Species II (1998)

Michael Madsen: Press

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Quotes 

• [At a brothel, the scene of a grisly death] 

  Press Lenox : So, you didn't see nothing, you didn't hear nothing, you don't know nothing, right?

  Seedy Motel Clerk : They come and they go. You know what I mean, they come - and they go.

  [Starts laughing] 

  Dennis Gamble : Well, that's hysterical. Why don't you sit your ass down.

  Seedy Motel Clerk : They come and they go. You get it?

  Press Lenox : Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I get it. Here you go!

  [Press pushes the wheelchair-bound clerk rolling down a nearby hill] 

• [Press, Baker, and Gamble stare at the alien cocoons] 

  Dr. Laura Baker : Jesus - Christ!

  Press Lenox : Welcome to the Maternity Ward... from *hell*!

  Dr. Laura Baker : Patrick's offspring.

  Press Lenox : I'm gonna go up and see if I can find Adam and Eve.

  Dr. Laura Baker : Press, this isn't Eve's fault. She's human too.

  Press Lenox : Like them.

  [points to the alien cocoons] 

• Dr. Herman Cromwell : [Cromwell explaining what he found out about Mars and why it got him locked up]  I was doing research on a Mars meteorite.

  Dr. Laura Baker : The one found in the Antarctic in '96?

  Dr. Herman Cromwell : Fossils in the meteorite convinced us there might have been life on Mars. But these fossils weren't anything organic to the planet. Oh, no, no, no, no, no.

  Dr. Laura Baker : And what was the basis for that determination?

  Dr. Herman Cromwell : Carbon-based elements in the fossils, exist only in the Magellanic galaxy. That's 100 million light years away.

  Press Lenox : Well, how did they get to Mars?

  Dr. Herman Cromwell : By my reckoning, Mars was visited by an alien species approximately one billion years ago. The species was like a plague, a cancer. It turned a thriving planet with rivers and oceans and rudimentary plant life into a useless hunk of rock. When I heard they were going to send a mission to Mars, I strongly urged the government to reconsider.

  Dr. Laura Baker : On what grounds?

  Dr. Herman Cromwell : On grounds that alien DNA might remain on the planet, that any human attempt to violate the planet would result in biological contamination.

  Press Lenox : So, let me guess. They told you to shove it up your ass.

  Dr. Herman Cromwell : They got me fired from Stanford. It seems the military had strategic reasons for wanting to go to Mars. Outpost of the future or some crap like that. Anyway, they harassed the shit out of me. I got into a fistfight with a Pentagon general. I broke his god damn jaw.

  Press Lenox : Well, that's why they stuck you in here, right?

  Dr. Laura Baker : Why do you think that Dr. Orinsky called you the night that he died?

  Dr. Herman Cromwell : To tell me I was right. Whatever species destroyed Mars, those poor astronauts brought down to Earth. May God have pity on our souls.

• Press Lenox : The answer is no.

  Colonel Carter Burgess Jr : Press, we got another fuckin' alien on the loose.

  Press Lenox : Get somebody else.

  Colonel Carter Burgess Jr : Come on, buddy. Your country calls.

  Press Lenox : Don't start wavin' the flag. I'm in the private sector now. I got a business to run.

• Press Lenox : Listen, pal, the last time I fought with that alien she-bitch, I almost got myself killed.

• Dennis Gamble : Dr. Baker runs this facility. She cloned the Sil embryo.

  Press Lenox : Oh, okay, well what should I call her: Sil lite?

  Dr. Laura Baker : Her name is Eve.

  Press Lenox : Eve? How very biblical.

• Dr. Laura Baker : [to Colonel Burgess]  We need to do blood analysis on Sampas, Gamble and Ross. Now, I know that there is a sexual quarantine of 10 days on all interplanetary missions and the Mars quarantine ends tonight.

  Press Lenox : They could fuck the human race into extension. You want to be responsible for that if we don't start testing everybody right away?

  Colonel Carter Burgess Jr : Test Patrick first.

• Dr. Laura Baker : If he's reproducing, we've got potential offspring.

  Press Lenox : I think it's pretty safe to assume that he's banging cocktail waitresses two at a time.

• Press Lenox : This looks about right.

  Dennis Gamble : What? That little ole tiny ass thing? Shh, man, you got not bazookas up in here, man?

  Press Lenox : Bazookas? Hasn't anyone ever told you that size doesn't matter?

• Dr. Laura Baker : When did you start smoking?

  Press Lenox : Just now.

  Dr. Laura Baker : I wonder if I should have this stuff analyzed?

  Press Lenox : Yeah, maybe they should. You might turn into a - sexual predator.

  Dr. Laura Baker : Yeah, I guess that's possible.

  Press Lenox : It would be alright with me.

  Dr. Laura Baker : Can I have a drag?

• Press Lenox : [on his findings]  So that's when they told you to shove it up your ass

  Dr. Herman Cromwell : They got me fired from Stanford... it seems the military had strategic plans for Mars... Outpost of the future some crap like that. Anyway they harassed the shit out of me for the next ten years. I ended up getting into fist fight with the pentagon general

  [open smile] 

  Dr. Herman Cromwell : ... I Broke His Goddamn Jaw

  [Press laughs heartily] 

  Press Lenox : [after getting a look from Baker quietens down]  That's when they stuck you in here

  [indicates to the asylum they're now in]