2nd most-quoted character in The Fly (1986): in 7 of its 13 quotes
Most scenes with: Seth Brundle (7)
Scenes with Veronica
7 scenes
Veronica [After sending a baboon through the telepods, only to have it emerge as a bloody, malformed mess] [recording him with a camera]
We've gotta do this, Seth. Talk to the tape. Get in the habit. The world will want to know what you're thinking--
[angrily]
"****" is what I'm thinking!
Veronica Good... The world will want to know that... What else? Why didn't it work?
[more calmly]
I think it turned the baboon inside-out.
Veronica Why?
It can't cope with the flesh. It only seems to work on inanimate objects; nothing that's living. Must be my fault.
Veronica Why?
Computers are dumb. They only know what you tell them. I must not know enough about the flesh myself. I'm gonna have to learn. [is silent for a moment] I don't wanna talk now.
[Ronnie turns off the camera and sadly watches him leave]
Listen. I want you to go through. I want to teleport you. As soon as possible, right now! You'll feel incredible, Ronnie! I hardly need to sleep any more, I feel wonderful! It's like a drug, but a perfectly pure and benign drug! The power I feel surging inside me...! And I won't be able to wear you out! We'll be the perfect couple, the dynamic duo! Come on, right now!
Veronica Hey, wait! Don't give me that "born-again teleportation" rap! I told you I was scared to do it. What do I have to say?! I'M NOT GOING TO DO IT!
You're a **** DRAG, you know that?!
Veronica Something went wrong, Seth. When you went through, something went wrong.
[After Seth teleports again] [To Tawny]
Okay, okay! Now you're going to like it!
T Tawny
I don't want to! [Seth drags Tawny to the lab] I'm afraid!
Veronica [Surprising them]
No. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Veronica Those weird hairs growing out of your back, I took them to a lab. I had them analyzed.
The hairs? The hairs? Oh. Yeah, that’s a strange thing to do.
Veronica Not as strange as the results. The guy at the lab had trouble identifying them. He finally came to the conclusion that they were definitely not human.
[points upwards]
Oh, very good.
Veronica Not human, Seth. In fact, very likely insect hairs.
[scared; in denial]
That's silly, that's ridiculous--
Veronica Look, now there's more. Look at your face... Something happened when you went through, Seth. You've got to get some help, I think you must be sick--
[exploding]
YOU'RE JEALOUS!! I've become free, I've been released and you can't stand it! You'll do anything to bring me down! Come here, does this look sick? Does this look like a sick man to you?
Veronica [Seth starts punching and denting the wall with his bare hands]
No, stop it!
Know any sick man who can do that?!
[At Brundle's lab, Veronica finds him scaling the walls]
I seem to be stricken by a disease with a purpose, wouldn't you say? Maybe not such a bad disease after all.
Veronica I can't stay here.
[jumps down onto floor]
No, no, no! Why not? Why can't you?
Veronica I can't take it... It's too much.
What's there to take? The disease has just revealed its purpose. We don't have to worry about contagion anymore, I know what the disease wants.
Veronica What does the disease want?
It wants to...turn me into something else. That's not too terrible, is it? Most people would give anything to be turned into something else.
Veronica Turned into what?
What do you think, a fly? Am I becoming a hundred-and-eighty-five pound fly? No, I'm becoming something that's never existed before. I'm becoming... Brundlefly. Don't you think that's worth a Nobel Prize or two?
[Seth is in the final stages of the transformation]
You have to leave now, and never come back here. Have you ever heard of insect politics? [Veronica shakes her head] Neither have I. Insects don't have politics. They're very brutal. No compassion, no compromise. We can't trust the insect. I'd like to become the first insect politician. Y'see, I'd like to, but...I'm afraid... [groans]
Veronica I don't know what you're trying to say!
I'm saying... I'm saying I-I'm an insect who dreamt he was a man, and loved it. But now the dream is over...and the insect is awake.
Veronica No, no, Seth...
I'm saying...I'll hurt you if you stay.
Help me. Help me be human.
Veronica How?
[indicating the appropriate telepods]
Well, I go there, and you go there. We come apart, and then we come together there. You, me and the baby. Together. [starts the countdown]
Veronica No...
We'll be the ultimate family. A family of three, joined together in one body. More human than I am alone.
Veronica No!!
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