28 Years Later (2025) quotes

View Quote Dr. Kelson: Your feelings of confusion -- do they feel like episodes, phases, or does it feel more constant?
Isla: It was waves, but... I think the tide's coming.

View Quote Erik Sundqvist: You can't help me? Why the **** did I help you, huh?! I could've saved my bullets!

View Quote Erik: My best friend from school, he's a delivery driver? Ah, you don't know what a delivery driver is -- he, um... delivers packages. Y'know, people order stuff online? I bet you don't know what "online" is. Uh, it doesn't matter. He's a-- He's a driver. And I told him "You're wasting your life, Felix. You only get one life and you're pissing it away! And he said, "Yeah, what are you gonna do, ****nuts?" So I joined the Navy to prove a point. Now who's pissing away their life, huh?
Spike: I don't understand what you're saying.
Erik: I'm saying I should've been a delivery driver. Right now, I'd be stuck in traffic somewhere, driving too fast down a narrow street or something.

View Quote Erik: Right! Put it down. Put it! Down!
Isla: It's a baby!
Erik: It's a **** zombie baby!

View Quote Isla: Who are you?
Erik: I'm Erik. And this is your father, Spike.
Isla: What?
Spike: He's just being silly, mum.
Isla: He's being a dick.

View Quote Jamie: Looks like he got tied up and left for the infected. And now he's infected.
Spike: He's infected?!
Jamie: Aye.
Spike: Why would anyone do that?!
Jamie: Maybe a punishment. Maybe a warning. There are strange people on the mainland, roaming. That's why our home is so precious.
Spike: Is that the lesson?
Jamie: No. [regarding the infected:] Kill it.

View Quote Opening Crawl: The Rage Virus laid waste to the UK. It was driven back from continental Europe. The British mainland was quarantined to maintain the virus. Survivors were left to fend for themselves. 28 years later...

View Quote Sam: Oh! Spike! Didn't expect to see you until past midnight.
Spike: Just came to see me mum. How is she? She alright?
Sam: She's better than alright -- we were up and about! We walked over the fields. She's got a lot of life in her when she's not having a turn. But what about your day, eh? More to the point.
Spike: Dad's making it up as something it's not.
Sam: Like what?
Spike: Like I'm a hero.
Sam: Yes, but you are to him.
Spike: It feels like he's lying.

View Quote Sir Jimmy Crystal: Hello. My name's Jimmy. Let's be pals.

View Quote Sir Jimmy Crystal: Ho! Wonderful shot! It was real poetry. Though... I think there's a few too many coming now, even for a fine young warrior like yourself. Would you mind if we stepped in? It would be our pleasure.

View Quote Spike: Get the **** away from us!
Jamie: From us?
Spike You heard us. Just go away, Dad.

View Quote Spike: I can't go back now, Dad.
Jamie: Why?
Spike: Everyone'll think I'm soft.
Jamie: Ah, they will. Can't have that, can we? C'mon, then.

View Quote Spike: What's that?
Dr. Kelson: Heh! I've been... I've been waiting almost thirteen years for someone to ask that question. I often thought I would die here, alone of age or starvation or violence, never having had the chance to reply. Do you know the words "memento mori"?
Spike: No.
Dr. Kelson: It's Latin. Ironically, it's a dead language. It means "Remember death. Remember you must die."

View Quote Young Jimmy: Dad! Dad! Dad -- Dad, what's happening?
Vicar: Nothing that hasn't been most perfectly foretold.
Young Jimmy: I'm so scared, Dad. Aye, Mum's just-- Mum is dead!
Vicar: Ah, no, son. Not dead. Saved. This is a glorious day. A day of judgement.
[From outside, a horde of infected approach. The vicar removes his cross from around his neck.]
Vicar: Here, my son. Keep this with you, always. Have faith.
[After a beat of silence, the Infected burst in, enroaching upon Jimmy's father who stays kneeling in the middle of his church.]
Vicar: Yes! YES, MY CHILDREN! YES!!!

View Quote Young Jimmy: Father! Why have you forsaken me?