John Hurt credited as playing...
Snitter
- Snitter: Look out there! It's our island. Don't you see it? That's where we have to go. We can be free.
- Snitter: Have you ever thought, Rowf... that we won't need food when we're dead? Or names for that matter... I wonder who the buzzards will like best... You, or me... I hope you make sure we're properly dead before you start, old rip-beak!
- Snitter: They're not masters, Rowf. I had a master once, and I know. Whatever the White-coats are, they're not masters.
- The Tod: Do ye know why we're still alive, with hundreds, maybe thousands of men that'd be glad ta kill us?
- Snitter: They wouldn't dare. I've only got to drown, or jump under a truck, and the sky will fall down and all the men will die. Have you ever thought of that, Rowf? That puts us one upon them!
- Snitter: They've taken everything away! The houses and roads, cars, pavement, the lot! How did they do it, Rowf?
- Rowf: The white-coats must have changed it so they could do something or other to animals.
- Snitter: But my master never used to do anything to me...
- Rowf: I don't want to hear about your master.
- Snitter: When I was at home, my master...
- Rowf: Aren't you listening to me?
- Snitter: Masters are different, Rowf! You'll see what I mean when we've found one.
- Rowf: Supposing there aren't any masters left?
- Rowf: We're not about to die!
- The Tod: No? Why, hinny, ye've got no chance at all. I've bin watchin' ye the last two days, ye'll not last hollerin' yer heads off, racin' about the fell.
- Snitter: What do you mean? What are you saying?
- The Tod: Just a proposition, bonny lads. If ye'll hunt with me, I'll keep ye right, and ye'll have yer meath, we'll run through the night and follow me feet...
- Rowf: I don't understand a word he's saying.
- Rowf: I can't stand the water anymore. When I shut my eyes, the water comes back.
- Snitter: How do you get out? Do you drink it? Or does the sun dry it out? Or what?
- Rowf: I don't know. I hate it, Snitter. The water's terrible.
- Snitter: The wire's loose here, along the bottom. If I put my nose under it, I might be able to get through...
- Rowf: Why do they do it, Snitter? I'm not a bad dog.
- Snitter: I don't think they do it because they think you're bad.
- Snitter: Rowf, what are you doing here?
- Rowf: I've been searching for the past two days! What happened to you?
- Snitter: Didn't you hear it? I mean, when the air all blew to pieces? I know it's my fault, but I didn't do it on purpose!
- Rowf: What blew to pieces? What are you talking about?
- Snitter: We're dead, you and I. I've killed us both. I've destroyed everything.
- Rowf: Now, calm down and tell me everything.
- Snitter: I... was coming back, and all the grass and stones in my head were very loud. It felt of humming, like a strong wind. And I was on a road, like last time. He called me and smiled, and I went to him... and everything smashed to pieces. I smashed it like I did the other time! It all comes from me, Rowf! Out of my head... I killed that man like I killed my master! That's why we're here now, like this. We'll be punished, Rowf...
- Rowf: They can't do anything worse than they've done already...
- Snitter: Everything bad comes out of my head! Don't you see? Perhaps dying... even... dying doesn't stop it.
- Rowf: I don't understand what you're saying. As for dying, I'll fight before I'm killed!
- Snitter: They'll shoot you, Rowf, when they come with guns. The noise breaks the world to bits!
- [Snitter, trapped in a garage, is hallucinating about his old home]
- Rowf: Snitter! Can you hear me?
- Snitter: I'm inside my head now. And it's where I should be.
- Rowf: This is no time for one of your turns!
- The Tod: Come on out, ya great fool! Sharp with ye, now, before we're all caught!
- Snitter: I can't come out. If I do, I'll go mad again.