Childhood's End (TV Mini Series)

The Overlords (2015)

Colm Meaney: Wainwright

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Quotes 

• Wainwright : I'll tell you what they're doing, they're containing us.

• Wainwright : [Rejecting the name Visitors for the aliens]  No we're not.

  [Types on screen THE OVERLORDS] 

• Wainwright : Hold on. They blocked out the sun? How?

• Wainwright : My uncle Joey kept pigs, Irish grazers, He used to hire a local choir-boy to sing to them as they were loaded on to the truck. And these pigs they loved it. They were so peaceful, all the way to the slaughter house.

• Wainwright : ALIEN ABDUCTION. The Overlords talk about Peace, Harmony, Justice. Then they smash a fella's house and carry him away. Well people need to know the facts. Then they can make up their own minds.

• Wainwright : A Stone-washed hick from a fly-over state, why do you think they picked this guy? Because he doesn't ask the right questions.

• Wainwright : What if they're playin' the long game, they could live for thousands of years so they can wait.

• Wainwright : ...make us healthy... make us sleepy... make us fat...

• Wainwright : You can dress this up... as much as you like... This is an invasion.

• Wainwright : I can show you a petition, 22 million, 400 thousand people who want the Overlords to get... off our property.

• Wainwright : [about the Navy delivering food]  It leaves our nation completely open to attack.

• Wainwright : Look, it's not just our science that's bin hobbled. They control our justice system... they just executed a young kid from the inner city.

  Wainwright : Do the Overlords allow accidents? They took him out. You break the rules. Bang. You're dead. They think they're God.

• Wainwright : It's clear they control our political process, our law enforcement... They're controlling the way we think.

• Wainwright : [Having kidnapped Rikki]  I'm not playing general. I'm a pacifist.

• Wainwright : You're right, we can't win a war against them... Defiance... they leave.

• Wainwright : [Not knowing he is being broadcast to the world]  I'd rather the world went down the toilet in our control, than flourished in theirs

• Wainwright : I want you to join the Freedom League and speak for us.

  Wainwright : Then the Overlords have their first martyr.