Pandorum Quotes

Nadia This... truly is Noah's Ark. This archive holds the world we are going to live in.

Leland Oh, how the whole world cheered to the thunder of earth's mightiest creation—Elysium. One small spark to ignite the heavens for the heroes to venture farther and farther than any of mankind's machines! And we slept. We slept a slumber so deep that no one had dared before...as three little Indians were left to mind the store.

Payton I'm gonna fucking carve you up!

Leland One little Indian left, alone with all his doom. He refuses to go to bed, so what does he do? He decides to stay up and play in his room. What nasty little games he would play with his slumbering prey. He was slayer, he was master. He was both God and the Devil! See, that's what some would say. He would grow to manhood, a self-proclaimed king. Master of his own vessel. Home to his own sin. He just cast out all who had behaved. Just exiled to the cargo hold to fend amongst themselves...and scavenge, feeding off their own. Evil grew. The king no longer wanted to play. So he returned to his bed of slumber. And while the king slept, a whole new world of evil grew...as we wept.

Payton Maybe this is a bad time to tell you, but the door is open.

Bower Are you fucking kidding me?

Payton Yeah, I'm kidding you.

Payton God? You think God survived? He's dead along with the rest of humanity. There's no law or order, no good or evil. Just us. And you think you're going to be the one to judge me? You want to take a shot at me?

Bower You know what? I just might.

Payton You are suffering, son. I can see it in your face. I've been there. Just imagine just for a minute, imagine yourself without the chains of your morality. You'd even surprise yourself. It's the ultimate freedom.

Bower No. This isn't freedom. This is Pandorum.

Payton Oh, pandorum. Pandorum isn't what they warned us about. I know it's frightening at first, terrifying in fact. Isn't that what you're feeling right now, terrible fear? Let go and on the other side of it is divine clarity. Purity. Enlightenment!

Bower Shut up! What's out there?

Payton You are resisting what is! You have to let go of your petty concept of reality. That's just baggage from the old world. And we both know that didn't work out very well now, did it? They fucked up our planet! Life eats life! And all that's left is what is. This ship is a seed from which we can create a new world!

Bower Shut up! What's out there?

Payton A new world! A natural state! Raw, beautiful...

Bower What do you see?

Payton ...perfect! I am offering you the kingdom. And all that's holding you back is your own fear!

Payton I was younger than you when I first came onboard. Funny, I can't even remember what life was like before this flight began. It's all I have.

Leland You think I survived this long trusting strangers?

Bower There will always be law and you will pay for what you've done. Even if that means I have to pull the sick out of you.

Bower Payton? Pandorum, you ever felt the symptoms?

Payton Of all the things to remember, why would you pick that? Were you thinking of the Eden mission?

Bower What about the Eden?

Payton You just had to remind me of the biggest fucking catastrophe in space travel, the flight cautionary tale from Hell.

Bower I remember-- didn't they have some kind of hypersleep malfunction?

Payton Two years into their shift, one of their officers had a psychological breakdown. The doctors referred to it as ODS Syndrome, but pilots-- we call it Pandorum. It drove him insane. He became convinced that the flight was cursed. Evil.

Bower What did he do?

Payton He evacuated the ship. He launched them all into oblivion. Five thousand people sent to their death with one push of a button.

Bower At least we didn't wake up floating away in a coffin.

Payton Who says we didn't?

Leland Three little Indians with the burden to bear. No more law. Nothing left to care. Just three little souls whose destiny had become undone because there was chop chop chop chop... then there was only one. One little Indian left.

Bower After what I just saw, procedure just went out the fucking window.

Bower What are you doing?

Leland Nothing personal, guys. It's just "survival of the fittest"... Or maybe it's the brightest, if you know what I'm saying.

Bower You gassed us!

Leland Oh yes! And I'm sorry, but I'm a little too old and too tired for the honorable way of hunting game.

Nadia You better make sure I'm dead... oder ich reiss Dir Dein scheiss Herz raus du Wichser!

Bower You don't have to do this. We're on our way to save the ship.

Leland Don't sweat it. I wouldn't have survived this long if I had a heart.

Leland Question is, what would be more stupid? Trusting the ship will hold to see another day when it's kept me alive for all these years? Or trusting somebody who's desperate enough to say anything just when I'm about to carve a steak out of his girlfriend?

Payton I guess this thing does land itself. Doesn't float too well though, does it?

Payton Is that your blood, Corporal?

Gallo Some of it is, sir.

Bower I understand that it's felt like every man for himself. If we're going to get out of this... a little fucking solidarity goes a long way. We all want to survive, right?