The Signal Quotes
A horror film told in three parts, from three perspectives, in which a mysterious transmission that turns people into killers invades every cell phone, radio, and television.
[last lines]
Damon: Take a look at yourself, Nic. The perfect integration of human will and alien technology. Our finest achievement.
Nic: Nomad? Nomad!
Damon: Nomad, yes. I brought you here. But remember, Nic, you were the one who came looking for me. So you might want to ask yourself, "Did I find what I was looking for?"
Damon: Take a look at yourself, Nic. The perfect integration of human will and alien technology. Our finest achievement.
Nic: Nomad? Nomad!
Damon: Nomad, yes. I brought you here. But remember, Nic, you were the one who came looking for me. So you might want to ask yourself, "Did I find what I was looking for?"
Nic: The truth of the matter? What is the truth of the matter here? The only thing I know for certain is that you don't know what you're dealing with. You will be pulled from this shitty little shack you call a research facility so fast that the only thing relevant to be shown for any of this is the way it's all exposed, wrecked, and forgotten. You have *no* idea! You have no clue! Do you? Have any clue how fast dumb, lost little kids like me, Jonah, or Nomad could ruin a place like this? Have it come grinding to a halt like the stone wheel it is? You're clueless law in the Wild West, Damon. You're a relic protecting ruins. You're pathetic! The truth of the matter is that I'm the only one that has any sense around here.
Lewis Denton: Hey! Put the fucking bat down.
Jerry: What?
Lewis Denton: You almost clocked Mya in the head.
[Jerry laughs and continues to swing the bat]
Lewis Denton: Put the fucking bat down now.
Jerry: Dude, it's not hurting anybody.
Rod: Just put the bat down.
Jerry: No, man. I can't watch the game, I'm going to swing the bat, alright?
Lewis Denton: [grabbing the bat] I told you to put it down. Sit.
Jerry: What's the matter with you?
Lewis Denton: You could hurt somebody.
Jerry: Why are you looking at me like that? Stop it.
Lewis Denton: You almost fucking killed my wife. Sit down.
Jerry: Dude, what is wrong with you?
Lewis Denton: You almost fucked my wife!
Jerry: What?
Lewis Denton: You almost clocked Mya in the head.
[Jerry laughs and continues to swing the bat]
Lewis Denton: Put the fucking bat down now.
Jerry: Dude, it's not hurting anybody.
Rod: Just put the bat down.
Jerry: No, man. I can't watch the game, I'm going to swing the bat, alright?
Lewis Denton: [grabbing the bat] I told you to put it down. Sit.
Jerry: What's the matter with you?
Lewis Denton: You could hurt somebody.
Jerry: Why are you looking at me like that? Stop it.
Lewis Denton: You almost fucking killed my wife. Sit down.
Jerry: Dude, what is wrong with you?
Lewis Denton: You almost fucked my wife!
Anna: What if my party guests show up?
Clark: Anna, I don't know if you know this, but there is some seriously insane shit going on out there right now. People are losing their minds.
[Clark goes to turn off the TV]
Clark: There's a bad sector in the electromagnetic spectrum which is causing a rift in logical thinking. Rational behavior has given way to primal... primordial action.
[Anna sees someone on fire outside]
Clark: We've reached a critical juncture in the consistency of everyday living. Societal norms are being completely abandoned. Anarchy has replaced etiquette. Chaos is the ruling class of this civilization, so I think coming to a goddamn New Years Eve party is the last thing on people's minds!
[doorbell rings]
Clark: Anna, I don't know if you know this, but there is some seriously insane shit going on out there right now. People are losing their minds.
[Clark goes to turn off the TV]
Clark: There's a bad sector in the electromagnetic spectrum which is causing a rift in logical thinking. Rational behavior has given way to primal... primordial action.
[Anna sees someone on fire outside]
Clark: We've reached a critical juncture in the consistency of everyday living. Societal norms are being completely abandoned. Anarchy has replaced etiquette. Chaos is the ruling class of this civilization, so I think coming to a goddamn New Years Eve party is the last thing on people's minds!
[doorbell rings]
[doorbell rings]
Clark: God in heaven!
Lewis Denton: [grabbing a shovel] Just open the door and I'll take them down.
Clark: No. That's not the way to play this.
Lewis Denton: We can't be sure. We have to exterminate with extreme prejudice.
Clark: It might be somebody who could help us. We don't know.
[doorbell rings again]
Lewis Denton: We can't risk it. I'm killing whoever walks through that door.
Clark: [looking through the peephole] It's Jim. It's Jim Parsons.
Lewis Denton: Trust no one!
Clark: You were the one watching the TV!
Lewis Denton: I told you I wasn't watching the TV! Listen, if I had it, I would've killed you by now, right?
Clark: I guess.
Lewis Denton: I'm fine, and you're fine, and she's fine. This we know. But he may not be, and probably isn't.
Clark: God in heaven!
Lewis Denton: [grabbing a shovel] Just open the door and I'll take them down.
Clark: No. That's not the way to play this.
Lewis Denton: We can't be sure. We have to exterminate with extreme prejudice.
Clark: It might be somebody who could help us. We don't know.
[doorbell rings again]
Lewis Denton: We can't risk it. I'm killing whoever walks through that door.
Clark: [looking through the peephole] It's Jim. It's Jim Parsons.
Lewis Denton: Trust no one!
Clark: You were the one watching the TV!
Lewis Denton: I told you I wasn't watching the TV! Listen, if I had it, I would've killed you by now, right?
Clark: I guess.
Lewis Denton: I'm fine, and you're fine, and she's fine. This we know. But he may not be, and probably isn't.
Ben: You can just drop your stuff right now, and stay here tonight, and never go back there again.
Mya Denton: Ben...
Ben: Or we could... go up to the rooftop and build an exotic flower garden. Or we could take one of my cameras, and dress up like homeless people, and infiltrate their community and take pictures of their lives. Or we could take my TV and throw it off the balcony and replace it with coloring books. Or we could leave Terminus tomorrow. New Years fucking Eve. We could.
Mya Denton: Leave?
Ben: Go down to the station, we'll walk up to Terminal 13, and we'll get on a train and we'll get into our own private compartment, rip each other's clothes off, and fuck our way to freedom. We'll go to the country and start a life. A real life. Mya and Ben. New Years Eve. Terminal 13. Mya and Ben. And you don't look back.
Mya Denton: That's beautiful.
Ben: It's possible.
Mya Denton: Ben...
Ben: Or we could... go up to the rooftop and build an exotic flower garden. Or we could take one of my cameras, and dress up like homeless people, and infiltrate their community and take pictures of their lives. Or we could take my TV and throw it off the balcony and replace it with coloring books. Or we could leave Terminus tomorrow. New Years fucking Eve. We could.
Mya Denton: Leave?
Ben: Go down to the station, we'll walk up to Terminal 13, and we'll get on a train and we'll get into our own private compartment, rip each other's clothes off, and fuck our way to freedom. We'll go to the country and start a life. A real life. Mya and Ben. New Years Eve. Terminal 13. Mya and Ben. And you don't look back.
Mya Denton: That's beautiful.
Ben: It's possible.
Anna: [doorbell rings] Party guests!
Clark: Act natural.
[Anna and Lewis line up behind Clark at the door with weapons ready]
Janice: You gotta help me! My mom is trying to kill me and so I ran over her in the car and my dad was in the house and he made the dog die because he tried to bite me and I left in the car and I didn't know where to go and I remembered that Anna and Ken lived here and I'm Laura.
Anna: Laura!
Janice: Anna!
[Laura pushes her way into the apartment past Clark]
Clark: [Lewis smacks Laura in the head with the pesticide can, knocking her down] What the Fuck?
[Lewis continues to beat Laura to death]
Anna: You killed Laura!
Lewis Denton: She was coming at you!
Anna: Stay away from me! You killed Laura!
Lewis Denton: She was heading straight for you with that knife!
Anna: She doesn't have a knife!
Clark: That's a keychain...
Clark: Act natural.
[Anna and Lewis line up behind Clark at the door with weapons ready]
Janice: You gotta help me! My mom is trying to kill me and so I ran over her in the car and my dad was in the house and he made the dog die because he tried to bite me and I left in the car and I didn't know where to go and I remembered that Anna and Ken lived here and I'm Laura.
Anna: Laura!
Janice: Anna!
[Laura pushes her way into the apartment past Clark]
Clark: [Lewis smacks Laura in the head with the pesticide can, knocking her down] What the Fuck?
[Lewis continues to beat Laura to death]
Anna: You killed Laura!
Lewis Denton: She was coming at you!
Anna: Stay away from me! You killed Laura!
Lewis Denton: She was heading straight for you with that knife!
Anna: She doesn't have a knife!
Clark: That's a keychain...
Rod: Did you kill anybody last night?
[Mya shakes her head]
Rod: How am I supposed to know? Tell me. Wait, where did you go? Where were you?
Mya Denton: [slowly] I hid in the apartment across the hall.
[Rod unties Mya]
Rod: I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I couldn't trust anybody. I went looking for you. I couldn't find shit. Everybody's either dead, dying, or completely flipped. Mad. Crazy.
Mya Denton: Why did Lewis hurt Jerry?
Rod: Hurt? Jerry's dead, lady. Lewis got it. Fucking snapped. I couldn't get any sense into him. I got his bat, knocked him out, I taped him up so that he couldn't hurt anybody else. I had no choice. Then I saw the hallway. I've never seen anything like that. One out of two people just started killing each other. They just decided to kill people! I mean, what do I do? I've never killed anybody before. What do I do? I'm not going to fuck around. What do I do?
[Mya shakes her head]
Rod: How am I supposed to know? Tell me. Wait, where did you go? Where were you?
Mya Denton: [slowly] I hid in the apartment across the hall.
[Rod unties Mya]
Rod: I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I couldn't trust anybody. I went looking for you. I couldn't find shit. Everybody's either dead, dying, or completely flipped. Mad. Crazy.
Mya Denton: Why did Lewis hurt Jerry?
Rod: Hurt? Jerry's dead, lady. Lewis got it. Fucking snapped. I couldn't get any sense into him. I got his bat, knocked him out, I taped him up so that he couldn't hurt anybody else. I had no choice. Then I saw the hallway. I've never seen anything like that. One out of two people just started killing each other. They just decided to kill people! I mean, what do I do? I've never killed anybody before. What do I do? I'm not going to fuck around. What do I do?
Ben: Just sit down and relax.
Mya Denton: [getting dressed] I can't relax, Ben. I've never done this before. I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know how to do this. I don't know how to do this.
Ben: First, you just breathe, and then realize that it's okay.
Mya Denton: It's okay, what we're doing?
Ben: Do you love your husband?
Mya Denton: [after a long pause] It doesn't matter.
Mya Denton: [getting dressed] I can't relax, Ben. I've never done this before. I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know how to do this. I don't know how to do this.
Ben: First, you just breathe, and then realize that it's okay.
Mya Denton: It's okay, what we're doing?
Ben: Do you love your husband?
Mya Denton: [after a long pause] It doesn't matter.
Lewis Denton: Thank god you're alive. Wait, do you have it? Are you crazy?
[Mya shakes her head]
Lewis Denton: Look, I know you left me in the chair because you thought I lost it, but I didn't. I saw your car outside and I thought the worst happened. I thought that one of those people had gotten you and taken you away from me. They can't get to you. No one can get to you.
[Mya shakes her head]
Lewis Denton: Look, I know you left me in the chair because you thought I lost it, but I didn't. I saw your car outside and I thought the worst happened. I thought that one of those people had gotten you and taken you away from me. They can't get to you. No one can get to you.
Jim Parsons: I went to a party last year. Everybody started kissing each other, you know, at midnight. The tradition. How'd that start? Everyone starts kissing each other, and I had no one else to kiss, so I just as a joke kissed the dog. But then I realized when I got home that I made out with a dog for my New Years. It's wrong.
Rod: I pull the fire alarm. I don't know why. Maybe somebody will come. Maybe they won't. Maybe they're screwed up too. So I fight my way to the roof; gotta see the big picture. One's gotta know, I have to know, right? And I see it in the streets, all of Terminus. It's happening everywhere. People going crazy in their head all over. At first, it's just murder. The crazy you know kill anybody, everybody, each other, indiscriminate. It looks like chaos. But then I realize they're thinking. Then I get really scared because it's rational. They know what they're doing. I mean, they think it makes sense, but it doesn't make any sense. It's different for everybody. Let me tell you, they are going to fucking murder the world. And I'm thinking they all gotta die. I mean, but I can't kill them all. I'm thinking that there's too many. Maybe I'll run, but run where? Thinking... then I get hit in the head.
[turns head to show wound]
Rod: Is this bad?
Mya Denton: You'll be fine.
Rod: Fucker has a hammer. I have a hammer going through my head! So I smash his face... and I realize he's not crazy. He thinks I'm crazy. I'm not crazy. He's hurt really bad, so I finish him. I taped up twelve people last night. All of them had been killed by morning... all but Lewis. What do I do?
[turns head to show wound]
Rod: Is this bad?
Mya Denton: You'll be fine.
Rod: Fucker has a hammer. I have a hammer going through my head! So I smash his face... and I realize he's not crazy. He thinks I'm crazy. I'm not crazy. He's hurt really bad, so I finish him. I taped up twelve people last night. All of them had been killed by morning... all but Lewis. What do I do?
Ben: Listen to me. The car, the one that's wrecked, the one's that outside. The girl inside of it... where did she go?
Clark: I told you already!
Ben: Not me, that wasn't me. We've got to find her.
Clark: I don't know. I don't know. Maybe he knows.
[Clark points towards a decapitated head on the floor]
Clark: He was with her!
Ben: Man, he's not gonna be able to talk to us!
Clark: I told you already!
Ben: Not me, that wasn't me. We've got to find her.
Clark: I don't know. I don't know. Maybe he knows.
[Clark points towards a decapitated head on the floor]
Clark: He was with her!
Ben: Man, he's not gonna be able to talk to us!
Lewis Denton: The TV must've gotten into his head and told him to kill you.
Anna: Yeah, that's what happened to Ken. He was watching TV and it made him go bad.
[two people run from a man chasing them with a chainsaw in the background]
Clark: This is without a doubt the most fucked up day in the history of mankind. We should go back inside.
Anna: [cheerful] Who wants cocktails?
Anna: Yeah, that's what happened to Ken. He was watching TV and it made him go bad.
[two people run from a man chasing them with a chainsaw in the background]
Clark: This is without a doubt the most fucked up day in the history of mankind. We should go back inside.
Anna: [cheerful] Who wants cocktails?
Lewis Denton: What do you have here?
Clark: [whimper] it's Ken... napping.
Lewis Denton: He looks dead.
Anna: He is.
Lewis Denton: I see. Who did this?
Anna: I did. I didn't want to!
Lewis Denton: You killed him?
Anna: Well, Clark killed somebody too!
Clark: I did no- I did... but it was self-defense!
[cut to Clark's apartment with the three looking down at Rod's dead body]
Anna: You chopped his head off!
Lewis Denton: He had it coming... probably. These are wild times.
Clark: [whimper] it's Ken... napping.
Lewis Denton: He looks dead.
Anna: He is.
Lewis Denton: I see. Who did this?
Anna: I did. I didn't want to!
Lewis Denton: You killed him?
Anna: Well, Clark killed somebody too!
Clark: I did no- I did... but it was self-defense!
[cut to Clark's apartment with the three looking down at Rod's dead body]
Anna: You chopped his head off!
Lewis Denton: He had it coming... probably. These are wild times.
Ben: Clark, I don't know who or what started it, but we all sure as shit signed up for it. We made ourselves vulnerable. When Mya left last night, I turned the TV back on and there it was. It was replacing my thoughts. But then the sun came up. I see it. It's a lie. The signal; it's a trick. Change the way you look at things, the things you look at will change.
Ben: Listen to me. Do you hear that? Listen. It's past the noise in your head. That is the natural world. That has been here a long time before us. It's going to be here a long time after we're gone. That is real. And that is what we focus on.
Clark: Past the noise...
Ben: Yeah.
Clark: [laughing] This calls for a radical reassessment of all the facts.
Clark: Past the noise...
Ben: Yeah.
Clark: [laughing] This calls for a radical reassessment of all the facts.
Lewis Denton: You don't know what you're saying.
Ben: No, you don't know what you're saying. That TV got in your brain and has distorted your perception.
Lewis Denton: I'm not crazy like those others.
Ben: No man, you're much worse off, because you don't even realize what's happening to you. You don't even know. Your wife left you, alone, tied to a chair, helpless so the world can take your life and the savages can feast on your bloody remains.
Ben: No, you don't know what you're saying. That TV got in your brain and has distorted your perception.
Lewis Denton: I'm not crazy like those others.
Ben: No man, you're much worse off, because you don't even realize what's happening to you. You don't even know. Your wife left you, alone, tied to a chair, helpless so the world can take your life and the savages can feast on your bloody remains.
Anna: [doorbell rings] Party guests!
Clark: Act natural.
[Anna and Lewis line up behind Clark at the door with weapons ready]
Laura: You gotta help me! My mom is trying to kill me and so I ran over her in the car and my dad was in the house and he made the dog die because he tried to bite me and I left in the car and I didn't know where to go and I remembered that Anna and Ken lived here and I'm Laura.
Anna: Laura!
Laura: Anna!
[Laura pushes her way into the apartment past Clark]
Clark: [Lewis smacks Laura in the head with the pesticide can, knocking her down] What the Fuck?
[Lewis continues to beat Laura to death]
Anna: You killed Laura!
Lewis Denton: She was coming at you!
Anna: Stay away from me! You killed Laura!
Lewis Denton: She was heading straight for you with that knife!
Anna: She doesn't have a knife!
Clark: That's a keychain...
Clark: Act natural.
[Anna and Lewis line up behind Clark at the door with weapons ready]
Laura: You gotta help me! My mom is trying to kill me and so I ran over her in the car and my dad was in the house and he made the dog die because he tried to bite me and I left in the car and I didn't know where to go and I remembered that Anna and Ken lived here and I'm Laura.
Anna: Laura!
Laura: Anna!
[Laura pushes her way into the apartment past Clark]
Clark: [Lewis smacks Laura in the head with the pesticide can, knocking her down] What the Fuck?
[Lewis continues to beat Laura to death]
Anna: You killed Laura!
Lewis Denton: She was coming at you!
Anna: Stay away from me! You killed Laura!
Lewis Denton: She was heading straight for you with that knife!
Anna: She doesn't have a knife!
Clark: That's a keychain...
