Alien³ (1992)
Sigourney Weaver: Ellen Ripley
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Quotes
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[to the Alien]
Ripley : You've been in my life so long, I can't remember anything else.
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Ripley : [last words] You're crazy.
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[the prisoners hesitate to go against the alien and ask why they can't wait for the company to bring them some guns]
Ripley : Because they won't kill it. They might kill you just for having seen it but they're not gonna kill it.
Aaron : That is crazy! That is horse shit! They will not kill *us*!
Ripley : When they first heard about this thing, it was "crew expendable". The next time they sent in marines - they were expendable too. What makes you think they're gonna care about a bunch of lifers who found God at the ass-end of space? You really think they're gonna let you interfere with their plans for this thing? They think we're - we're crud. And they don't give a fuck about one friend of yours that's - that's died. Not one.
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Ripley : This is a maximum security prison, and you have no weapons of any kind?
Andrews : We have some carving knives in the abattoir, a few more in the mess hall. Some fire axes scattered about the place - nothing terribly formidable.
Ripley : That's all?
Andrews : We're on the honor system.
Ripley : Then we're fucked.
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Ripley : How 'bout leveling with me? Well, when I asked how you got assigned here you avoided the question. And then when I asked about the prison ID tattooed on the back of your head you ducked me again.
Clemens : It's a long, sad story. And more than a little melodramatic.
Ripley : Try me.
Clemens : [smiles] If you insist. After my student years, despite the fact that I had become secretly addicted to morphine, I was considered to be most promising. A man with a future. Then during my first residency I did a thirty-six hour stretch on an ER. So I went out and I got more than a little drunk. Then I got called back. Boiler had blown on a fuel plant and there were thirty casualties. And eleven of them died. Not as a result of the accident but because I prescribed the wrong dosage of painkiller. And I got seven years in prison and my licence reduced to a 3C.
[pause]
Clemens : At least I got off the morphine.
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Andrews : It would seem that our smoothly running facility has run into a few problems. I can only hope that we can all pull together over the next few days until the rescue team arrives for Lt. Ripley.
Ripley : It's here! It got Clemens!
Andrews : Stop this raving at once!
Ripley : I'm telling you... it's here!
Andrews : Aaron get that foolish woman back to the infirmary!
[the alien grabs Andrews from above and kills him]
Andrews : [the prisoners scream and scatter]
Morse : [grabs a chair] Fuck!
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[Ripley is looking for the alien]
Ripley : Don't be afraid. I'm part of the family. You've been in my life so long, I can't remember anything else. Now do something for me. It's easy. Just - just do what you do.
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Andrews : We've 25 prisoners in this facility. All double-Y chromos. All thieves, rapists, murderers, child-molesters... All scum. Just because they have taken on religion doesn't make them any less dangerous. I try not to offend their convictions. I don't want to upset the order. I don't want ripples in the water. And I don't want a woman walking around, giving them ideas...
Ripley : I see. For my own personal safety...
Andrews : Exactly...
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[last lines]
Ripley : [playback of a recording, interrupted by static] Ash, Captain Dallas are dead. Cargo and ship destroyed. I should reach the frontier in about six weeks. With a little luck, the network will pick me up. This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off.
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Andrews : Let me see if I have this correct, Lieutenant - it's an 8-foot creature of some kind with acid for blood, and it arrived on your spaceship. It kills on sight, and is generally unpleasant. And of course, you expect me accept all this on your word.
Ripley : No. I don't expect anything.
Andrews : Quite a story, Mr Aaron.
Aaron : Right sir, it's a beauty. Never heard anything quite like it, sir.
Andrews : Expect not.
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Ripley : [while Ripley is looking for the Alien] Where are you when I need you? Don't be afraid. I'm part of the family. You've been in my life so long, I can't remember anything else. Now do something for me. It's easy, just..just do what you do.
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Clemens : Dillon and the rest of the alternative people, embraced religion, as it were, about five years ago. Tincture?
Ripley : I'm on medication.
Clemens : Hardly.
Ripley : What kind of religion?
Clemens : Some sort of apocalyptic, millenarian, Christian fundamentalist, uh...
Ripley : Right.
Clemens : Exactly. Point is, when the company wanted to close the facility down, Dillon and the rest of the converts wanted to stay. And they were allowed to remain as custodians with two minders and a medical officer. And here we are.
Ripley : How did you get this wonderful assignment?
Clemens : How do you like your new haircut?
Ripley : It's okay.
Clemens : Now that I've gone out on a limb for you with Andrews, damaged my already less-than-perfect relationship with that good man and briefed you on the humdrum history of Fury 161; can you not tell me what you were looking for in the girl?
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Ripley : [for the last time] For the last time.
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Ripley : Chest. Open her chest. Be careful.
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Ripley : I need you to help me. I need you to kill me.
Dillon : What are you talking about?
Ripley : I'm dead anyway. I can't survive it, but the one inside me can generate thousands more. It has to die - so somebody's got to kill me. Are you up to it?
Dillon : You don't have to worry about that.
Ripley : No speeches. No prayers.
