- Children: One, two, Freddy's coming for you. / Three, four, better lock your door. / Five, six, grab your crucifix. / Seven, eight, gonna stay up late. / Nine, ten, never sleep again.
- Nancy Thompson: Mother! What's with the bars?
- Marge Thompson: Security.
- Nancy Thompson: Security? Security from what?
- Marge Thompson: Not from what - from whom. Come down to the cellar. You wanna know who Fred Krueger was? He was a filthy child murderer who killed at least 20 kids in the neighborhood... kids we all knew.
- Nancy Thompson: Oh, Mom.
- Marge Thompson: It drove us crazy when we didn't know who it was, but it was even worse after they caught him.
- Nancy Thompson: Did they put him away?
- Marge Thompson: Well, all the lawyers got fat and the judge got famous, but someone forgot to sign the search warrant in the right place and Krueger was free just like that.
- Nancy Thompson: What did you do?
- Marge Thompson: A bunch of us parents got together and tracked him down. We found him in old abandoned boiler room, where he used to take his kids.
- Nancy Thompson: Go on.
- Marge Thompson: We took gasoline and poured it all around the place and made a trail of it out the door. We lit the whole thing up and watched it burn. He's dead now. He's dead because Mommy killed him.
- [reveals Freddy's glove]
- Marge Thompson: I even took his knives.
- [Marge touches Nancy on her knee]
- Nancy Thompson: You can sleep.
- [Tina is in the alley behind her home when a trashcan lid suddenly comes rolling out and crashes at her feet. She turns around]
- Fred Krueger: Tina...
- Tina Gray: Shit.
- [Freddy laughs mockingly as he appears, extending his arms across the entire width of the alley]
- Tina Gray: Please, God!
- Fred Krueger: [reveals his glove] This... is God!
- Glen Lantz: Miss Nude America is going to be on tonight.
- Mrs. Lantz: How can you hear what she's going to say?
- Glen Lantz: Who cares what she says?
- Marge Thompson: Nancy?
- Nancy Thompson: What, Mother?
- Marge Thompson: Don't fall asleep in there. You could drown, you know.
- Nancy Thompson: Oh, for Pete's sakes.
- Marge Thompson: It happens all the time. I've heated up some warm milk for you, honey.
- Nancy Thompson: Warm milk? Gross.
- Nancy Thompson: Help! I've got him! Hey, Daddy! I've got him trapped! Help! Where are you?
- Sgt. Parker: Everything's gonna be all right! Everything's under control!
- Nancy Thompson: Get my dad, you asshole!
- [Glen is trying to get to sleep on the couch alone, but the sounds of Tina and Rod having sex is keeping him up]
- Glen Lantz: Morality sucks.
- Nancy Thompson: I know you're there, Freddy.
- Fred Krueger: You think you was gonna get away from me?
- Nancy Thompson: I know you too well, Freddy.
- Fred Krueger: Now you die.
- Nancy Thompson: It's too late, Krueger. I know the secret now. This is just a dream. You're not alive. This whole thing is just a dream.
- [she turns around and faces him]
- Nancy Thompson: I want my mother and friends again.
- Fred Krueger: You what?
- Nancy Thompson: I take back every bit of energy I gave you. You're nothing. You're shit.
- [Freddy wears Tina mask]
- Tina Gray: Nancy, help me, please. Save me from...
- [removes mask]
- Fred Krueger: Freddy!
- Nancy Thompson: [after Glen failed to wake her up as she fell asleep and dreamed about Freddy] Glen, you bastard!
- Glen Lantz: What did I do?
- Nancy Thompson: I just asked you to do one thing, to stay awake and watch me and to wake me up if it looked like I was having a bad dream, and what did you do, you shit?
- [Nancy slaps him on the knee]
- Nancy Thompson: You fell asleep!
- Nancy Thompson: I grab the guy in my dream. You see me struggling so you wake me up. We both come out, you whack the fucker and we got him.
- Glen Lantz: Are you crazy? Hit him with what?
- Nancy Thompson: You're the jock. You have a baseball bat or something.
- Cop: You won't need a stretcher up there, you need a mop.
- Nancy Thompson: [on the phone, referring to Glen] Hi, Daddy. I know what happened.
- Lt. Thompson: I haven't been upstairs yet.
- Nancy Thompson: Yeah, but you know he's dead, right?
- Lt. Thompson: Yeah, apparently he's dead.
- Nancy Thompson: Listen, Daddy, I've got a proposition for you. Listen very carefully, please.
- Lt. Thompson: Nancy.
- Nancy Thompson: I'm going to go and get the guy who did it, and I want you to be there to arrest him when I bring him out. Okay?
- Lt. Thompson: Just tell me who did it. I'll go get him, baby.
- Nancy Thompson: Fred Krueger did it, Daddy, and only I can get him. It's my nightmare he comes to.
- Voice on Glen's television set: It is now twelve midnight and this is station KRGR leaving the air.
- Cop #3: [after seeing the crime scene in Glen's room] What the *hell* did that, Lieutenant?
- Lt. Thompson: I don't know. What's the coroner got to say?
- Cop #3: He's been in the john pukin' since he saw it.
- Nancy Thompson: [she notices Glen standing outside her window with mud-caked soles] Sometimes I wish you didn't live right across the street.
- Glen Lantz: [holds one of his muddy feet up to her] Will you shut up and let me in? Did you ever stand on a rose trellis in your bare feet?
- Rod Lane: [after tackling Glen on the lawn] It's Rod Lane, bringing Lantz down, just three yards from the goal line! What a brilliant tackle and the crowd goes wild!
- Tina Gray: What the hell are you doing here?
- Rod Lane: Came to make up. No big deal. Your mom home?
- Tina Gray: Of course.
- [looking at the tool Rod used to make the screeching noise]
- Tina Gray: Oh, what's that?
- Rod Lane: Intense, huh?
- [slowly reveals it and imitates a screeching noise]
- Rod Lane: So what's going on here? An orgy or somethin'?
- Glen Lantz: Maybe your funeral, dickhead.
- [Rod pulls out a switchblade and holds it up to Glen's face]
- Nancy Thompson: [closing Rod's switchblade and returning it] It's just a sleepover, Rod. Tina and me. Glen was just leaving.
- Rod Lane: [to Tina, smirking] Did you see his face?
- Glen Lantz: [mimicking Rod] "Did you see his face?"
- Tina's Mom: You okay, Tina?
- Tina Gray: Just a dream, Ma'.
- Tina's Mom: Hm, some dream judging from that.
- [Tina looks down to see that there are four tears in her night-gown]
- Nancy Thompson: [at the police station] You know Tina, she dreamed this was gonna happen.
- Lt. Thompson: What?
- Nancy Thompson: She had a nightmare that someone was trying to kill her.
- [to her mother, sobbing]
- Nancy Thompson: That's why we were there, Mom. She just didn't wanna sleep alone.
- Tina's Mom: [upon seeing Tina's torn nightgown] Tina, you either gotta cut your fingernails or ya gotta stop that kind of dreaming. One or the other.
- Dr. King: [at the sleep clinic, referring to the monitor's brainwave display] A nightmare now would be plus or minus five or six. She's about three.
- Marge Thompson: [Nancy begins twitching; Freddy's knives are heard] Doctor, what's she doing now? Is she asleep or awake?
- [the monitor's number quickly increases to 30]
- Dr. King: Something's wrong. It never gets this high.
- Nancy Thompson: [referring to the Balinese way of dreaming] But what if they meet a monster in their dreams? Then what?
- Glen Lantz: They turn their back on it. Take away its energy and it disappears.
- Nancy Thompson: But what happens if they don't do that?
- Glen Lantz: Well, I guess those people don't wake up to tell what happens.
- Nancy Thompson: [looking in the mirror] This is just a dream, this isn't real. This is just a dream, he isn't real. He isn't...
- [Freddy smashes through the mirror and grabs her]
- Lt. Thompson: [about Nancy] What was she doing there?
- Marge Thompson: Hello to you, too, Donald.
- Lt. Thompson: [returning greeting sarcastically] Marge.
- Nancy Thompson: [screaming in the boiler room] Come out and show yourself, you bastard!
- [she glances at her watch; Krueger comes from behind]
- Nancy Thompson: [screams and jumps from the boiler room, landing in front of her house on a rose bush] Dammit! Where are you? Where are you, Krueger?
- [laughs uncomfortably]
- Nancy Thompson: I know you're here!
- Fred Krueger: [whispering] Hey, Nancy.
- [pops out from under the rose bush]
- Nancy Thompson: [jumps towards him and grabs him] I've got you now!
- [wrestles with him as her alarm wakes her up]
- Nancy Thompson: [screams and realizes she's alone in the room] Oh... I'm crazy after all!
- [Freddy pops out from the other side of her bed]
- Nancy Thompson: [at the sleep clinic] I don't see why you can't just give me a pill to keep me from dreaming.
- Dr. King: Everybody's got to dream, young girl. If you don't dream...
- [pointing to his head]
- Dr. King: You go.
- Nancy Thompson: The killer's still loose, you know.
- Lt. Thompson: You're saying somebody else killed Tina? Who?
- Nancy Thompson: I don't know who he is, but he's burned and he wears a weird hat and a red and green sweater, really dirty. And he uses these knives, like giant fingernails...
- Lt. Thompson: [cuts her off and guides her into the car, to Marge] You better keep her home for a few days, until she really gets over the shock of this.
- Marge Thompson: I've got something better. I'm going to get her some help.
- Marge Thompson: [to Nancy] Oh, I feel like a million bucks. They say you've bottomed out when you can't remember the night before.
- Nancy Thompson: Maybe I should just pick up that bottle and veg out with you, ignore everything going on around me by getting good and loaded.
- [Marge slaps her]
- Glen Lantz: We have reason to believe there may be something very strange going on.
- Lt. Thompson: You got that right.
- Nancy Thompson: What are you doing here?
- Lt. Thompson: There's an unsolved murder and I hate unsolved murders, especially ones that my daughter is mixed up in. What are *you* doing here?
- Nancy Thompson: Look, I just gotta see that he's okay.
- Sgt. Garcia: I just checked on him ten minutes ago, he's sleeping like a baby. He's not going anywhere.
- Nancy Thompson: And now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. And if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.