The Island Quotes
Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly Utopian but contained facility in the year 2019. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be ... See full summary »
Merrick: What's troubling, you, Lincoln?
Lincoln Six-Echo: It - it's just... all right, Tuesday night is tofu night, and I'm asking myself "Who here decided that everyone likes tofu in the first place, and what is tofu anyway?" And why can't I have bacon? I line up every morning, and I'm not allowed any bacon for my breakfast. And - and tell me - let's talk about all the white. Why is everyone wearing white all the time? It's impossible to keep clean, I'm walking around, I get - I always get the gray stripe, I never get any color, and I hand it in to be cleaned, and - and someone cleans it and fold it neatly back in my drawer, but who? Who is that person? I don't know. I just - I wanna know answers and I - and I wish that there was more.
Merrick: More?
Lincoln Six-Echo: Yeah, more than just waiting to go to The Island.
Lincoln Six-Echo: It - it's just... all right, Tuesday night is tofu night, and I'm asking myself "Who here decided that everyone likes tofu in the first place, and what is tofu anyway?" And why can't I have bacon? I line up every morning, and I'm not allowed any bacon for my breakfast. And - and tell me - let's talk about all the white. Why is everyone wearing white all the time? It's impossible to keep clean, I'm walking around, I get - I always get the gray stripe, I never get any color, and I hand it in to be cleaned, and - and someone cleans it and fold it neatly back in my drawer, but who? Who is that person? I don't know. I just - I wanna know answers and I - and I wish that there was more.
Merrick: More?
Lincoln Six-Echo: Yeah, more than just waiting to go to The Island.
Client Services Operator: Merrick Biotech. How may I help you?
Tom Lincoln: Hi, this is a client, Tom Lincoln.
Client Services Operator: Hi, Mr. Lincoln.
Tom Lincoln: Yeah, I was wondering if you could get someone who can explain to me why my insurance policy is sitting downstairs on my fucking sofa!
Tom Lincoln: Hi, this is a client, Tom Lincoln.
Client Services Operator: Hi, Mr. Lincoln.
Tom Lincoln: Yeah, I was wondering if you could get someone who can explain to me why my insurance policy is sitting downstairs on my fucking sofa!
[Lincoln Six Echo and Jordan Two Delta are asking a bartender where to find McCord]
Aces & Spades Bartender: Well, it's your lucky day, Captain Kirk. He's in the can.
Lincoln Six-Echo: He's in a can?
Aces & Spades Bartender: Takin' a dump.
Lincoln Six-Echo: A dump? Taking it where?
Aces & Spades Bartender: Tell you what, Bubba, you're fixing to get on my nerves. First door on the right.
Lincoln Six-Echo: Thank you.
[Lincoln Six Echo turns to Jordan Two Delta]
Lincoln Six-Echo: I have to go. He's taking a dump in a can!
Aces & Spades Bartender: Well, it's your lucky day, Captain Kirk. He's in the can.
Lincoln Six-Echo: He's in a can?
Aces & Spades Bartender: Takin' a dump.
Lincoln Six-Echo: A dump? Taking it where?
Aces & Spades Bartender: Tell you what, Bubba, you're fixing to get on my nerves. First door on the right.
Lincoln Six-Echo: Thank you.
[Lincoln Six Echo turns to Jordan Two Delta]
Lincoln Six-Echo: I have to go. He's taking a dump in a can!
Albert Laurent: You've been witness to certain trade secrets.
Lincoln Six-Echo: [knowingly] You mean that they manufacture human beings who walk, talk... and feel? That kind of secret?
Albert Laurent: [catching on] Have you talked with anyone else about this?
Lincoln Six-Echo: Who would believe it?
Albert Laurent: Can I count on that?
Lincoln Six-Echo: The only thing you can count on is that people will do anything to survive. I just want to live. I don't care how.
Lincoln Six-Echo: [knowingly] You mean that they manufacture human beings who walk, talk... and feel? That kind of secret?
Albert Laurent: [catching on] Have you talked with anyone else about this?
Lincoln Six-Echo: Who would believe it?
Albert Laurent: Can I count on that?
Lincoln Six-Echo: The only thing you can count on is that people will do anything to survive. I just want to live. I don't care how.
Albert Laurent: Did you know my father was part of the Burkinabé rebellion? When he was killed, my brothers and I were branded, so everyone would know we were less than human.
[he holds up his hand to show Merrick]
Albert Laurent: I've seen and done things I'm not proud of, but at some point you realize, war... Is a business. So, when did killing become a business for you?
Merrick: Oh, no. It's so much more than that. I have discovered the Holy Grail of science. I give life. The agnates, they're simply tools, instruments. They have no souls. The possibilities are endless here. In two years' time, I will be able to cure children's leukemia. How many people on Earth can say that, Mr. Laurent?
Albert Laurent: [smiles] I guess just you and God. That's the answer you're looking for, isn't it?
[he holds up his hand to show Merrick]
Albert Laurent: I've seen and done things I'm not proud of, but at some point you realize, war... Is a business. So, when did killing become a business for you?
Merrick: Oh, no. It's so much more than that. I have discovered the Holy Grail of science. I give life. The agnates, they're simply tools, instruments. They have no souls. The possibilities are endless here. In two years' time, I will be able to cure children's leukemia. How many people on Earth can say that, Mr. Laurent?
Albert Laurent: [smiles] I guess just you and God. That's the answer you're looking for, isn't it?
Merrick: [putting microsensors in Lincoln Six-Echo's eyes] Don't worry, it's painless.
Lincoln Six-Echo: [in pain] It hurts.
Merrick: [nonchalant] Not really.
Lincoln Six-Echo: Yeah, it does.
Merrick: No it doesn't.
Lincoln Six-Echo: Yeah, it really, really does.
Merrick: [after all microsensors went under Lincoln Six-Echo's eyes] The microsensors will move along your optic nerve. They will be uploading readings over the next 24 hours, after which you will pass them through your urine. Now *that* might hurt.
Lincoln Six-Echo: [in pain] It hurts.
Merrick: [nonchalant] Not really.
Lincoln Six-Echo: Yeah, it does.
Merrick: No it doesn't.
Lincoln Six-Echo: Yeah, it really, really does.
Merrick: [after all microsensors went under Lincoln Six-Echo's eyes] The microsensors will move along your optic nerve. They will be uploading readings over the next 24 hours, after which you will pass them through your urine. Now *that* might hurt.
[Jordan Two-Delta and Lincoln Six-Echo have just been told they are clones by McCord]
Jordan Two-Delta: Bu- I have a mother! I remember her!
McCord: Yeah, I know...
Jordan Two-Delta: I grew up on a farm! I had a little dog a - and I had a bike...
McCord: A bike, yeah. A pink, fluffy Flyer with little tassels on the handlebars? And you rode it up the street to your Grandmother's house, you'd ring the little bell, she came out and served you cookies on a hot plate?
Jordan Two-Delta: Yes.
McCord: No. Memory imprints. I've seen 'em - a buddy of mine is a programmer at the institute, he showed me. There's only, like, twelve stories, they change around little details, but they're all pretty much the same. The life you think you had before the 'contamination' - it never happened.
Jordan Two-Delta: Bu- I have a mother! I remember her!
McCord: Yeah, I know...
Jordan Two-Delta: I grew up on a farm! I had a little dog a - and I had a bike...
McCord: A bike, yeah. A pink, fluffy Flyer with little tassels on the handlebars? And you rode it up the street to your Grandmother's house, you'd ring the little bell, she came out and served you cookies on a hot plate?
Jordan Two-Delta: Yes.
McCord: No. Memory imprints. I've seen 'em - a buddy of mine is a programmer at the institute, he showed me. There's only, like, twelve stories, they change around little details, but they're all pretty much the same. The life you think you had before the 'contamination' - it never happened.
Merrick: [Lincoln Six-Echo has returned to the underground facility to shut down the hologram and reveal the real world to the clones when Merrick captures him] You could've taken over his life, but you chose to come back here instead, you are unique, Six-Echo.
Lincoln Six-Echo: My name... is *Lincoln*!
Lincoln Six-Echo: My name... is *Lincoln*!
