Prancer (1989)

Rutanya Alda: Aunt Sarah

Quotes 

• Aunt Sarah : Nancy Hooper works over at the hospital, and she says whenever there's a full moon, the patients on the eighth floor, you know, the mental patients, they all start acting up like crazy.

  Jessica Riggs : Really? How?

  Steve Riggs : Why don't you go there on Christmas Eve and find out? They'll show you magic.

• Jessica Riggs : [as John finds out about Prancer]  Oh, no. He's gone. Daddy, where is he? Did you kill him?

  John Riggs : You had that deer out in that shed all week, didn't you?

  Jessica Riggs : Tell us, daddy.

  John Riggs : That's why you skipped school. You gave him food from the barn, telling lies. Then I find a 40 pound sack of oats out there with a Christmas bow on it! Do you wanna tell me where that came from? Did you steal that, too?

  Steve Riggs : No, she bought it with...

  John Riggs : You were in on this, too, huh? I'll get to you later.

  [Steve leaves] 

  Jessica Riggs : Daddy!

  John Riggs : Sit down to read the newspaper for a change and all heck breaks loose. Darned deer lets the stock out then comes into the house! I got too much on my mind for all this. You kids are making me nuts.

  Jessica Riggs : Daddy, you didn't shoot him. Tell me you didn't shoot him.

  John Riggs : I didn't shoot it.

  Jessica Riggs : You didn't?

  John Riggs : No, I didn't.

  Jessica Riggs : Really?

  John Riggs : No, I didn't.

  Jessica Riggs : Oh, thank you, daddy. Did he run away? Which way did he go? Did he go to Antler Ridge?

  John Riggs : Down at Three Oaks. I sold him.

  Jessica Riggs : Sold him?

  John Riggs : To Herb Drier. He offered me $200 to take him off my hands.

  Jessica Riggs : Mister Drier, the butcher? Daddy, he'll eat him!

  John Riggs : No, he won't.

  Jessica Riggs : He's a butcher, daddy. He'll cut him up and sell the pieces.

  John Riggs : Now stop it.

  Jessica Riggs : No, I won't. You don't understand what you've done. He's one of Santa's.

  John Riggs : Oh, come on, Jessie!

  Jessica Riggs : Mom would've never done this.

  John Riggs : Look, a reindeer don't fly, okay? I hate to be the one to tell you that, but they don't.

  Jessica Riggs : I'll shoot her instead of you.

  [collapses on her bed in tears, having had enough of her father's racism] 

  Jessica Riggs : Die, I'm gonna die.

  Aunt Sarah : [feeling sorry for Jessica]  Oh, John, you really didn't do that, did you?