A Friendly Man
You need to FORGET!
Telly Paretta
Julianne Moore · 12 quotes
Ash Correll
Dominic West · 5 quotes
Det. Anne Pope
Alfre Woodard · 2 quotes
Most scenes together: Telly Paretta & Ash Correll (3)
The Forgotten quotes
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Dr. Munce
How much time did you spend at the dresser compared to last week?
Less.
Dr. Munce
How much less?
I don't know exactly.
Dr. Munce
You wanna make a guess, roughly, for the week?
Oh, not even an hour a day.
Dr. Munce
Telly, you never had a son. Sometimes people go around and invent alternate lives, with imagined friends, and imagined families.
Stop it! Why are you doing this? I am not making him up!
Jim Paretta
My wife is delusional. She needs help.
Jim
I think it's great, you're starting to write again. What's your book going to be about?
Psychotic women, and the men who love them.
[Ash is hitting the NSA agaent they have strapped to a chair while questioning him for answers]
Don't do that!
What, this? [Ash hits him again]
At first I thought it had something to do with the plane crash. Remember when that TWA plane crashed over Long Island? Everybody thought it was a missile, friendly fire, or some type of government cover-up.
Yeah, I remember that.
But then I thought, you know, 'How could the government erase our memories?' It's just not possible. So...
What?
So you don't think I'm out of my mind?
I don't anymore.
I had a son, his name was Sam. You son-of-a-bitch!
I'm Telly. Sam's mom.
I'm Ash. I think we met before.
What have you done with him? Why did you take him? What do you want?
A Friendly Man
It's an experiment.
He's just a little boy. What could you possibly learn from him?
A Friendly Man
Nothing.
This wasn't about Sam. This wasn't about the children.
A Friendly Man
It was never about the children.
We were the experiment.
A Friendly Man
Your connection, mother to child. Like an invisible tissue. We can even measure its energy. But we don't fully understand it, so I posed the question: "Can it be dissolved?" And it can. Except for you.
Give me back my son and I'll do whatever you want.
A Friendly Man
What I want, Telly, is for you to forget your son. To forget Sam.
No.
A Friendly Man
If you don't, this experiment will fail. I'm accountable. I can't let that happen. And time is running out.
I won't help you.
A Friendly Man
There are worse things than forgetting.
No, there aren't.
A Friendly Man
You need to forget. You're different from the others.
Why?
A Friendly Man
It's better this way. You won't be haunted by his memory. You could have a life again. Now, I want you to go back to that first day in the hospital. To the first time you ever saw Sam. I need that first memory. Give me that first memory! That boy. What was his name?
What boy? I had life inside of me. I had life. I have a child. I have a son. I...have a son. His name is Sam, you son of a bitch.
Why did you change the picture? You replaced our book with an empty book. [shouts] You erased our son!
Jim
I didn't change anything! They were always blank!
Baseball is great. It's the only sport in the world that you can play while taking a nap.
Did we get married?
I had life inside me. I had life. I have a child. I have a son. I have a son, and his name is Sam, you son of a bitch.
Please tell me, no one will know that you spoke to us. I swear to you!