Christopher Walken credited as playing...
Michael Brace
- Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: I made that for you. It's a gift.
- [hands her the tape and sets the large silver metal case on the bed]
- Karen Brace: What is it?
- Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: It's me.
- Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: When I found her, she looked beautiful. Why do you have to die to let go? All my life, I've had trouble with people. I didn't need them. I always had my own way. Total confidence. And now, because of this - thing she left me, this tape, I'm scared. For the first time, I'm so scared. But the thing is, I like it! I want more! Look, you're married to the first man in the history of the world, who has a chance to take a scientific look at the scariest thing a person ever has to face. I've gotta do it! I've gotta play it. Play that tape! And you have to help me.
- Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: Take the house, take the car! I'll go to a hotel! I can't live like this, Karen! You're strangling me!
- Karen Brace: What are you talking about, you can't live like this? Are you talking about the house? I never wanted it. It was you!
- Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: No, no! It's you! That's not me you're looking at! It's you!
- Dr. Lillian Reynolds: [to Michael] Can you describe what you were feeling?
- Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: I don't know. I got mad.
- [gesturing to Karen]
- Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: At you.
- [Rewinds tape and takes reel with him as he exits]
- Dr. Lillian Reynolds: What were you thinking?
- Karen Brace: You mean when you were recording my thoughts?
- Dr. Lillian Reynolds: Yeah.
- Karen Brace: I was thinking about my new design. But he always ignores me and it just... made me furious.
- Dr. Lillian Reynolds: Feelings.
- Alex Terson: Michael, I want these personal experiments stopped. You've abused your privilege as a scientist, and you've endangered your life. The thought of you playing that tape makes my skin crawl.
- Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: Where is it?
- Alex Terson: It's locked away where nobody will ever have it.
- Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: Alex, I wanna play that tape.
- Alex Terson: You didn't hear me, did you? Nobody plays that tape. Ever.
- Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: I would like to make a toast. To the one who never gives up: Lillian Reynolds, EE, MD, PhD, PFT, BVD, RSVP, COD. My friend.
- Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: What's the Brainstorm Project, Alex?
- Alex Terson: Brainstorm? I - I don't know?
- Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: You don't know?
- [first lines]
- Dr. Lillian Reynolds: Can you see better if I move it a little closer?
- Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: I can see something. It's parts of the grid, but it's still rotating. It's not locking up.
- Hal Abramson: Maybe we all need a little break, Lillian.
- Dr. Lillian Reynolds: Hal, you take a break.
- Dr. Lillian Reynolds: What did you do?
- Gordy Forbes: Nothing, just a little experiment in animal behavior.
- Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: [snarls]
- Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: There's something wrong with you, you know that?
- Gordy Forbes: Awww, you didn't like Lena.
- Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: I wanna tell you something! I don't like the way you treat me in front of people! You talk about this thing as if it was all yours, but I was there too, so don 't do that!
- Karen Brace: Take a look.
- Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: Looks great. Sit, please.
- Karen Brace: Looks great. Sit, please.
- Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: Now just - empty your head.
- Karen Brace: Empty my head?
- Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: Okay, relax.
- Karen Brace: Empty my head and relax?
- Karen Brace: You have to promise me - that you'll never leave me again.
- Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: I'm not going anywhere!
- Karen Brace: Promise me!
- Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: They locked me out, Hal. I have to get back into the computer.
- Hal Abramson: It's illegal.
- Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: I wouldn't want you to get in trouble, Hal.
- Hal Abramson: Hell, I don't care. Try Brainstorm. It'll open the project file.
- Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: Brainstorm. Thank you.
- Hal Abramson: I'll do what I can to help you, Mike.
- Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: You plugged him in!
- Alex Terson: I didn't plug him in, Michael. And I've locked that tape up where nobody can...
- Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: Nobody locks me out!
- Karen Brace: Just ignore them.
- Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: Why should I ignore them?
- Karen Brace: We're on a vacation, that's why.
- Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: He's been doing that all day.
- Karen Brace: Just ignore him.
- Karen Brace: You go to hell.
- Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: You go to hell, too!
- Karen Brace: You go to hell!
- Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: You go to hell, too.
- Karen Brace: Don't push me.
- Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: You go to hell, too.
- Karen Brace: You go to hell!
- Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: You go to hell.