Alien³ (1992)

Charles Dance: Dr. Jonathan Clemens

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• [Ripley gets out of bed naked] 

  Ripley : Wanna get me some clothes, or should I just go like this?

  Clemens : Given the nature of our indigenous population, I would suggest clothes. None of them have seen a woman in years.

  [under his breath] 

  Clemens : Neither have I, for that matter.

• Ripley : Are you attracted to me?

  Clemens : In what way?

  Ripley : In that way.

  Clemens : Very direct.

  Ripley : I've been out here a long time.

• [Clemens rises after making love with Ripley] 

  Clemens : I really appreciate your affections. But I am aware that they deflected my question. In the nicest possible way, of course.

• 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.

• [examining the "remains" of Murphy, sucked into a nine-foot fan] 

  Clemens : Well, not much to say, is there? Death was instantaneous.

  Aaron : No shit.

• Andrews : [trying to determine the victim's identity]  Who was it?

  Clemens : Murphy.

  Aaron : How do you know?

  Clemens : [looking down and pointing]  That's his boot.

• Clemens : [to Andrews]  I think it might be better if I left. I find you unpleasant to be around.

• Clemens : That's a bit uncharitable

• 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?

• Ripley : Now I've made another mistake.

  Clemens : Really? What's that?

  Ripley : Fraternizing with a prisoner. Physical contact. It's against the rules, isn't it?

  Clemens : I'm not a prisoner.

• Ripley : How do you know my name?

  Clemens : It's stenciled on the back of your shorts.

• Clemens : Something serious?

  Aaron : You could call it that. One of our prisoners has been - diced.

• Andrews : Listen to me, you piece of shit, you screw with me one more time, I'll cut you in half.

  Clemens : I'm sorry. I don't think I understand.

• Clemens : They are sending somebody to pick you up quite soon, I gather.

  Ripley : Really? What's soon?

  Clemens : I don't know. Nobody's ever been in a hurry to get here before.

• Clemens : How are you feeling?

  Ripley : Not so hot. A sore throat. Sick to my stomach. And pissed off.