Alien³ (1992)

Charles S. Dutton: Leonard Dillon

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• Dillon : Why? Why are the innocent punished? Why the sacrifice? Why the pain? There aren't any promises. Nothing certain. Only that some get called, some get saved. She won't ever know the hardship and grief for those of us left behind. We commit these bodies to the void with a glad heart. For within each seed, there is a promise of a flower, and within each death, no matter how small, there's always a new life. A new beginning. Amen.

• Dillon : Do you have any faith, sister?

  Ripley : Not much.

  Dillon : Well, we've got a lot of faith here. Enough even for you.

  Ripley : I thought women weren't allowed.

  Dillon : Well, we've never had any before. But we tolerate anybody. Even the intolerable.

• [Dillon saves Ripley from being raped by fellow inmates, beating them severely with a metal bar] 

  Dillon : Take off. I gotta "re-educate" some of the brothers! We're gonna discuss some matters of the spirit.

• Dillon : I don't like losin' a fight. Not to nobody, not to nothin'. That damn thing out there's already killed half my men, got the other half scared shitless. As long as it's alive, sister, you're not gonna save any universe.

• Golic : It wasn't me! I didn't do it! It was - it was the dragon. Feeds on minds. It was - nobody can stop it.

  Dillon : What about Boggs and Rains?

  Golic : Got slaughtered like pigs. It wasn't me. It wasn't me. It wasn't me.

• Andrews : I'm afraid we'll have to assume there's a very good chance this simple bastard has murdered them!

  Dillon : Now you don't know that! He's *never* lied to me! He's crazy, he's a fool, but he's not a liar!

• Dillon : We're all gonna die, the only question is when. This is as good a place as any to take your first steps to heaven. The only question is how you check out. Do you wanna go on your feet? Or on your fucking knees, begging? I ain't much for begging! Nobody ever gave me nothin! So I say fuck that thing! Let's fight it!

• Ripley : I just wanted to, um, say thanks for what you said at the funeral. My friends would have appreciated it.

  Dillon : Yeah, well you don't wanna know me, lady. I'm a murderer and rapist of women.

  Ripley : Really?

  [pause] 

  Ripley : Well, I guess I must make you nervous.

• Dillon : Why should we put our ass on the line for you?

  Ripley : Your ass is already on the line. The only question is, what're you gonna do about it?

• Dillon : I wanna get this thing, and I need you to do it! And if it won't kill you, then maybe that helps us fight it!

• Ripley : I'm staying!

  Dillon : Bullshit! There's gonna be ten tons of hot lead in here!

  Ripley : I keep telling you I want to die!

  Dillon : [Dillon grabs Ripley from behind]  We got a deal, remember? It dies first, *then* you! I'm not gonna move without you! Now get going!

• Morse : [to Ripley]  What 85 is trying...

  Aaron : [talking at the same time]  Don't call me that!

  Morse : ...to tell you is that we ain't got no entertainment center, no climate control, no video system, no surveillance, no freezers, no fucking ice cream, no rubbers, no women, no guns. All we got here is *shit*! Oh, what the hell are we even talkin' to her for? She's the one that brought the fucker. Why don't we just get her head and shove it through the FUCKING WALL!

  Dillon : Morse. Why don't you shut the fuck up?

• Dillon : You just better be right about that thing not wanting you. Because if it wants out, that's how it's gonna go: through that alcove, through you.

• Ripley : Dillon?

  Dillon : I've gotta hold it here.

  Ripley : What about me?

  Dillon : God will take care of you now, sister!

• Aaron : [the inmates are trying to decide what to do next following Andrew's death]  Okay, look, there's no way I can replace Andrews. He was a good man. I know you guys didn't appreciate him...

  Dillon : Aaron, we don't wanna hear that shit now.

• Dillon : [the inmates are still reluctant to take on the alien before the rescue teams arrives]  Right, Okay, just sit here on your asses. Fine.

  Morse : How about if I sit here on my ass?

  Dillon : No problem. Oh, I forgot. You're the guy that's made a deal with God to live forever, huh?

  [to the others] 

  Dillon : And all the rest of you pussies, can sit it out too.

  [about Ripley] 

  Dillon : Me and her'll do all the fighting.

• Dillon : [the inmates gather at assembly hall after the alien has escaped]  All right. The fucking thing is loose. It's out there. The rescue team is on its way with guns and shit. Right now there isn't any place that's real safe. But we stay here, in the assembly hall. This place never had any fucking air conditioning. If it comes in it's gotta be through one of these doors. Now we post a guard to let us know if it's coming. In the meantime, you lay low, be ready and stay right... in case your time comes.

  David : Don't you start bullshitting, Dillon. We're gonna be trapped in here like rats.

  Dillon : You got a weapon? You got a blade? Then you take it out and you fucking use it!

• Dillon : There's nothing "for sure" in this place.

• Ripley : We waste this thing, then you take care of me.

  Dillon : No problem. Quick, easy and painless!

• Dillon : [the alien slashes Dillon's intestines out]  Come on! That's all you've got? Is that all that you bite, motherfucker?

• Dillon : Hey sister, what about you? You're an officer. How about showing us a little leadership.

  William : Forget Shirley Temple. You take charge!

• Ripley : I need you to help me. I need you to kill me.

  Dillon : What are you talking about?

  Ripley : I'm dead anyway. I can't survive it, but the one inside me can generate thousands more. It has to die - so somebody's got to kill me. Are you up to it?

  Dillon : You don't have to worry about that.

  Ripley : No speeches. No prayers.

• Dillon : So you miss Doc, right?

  Ripley : What makes you say that?

  Dillon : I thought you two got real close.

  Ripley : I guess you've been looking through some keyholes.

• Dillon : Ripley, we're running out of time! Ripley, where are you?