Memorable Quotes from Paul Maxwell
4 quotesDiscussion on LV-426 and Terraforming Efforts
Ripley
Van Leuwen? Why don't you just check out LV-426?
Van Leuwen
Because I don't have to. There have been people there for over twenty years and they never complained about any hostile organisms.
Ripley
What do you mean? What people?
[alarmed]
Van Leuwen
Terraformers. Planetary engineers. They go down there and set up these big atmosphere processors to make the air breathable. It takes decades. That's what we call shake'n'bake colony
[he tries to leave, but Ripley blocks his way with her arm]
Ripley
How many are there? How many colonists?
Van Leuwen
I don't know. Sixty, maybe seventy families Do you mind?
[looks pointedly at Ripley's arm]
Ripley
Families. Jesus.
[lets him go and speaks to herself]
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Preference for Monsters Over Humans
Jeffrey Clayton
Turn down money? Maybe you've been living too long with these monsters!
Pete Dumond
Sometimes I find them better company than humans.
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Investigating the Costs of Space Disasters
Ripley
I don't understand this. We have been here for three and a half hours. How many different ways you want me to tell you the same story?
Van Leuwen
Look at it from our perspective, please. Please. Now, you freely admit detonating the engines of, and thereby destroying an M-class star freighter, a rather expensive piece of hardware.
[points at an empty chair; Ripley sits down]
Insurance attorney
Forty-two million in adjusted dollars. That's minus payload, of course.
Van Leuwen
The lifeboat's flight recorder corroborates some parts of your account. In that for reasons unknown, the Nostromo set down on LV-426, an unsurveyed planet at that time. That it resumed its course and was subsequently set for self-destruct, by you, for reasons unknown.
Ripley
Not for reasons unknown. I told you. We set down there on company's orders, to get this thing, which destroyed my crew. And your expensive ship.
Van Leuwen
The analysis team, which went over the lifeboat centimeter by centimeter, found no physical evidence of the creature you describe.
Ripley
Good! That's because I blew it out of the goddamn airlock! Like I said.
[stands up]
Insurance attorney
Are there any species like this hostile organism on LV-426?
ECA representative
No, it's a rock. No indigenous life.
Ripley
Did IQs just drop sharply when I was away? Ma'am, I already said it was not indigenous, it was a derelict spacecraft, it was an alien ship, it was not from there. You get it? We homed in on its beacon.
[sarcastically]
ECA representative
And found something never recorded once in any of the three hundred surveyed worlds "A creature that gestates inside living human host", these are your words, "and has concentrated acid for blood".
[reads the report]
Ripley
That's right Look... I can see where this is going, but I'm telling you those things exist.
[beat]
Van Leuwen
Thank you, officer, that will be all.
Ripley
Please! You're not listening to me. Kane, the crew member... Kane, who went into that ship, said he saw thousands of eggs there. Thousands.
Van Leuwen
Thank you, that will be all.
Ripley
Goddammit, that's not all! Because if one of those things gets down here, then that will be all, and all this this bullshit that you think is so important you can just kiss all that goodbye!
[picks up documents; throws the documents on tabletop]
Van Leuwen
It is the finding of this court of inquiry that Warrant Officer E. Ripley, NOC 14472, has acted with questionable judgement, and is unfit to hold an ICC license as a commercial flight officer. Said license is hereby suspended indefinitely. Now, no criminal charges will be filed against you at this time, and you are released on your own recognizance for a six-month period of psychometric probation, to include monthly review by an ICC psychiatric technician. These proceedings are closed.
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A Clash Over Ownership and Legacy
Panama Hat
Small world Dr. Jones.
Indy
Too small for two of us.
Panama Hat
This is the second time I've had to reclaim my property from you.
[finds the Cross of Coronado in Indiana's pocket]
Indy
It belongs in a museum!
Panama Hat
So do you! Throw him over the side!
[sarcastically; to his henchmen]
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