Enemy Mine 1985 quotes, page 2

Willis E. Davidge

What's wrong?

Jeriba Shigan

Zammis... is coming.

Willis E. Davidge

Oh, God. God... What do I do?

Jeriba Shigan

I don't know. Something... is wrong.

Willis E. Davidge

Oh, no. No, no. No, no, no. No. You're gonna be all right. Women always get nervous before labour.

Jeriba Shigan

I am not a woman!

Willis E. Davidge

But pregnant people... things... get nervous. Everybody gets nervous before labour! Besides, if anything happened to you, I'd be left here all alone. Huh? Just because business has been slow lately, you expect me to run the whole place alone?

Jeriba Shigan

You... are alone. Within yourself,... you are alone. That is why you humans... have separated your sexes into two separate halves. For the joy of that... brief union.

Willis E. Davidge

You saved my life. Why?

Jeriba Shigan

Maybe I need to look at another face, even as ugly as yours.

Willis E. Davidge

So you still think humans are ugly, huh?

Jeriba Shigan

Compared to a Drac, very ugly. But that thing out there, it's even more ugly than you.

Willis E. Davidge

Thank you.

Jeriba Shigan

You are welcome.

Willis E. Davidge

You think we really are alone out here?

Jeriba Shigan

Of course... we are alone.

Willis E. Davidge

I don't know. I had that dream again. There's this big ship in my dream. It's so loud, I wake up. But then I can still hear it.

Jeriba Shigan

It was a dream.

Willis E. Davidge

I don't know. Maybe. But I do know if we stay here, we die. Sooner or later we'll die. If this planet don't kill us, we're gonna kill each other.

I have never seen a Drac. Only my own face in the water. I wish I was not a Drac. I wish I had your face.

Willis E. Davidge

Oh, Zammis.

I wish I had five fingers.

Willis E. Davidge

Oh, Zammis. Zammis. Listen to me. Listen to me. Now, as Dracs go, you are a great-looking kid. You are a great-looking kid.

Yeah?

Willis E. Davidge

Yeah. It's just that... you've never seen your own kind. Now, someday you're gonna go home... and you're gonna forget all about this God-awful planet and all about me.

I will never forget you, Uncle.

Willis E. Davidge

No, I guess you won't. I won't forget you either.

Uncle? What was my parent like?

Willis E. Davidge

Zammis,... your parent... was my friend.

Narrator

And so Davidge brought Zammis and the Dracs home. He fulfilled his vow and recited the line of Zammis' forfathers before the Holy Council on Dracon. And when, in the fullness of time, Zammis brought its own child before the Holy Council, the name of Willis Davidge was added to the line of Jeriba.

Willis E. Davidge

Any chance is better than no chance.

Willis E. Davidge

By late in the 21st century the nations of the Earth were finally at peace, working together to explore and colonise the distant reaches of space. Unfortunately, we weren't alone out there. A race of nonhuman aliens called the Dracs were claiming squatters' rights to some of the richest star systems in the galaxy. Well, they weren't gonna get it without a fight. Space was the new battleground. For many of us, Earth became a precious memory light years away. Our only home was a fortress in space. As in any war, there were long periods with nothing to do but wait. And then...

Willis E. Davidge

God, Jerry,... what am I supposed to do now, huh? You taught me all about the Talman and the line of Jeriba. But you didn't say nothin' about taking care of baby Dracs!

Willis E. Davidge

I guess he was an ugly little cuss,... but no uglier than the pictures of those other kids that were shown around the mess hall.

Willis E. Davidge

It's funny, but I'd never actually seen a Drac. I knew they were completely inhuman. Not even male or female, but both, bundled together in a scaly, reptilian body.

Willis E. Davidge

Maybe we should open up a little place here. I could ruin the food. You could frighten the customers.

Willis E. Davidge

What I'd been hearing at night was the scavenger ship. The scavengers were human all right. Barely human. They were outlaw miners who raped whole planets for precious ores. They hunted Dracs for slave labour, so we tolerated them.