Jack Belicec We can't let you go. You're dangerous to us. Don't fight it, Miles, it's no use. Sooner or later, you'll have to go to sleep.
Played by King Donovan 
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) · 31 quotes
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) · 31 quotes
Tied for 3rd most-quoted character in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956): in 5 of its 31 quotes
Most scenes with: Dr. Miles Bennell (3), Dr. Kauffman (2)
It's like the first impression that's stamped on a coin. It isn't finished.
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3 scenes Jack Stop trying to rationalize everything, will ya? Let's face it, we have a mystery on our hands!
Sure you have. A real one! Whose body was it and where is it now? A completely normal mystery. Whatever it is, it's well within the bounds of human experience and I don't think you ought to make any more of it.
Look, I wouldn't if I hadn't looked in Becky's cellar! How do you explain away the body I saw there?
I don't think you saw one there.
You don't think I saw one here either?
I know you did because three others saw it too.
But I dreamed up the second one?
Doctors can have hallucinations too.
Jack What are you going to do?
Get help. I hope whatever's taking place is confined to Santa Mira! [picks up the phone] Operator. This is Dr. Bennell. This is an emergency. I want to talk to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Los Angeles.
Can you convince them?
I've got to.
Where did they come from?
So much has been discovered these past few years. Anything is possible. Maybe the results of atomic radiation on plant life or animal life...some weird alien organism, a mutation of some kind.
Why should they take the form of people--of us?
I don't know. Whatever it is...whatever intelligence or instinct it is that can govern the forming of human flesh and blood out of thin air is...well, it's fantastically powerful, beyond any comprehension, malignant. All that body in your cellar needed was a mind, and it was...
And it was taking mine while I was asleep.
We can't let you go. You're dangerous to us.
Jack Don't fight it, Miles, it's no use. Sooner or later, you'll have to go to sleep.
Miles, you and I are scientific men. You can understand the wonder of what’s happening. Now just think, less than a month ago, Santa Mira was like any other town. People with nothing but problems. Then, out of the sky came a solution. Seeds drifting through space for years took root in a farmer's field. From the seeds came pods which had the power to reproduce themselves in the exact likeness of any form of life.
So that's how it began...out of the sky.
Your new bodies are growing in there. They're taking you over cell for cell, atom for atom. There is no pain. Suddenly, while you're asleep, they'll absorb your minds, your memories and you're reborn into an untroubled world.
Where everyone's the same?
Exactly.
What a world. We're not the last humans left. They'll destroy you!
Tomorrow you won't want them to. Tomorrow you'll be one of us.
I love Becky. Tomorrow will I feel the same?
No emotion? Then you have no feelings, only the instinct to survive. You can't love or be loved! Am I right?
You say it as if it were terrible. Believe me, it isn't. You've been in love before. It didn't last. It never does. Love. Desire. Ambition. Faith. Without them, life is so simple, believe me.
I don't want any part of it.
You're forgetting something, Miles.
What's that?
You have no choice.