Return of the Living Dead II (1988)

Dana Ashbrook: Tom Essex

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Quotes 

• Jesse Wilson : Hello? Hello, is there anybody out there? Come in, come in. Can you hear me? Is anybody out there? Hello? Can you tell us where to go?

  Special Zombie : Come to the hospital.

  Jesse Wilson : Sure, we'll be right there!

  Doc Mandel : Hold it, hold it! Uh, pardon me, but would you mind telling me who the President of the United States is?

  Special Zombie : Um, Harry Truman.

  Jesse Wilson : Who's Harry Truman?

  Tom Essex : They want brains, we'll give them brains.

• Tom Essex : [trying to start the Cadillac]  Cherry, huh?

  Doc Mandel : Well, it was cherry.

• Tom Essex : [finds Lucy raiding her grandfather's gun cabinet]  You know how to uh, use one of those?

  Lucy Wilson : You *do* know how to pull a trigger, don't you?

  Tom Essex : Sure, do you?

  Jesse Wilson : She's junior class champion for the whole state.

  Lucy Wilson : Here's yours.

  [gives him a Winchester rifle] 

  Jesse Wilson : Oh terrific, great, what can I shoot with this, mice?

  [later, puts the rifle back and gets a Smith and Wesson Model 27/28] 

  Jesse Wilson : Go ahead, make my night.

• Jesse Wilson : Doctor Mandel, open up!

  Doc Mandel : [opens door]  Oh, it's you. Why aren't you out playing in the traffic? How'd you get in here, what seems to be the problem?

  Tom Essex : Where're the keys to your car?

  Doc Mandel : Why? Are we going for a ride?

  [hears zombies screaming outside] 

  Doc Mandel : There seem to be hooligans terrorizing the neighborhood.

  Lucy Wilson : No, it's the dead, they've come back to life!

  Doc Mandel : Dead? Dead what?

  Tom Essex : People! We need your car!

  Doc Mandel : Well it sounds to me like you need a hearse.

• Doc Mandel : You will also notice there is no pupillary response, no reflexes, obviously lividity, suggesting chronic, retractable, rigor mortis.

  Tom Essex : Is it serious?

  Doc Mandel : Is *dead* serious?

  Brenda : But they can talk!

  Joey : Oh God it hurts! I can't move my arms or legs!

  Brenda : See? Now you call this dead? They are not dead, you jerk!

  Doc Mandel : Have you noticed he isn't breathing? Care to check heartbeat? In my opinion they should be contained.

  Tom Essex : Contained?

  Doc Mandel : Bagged.

  Tom Essex : Bagged?

  Doc Mandel : Bagged.

  [dramatically draws up the zipper on Ed's jacket] 

  Ed : [moaning in pain]  Owie!

• Brenda : [the hospital is empty]  Anybody here?

  Jesse Wilson : [tries phone]  Dead.

  Lucy Wilson : Don't say that word.

  Tom Essex : Why? Dammit why? Where'd they all go?

  Brenda : Hello? Where is everybody?

  Jesse Wilson : When are you guys going to wake up? Nobody can help us except...

  Doc Mandel : A trained physician, such as myself. Hold this my son, thank you very much. Ah, yes yes yes.

  Brenda : What what what?

  Doc Mandel : [to Joey and Ed]  When did you two have your last bowel movement? Hmm? Do you happen to know what a catheter is?

  Jesse Wilson : They gotta have police here, emergency stuff, somebody somewhere!

  Tom Essex : I'll take a look around town.

  Jesse Wilson : Not without me!

  Lucy Wilson : You! Stay put!

  Jesse Wilson : No way, I saw it, I'm the one who knows stuff.

  Tom Essex : Kid's got a point.

  Lucy Wilson : Ha! That'll be the day.

  Tom Essex : Come on, cut it out you two. If we're going let's go together, we'll be a team.

  Jesse Wilson : Teams suck.

  [storms off] 

• Tom Essex : Son of a bitch!

  [sees zombie chasing a dog across the street, steps on the accelerator] 

  Lucy Wilson : What're you doing?

  Tom Essex : Yeah I know, they're already dead. I don't care, I'm gonna kill it anyway!