Tremors (1990)
Finn Carter: Rhonda LeBeck
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Quotes
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[trapped on top of a boulder by a Graboid, Val, Earl, and Rhonda are thinking of explanations for where the creatures came from]
Valentine McKee : [joking] They're mutations caused by radiation. No, wait; the government made 'em. *Big* surprise for the Russians.
Rhonda LeBeck : Well, there's nothing like them in the fossil record, I know that for sure. Okay, so they predate the fossil record. But that'd make them a couple of billion years old... and we've just never seen one until now. Right.
Earl Bassett : I vote for outer space. No way these are local boys.
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Rhonda LeBeck : I think I have a plan. What if we throw a bomb that way, the way we want to go? Then when it goes off, I mean, if it scares them away, we run like goddamn bastards!... Pardon my French.
Melvin Plug : But what if they don't get scared, what if they don't run?
Rhonda LeBeck : I don't think it *does* scare them, it *hurts* them! They're so sensitive to sound, they *gotta* run!
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[Earl Bassett and Valentine McKee have just been chased by a 30 foot long monster]
Rhonda LeBeck : Hey guys. What's goin' on? Hey, did you notice anything weird a minute ago?
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Rhonda LeBeck : They only respond to vibration, right? Couldn't we... distract them somehow?
Valentine McKee : Yeah, something to keep 'em busy, like a... like a decoy!
Miguel : Hey Melvin... wanna make a buck?
Melvin Plug : [Flips him the bird] Eh, eat it!
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[as the graboid feels at the building]
Valentine McKee : What's it doing, Rhonda?
Rhonda LeBeck : Why do you keep asking me?
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[Monster slams into a concrete retaining wall]
Earl Bassett : Stupid son-of-a-bitch, knocked itself cold!
Valentine McKee : Cold my ass. He's dead! We killed it. We killed it! FUCK! YOU!
Rhonda LeBeck : Hey guys. What's going on? Hey, did you notice anything weird just now? I mean, it just hap-
[she notices the dead monster]
Rhonda LeBeck : ... What's that?
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Rhonda LeBeck : [to Val] Well, thanks for everything, you know, saving my life and stuff.
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Rhonda LeBeck : No, you don't understand, these creatures are absolutely unprecedented.
Nestor : Yeah, but where do they come from?
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Valentine McKee : Wait wait wait. This one's not falling for it. This one ain't dumb. He's tryin' to trick us.
Earl Bassett : Use your bomb!
Valentine McKee : It's our *last one!*
Earl Bassett : Well what else you gonna use it for?
Valentine McKee : So what if we make it to the rocks? We'll be dead in three days anyway!
Earl Bassett : Well I wanna live for the three days!
Burt Gummer : What the hell, what's the matter? Use the bomb, for Chrissake!
Melvin Plug : Throw that bomb, man! Scare them away!
[pause, they look at Rhonda]
Rhonda LeBeck : Throw the bomb!
Valentine McKee : [looking at the bomb] This bastard ain't smarter than us.
Earl Bassett : For Christ's sake, Val!
Valentine McKee : I'm gonna go for it.
Earl Bassett : Go for *what?*
[Valentine takes off running; Earl runs after him as the graboid bursts out of the ground]
Earl Bassett : Shit! What're you *doing?*
Valentine McKee : I GOT A GODDAMN PLAAAAN!
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Earl Bassett : [Graboid eats Rhonda's shovel] Don't he have a home to go to?
Valentine McKee : That's why Edgar never got down off that damn tower.
Rhonda LeBeck : I think I have an idea.
Earl Bassett : You know, we're gonna have to come up with some sort of plan, he's just going to wait us to death.
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Earl Bassett : [Earl and Val have fled from the creatures into a concrete trench. One of the creatures crashes through the wall] Stupid sumbitch. Knocked itself cold.
Valentine McKee : Cold my ass. He's *dead.* We killed it! We killed it! FU--UCK! YOU!
Rhonda LeBeck : Hey guys! What's going on?
[Not seeing the monster's corpse]
Rhonda LeBeck : Did you notice anything weird a minute ago? I mean, it just hap-
[finally seeing the creature]
Rhonda LeBeck : What's that?