Knowing (2009)

Ben Mendelsohn: Phil Beckman

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• John Koestler : I found evidence of a series of super-flares from a star in the outer-Pleiades's region.

  Phil Bergman : Right. Ratings were off the chart.

  John Koestler : We were both wrong. The numbers are a warning, but not just to me or any random group. They're a warning to everyone.

  Phil Bergman : Okay. You're officially scaring the shit out of me right now.

  John Koestler : The super-flare, in our own solar system. A 100 microtesla wave of radiation that would destroy our ozone layer, killing every living organism on the planet.

  Phil Bergman : We have to let everyone know. We have to call the NOAA.

  John Koestler : They already know. The announcement will come anytime now. I thought there was some purpose to all this. Why did I get this prediction if there's nothing I can do about it? How am I supposed to stop the end of the world?

• John Koestler : I'm not saying that 81 people are going to die tomorrow, okay? I'm just trying to understand why THIS is SAYING they will!

  Phil Bergman : Okay, it's spooky, all right? I'll grant you. It's more than spooky. But just step back, all right? You have all these uncircled numbers with no sequence to them. I mean, numerology, kabbalah, pythagorean cults, there are systems that find meaning in numbers, and they are a dime a dozen. Why? Because people see what they want to see in them.

• Phil Bergman : Right now my scientific mind is telling me to have nothing more to do with this. And yours should, too.

• Phil Bergman : [talking to John, referring to his own sister-in-law]  She's in town this Friday and she thinks you're "intriguing", which I thought was code for "gay", but apparently not because she has asked if you would join us for dinner