Logan's Run (1976)
Quotes
Box: Regular storage procedure. The same as the other food. The other food stopped coming. And they started.
Logan: What other food?
Box: Fish, and plankton. And sea greens, and protein from the sea. It's all here, ready. Fresh as harvest day. Fish and sea greens, plankton and protein from the sea. And then it stopped coming. And they came instead. So I store them here. I'm ready. And you're ready. It's my job. To freeze you. Protein, plankton...
Logan: Killed? Why do you use that word?
Jessica: Isn't that what you do? Kill?
Logan: I've never killed anyone in my life. Sandman terminate runners. What's your name?
Jessica: Jessica.
Logan: You're sad enough. You're beautiful. Let's have sex.
Jessica: No.
Logan: Then why are you wasting my time, hmmm? Why did you put yourself on the circuit?
Jessica: I thought I had to do something. I told you it was a mistake. And I've changed my mind.
Logan: Because I'm a Sandman? Am I your first?
Jessica: Yes. And I'm curious.
Old Man: [paraphrasing T.S. Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats"] The naming of cats is a difficult matter, it's not just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I'm mad as a hatter, when I tell you that each cat's got three different names.
Logan: NO! Don't go in there! You don't have to die! No one has to die at 30! You could live! LIVE! Live, and grow old! I've seen it! She's seen it!
[shows the crystal on his palm]
Logan: Well, look! LOOK! LOOK, IT'S CLEAR!
[crowd laughs]
Computer: Lastday, Capricorn 29's. Year of the City: 2274. Carousel begins.
Jessica: No! Don't! Don't go! Listen to him! He's telling the truth!
[more laughter]
Jessica: We've been outside! There's another world outside! We've seen it!
[Sandmen grab them]
Logan: Life clocks are a lie! Carousel is a lie! THERE IS NO RENEWAL!
Logan: Everything made sense... until Box.
Logan: Question?
Computer: Hold. Unaccounted runners: One Zero Five Six. You may state your question.
Logan: One thousand and fifty-six unaccounted for?
Computer: The number is correct.
Logan: That's impossible. Question: Maybe they weren't all runners. Maybe most of them reached life renewal on Carousel. Question: Nobody reached renewal? But, everybody believes that, that some...
Computer: The question has been answered, Logan 5.
Logan: You mean, nobody's ever been renewed?
Computer: The question has been answered.
Jessica: Let's take our clothes off first, before they freeze on us.
Box: Overwhelming, am I not?
Francis: Logan... you renewed!
Logan: Run, runner!
Logan: Question: What is it?
Computer: That is the name of the object: Ankh. Do you identify this word? Sanctuary?
Logan: Negative.
Computer: Sanctuary is a pre-catastrophe code word. Used for a place of immunity.
Logan: I don't understand?
Computer: The object Ankh has been identified with the code word Sanctuary. The object and the word both relate to runners who have not been accounted for.
Logan: They lived together? All their years?
Old Man: Yeah. Oh, well, before I come along, I don't know what. But, after, I, oh yes. They did.
Jessica: So, people stayed together for this feeling of love? They would live and raise children and be remembered?
Old Man: Yeah. Raised me, didn't they? Right in there. Yeah.
Jessica: I think I'd like that, Logan. Don't you?
Logan: Why not?
Jessica: Beloved husband.
Logan: Beloved wife.
Old Man: Beloved son.
Box: Fish, plankton, sea greens... protein from the sea!
Box: Welcome Humans! I am ready for you.
Doc: Just imagine what would happen to you if the healing stopped functioning!
Old Man: Nothin' sadder than a dead fish.
Computer: Last day. Capricorn 15's. Year of the city - 2274. Carousel begins.
Logan: There... is... no... sanctuary.
Billy: [after trapping Logan and Jessica] Looks like we got a runner and his pair up. And look who decided to run.
Francis: [wondering about the Red he and Logan terminated] He showed some life in the end. Why do they run?
Mary 2: Don't be afraid.
Jessica: What's your name?
Mary 2: Mary 2.
Jessica: Where do you live Mary?
Mary 2: Here.
Jessica: Why aren't you in nursery?
Mary 2: I'm very smart.
Jessica: When are you green? When do you go up?
Mary 2: I never go upstairs. You're a nice old lady.
[she steals Jessica's bracelet and runs away]
Jessica: Hey!
[first lines]
Logan: [tapping on a glass window of maternity room] Wake up.
Francis: Logan, you are here. I couldn't believe it when they told me. What are you doing?
Logan: [indicates baby] Logan 6. Well it's not everyday that they authorize a new sandman. I tell you Francis,
[indicating baby]
Logan: that's him.
Francis: Well maybe, maybe not. What does it matter? Anyway, he isn't yours anymore.
Logan: [continues tapping lightly on the glass]
Francis: All right, you want me to wake him?
[bangs loudly on the glass with his baton]
Francis: [alarms ring and lights flash]
Francis: Aw, what the hell took you so long?
Logan: It was the debriefing, uh... it ws more complicated than usual.
Francis: Well, c'mon. Get in the water.
Logan: Francis, did you - did you ever SEE anybody renew?
Francis: Ha ha! I think you've been skulking out too much. First nursery, now silly qustions.
Logan: No, but - did you?
Francis: Did I what?
Logan: See anybody renew.
Francis: Of course!
Logan: Anybody we know?
Francis: Look, get into the water. You need it. More than I do.
Logan: Francis, I have to talk to you... Well, I'll see you.
Francis: [to Logan] Runner... you are terminated.
Francis: Sandman always renew, I know.
Logan: But, you don't know. You just assume. One for one. What everyone's been taught to believe. One for one.
Francis: Well, why not? That's exactly how everything works. It keeps everything in balance. One is terminated. One is born. It's simple, logical, perfect. Do you have a better system?
Computer: You will find Sanctuary and destroy.
Logan: Question: What if I need help from another Sandman?
Computer: Negative. You will begin assignment by becoming a runner seeking Sanctuary.
Logan: Question: I'm only Red 6 now. Well, how can I pretend that I'm approaching last day?
Computer: Identify.
Logan: My life-clock.
[it's blinking]
Logan: Question: my life-clock?
Computer: Retrogram complete. Proceed: Zero Three Three Zero Three.
Logan: But? Am I still Red 6? But, I have four more years. I will get them back, won't I?
Computer: You will take the object Ankh with you for identification.
Logan: Question: Do I get my four years back?
Logan: [looking at a statue on the outside] I've never seen a face like that before. That must be the look of - of being old.
Jessica: Look at his face and his hair. Is that what it is to grow old?
Old Man: Well, I guess so. Yes.
Logan: How old are you?
Old Man: I'm as old as I am, I suppose.
Logan: Your hair is - your hair is white?
Old Man: Yeah. Well, it wasn't always that color. I got my color someplace here. It wasn't your color and it wasn't much like her's either.
Jessica: Those cracks, on your face, do they hurt?
Old Man: No.
Jessica: Can I touch them?
Old Man: Oh, my! Try.
Logan: No Cubs over 15, Billy! Look, have you ever seen a Cub that's gone to green? You'll have to leave Cathedral then, Billy, because they won't let you stay here. And if you do try to stay here, Billy, your young friends here will rip your guts apart!
Jessica: Are the Cubs really as wild as they say?
Logan: You've never been there have you?
Jessica: No, of course not.
Logan: Well, you wanted to come with me. You'll find out. Oh, they're wild, alright. They're the violent ones. There's no place else for them, unless they change.
Jessica: Some people say its because they're born in breeders. Had you heard that?
Logan: We're all born in breeders. But, most of us don't end up running wild in Cathedral.
Jessica: No, but they say human mothering might be better. I wish I'd known my mother.
Logan: Where do you get these crazy ideas?
1st Sanctuary Man: Runner. Follow the corridor with the pipes overhead. The way is always down.
Logan: Well, has, uh, anyone else ever passed through here?
Old Man: No. Oh, there may be a few out there. I don't know. No, I don't know.
Logan: What makes you think that?
Old Man: Well, my parents told me. My mother... and my, you know, the... um, father.
Logan: You knew your mother and father?
Old Man: Sure. They raised me. Uh, you know... They raised me.
Jessica: How were you grown? Inside your mother?
Old Man: Right in there.
Jessica: Are you sure?
Old Man: Well, that's what she told me. I have to, I have to believe her. I don't know.
Logan: Who are you?
Old Man: Who are you?
Logan: I'm Logan 5. This is Jessica 6.
Old Man: Well, I never much cared for my name, even when I could remember it.
Jessica: We're from the city.
Logan: Yes. Yes, we came through the ice. We got past Box.
Old Man: Box?
Jessica: This is Sanctuary, isn't it?
Old Man: Sanctuary?
Jessica: I know what everyone knows.Try like hell for renewal. You have the same chance as anyone else. CAROUSEL!
Francis: Logan, you wonder a lot. Too much for a Sandman!
Logan: Runner terminated. Zero point three one. Ready for clean-up.
Jessica: What's the matter with you? He's a runner. He's blinking! We must help anyone who asks. We must! Or, we're the same as they are - in deciding who lives and who dies.
Jessica: This time - the answer's yes!
[repeated line]
Old Man: Oh my!
Jessica: Things don't change.
