#SCREAMERS Quotes

Hendricksson What are we doing? What in God's name are we doing Chuck?

Chuck Elbarak We don't know if it's true about Green, I mean we just saw...

Hendricksson We saw bullshit is what we saw. You know as well as I do they can send us anything they want. Hell, they can make a goddamn hologram out of a dog and pony show.

Chuck Elbarak That kid doesn't know policy, he's a grunt...

Hendricksson Get your head outta the lilacs man.

Chuck Elbarak What do you expect me to believe here? That we're being dumped just like that? That twenty years of death and a stand against the horror up here has turned into a fucking galactic gold rush? Why do they keep sending us provisions? What do you think, that they're waiting for us to grow old and die up here so they can... carry on running the universe?

Hendricksson Yes.

Chuck Elbarak Well fuck you, I don't buy it!

Hendricksson Well wake up man! We are betrayed here brother. We are beached! We're stuck, you heard that kid! Greens been shit-canned and this whole goddamn place is a lie! I mean, they just can't cut us off up here, because too many families on earth would raise hell about it and they sure as hell ain't gonna take us back there! If we sound off about this, nobody's gonna fight their fucking war for them. So they're just gonna let us roll on and on and on up here... until we're dead and we ain't ever getting off here Chuck. I'll tell you something else, Marshall Richard Cooper and his NEB command knows it goddamn well too, and that's why he sent us a goddamn map! And your single, solitary NEB grunt came over here and got his ass shot to stop this thing! They know its pointless now!

Jessica I didn't want to... go back with you. I was afraid.

Hendricksson I know. You were afraid of what you would do. You're coming up in the world.

Jessica You've learned how to kill each other now.

Hendricksson I learned something else, too.

Jessica I learned to... I didn't want to... go back with you. I was afraid.

Hendricksson I know. You were afraid of what you would do. You're coming up in the world.

Jessica You've learned how to kill each other now. I learned something else, too. I learned to... love.

Jessica We can smile, we can cry. We can bleed... we can fuck.

David Can I come with you?

Ross They're smarter now. That's how they get into our bunker.

Ross Once it gets inside, that's when the killin starts.

Becker You just got out of basic training, didn't you? It's pretty obvious you're a rookie. You think you're the center of the universe but you're not. We're just insignificant little specks, you and me. We're not gonna change the world. we're not gonna win the war. Nobody's gonna care when we die.

Hendricksson Jefferson, you must be confusing me with someone who gives a shit.

Hendricksson Well, you're coming up in the world - you've learned how to kill each other.

Becker You mean who are they supposed to look like?

Jessica We're gonna die. You know that don't you?

Hendricksson Yeah, but not today, and not here.

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Jessica Jessica Henson, ], how do you do?

Ace Jefferson They're pretty smart.

Hendrikkson They don't make them too smart. This one seems to have modified itself.

Hendricksson Requesting emergency clearance for Earth. Over.

Ship Tango thirteen cleared for Earth. Over.

Hendricksson Things ain't what they used to be.

Ace Jefferson He's a fucking toaster!

Becker That's right - ]!

Ace Jefferson Are they alive?

Hendricksson No one knows. They make themselves now.

Voice Crawl Narration For the last fifty years, the new economic block, the N.E.B. Corporation, has controlled mining operations throughout the known solar systems.

Ace Jefferson What are they supposed to look like?

Taglines The silence of space is about to be shattered.

Ace Jefferson I beg your pardon, Sir. What are they?

Hendricksson It's a sword, Jefferson. Take a look. They call it a Screamer. It was developed for us by an alliance on Earth to neutralize the war on the ground here.

Ace Jefferson How do you know it's dead?

Hendricksson Cause they yanked its brain out.

Jessica We heard the screaming, then they got very quiet. Nothing except the smell of death

Hendricksson Chuck, we got a new kind of screamer.

Becker When he's best, he's a little worse than a man, and when he's worst, he's little better than a beast.

Hendricksson Oh, that's real good, Becker. I never knew they put Shakespeare in comic books.

Hendricksson If you're gonna be a rock, be a rock; don't be a bug!

Ace Jefferson Aw, don't do that to me man, I nearly - I nearly pissed my pants!

Becker He's one of them.

Ace Jefferson I can't believe you've got to put this shit in your lungs just to neutralize the shit in your lungs.

Ross He's a fucking toaster!