Species (1995)
Marg Helgenberger: Dr. Laura Baker
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Quotes
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Dr. Laura Baker : I got his machine. Should I leave a message?
Preston Lennox : Yeah. Tell him he's about to copulate with a creature from outer space.
[Preston laughs and Laura smiles]
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Sil : [on Laura's perfume] Smells nice. Can I try some?
Dr. Laura Baker : Yeah, help yourself.
Sil : Does it work on your boyfriend?
Dr. Laura Baker : Yeah, as a repellent.
[walks away]
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Dan Smithson, Empath : I thought I was dead.
Preston Lennox : I thought you'd drank your last Long Island Iced Tea there, Dan.
Dr. Laura Baker : Yeah, I thought we all had. Hey, you okay?
Dan Smithson, Empath : Yeah, I'm okay. My pants are a little messed up, but I'm okay.
Dr. Laura Baker : She was half us, half something else. I wonder which was the predatory half.
Preston Lennox : The dead half. Let's get the hell out of here.
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Dr. Laura Baker : Who are you and what do you do?
Preston Lennox : Preston Lennox. And if I'm here, I think the shit has definitely hit the fan.
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Dr. Laura Baker : [Sil] She would make one excellent biological weapon if someone out there thought we were some kind of galactic weed that was going to spread through the universe.
Preston Lennox : So, what you're saying is that, er... she's the cure and we're the disease?
[Preston laughs]
Dr. Laura Baker : That's well said.
Preston Lennox : [studying a terminal] Baker, Laura. 1735 Meander Drive, Simi Valley, California. That's you, right?
Dr. Laura Baker : Last time I checked.
Preston Lennox : What do you do for kicks out there in Simi Valley?
Dr. Laura Baker : Oh, pine for guys like you.
Preston Lennox : That's what I thought.
[they both laugh]
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Dr. Laura Baker : You don't want us to capture her alive so that we can study her?
Preston Lennox : Laura, I think this is strictly a search and destroy operation. Nobody ever asked me to ever find any thing they didn't want dead.
Dan Smithson, Empath : I'm sorry for you.
Preston Lennox : Yeah, well, thank you, Dan. I'm sorry for her.
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Preston Lennox : I'll do it. I'll do it.
Dr. Laura Baker : Man of action. I like that.
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Xavier Fitch : What is it?
Dr. Laura Baker : Maybe menstrual blood. If she's menstruating, she's definitely capable of reproduction.
Xavier Fitch : Yes, I know.
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Dr. Laura Baker : Do you have a girlfriend in New York?
Preston Lennox : Oh, I guess I've had a few; but, they don't hang around very long. I guess I keep too many secrets.
Dr. Laura Baker : Do you wanna share one with me?
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[last lines]
Dr. Laura Baker : Ahh! I never thought I'd be so happy to be back in a sewer.
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Xavier Fitch : The video enhancement is not all that great.
Dr. Stephen Arden : How old do you think she is? 20? 23?
Dr. Laura Baker : Her reproductive system should be fully developed.
Dr. Stephen Arden : Her biological clock must be in hyper-drive.
Dan Smithson : She wants to have a baby.
Dr. Stephen Arden : Well, if she manages to have a child, our problems have just started. If her offspring is male, and it develops at the same accelerated rate as Sil, it could be capable of reproduction in less than 6 months. God knows how many females it could impregnate.
Preston Lennox : [on the phone] Fitch?
Dr. Stephen Arden : You see when a predatory species is introduced into a closed ecological system, the extinction of the weaker species is inevitable.
Xavier Fitch : They found the murdered guy's BMW. Ran out of gas in Santa Monica.
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Xavier Fitch : What's happening? Kills a girl at the club, comes home with this guy and kills him.
Dr. Stephen Arden : Well I'd say she fits the classic definition of a psychopath. She's got nothing to inhibit her. No moral sense, no social structure
Dr. Laura Baker : Well she wasn't exactly smothered with a mother's love, or taught good manners, you know what I mean?
Xavier Fitch : I asked what was happening.
Dan Smithson : He did something to her. She was angry.
Dr. Stephen Arden : She'll kill if she feels threatened. She'll kill anyone that gets in her way?
Xavier Fitch : Gets in her way of what?
Dr. Laura Baker : Her life cycle. I think she's trying to mate. Reproduce.
Xavier Fitch : Okay, so why did she kill the girl at the club?
Dan Smithson : Sexual competition.
Preston Lennox : She's pretty hard on the competition.
Xavier Fitch : And now she's managed to mate.
Preston Lennox : It doesn't look like a successful mating to me. He's still got his pants on.
Dan Smithson : She's frustrated.
Dr. Stephen Arden : Who isn't.
Xavier Fitch : What is her problem? He was here. She was here.
Dr. Laura Baker : All right, maybe she rejected him. She probably has some special kind of senses. Rats can sense diseased or genetic damage in their potential mates, So we can test his body for any hereditary diseases, any defects that would have made him a loser, essentially.
Preston Lennox : Needles. Maybe he was some kind of a doper or a diabetic.
Dr. Laura Baker : Yeah. Well, either way would have made him unacceptable. Excuse me. All right. Insulin. Diabetic. There you have it.
Xavier Fitch : Well, she could have just walked out. Why did she have to kill him?
Dr. Laura Baker : Well, I guess he pissed her off.
Dan Smithson : Some men don't like to get rejected. They get insistent.
Xavier Fitch : Put an APB out on this guy's car.
Aide : It's already happened.
Xavier Fitch : I'll go back to the motel. I want to check it out thoroughly.
Preston Lennox : More docile and controllable, huh, Fitch?
