Alien Nation (1988)

Mandy Patinkin: Sam Francisco

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Quotes 

• [Commenting on a "human" condom] 

  Det. Samuel 'George' Francisco : And that fits?

  Det. Sgt. Matthew Sykes : Well... Yeah, it's rubber. It stretches.

  Det. Samuel 'George' Francisco : And still it fits?

• [after Sykes makes fun of George's name] 

  Det. Samuel 'George' Francisco : It is like your name... Sykes. I'm sure it doesn't bother you at all that it sounds like "ss'ai k'ss," two words in my language which mean "excrement" and "cranium."

  [pause] 

  Det. Samuel 'George' Francisco : Shithead.

• Det. Samuel 'George' Francisco : You humans are very curious to us. You invite us to live among you in an atmosphere of equality that we've never known before. You give us ownership of our own lives for the first time and you ask no more of us than you do of yourselves. I hope you understand how special your world is, how unique a people you humans are. Which is why it is all the more painful and confusing to us that so few of you seem capable of living up to the ideals you set for yourselves.

• [Matt and George are showing each other pictures of their respective children] 

  Det. Samuel 'George' Francisco : This is my son, Richard. He's four years old. We named him after your former president, Richard Nixon.

  Det. Sgt. Matthew Sykes : [beat]  George, from now on, tell people that you named him after the director Richard Burton. Just trust me on this.

• [Translating for Newcomer 'Porter' to Sykes] 

  Det. Samuel 'George' Francisco : Your mother mates out of season.

• Det. Sgt. Matthew Sykes : What is it?

  Det. Samuel 'George' Francisco : Nothing.

  Det. Sgt. Matthew Sykes : Come on, it's not nothing! When you talked to that coroner with that request it looked like you were about to shit peach pits... and it's not nothing now! Don't lie to me, George, you're real bad at it. That slag in there didn't die from just bullet wounds, am I right? Am I right? Tell me! You tell me and you tell me now. NOW!

  [punches the elevator wall screams goddamit] 

  Det. Samuel 'George' Francisco : [through restrained rage... George shoves him back]  The drug is called ja-bru-kha. It is a potent narcotic!

  Det. Sgt. Matthew Sykes : [bewildered]  How potent?

  Det. Samuel 'George' Francisco : [annoyed]  More potent than any human drug you can imagine. The controllers regulated it, we would receive small amounts for our work in the mines.

  Det. Sgt. Matthew Sykes : [stunned]  You? You were on this shit?

  Det. Samuel 'George' Francisco : [agitated]  Yes! We all were! We were engineered as slave laborers. It was our only means of pleasure... allowed! The harder you worked the more you got, the more you got the harder you worked. Thousands of my people died, I lost my best friend. It is a nightmare! I will not let it happen again.

  Det. Sgt. Matthew Sykes : [taking it in]  George... This Is Huge... Ok. You know, it was simple... I mean, all you had to do is tell me. I mean, why couldn't you let me know?

  Det. Samuel 'George' Francisco : [haughtily]  Your people don't know about this part of our past and they cannot know it, it would threaten our entire existence here.

• Det. Samuel 'George' Francisco : If the drug is here, we must destroy it!

• Det. Sgt. Matthew Sykes : Tell me the joke.

  Det. Samuel 'George' Francisco : Stop me if you have heard it before. Why did the chicken cross the road?

  Det. Sgt. Matthew Sykes : [coughs uncontrollably]  I've heard it.

  Det. Samuel 'George' Francisco : It's a good joke.

• Det. Sgt. Matthew Sykes : It's called procedure George

  Det. Samuel 'George' Francisco : [brief pause then bluntly]  Fuck Procedure

  [singing as he drives straight through several barriers] 

  Det. Samuel 'George' Francisco : George Francisco... open your golden bridge... open your bridge and let me in

• Det. Samuel 'George' Francisco : [after Harcourt mutates from an overdose of the ja-bru-kha]  He must not get away

  Det. Sgt. Matthew Sykes : Why's that?

  Det. Samuel 'George' Francisco : [visibly distraught]  What if people found out what we are capable of becoming

• Det. Samuel 'George' Francisco : [pinning one of the conspirators to a structure]  You Tell Me Where They

  [the ja-bru-kha] 

  Det. Samuel 'George' Francisco : Took It

  [starts squashing him] 

  Det. Samuel 'George' Francisco : or i'll crush your lungs