The Forgotten (2004) - Quotes

Unexplainable Events Await You This September

Taglines: Something terrible is happening. It can't be explained. It can't be stopped. On September 24, it can happen to you.

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Questioning the Reality of Memories

Taglines: What if you were told every moment you experienced, every memory you held dear... never happened?

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The Fragility of Memory and Love

Taglines: What if everyone you loved... every moment you held dear... changed forever?

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Unforeseen Challenges Await in Life

Taglines: Nothing can prepare you.

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The Date You Will Be Forgotten

Taglines: On September 24, you will be forgotten.

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Reality Unraveled: A Forgotten Truth

Taglines: On September 24, everything you've experienced, everything you've known, never happened.

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The Enduring Impact of Love

Taglines: You'll Never Forget The Ones You Love

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Meeting of Familiar Faces

Telly: I'm Telly. Sam's mom.

Ash: I'm Ash. I think we met before.

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The Nature of Unanswered Questions

Telly: What have you done with him? Why did you take him? What do you want?

A Friendly Man: It's an experiment.

Telly: He's just a little boy. What could you possibly learn from him?

A Friendly Man: Nothing.

Telly: This wasn't about Sam. This wasn't about the children.

A Friendly Man: It was never about the children.

Telly: We were the experiment.

A Friendly Man: Your connection, mother to child. Like an invisible tissue. We can even measure its energy. But we don't fully understand it, so I posed the question: "Can it be dissolved?" And it can. Except for you.

Telly: Give me back my son and I'll do whatever you want.

A Friendly Man: What I want, Telly, is for you to forget your son. To forget Sam.

Telly: No.

A Friendly Man: If you don't, this experiment will fail. I'm accountable. I can't let that happen. And time is running out.

Telly: I won't help you.

A Friendly Man: There are worse things than forgetting.

Telly: No, there aren't.

A Friendly Man: You need to forget. You're different from the others.

Telly: Why?

A Friendly Man: It's better this way. You won't be haunted by his memory. You could have a life again. Now, I want you to go back to that first day in the hospital. To the first time you ever saw Sam. I need that first memory. Give me that first memory! That boy. What was his name?

Telly: What boy? I had life inside of me. I had life. I have a child. I have a son. I...have a son. His name is Sam, you son of a bitch.

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A Moment of Tension Between Friends

Telly: [Ash is hitting the NSA agaent they have strapped to a chair while questioning him for answers] Don't do that!

Ash: [Ash hits him again] What, this?

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Questioning Government's Ability to Erase Memories

Telly: At first I thought it had something to do with the plane crash. Remember when that TWA plane crashed over Long Island? Everybody thought it was a missile, friendly fire, or some type of government cover-up.

Ash: Yeah, I remember that.

Telly: But then I thought, you know, How could the government erase our memories? It's just not possible. So...

Ash: What?

Telly: So you don't think I'm out of my mind?

Ash: I don't anymore.

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Exploring Love and Madness in Writing

Jim: I think it's great, you're starting to write again. What's your book going to be about?

Telly: Psychotic women, and the men who love them.

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Confronting Reality and Illusion of Memory

Dr. Munce: Telly, you never had a son. Sometimes people go around and invent alternate lives, with imagined friends, and imagined families.

Telly: Stop it! Why are you doing this? I am not making him up!

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Conflict Over Memories and Perception

Telly: [shouts] Why did you change the picture? You replaced our book with an empty book. You erased our son!

Jim: I didn't change anything! They were always blank!

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A Mother's Painful Memory of Loss

Telly: I had a son, his name was Sam. You son-of-a-bitch!

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Measuring Time Spent at the Dresser

Dr. Munce: How much time did you spend at the dresser compared to last week?

Telly: Less.

Dr. Munce: How much less?

Telly: I don't know exactly.

Dr. Munce: You wanna make a guess, roughly, for the week?

Telly: Oh, not even an hour a day.

The Need to Forget Delusions

Jim Paretta: My wife is delusional. She needs help.

A Friendly Man: You need to FORGET!

Detective Pope's Conviction on Non-Human Threat

Det. Anne Pope: Telly Paretta, stop! I'm Detective Pope! I tracked the man to this house. I shot him in the leg, and nothing. He is not human! I believe you!