The Signal (2007)
Scott Poythress: Clark
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Quotes
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Anna : What if my party guests show up?
Clark : Anna, I don't know if you know this, but there is some seriously insane shit going on out there right now. People are losing their minds.
[Clark goes to turn off the TV]
Clark : There's a bad sector in the electromagnetic spectrum which is causing a rift in logical thinking. Rational behavior has given way to primal... primordial action.
[Anna sees someone on fire outside]
Clark : We've reached a critical juncture in the consistency of everyday living. Societal norms are being completely abandoned. Anarchy has replaced etiquette. Chaos is the ruling class of this civilization, so I think coming to a goddamn New Years Eve party is the last thing on people's minds!
[doorbell rings]
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Clark : Anna, I need a couple of things that Ken borrowed, namely my hatchet... and some garbage bags.
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Lewis Denton : The TV must've gotten into his head and told him to kill you.
Anna : Yeah, that's what happened to Ken. He was watching TV and it made him go bad.
[two people run from a man chasing them with a chainsaw in the background]
Clark : This is without a doubt the most fucked up day in the history of mankind. We should go back inside.
Anna : [cheerful] Who wants cocktails?
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[doorbell rings]
Clark : God in heaven!
Lewis Denton : [grabbing a shovel] Just open the door and I'll take them down.
Clark : No. That's not the way to play this.
Lewis Denton : We can't be sure. We have to exterminate with extreme prejudice.
Clark : It might be somebody who could help us. We don't know.
[doorbell rings again]
Lewis Denton : We can't risk it. I'm killing whoever walks through that door.
Clark : [looking through the peephole] It's Jim. It's Jim Parsons.
Lewis Denton : Trust no one!
Clark : You were the one watching the TV!
Lewis Denton : I told you I wasn't watching the TV! Listen, if I had it, I would've killed you by now, right?
Clark : I guess.
Lewis Denton : I'm fine, and you're fine, and she's fine. This we know. But he may not be, and probably isn't.
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Ben : Listen to me. The car, the one that's wrecked, the one's that outside. The girl inside of it... where did she go?
Clark : I told you already!
Ben : Not me, that wasn't me. We've got to find her.
Clark : I don't know. I don't know. Maybe he knows.
[Clark points towards a decapitated head on the floor]
Clark : He was with her!
Ben : Man, he's not gonna be able to talk to us!
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Lewis Denton : What do you have here?
Clark : [nervously] Ken... napping.
Lewis Denton : He looks dead.
Anna : He is.
Lewis Denton : I see.
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Clark : It was self defense.
Anna : You chopped his head off!
Lewis Denton : He had it coming... probably. These are wild times. Everybody's been driven to desperate measures. I guess this happens to everybody.
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Clark : This is getting to be ridiculous!
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Jim Parsons : Are Ken and Anna around?
Clark : Anna's, uh, getting ready. And Ken is just lying down for... a second.
Lewis Denton : He's dead tired.
[Clark nervously laughs]
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Ben : Listen to me. Do you hear that? Listen. It's past the noise in your head. That is the natural world. That has been here a long time before us. It's going to be here a long time after we're gone. That is real. And that is what we focus on.
Clark : Past the noise...
Ben : Yeah.
Clark : [laughing] This calls for a radical reassessment of all the facts.
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Lewis Denton : What do you have here?
Clark : [whimper] it's Ken... napping.
Lewis Denton : He looks dead.
Anna : He is.
Lewis Denton : I see. Who did this?
Anna : I did. I didn't want to!
Lewis Denton : You killed him?
Anna : Well, Clark killed somebody too!
Clark : I did no- I did... but it was self-defense!
[cut to Clark's apartment with the three looking down at Rod's dead body]
Anna : You chopped his head off!
Lewis Denton : He had it coming... probably. These are wild times.
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Anna : [doorbell rings] Party guests!
Clark : Act natural.
[Anna and Lewis line up behind Clark at the door with weapons ready]
Laura : You gotta help me! My mom is trying to kill me and so I ran over her in the car and my dad was in the house and he made the dog die because he tried to bite me and I left in the car and I didn't know where to go and I remembered that Anna and Ken lived here and I'm Laura.
Anna : Laura!
Laura : Anna!
[Laura pushes her way into the apartment past Clark]
Clark : [Lewis smacks Laura in the head with the pesticide can, knocking her down] What the Fuck?
[Lewis continues to beat Laura to death]
Anna : You killed Laura!
Lewis Denton : She was coming at you!
Anna : Stay away from me! You killed Laura!
Lewis Denton : She was heading straight for you with that knife!
Anna : She doesn't have a knife!
Clark : That's a keychain...
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Anna : [doorbell rings] Party guests!
Clark : Act natural.
[Anna and Lewis line up behind Clark at the door with weapons ready]
Janice : You gotta help me! My mom is trying to kill me and so I ran over her in the car and my dad was in the house and he made the dog die because he tried to bite me and I left in the car and I didn't know where to go and I remembered that Anna and Ken lived here and I'm Laura.
Anna : Laura!
Janice : Anna!
[Laura pushes her way into the apartment past Clark]
Clark : [Lewis smacks Laura in the head with the pesticide can, knocking her down] What the Fuck?
[Lewis continues to beat Laura to death]
Anna : You killed Laura!
Lewis Denton : She was coming at you!
Anna : Stay away from me! You killed Laura!
Lewis Denton : She was heading straight for you with that knife!
Anna : She doesn't have a knife!
Clark : That's a keychain...
