Scott Valentine: Kit Walker, Jr., 24th Phantom

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Kit Walker, Jr. : In the summer of 2040 I had a different life planned. I was going to leave Metropia to work in the jungle preserves of New Brazil. I wanted to be an ecological engineer. I thought that was why in the midst of the city I dreamt of the jungle. I didn't belong in Metropia. No one did. What I didn't know was that I didn't have to go to the jungle. The jungle was coming to me. And it was bringing my true destiny with it. Of course, the day it all began I had more important things on my mind than saving the world.

• Jenna : Kit, you're an expert at these games. The real excitement of the game is in the tenth level, not the jungle. That's for neos.

  Kit Walker, Jr. : You know what my aunt thinks about guns and violence.

  Jenna : But Battleworld's just a virtual-reality game.

  Kit Walker, Jr. : Its jungle simulation is real enough.

  Jenna : There's still some real jungles around, aren't there?

  Kit Walker, Jr. : Only in the preserves like New Brazil. And even they don't have all the plant species the simulation shows.

• Jenna : Kit, you study so much the rest of the class thinks you're half-biot.

  Tranh : Yeah, loosen up. I keep tellin' you: do what you like. Not what you have to.

  Kit Walker, Jr. : But I *like* ecology.

  Jenna : You mean you *like* any course Professor Archer teaches.

  Kit Walker, Jr. : Yeah, but the professor remembers the old days, back at the turn of the century before the Resource Wars when there were real...

  Jenna , Tranh : We know: real jungles.

  [laugh] 

• Tranh : Besides, who cares about seeing the real thing when we can get virtual?

  Kit Walker, Jr. : Tranh, the Earth's ecosystem is collapsing all around us. Everyone has to be willing to...

  Tranh : Power down, Kit. It was a joke.

• Kit Walker, Jr. : I'll see you bits in class.

• Guran : I am Guran.

  Kit Walker, Jr. : I am Kit Walker. Junior.

  Guran : I know. How else could you have found me?

  Kit Walker, Jr. : I don't understand.

  Guran : In your heart you do. You are your father's son. You wear his ring.

  Kit Walker, Jr. : My father?

  Guran : In your dreams you have seen this jungle. In your heart you have always understood. The Phantom walks again, Kit Walker. Generation unto generation. Father unto father's son.

  Kit Walker, Jr. : My father was... The Phantom.

  Guran : And as it has been for almost five-hundred years, you are The Phantom now.

• Guran : In the year 1566, a sailing ship was attacked by pirates in the Bay of Bengala. All crew and passengers perished, save one. A boy. Rescued by the Bandar tribe, taught their secret ways. To swear an oath on the skull of his father's killer, to fight injustice wherever it may be found. So The Phantom lives in the whispers of twenty-three generations. The role passed on from father to son, so the world believes there is only one. The Man Who Cannot Die. The Guardian of the Eastern Dark.

  Kit Walker, Jr. : The Ghost Who Walks.

• Kit Walker, Jr. : I've always felt there was something missing from my life, but...

  Guran : You are your father's son, Kit Walker. And now it is your turn.

• Guran : The suit also has a digital camouflage system, that can project a holographic picture of your surroundings, making you appear almost invisible.

  Kit Walker, Jr. : I don't care what the suit can do; it has nothing to do with me and my life.

  [Guran smiles] 

  Kit Walker, Jr. : What's so funny?

  Guran : You remind me of your father, when he was young.

• Kit Walker, Jr. : [Presses a button to cause his suit to fade off Kit's body but one piece remains]  The mask you must remove yourself.

• Kit Walker, Jr. : Do you know what happened to my parents?

  Guran : Some questions, only The Phantom can answer.

• Enforcer : [blocking him]  No looters!

  Kit Walker, Jr. : My friends are trapped in there.

  Enforcer : Who cares?

  Kit Walker, Jr. : *Someone* has to care!

  Enforcer : Not these days.

• Kit Walker, Jr. : [looking at the ring]  No. I won't. But I'm not The Phantom. I don't want to *be* The Phantom.

• Kit Walker, Jr. : Just this once. I'll do it *just* this once.

• Jenna : What're you gonna do now?

  24th Phantom : I'm open to suggestions.

• Jenna : Who are you?

  24th Phantom : Jenna, I'm K-

  [glances at the observers] 

  24th Phantom : I'm... The Phantom.