they'll just jump out and run away, honey, it's... for their own safety.
- Jasmine: Like me? Is this... my cage?
- Dr. Peter Hamilton: No no no no, no no. Uh, not at all.
- Jasmine: Then why can't I go outside? I won't run away.
- Dr. Peter Hamilton: Well, we'll go out together, I promise. But, right now we gotta keep working.
- Jasmine: Peter, a minute for you is like a day for me.
- Jasmine: [watching two people on TV kissing] What are they doing?
- Charlotte 'Charlie' Tanzi: Oh. That's called kissing.
- Jasmine: Why do they do that?
- Charlotte 'Charlie' Tanzi: Well umm... when two people, uh, like a boyfriend and a girlfriend uh care about e- well, love each other, they need to show each other how they feel.
- Jasmine: Does Peter have a girlfriend?
- Charlotte 'Charlie' Tanzi: No.
- Jasmine: He's handsome, he's brilliant.
- Charlotte 'Charlie' Tanzi: Well, he's not what you'd call romantic, you know? He doesn't get out very much. He's been working and learning here since he was a little kid. That doesn't leave a lot of room for fun and games, right?
- Jasmine: [responding to Peter's & Charlie's frustration about AccelRate] Why not ask Mark? Why won't he help us?
- Dr. Peter Hamilton: Umm... Jasmine? Mark's dead.
- Jasmine: [visibly confused] I don't understand.
- Dr. Peter Hamilton: He... killed himself. Took his own life.
- Jasmine: [pause] How could he do that?
- Charlotte 'Charlie' Tanzi: 'Cause he was afraid. He just couldn't face what happened to your mother.
- Jasmine: [in shock] He may have taken my life too...
- Chief Max Reed: [as Ed is tightly gripping Joel's jacket collar] Hey Ed. Ease up.
- Detective Ed Carlisle: Why don't you just step outside for a minute chief?
- Chief Max Reed: Why don't we both take a breather?
- Jasmine: How could Mark throw away his life like that?
- Dr. Peter Hamilton: Sometimes you need something to live for.
- Jasmine: Peter, I don't want to wait. If there's a chance we can have a life, I want it now.
- Dr. Peter Hamilton: What if it doesn't work?
- Jasmine: Then it really doesn't matter, does it?
- [Peter nods in agreement]
- Jasmine: You're old.
- Skate Vendor: It's not the years, honey. It's what you do with them that counts.
- Jasmine: Did you like hockey?
- Dr. Peter Hamilton: Yeah. Well, I mean, I never actually played 'cause uh, once they found out I was all smart and everything, my whole life was uh, school and... never really got to do anything else.
- Jasmine: What about all those posters on your wall? Venice, Paris, London?
- Dr. Peter Hamilton: I know I know. Those are places that I'm gonna visit... someday.
- Jasmine: Can we see them together?
- Dr. Peter Hamilton: Yeah. Yeah, I'd like that.
- Jasmine: You have to mean it Peter.
- Dr. Peter Hamilton: [watching Jasmine skate ahead] I do.
- Dr. Peter Hamilton: [at a conservatory] I used to come here and uh, study and... pretend I was in the Amazon.
- [chuckles]
- Jasmine: Is this what summer's like?
- Dr. Peter Hamilton: Yeah. Well sort of. It's, it's uh... you know it's, it's sunny out and uh, everything's green, and it's warm and, people go on vacations and have fun.
- Jasmine: Do you ever do that?
- Dr. Peter Hamilton: No, I don't. But, I'm going to. I'm gonna do it.
- Charlotte 'Charlie' Tanzi: Stopped by my place for some of my daughter's things.
- Jasmine, 12 Years Old: [cheerfully] Hi Charlie!
- Charlotte 'Charlie' Tanzi: [suprised by Jasmine's latest growth] And if I wait another 10 minutes, I'm gonna need to bring you *my* clothes
- Jasmine: Did you find Mark?
- Dr. Peter Hamilton: Umm... uh no, I didn't, umm... but I, I, I think it's alright. We... we still have some time.
- Jasmine: [worried] Do we? Something's happening to the sky.
- Dr. Peter Hamilton: What?
- Jasmine: Look.
- Dr. Peter Hamilton: Oh, no no no, it's just getting dark out.
- Jasmine: Night. Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night.
- Jasmine: [after Peter stops her kissing] Didn't I do it right?
- Dr. Peter Hamilton: Yeah, yeah. Um, I... I'm s-... I jus-, I don't think we should do this.
- Jasmine: But, isn't that what people do when they care for each other? When they love each other?
- [Peter nods and hugs Jasmine]
- [last lines]
- Dr. Peter Hamilton: Thanks for keeping all this stuff for me.
- Charlotte 'Charlie' Tanzi: No problem.
- Dr. Peter Hamilton: Umm, I'll call you when I get back. Who knows, maybe... maybe I'll just stay over there.
- Charlotte 'Charlie' Tanzi: [hugging Peter] Well, you be happy, okay?
- Dr. Peter Hamilton: Yeah, yeah.
- Charlotte 'Charlie' Tanzi: [sighs] Oh my god. Alright umm, I'm gonna go uh, put the stuff in the car.
- Dr. Peter Hamilton: Okay, I'll be right down.