InAlienable (2007)

Courtney Peldon: Dr. Amanda Mayfield

Quotes 

• [Eric, panting and in great pain, has shown Amanda the parasite under his skin] 

  Eric Norris : I asked you here because I know it's going to kill me. And when it does, it needs to be immediately removed and placed into an environment where it can maintain. I don't trust anyone else to do it.

  Amanda Mayfield : No. That can't be our only option.

  Eric Norris : It's going to need to have a continuing blood supply with my blood type, and an oxygen source if it hasn't matured enough to function on their own. I don't think it can survive outside the host in any case, but you gotta keep it alive long enough to conduct some experiments.

  Amanda Mayfield : You're not making any sense!

  Eric Norris : We're talking about extraterrestrial life here.

  Amanda Mayfield : Eric!

  Eric Norris : This is going to be the scientific discovery of the millennium.

• Amanda Mayfield : Okay, well, tell me. What symptoms have you experienced?

  Eric Norris : I don't know. Uh, vomiting. Cramps. Um, cold sweats. Stuff like that.

  Amanda Mayfield : Okay. What about the emotional changes? Eric, you just bought yourself a sporty new car. You've got a big hello for everybody. You've been practically euphoric.

  Eric Norris : I think we can attribute that to other sources. I believe I've fallen in love with you.

  Amanda Mayfield : [after a pause]  Damn you. Damn you. Damn you, Eric! How dare you tell me something like that, the same time you're telling me you're going to die?

  [She lifts her hands to her face] 

  Amanda Mayfield : This thing is not just a hole in your tissue, okay? It dilates with tactile stimulation. What if there's another answer, huh? What if there's another answer what this thing is? Something that's not going to kill you.

  Eric Norris : What do you mean?

  Amanda Mayfield : What if this is not just a parasite? The vomiting, the cold sweats, the cramps - what if this thing somehow hooked itself into your vital organs and then attached itself into your reproductive system? Oh, my God, this is completely nuts, but - I, I, I'd have to run a whole bunch of tests.

  Eric Norris : You're saying that it harvested some of my sperm, when we made love? That it, uh, somehow enabled me to impregnate myself? But, if that was true, it would likely have some of my genetic coding, wouldn't it?

  Amanda Mayfield : I don't, I just threw something out there. Right now it's nothing more than a postulation.

  Eric Norris : [beginning to weep]  What if I'm going to give birth to it?

• Eric Norris : It's protecting me! It won't let me hurt myself. I have to live so it can be born.

  Amanda Mayfield : Baby, you need to stop. Let me help you, Eric. I want to help you.

  Eric Norris : Don't touch me. Don't touch me.

  Amanda Mayfield : [angrily]  Why not?

  Eric Norris : It needs me alive to be born. It needed me in love to be conceived. Without it, without it, I don't think we would have been together. I don't think I would have let you into my life. Without it, I'm not sure that I would be in love with you.

• Amanda Mayfield : Listen to me. If they find you, they are going to take it away. And then they're going to conduct experiments on both of you. They're going to put you in cages like one of your monkeys, and they're going to inject you and draw your blood and hook you up to all kinds of machines. And I'm not going to let that happen.

• Howard Ellis : Why would the FBI guy...

  Amanda Mayfield : I don't know! He was doing his job, you know. Maybe, maybe he just wasn't happy about it. Not that it matters, anyway. Because you think I'm making this up.

  [She gets up and walks toward the door] 

  Howard Ellis : It's an impossible case.

  Amanda Mayfield : I know.

  Howard Ellis : Impossible. I'll take it!

• Amanda Mayfield : [alarmed]  Who are you calling?

  Howard Ellis : The first line of defense is to keep the government from doing anything to Benjamin. The way to do that is to go public with this. Put it out there for everyone to see and freeze the Feds in their tracks. The Society of Alternative Explanations, they have an uncanny way of arousing media interest.

• [Amanda is on the stand in the courtroom] 

  Howard Ellis : Dr. Mayfield, what is the nature of your relationship with Eric Norris?

  Amanda Mayfield : We're colleagues.

  Howard Ellis : Anything else?

  Amanda Mayfield : We were lovers.

  Howard Ellis : To the best of your knowledge, does he have any other lovers?

  Amanda Mayfield : No. In fact, he explained to me that before our relationship, he'd been celibate for many years.

  Howard Ellis : [Ellis turns around to address Barry]  Would you care to object to that as hearsay, Miss Barry?

  Attorney Barry : No. But I wouldn't boast about it, either.

• [Emil has been waiting on a bench in the courthouse for Amanda and rises as she walks past during recession. She turns angrily and places her hands on her hips, and he is intimidated] 

  Amanda Mayfield : Is there something I can do for you?

  Emil : I'm Emil Giddings. I, I made that video you saw.

  Amanda Mayfield : How?

  Emil : Well, I worked at the hospital. I recorded that session between your friend and the alien.

  Amanda Mayfield : Oh! We're very grateful to you. Thank you.

  [She extends her hand to shake his, but he rushes on] 

  Emil : The government wanted to hush it up, keep it a secret.

  Amanda Mayfield : Yes, we know.

  Emil : The people had to know about it! It had to be exposed for the public to see, you know?

  Amanda Mayfield : That's what this hearing is doing.

• Emil : [panicky]  So, how are you gonna keep it from laying eggs in other people? Are you gonna put it in a cage, keep it locked up somewhere?

  Amanda Mayfield : Look, there's no evidence that Benjamin is even capable of laying eggs.

  Emil : [not listening]  So, are you going to go away, somewhere in the desert, where no one can find you?

  Amanda Mayfield : [sharply]  Dr. Norris isn't going to do any of those things. He is going to raise Benjamin as his son, the very best that he can.