Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)

John Lithgow: John Valentine (segment "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet")

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• Ambulance Driver : So, you had a pretty big scare up there, huh?

  John Valentine : [chuckles embarrassingly]  Oh yeah!

  Ambulance Driver : [smiles]  You wanna see something really scary?

• John Valentine : [screaming at Little Girl]  That's D-I-E, die!

• John Valentine : [just saw the weird creature on the wing of the plane]  There's a man on the wing of this plane!

  [Everyone looks out the windows on his side. But the creature has disappeared] 

  John Valentine : There was somebody out there. You gotta believe me!

  Old Woman : I saw him. Green and slimy.

  Old Man : Leave the poor man alone.

  Old Woman : I'm only trying to help. You've got to humor them.

  John Valentine : It was lightning. At first I thought it was animal. Some kind of bird or something. But it was a man! There were flames coming out of the engine, and a flash of smoke. Maybe it was a technician who was caught on the side of the plane when it took off. How could he survive out there? The air's so thin, the blast of the wind. It's so cold.

  [begins to think it was only his imagination and feels embarrassed] 

  John Valentine : It's impossible, isn't it? Oh my god, I feel so stupid!

  [takes sedatives to sleep. Then laughs nervously] 

  John Valentine : Can you imagine? A naked man crawling along the wing of an airplane at 35,000 feet?

• Co-Pilot : [John screamed when he saw the strange creature outside his window. He is now in his seat talking with the Co-Pilot, who doesn't know about the creature]  Mr. Valentine, what do you think's wrong with this aircraft?

  John Valentine : [tries to think of something else, since no one will believe him about the creature]  There's an engine out.

  Co-Pilot : Which one?

  John Valentine : The one on the outside. Outboard No. 1. It's out, isn't it?

  Co-Pilot : What makes you think that?

  John Valentine : Never mind about that. It's true, isn't it?

  Co-Pilot : Nine minutes ago, Outboard No. 1 was struck by lightning, there was a flame out, we lost it.

  John Valentine : Lightning?

  Co-Pilot : Lightning. Mr. Valentine, this aircraft has four engines. The possibility of us losing one, remaining three, is remote in the extremes.

  John Valentine : You sure it was just lightning?

  Co-Pilot : Absolutely. Listen, we're gonna be landing in about twenty minutes. There is the highest probability that we will survive this flight.

  John Valentine : [laughs in fear and disbelief]  Okay.