Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957)

Dudley Manlove: Eros

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• Colonel Tom Edwards : ...Why, a particle of sunlight can't even be seen or measured.

  Eros : Can you see or measure an atom? Yet you can *explode* one. A ray of sunlight is made up of *many* atoms!

  Jeff Trent : So what if we *do* develop this Solanite bomb? We'd be even a stronger nation than now.

  Eros : [with disgust]  Stronger. You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!

  Jeff Trent : That's all I'm taking from you!

  [pistol-whips Eros upside the head] 

• The Ruler : What Plan will you follow now?

  Eros : Plan 9. It's been absolutely impossible to work through these earth creatures. Their soul is too controlled.

  The Ruler : Plan 9?

  [he picks up some papers which outline the various Plans] 

  The Ruler : Ah, yes. Plan 9 deals with the resurrection of the dead. Long distance electrodes shot into the pineal and pituitary glands of recent dead.

• Colonel Tom Edwards : You speak of Solaranite. But just what is it?

  Eros : Take a can of your gasoline. Say this can of gasoline is the sun. Now, you spread a thin line of it to a ball, representing the Earth. Now, the gasoline represents the sunlight, the sun particles. Here we saturate the ball with the gasoline, the sunlight. Then we put a flame to the ball. The flame will speedily travel around the Earth, back along the line of gasoline to the can, or the sun itself. It will explode this source and spread to every place that gasoline, our sunlight, touches. Explode the sunlight here, gentlemen, you explode the universe. Explode the sunlight here and a chain reaction will occur direct to the sun itself and to all the planets that sunlight touches, to every planet in the universe. This is why you must be stopped. This is why any means must be used to stop you. In a friendly manner - or as it seems - you want it.

  Lieutenant John Harper : He's mad.

  Tanna : Mad? Is it mad that you destroy other people to save yourselves? You have done this. Is it mad that one country must destroy another to save themselves? You have also done this. How then is it "mad" that one planet must destroy another who threatens the very existence...

  Eros : [shoves her roughly aside]  That's enough.

  [to the humans] 

  Eros : In my land, women are for advancing the race, not for fighting man's battles. Life is not so expansive on my planet. We don't cling to it like you do. Our entire aim is for the development of our planet.

• Colonel Tom Edwards : Why is it so important that you want to contact the governments of our Earth?

  Eros : Because of death. Because all you of Earth are idiots!

  Jeff Trent : Now you just hold on, Buster.

  Eros : No, you hold on! First was your firecracker, a harmless explosive. Then your hand grenade: you began to kill your own people, a few at a time. Then the bomb. Then a larger bomb: many people are killed at one time. Then your scientists stumbled upon the atom bomb, split the atom. Then the hydrogen bomb, where you actually explode the air itself. Now you can arrange the total destruction of the entire universe served by our sun: The only explosion left is the Solaranite.

  Colonel Tom Edwards : Why, there's no such thing.

• Eros : You do not need guns.

  Lieutenant John Harper : Maybe we think we do.

  Eros : They would be of no use to you now.

  Lieutenant John Harper : They've been mighty useful before on flesh and blood - and you two look like you've got a lot of both.

• Tanna : What do you think will be the next obstacle the Earth people will put in our way?

  Eros : Well, as long as they can think - we'll have our problems.

• Eros : You know, it's an interesting thing when you consider... the Earth people, who can think, are so frightened by those who cannot: the dead. Well... our ship should be regenerated. We better get started.

• Jeff Trent : You fiend.

  Eros : I, a fiend? I am a soldier of our planet. I, a fiend? We did not come here as enemies.

• Eros : [tape recording of a message from outer space]  With your ancient, juvenile minds you have developed explosives too fast for your minds to conceive what you are doing. You are on the verge of destroying the entire universe. We are a part of that universe. This is our last...

  [cuts off] 

• Tanna : Eros, do we *have* to kill them?

  Eros : Yes.

  Tanna : It seems such a waste.

  Eros : Well, wouldn't it be better to kill a few now than, with their meddling, permit them to destroy the entire universe?

  Tanna : You're always right, Eros.

  Eros : Of course. But those are not my words; those are the words of the Ruler.

• Eros : It's because of men like you that all must be destroyed.

• Eros : Shall we talk now, or wait? Your friends will be here shortly.

  Jeff Trent : What friends?

  Eros : Those you left at the vehicle.

• Eros : This is Eros - a space soldier from a planet of your galaxy. I fully realize our language differences. However, I also know you finally have perfected the dictorobotor - or, as you on Earth call it: the language computer. So, you can now understand that which I speak. Since the beginning of your time, we have been far beyond your planet. It has taken you centuries even to grasp what we developed eons of your years ago. Do you still believe it impossible we exist? You didn't actually think you were the only inhabited planet in the universe. How can any race be so stupid?

• Eros : The Earth people who can think are so frightened by those who cannot.

• Eros : We do not want to conquer your planet. Only, save it. We could have destroyed it long ago, if that had been our aim. Our principal purpose is friendly.

• Eros : Send the Big One for the girl.