Jami Gertz credited as playing...
Terra
- Jason: [after Darstar has stolen Bodhi and Daniel has gone after them alone] Blowing this Orphanage won't be like sneaking off to the Arena. It's not gonna be 20 meters in a ditch for this one, if we get caught; it's gonna mean a Mainstream Labor Site for us.
- Metron: Yeah, or maybe worse.
- Rabbit: What could be worse than *that*?
- Metron: Try surgical alteration. Ever heard of it?
- Terra: They've conditioned us here to be so afraid. There's gotta be a place to go. *We were not born here.* We had parents on the outside, families who might still be alive. Maybe we could find them.
- Tug: It sounds like, if we go, we're not coming back.
- Jason: That's exactly right.
- Jason: [having found Bodhi in "Tiretown"] No! I said, forget going back!
- Rabbit: So, what, are we gonna stay here?
- Tug: I'd rather go back to the desert.
- Metron: And die of thirst?
- Terra: There's got to be a place to go.
- Metron: Well, until *you're* ready to show us, O Earth Mother...
- Daniel: I think we should make it.
- Metron: Make what?
- Daniel: Make our own place to live.
- Metron: Make it out of *what*, Daniel? Blink your eyes and take a look at the real world out there, 'cause it's a very ugly place.
- Daniel: Bodhi will help us.
- Metron: *Bodhi* got us here!
- Terra: Metron, you should have stayed at the Orphanage!
- [She storms off]
- Jason: [alone with Bodhi] Hi. Do you get bored just sitting in this box? I can't believe that I'm standing here talking to a *ball*. No offense.
- [the other Solarbabies come in]
- Metron: So, this "Bodhi"... We still haven't figured out what it is.
- Daniel: He's a *who*, not an *it*.
- Terra: Well, then *who* is it?
- Terra: [showing her fellow Solarbabies a forbidden poetry book] You believe all that dog-squeeze they feed us in class? That's not the way it was. *Here's* how it used to be:
- [reading]
- Terra: "Thunder rolls distant across the sky, in echo to pale flashes of lightning. The vast cloudscape thickens. The scent of purest water hangs in the air to be savored, before the first large warm drops fall. Then, within seconds, the air is no more, replaced by a vertical curtain of falling water. The land drinks and the earth is refreshed." Could you imagine to see clouds and feel water falling from the sky?
- Metron: One of the few good things the Protectorate ever did was outlaw *fiction*. Where'd you get that, anyhow?
- Terra: Never mind.
