The Outer Limits (TV Series)
ZZZZZ (1964)
Joanna Frank: Regina
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Quotes
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Regina : [Using the translating computer to address her hive] This is your queen. I can speak only human. Listen. The human drone's machinery will translate. I have passed the threshold... and I am beautiful. The human drone has already begun to aspire to me. And when he dies, his memory will live on in our million children.
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Regina : Mrs. Fields? My mother was a vain, envious, and selfish woman. Her beauty was regal. And she'd always assumed it was unsurpassable. Such women should have sons or homely daughters. She treated me as if I were an ugly duckling because I wasn't. And as a result, I expect all elderly women to exclude me from the simple pleasures of family life. If I've misjudged you...
Francesca Fields : I'm not as elderly as all that. Would you like to help me?
Regina : How?
Francesca Fields : Oh, set the table, light the candles.
Regina : No, thank you.
[Walks away, leaving Mrs. Fields shaking her head]
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Regina : Are you afraid of insects, Mrs. Fields?
Francesca Fields : Well I think we all are a little. We talk more about our fear of the larger forms of animals. It doesn't seem so cowardly to admit fear of crazed panthers or giant vultures. But I think we're all a little... uneasy about the tiny things that crawl and fly. You can't see what they're thinking. You can't look into their eyes...
Prof. Benedict O. 'Ben' Fields : [Smiling] But you can hear what they're thinking, if you happen to be married to a certain entomologist.
Francesca Fields : Oh, I wasn't thinking about bees. Of course, they sting. But I am inoculated at regular intervals.
Regina : Against their sting, not their *thoughts*.
Francesca Fields : Are their thoughts dangerous?
Prof. Benedict O. 'Ben' Fields : [Humorously] Only to the drones.
Regina : They don't think of it that way. They fight for the privilege to die. They compete for it. The marriage of the queen bee and the drone is one of the most beautiful rituals ever conceived or observed.
