Jim [Believing Jim to be infected, Selena tries to kill him, but hestitates; Jim's response:]
That was longer than a heartbeat.
Most-quoted character in 28 Days Later (2002): in 25 of its 66 quotes
Most scenes with: Selena (13), Major Henry West (4), Mark (3)
No, no. No, this is really a shit idea. You know why? Because this is really, obviously a shit idea.
More lines from Jim
7 quotes Jim Jim Oh, great. Valium. Not only will we be able to go to sleep — if we get attacked in the middle of the night, we won't even care.
Jim [Walk through the empty streets of London:]
Hello?!
Jim There's always a government! They're in a, a bunker, or a plane!
Jim Please tell me what the **** is going on!
Jim What is it about tower blocks and shopping trolleys, huh?
Jim Listen to me, listen to me! It's not all ****...
Scenes with Jim
17 scenes
A man walks into a bar with a giraffe. They both get pissed. The giraffe falls over. The man goes to leave and the barman says, "Oi. You can't leave that lyin' there." And the man says, "No. It's not a lion. It's a giraffe."
So who are you? You're from the hospital.
Are you a doctor?
He's not a doctor he's a patient.
Jim I'm a bicycle courier. I was riding a package from Farringdon to Shaftesbury Avenue and a car cut across me. And I wake up today in hospital. I wake up and I'm... I'm hallucinating or I'm...
What's your name?
Jim Jim.
I'm Mark. This is Selena. Ok, Jim. I've got some bad news.
Jim What about the government? What are they doing?
There's no government.
Jim Of course there's a government! There's always a government! They're in a, a bunker or a plane.
No. There's no government. No army. No police. No TV, no radio, no electricity. You're the first uninfected person we've seen in six days.
Jim [Jim wants to go and look for his parents.]
Look, I have to find them. They live in Deptford. I can walk it, okay?
What, you'll go and come back, yeah?
Jim Yes!
You won't! No one ever comes back.
So, lesson one: you never go anywhere alone unless you've got no choice. Lesson two: only travel during daylight unless you've got no choice. We'll take you tomorrow. We'll all go and find your dead parents together, okay?
Jim [Shortly after Selena has killed the newly infected Mark.]
How did you know? I mean, how did you know he was infected?
The blood.
Jim Yeah... but there was blood everywhere. It was on me, it was on you —
Look, I didn't know he was infected, okay? He knew. I could see it in his face. Look, if someone gets infected you've got between ten and twenty seconds to kill them. It might be your brother or your sister or your oldest friend. It makes no difference. And just so you know where you stand — if it happens to you, I'll do it in a heartbeat.
What's up?
Jim Nothing. Got a headache.
Bad?
Jim Yeah, it's pretty bad.
Well, why didn't you say anything before?
Jim Well, because I didn't think you'd give a shit.
Jim [Selena and Jim are staying at the flat of an uninfected father and daughter.]
So, what do you make of them?
Well, they're desperate. Probably need us more than we need them.
Jim I think they're good people.
Good people?
Jim Yeah.
Well, that's nice. but you should be more concerned about whether or not they're gonna slow you down.
Jim Right. Because if they slowed you down —
I'd leave them behind.
Jim In a heartbeat.
Yeah.
Jim I wouldn't.
Then you're gonna wind up getting yourself killed.
Jim You think I don't get it, but, um, I do get it. And I know I'd be dead already if I hadn't met you.
Sure.
Jim No, look... I mean, thank you.
And I mean "sure."
Jim [Everyone has trouble sleeping — except Selena, already fast asleep.] [shaking Selena's shoulder]
Hey, Selena!
Jim How did you get to sleep?
Jim Do you know what I was thinking?
You were thinking that you'll never hear another piece of original music, ever again. You'll never read a book that hasn't already been written or see a film that hasn't already been shot.
Jim Um, that's what you were thinking.
No. I was thinking I was wrong.
Jim About what?
All the death, all the shit, it doesn't really matter to Frank and Hannah, because... well, she's got a dad and he's got his daughter. So I was wrong when I said staying alive is as good as it gets.
Jim See, that's what I was thinking.
Was it?
Jim Mm-hmm. You stole my thought.
Jim It's okay. You keep it.
[The group has been taken in by the soldiers responsible for the radio transmission.]
So, you heard our broadcast.
Jim Yeah, we did.
We must be a disappointment. You were hoping for a full brigade. An army base, with helicopters and a field hospital.
Jim I was just, uh, hoping for —
"The answer to infection."
Jim Yeah.
Well, as I said before, it's here... though it may not be quite what you imagined.
Jim Just feel very lucky to have found you.
You were lucky. The fire drove hundreds of infected out of Manchester. The surrounding area is teeming with them. But don't worry- you're quite safe here.
[West brings Jim to the infected soldier Mailer, kept chained in the yard.]
Got infected two days ago. Mitchell managed to knock him out cold, and we got a chain around his neck.
Jim You're keeping him alive?
The idea was to learn more about infection. Have him teach me.
Jim And... has he?
In a way. [he kneels near Mailer, inducing a fit of groaning and thrashing] He's telling me he'll never bake bread, plant crops, raise livestock. He's telling me he's futureless. And eventually, he'll tell me how long the infected take to starve to death.
Jim [After Frank has been killed, referring to Hannah.]
How is she?
Jim [Selena is crying.]
Hey, don't do that. Look, Hannah is what Frank said she is. She's tough and she's strong. And she'll cope, just like I'll cope and just like you'll cope.
I don't want her to have to **** cope! I want her to be okay.
I promised them women.
Jim What?
Eight days ago, I found Jones with his gun in his mouth. He said he was going to kill himself because there was no future. What could I say to him? We fight off the infected or we wait until they starve to death... and then what? What do nine men do except wait to die themselves? I moved us from the blockade, and I set the radio broadcasting, and I promised them women. Because women mean a future.
[Hannah, seeing Jim and Selena in a clinch, rushes in and breaks a bottle on Jim's head.]
Hannah! It's okay. He's not infected.
But I thought he was biting you.
Jim I was kissing her! Are you stoned?
It's a long story.
We've got enough food, Jim.
Jim We don't have any cheeseburgers. [to himself] Like going on holiday with your ****in' aunt...
Who have you killed?
Jim What?
Since it began, who have you killed? You wouldn't be alive right now if you hadn't killed somebody.
Jim I killed... I killed a boy.
A child?
Jim Yeah.
But you had to kill him. Otherwise he'd have killed you. Survival. I understand. I promised them women.
Jim What?
Eight days ago, I found Jones with his gun in his mouth. He said he was going to kill himself because there was no future. What could I say to him? We fight off the infected or we wait until they starve to death, and then what? What do nine men do except wait to die themselves? I moved us from the blockade, I set the radio broadcasting and I promised them women. Because women mean a future.
