Brooke Adams: Elizabeth Driscoll
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Elizabeth Driscoll : Yep, Boccardo's pills. He eats it like candy... or used to. Take some.
Matthew Bennell : What are they?
Elizabeth Driscoll : Speed. They'll keep us awake.
Matthew Bennell : How many are you suppose to take?
Elizabeth Driscoll : It says take one.
Matthew Bennell : Take five.
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Elizabeth Driscoll : I have seen these flowers all over. They are growing like parasites on other plants. All of a sudden. Where are they coming from?
Nancy Bellicec : Outer space?
Jack Bellicec : What are you talking about? A space flower?
Nancy Bellicec : Well why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
Jack Bellicec : I've NEVER expected metal ships.
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Matthew Bennell : [Elizabeth and Matthew are captured by snatchers in the Health Department office. Kibner gives them sedatives, so that they can be snatched while asleep] Listen, we're not the last humans left. There are people who will fight you. They will find out what you're doing here.
Elizabeth Driscoll : They'll stop you.
Dr. David Kibner : In an hour... you won't want them to. In an hour, you'll be one of us.
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Elizabeth Driscoll : Matthew, we'll never be able to stop them!
Matthew Bennell : Yes, we will.
Elizabeth Driscoll : We can't! Look it, they control the whole city.
Matthew Bennell : We'll find a way somehow.
Elizabeth Driscoll : Oh, Matthew, I can't go on! I wanna go to sleep. I can't stay awake any more.
Matthew Bennell : You have to. You have to stay awake.
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Elizabeth Driscoll : I hate you.
Dr. David Kibner : There's no need for hate now. Or love.
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Dr. David Kibner : Elizabeth, could you please tell me, in your opinion, what is going on?
Elizabeth Driscoll : People are being duplicated. And once it happens to you, you're part of this... thing. It almost happened to me!
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Elizabeth Driscoll : I keep seeing these people, all recognizing each other. Something is passing between them all, some secret. It's a conspiracy, I know it.
Matthew Bennell : There can't be a conspiracy!
Elizabeth Driscoll : Matthew, I'm telling you something is going on here.
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Elizabeth Driscoll : [Matthew finds that she has fallen asleep and has become a pod] There's nothing to be afraid of. They were right. It's painless. It's good. Come. Sleep. Matthew.
[Matthew begins to back away]
Elizabeth Driscoll : Matthew. Matthew!
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Matthew Bennell : Do you want to go see my friend David Kibner?
Elizabeth Driscoll : The psychiatrist?
Matthew Bennell : Not like that. Talk to him. He would put things into perspective. -...
Elizabeth Driscoll : I'm not crazy.
Matthew Bennell : No, no, no. I'm serious. He would eliminate whether Geoffrey was having an affair, or had become gay. Whether he had a social disease, or had become a Republican. All the things that could have happened to have made you feel he had changed.
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[while Matthew drives Elizabeth through the city, a crazed man runs up to their car]
Elizabeth Driscoll : Look out!
[Matthew slams on the brakes, but the man's head still strikes the already broken windshield. Unfazed, the man immediately proceeds to pound on the windshield for attention]
Matthew Bennell : Oh, my God, oh my God! Lock the door! Lock the door!
Running man : [panicked shouting] Help! They're coming! They're coming!
Elizabeth Driscoll : Maybe we should help him.
Running man : Help! Help! They're coming! They're coming! Listen to me! Listen!
Matthew Bennell : No, he's smashed out of his skull.
Elizabeth Driscoll : He's terrified.
Running man : Help me! You're next! Please!
[the man moves to the driver's window]
Running man : Please! You're next! We're in danger!
[he tries the door handle, but it's locked]
Running man : Please, listen ot me! Something terrible! Please!
[he looks over his shoulder, then back]
Running man : You're nex- Here they are!
[he starts to run off, but still shouts at them]
Running man : They're already here! Help! You're next! They're coming! They're coming!
[he runs around the corner as a crowd chases him]
Matthew Bennell : He must have done something.
[a horn sounds, brakes screech, a thud his heard, and Elizabeth gasps involuntarily]
Matthew Bennell : [noting the approaching motorcycle with siren] The policeman will help.
[They make the turn and see a throng of expressionless people standing silently over the man's dead body in the street. The policeman waves them by]
Elizabeth Driscoll : Oh, my God! That poor man. What was he talking about?
Matthew Bennell : I'll phone a witness report in when I get to the bookstore.
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Elizabeth Driscoll : How are we gonna get out of here?
Matthew Bennell : Through the door. Come on.
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Matthew Bennell : What's this?
Elizabeth Driscoll : Speed, it'll keep us awake.
