Species (1995)
Quotes
Xavier Fitch: We decided to make it female so it would be more docile and controllable.
Preston Lennox: More docile and controllable, eh? You guys don't get out much.
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]
Xavier Fitch: A train came through here about the time she escaped.
Agent: Is she that fast?
Xavier Fitch: She is *that* fast.
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]
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.
John Carey: Oh, no. I think someone's at the door.
Sil: Don't go. Please. I want a baby.
John Carey: [shocked] *What?* Excuse me?
Dr. Stephen Arden: Los Angeles is perfect for her. It's a city of the future. Anything goes. Totally mobile population. No ones a stranger. Very little in this town is taboo or unacceptable. Whatever she does, no one's going to notice.
Preston Lennox: No one ever asked me to find anything they didn't want dead.
Dan Smithson, Empath: I feel sorry for you.
Preston Lennox: Yeah? That's great. I feel sorry for her.
Dr. Stephen Arden: [Seconds after meeting him, the beautiful Sil is undressing and trying to seduce Stephen] This sort of thing doesn't usually happen to me.
Victoria Roth, Ph.D.: Are you still having problems with the people at work?
Dan Smithson, Empath: They put the finger on me, saying, I'm the - weird one. I'm the strange one. Why? Because I have feelings? That I feel?
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.
Xavier Fitch: As the, well, non-scientist amongst us, are you at all clear about what's going on here?
Preston Lennox: Oh, I think so. You've created a monster with some kind of formula you got from outer space. The damn thing got away and now you want us to hunt it down and kill it.
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]
[while drinking Long Island Iced Tea]
Dan Smithson, Empath: These are some good cups of tea, man.
Dr. Stephen Arden: [to Sil, after they finished having sex] Oh my dear... I enjoyed that immensely!
Dr. Stephen Arden: [Stephen and Sil have just finished having sex. Sil seems distant for a second, but then chuckles excitedly] What?
Sil: I felt it!
Dr. Stephen Arden: Felt what?
Sil: It's started!
Dr. Stephen Arden: What's started?
Sil: Life!
Dr. Stephen Arden: Oh, my darling girl!
[laughs condeceningly]
Dr. Stephen Arden: Now, I know in some south african tribes women believe they know the exact moment of conception, but really...
Sil: Don't you beleive me? Here, feel!
[She grabs his hand and holds it against her belly]
Dr. Stephen Arden: [Stephen does indeed feel something in Sil's womb and his smile suddenly fades] Holy Shit!
[Sil covers Stephen's mouth to muffle his screams as she transforms into her alien form and kills him]
Agent: Criminologist says there's no evidence of semen in the hot tub water.
Preston Lennox: Well, maybe she took it with.
Dr. Stephen Arden: [to his surprise, Stephen walks in to his motel room to find a stranger, Sil, standing inside listening through the wall to a couple having sex in a neighboring room] Who are you? What are you doing here?
Sil: I saw you downstairs, but you were with all those people.
[She approaches him, slipping the shoulder straps off her dress to expose her breasts]
Dr. Stephen Arden: Wh... What are you doing?
[Sil kisses him]
Sil: It's not too soon for us to be together.
[She kisses him again. Stephen stops resisting and starts undressing, himself]
Dr. Stephen Arden: Have you found any other bodies?
Xavier Fitch: No, we haven't not yet.
Dan Smithson, Empath: You will. She's a predator. Her eyes are in front. Her eyes are in front so she can judge the distance to her prey.
Dr. Stephen Arden: That's right.
Xavier Fitch: Where'd you learn that fact Dan?
Dan Smithson, Empath: I saw it on a documentary on the Discovery channel.
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.
Dan Smithson, Empath: She kills if she feels threatened. And she has no remorse about it. None.
Preston Lennox: I'll do it. I'll do it.
Dr. Laura Baker: Man of action. I like that.
Preston Lennox: More docile and controllable, huh, Fitch?
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.
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?
[last lines]
Dr. Laura Baker: Ahh! I never thought I'd be so happy to be back in a sewer.
Xavier Fitch: Any ideas?
Dr. Stephen Arden: Well, that's a - that looks like some sort of - chrysalis. Some sort of kind of cocoon.
Preston Lennox: What are we lookin' for? A giant moth?
Wedding Dress Saleswoman: Are you foreign?
[Sil nods her head affirmatively]
Wedding Dress Saleswoman: Do you speak English?
Sil: Yes.
Man on TV: Hi! Come here often? What's your sign?
Guy in Club: Hey, hey, where you from?
Sil: I'm foreign.
Guy in Club: You're what?
Sil: I'm foreign.
Guy in Club: Foreign! Really?
Robbie, Guy Picking Up Sil: Take off your clothes. I want to see you.
[Sil removes her bra]
Robbie, Guy Picking Up Sil: Very nice.
Dan Smithson, Empath: I used to be scared of the sight of blood. Now, I'm just getting used to it.
Xavier Fitch: Oh, yes.
Sil: I don't know why I'm here. I don't know who I am. Who sent me. Do you?
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.
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?
Preston Lennox: Let go of him you motherfucker.
Dr. Stephen Arden: [Last line before Sil pounces on him, naked and they have sex] What about protection?
Dan Smithson, Empath: Something bad happened here...
Preston Lennox: It stinks in here. I'm going outside.
Dan Smithson, Empath: Something's - something's wrong.
Preston Lennox: It's dead! Open the door.
Dr. Stephen Arden: It's a dead fish. Let them out!
Xavier Fitch: Oh, God. It's not dead.
Dan Smithson, Empath: Fitch, Fitch it doesn't feel right.
