Alita: I do not standby in the presence of evil!
Hugo: We go back we'll be on the run forever
Alita: [reassuring him] But we'll be on the run together
Alita: Why did an enemy warship...
[points to herself]
Alita: respond to me? Because I knew that ship! I've been on others like it, havent I? Haven't I?
Dr. Dyson Ido: Whatever you were, it's not who you are now.
Alita: [slams her fists on a metal table] NO! I'm a warrior aren't I? And you know. You've
always known.
Grewishka: [mockingly to Alita before stabbing her pet dog] Oh... so innocent
Vector, Nova: [on Alita] She is disrupting the natural order of things she must be destroyed
[Alita looks at a picture of Ido's daughter]
Alita: This was your daughter? You built this body for her?
Dr. Dyson Ido: Her name was Alita. She was really looking forward to waking up with legs that could run.
Alita: You built her a pair of fast legs.
Dr. Dyson Ido: She never got to use them. She was
murdered.
Alita: What happened?
[pause]
Dr. Dyson Ido: A patient of mine came to the clinic one night, looking for drugs. I was a tuner for the Motorball games, and I had made a machine body for him of obscene strength. He was my demon coming back to me.
[flashback shows the cyborg knocking Ido's daughter off her wheelchair before
running away]
Dr. Dyson Ido: Alita couldn't get out of the way fast enough. Her mother, Chiren, couldn't deal with Alita's death. Maybe she just couldn't deal with me. So I went hunting. I needed to kill him. Maybe I was just hoping that he would kill me. It brought no peace. There were other demons like him out there and I felt, somehow, I was responsible for all of them.
So I registered as a Hunter-Warrior. There's nothing noble about it.
Alita: Did you ever find peace?
Dr. Dyson Ido: I found you.
Alita: I'm not your daughter.
[pause]
Alita: I don't know what I am.
Dr. Dyson Ido: I do. Have a look at your original cyber-core. This is your
brain. A normal, healthy teenage girl's brain, if there is such a thing. But this is your heart. Part of your original core, powered by an Anti-Matter Micro-Reactor.
Alita: So I've got a strong heart?
Dr. Dyson Ido: [chuckles] You have a heart strong enough to power all of Iron City for years. This is lost technology. Nobody's made this stuff
since... before The Fall.
Alita: [chuckles] Yeah, right. So I'm 300 years old?
Dr. Dyson Ido: Sweetheart, you are.