The Hidden (1987) - Quotes

Taglines: IT'S ONLY HUMAN ON THE OUTSIDE.

Lt. John Masterson: Alhague!

Lloyd Gallagher: Yes?

Lt. John Masterson: Before I kill you, I'm curious: how did you find me?

Lloyd Gallagher: You left an angry partner for dead on Altair.

Lt. John Masterson: A mistake.

Lloyd Gallagher: That's what it said.

Lt. John Masterson: Alhague, how do you like being human?

Prisoner: [distant] Say, what?

Lloyd Gallagher: It's all right.

Lt. John Masterson: Better than being Altairian. Altairians are a filthy people. We could take over this place if we wanted. They have nothing here to stop us.

Tom Beck: Oh boy. We're talking spacemen here?

Lloyd Gallagher: The way it works is... it finds a body, gets inside, uses it to move around, stays in that body until the body is so damaged it has to find another body. That's the only time I can kill it, when it's between bodies. I missed my chance when it came out of the stripper and found another body and changed before I got there.

Tom Beck: So now we don't know who the spaceman is.

Lloyd Gallagher: No, but I don't have to look for it anymore. It knows I'm here. It'll come after me. Beck, I need my weapon... that's the only thing that can kill it.

Tom Beck: So the spaceman is the one who killed your wife. The one that you've been tracking for the past...

Lloyd Gallagher: Nine years. Your time.

Tom Beck: Our time.

Lloyd Gallagher: I guess a career in the police didn't really prepare you for this, did it?

Tom Beck: [Dissolve to Gallagher, back behind bars.] Yes, it did. We'll try again later.

Tom Beck: She's bleeding to death, for Christ's sake! Why doesn't she go down?

Lloyd Gallagher: We've got to get to her before she dies.

Tom Beck: Why don't we wait until after she's dead?

Tom Beck: You know what bothers me about these two guys DeVries and Miller?

Lloyd Gallagher: Neither has a criminal record. They both lead normal lives until a few days ago, and now they're killing people.

Tom Beck: Do you read minds or was that just a shot in the dark?

Lloyd Gallagher: No, I read minds.

Tom Beck: Oh yeah? What was I just thinking?

Lloyd Gallagher: That I'm full of shit.

Tom Beck: Impressive.

Lloyd Gallagher: Not really. Quite simple to read.

Tom Beck: In the span of twelve hours, I've got five bodies—not counting Miller, who dies because he runs out of blood. A stripper screws some guy to death, steals his car and takes off. All of this in twelve hours. I wanna ask you: am I crazy, or does this seem just a little bit bizarre?

Lloyd Gallagher: Yeah, it's a little bizarre.

Tom Beck: I knew that. I just wanted to know if you knew that.

Tom Beck: Hey! Why would he come in here and kill a guy for a lousy hundred bucks and a radio?

Lloyd Gallagher: Cause he likes it. He sees something he wants, he steals it. If something gets in his way, he kills it. And right now, he's hiding out in your city.

Doctor: Detective Beck. No one deserves to die like that. I don't care what the man's done.

Cliff Willis: He killed twelve people, wounded twenty three more, stole six cars, most of them Ferraris. Robbed eight banks, six supermarkets, four jewelry stores and a candy shop. Six of the ones he killed he carved up with a butcher knife. Two of them were kids. He did all that in two weeks. If anyone deserves to go that way, it sure in the hell was him.

Lt. John Masterson: [Holds a gun to Detective Beck's chest, revealing that this is merely Masterson's body, hosting the film's eponymous parasite.] I've already shot you once before. I can't tell you how much I'm waiting to do that to you again.

Lt. John Masterson: Look, Ed, Tom Beck is the best I've got. If I give him to you, I'll never get him back again. My department will then crumble, crime will run rampant, the city will fall into ruin, rampaging hordes will control the streets, and life as we know it will end.