Memorable Quotes from Troy Evans
2 quotesTension Builds in the Water Tank Scene
Roger Podacter
Aw, great! I'll see if I can head them off.
[Roger exits while Melissa talks to Ace]
Melissa Robinson
Ace. Get out of the tank.
Ace
I just can't do it, Captain! I don't have the power!
[Imitating the Star Trek character Scotty]
Crowd
Podacter!
Roger
People!
Melissa Robinson
I said, get out of the tank, NOW.
Ace
For god's sakes, Jim, I'm a DOCTOR! Not a pool man!
[Imitates the Star Trek character Dr. McCoy]
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Struggling with Ideas and Communication
Banes
What did they find out?
George
I'm pregnant. That's how it feels.
[Roger smirks]
Roger
How what feels?
George
Yeah, you know, to be full of ideas and you can't deliver, okay? I mean, you know, you're ready to break out and you can't deliver. You know, uh, this professor, he won't even talk to me. He won't even talk to me.
Nate Pope
You're not going to Berkeley, George?
George
Oh, come on. Me, at Berkeley? That's a thought, huh?
Nate
I'm sorry, buddy.
Jimmy
You mean, inventions? You got inventions?
George
No, no. Ideas, okay? I get a thousand ideas a day, every d-damn minute. Okay? I got big, big, holy cow kind of ideas and, and little what if ideas. All right? Hey, I got ideas for you, Jimmy. Look at this. Look at this. Your parking lot- it's laid out all wrong, okay? Now, if you just follow this, right, you can put six more cars in and no one gets fender benders. All right? Where's Paulette? Where is she? Bonnie, here. Take this. This is a new route for our mail. Okay? Now, if she does this, she can save an hour a day and everybody gets their mail by three o'clock. Imagine, three o'clock. Oh, and l got a holy shit idea too. Look at this. Now this may be the most efficient way to store solar energy. Okay? Take it.
[shows papers; slides papers to her; shows Jimmy diagram on legal pad]
Jimmy
Well, what am I gonna do with it?
George
What the hell am I supposed to do with it, huh? You know what that light was? You know what that sound was?
Jimmy
Tell us.
George
I'm gonna tell you what it was.
Jimmy
Well, tell us!
Banes
It was a damn alien.
Nate
Don't say that. You don't know what it was.
George
I know what it is, Nate.
Nate
You don't know what it was. Don't say that.
Jimmy
Well, tell us!
George
It's a GODDAMN mistake, is what it is! Okay? It was supposed to happen to someone smart, someone that's scientific, someone who is a leader. But it didn't. It happened to me, George freakin Malley. Look at him. Now look at him. Look!
[his psychic powers slightly break the glass panel at the bar and Jimmy heads for cover]
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