Leviathan (1989)
Richard Crenna: Dr. Glen 'Doc' Thompson
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Dr. Glen Thompson : If you were tampering with genetics, why stop at the base model? Why not try to alter the human form? Homo aquaticus... a man who could live under water. Think of the possibilities. Regeneration. The ability to withstand cold, pressure. Just think of it. Undersea mining. Underwater farming.
Steven Beck : So, what's next, Doc? I mean, what if we run out of airplanes one day? What are we gonna do? Just grow a whole bunch of bird people?
Dr. Glen Thompson : Natura non confucius. Loosely translated: "don't fuck with Mother Nature".
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Dr. Glen Thompson : It's growing. It's just had a meal.
Elizabeth 'Willie' Williams : It needs blood?
Dr. Glen Thompson : Apparently.
Jones : That's just great! You're telling me that we've got a goddamned Dracula in here with us?
Steven Beck : Of course. That's why the one on that ship was dead. It needed blood... fresh cells to resurrect itself and grow.
Elizabeth 'Willie' Williams : Wait a minute. What "one on that ship"?
Jones : Will someone let the rank and file in on your little secret?
Dr. Glen Thompson : Whatever it is... it's apparently some kind of genetic aberration.
Jones : No shit!
G. P. Cobb : What are you saying, Doc?
Dr. Glen Thompson : It has all the characteristics of deep sea marine life. Scales, gills... regeneration. Even some kind of dormancy. But the fact that it remembered where that blood plasma was stored makes it appear to have some other kind of quality.
G. P. Cobb : Meaning what?
Steven Beck : It absorbs the intelligence of its victims.
Dr. Glen Thompson : Intelligence may not be the right word here.
Jones : To hell with semantics, Doc. Are you saying that thing out there is part DeJesus, part Sixpack, part Bowman?
Dr. Glen Thompson : I don't know. I'd just be guessing. But I do know this... the Russians deliberately sank that ship to protect themselves. Maybe to protect us all.
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G. P. Cobb : All right now, I say that we protect ourselves. Let's get into those escape bubbles and get the hell out of here!
Justin Jones : And surface in the middle of a hurricane? That storm will rip the bubbles to shreds!
Elizabeth 'Willie' Williams : Even if we make it to the surface, a rescue team will never find us.
Justin Jones : If we stay down here, we don't stand a snowball's chance in hell!
Dr. Glen Thompson : Everyone calm down!
Elizabeth 'Willie' Williams : So, what are we going to do?
Steven Beck : I have an idea. I reckon we've got one shot at this... and only one shot. We lure it down into the swamp and flush it out of here like we did with the other one.
Elizabeth 'Willie' Williams : And how do we do that?
Steven Beck : If this thing needs blood to feed on... why we don't we give it a little taste?
