Well, that's magic, folks — and that's why I'm here.
Cris Johnson
Nicolas Cage · 14 quotes
Liz Cooper
Jessica Biel · 9 quotes
Agent Callie Ferris
Julianne Moore · 5 quotes
Most scenes together: Cris Johnson & Liz Cooper (7), Cris Johnson & Agent Callie Ferris (2)
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Page 1 of 2You are odd. Charming — but odd.
I'm sure you know why I'm here. Because you're the man who knows what I'm going to do before I do it, right?
[puzzled a moment by her assertion]
Oh — the show. Right. Right! I saw you there. Wonderful. You like magic tricks.
Yeah. Yeah, I do like your magic tricks, clairvoyance… whatever you're calling it. Let's talk about something hard. A stolen nuclear munition is being smuggled into the United States, or may, in fact, already be here. I want you to look ahead and tell me where it's going to be deployed.
Uh... I think you've got the wrong guy. It's a magic act.
You going to stick with that story? Because millions of lives are at risk and you could, maybe, prevent a major catastrophe. On a practical note: we're standing in front of a stolen vehicle and you're wanted for assault involving a weapon at the casino.
All right — that was an accident. He had a gun. He was going to shoot two people.
Yeah? How'd you know that?
No good deed goes unpunished, does it?
I can fix your legal problems, buddy, but you've got to step up. Otherwise, your next magic show is going to be at Folsom State Prison.
It's ironic, but people like you, who try to "help", have been torturing me, in the full sense of the word, since I was three years old. What did they call it? Oh, yeah. Observed play therapy. Featuring, the marathon 36-hour, can-you-guess-the-next-flash-card game. So, please, leave me alone and let me live some semblance of a normal life.
I'd love to indulge your feelings, but I am dealing with a slightly larger picture right now. Now you can exercise your responsibility to help your fellow man or I will exercise that responsibility for you.
What was?
This.[kisses her]
It's amazing isn't it? I end up in a diner where you are, and were both headed in the same direction.
Well, I don't know if I'd call it amazing but…
Destiny. That's what it really is.
Okay… I'm starting to get that "psycho vibe."
Oh, no. You don’t believe in destiny?
Well, even if it does exist, I don't think I want to know. If every move we make is preordained, then what's the point in that? I mean, life is supposed to be a surprise. Isn't it?
It would be nice.
The man in that casino would have killed two people. It happened. It just hadn't happened yet.
Oh my God. You are delusional.
There's an Italian painter, named Carletti, and, uh, ahem , he defined beauty. He said it was the summation of the parts working together in such a way that nothing needed to be added, taken away or altered, and that's you. You're beautiful.
Wow.
There's something I've got to do. I can't put it off any longer.
Are you coming back?
Yeah. It might be a week, or a month. But if you can wait, I'll find you.
You're going to be okay Liz.
Mr. Smith Back off!
I've seen every possible ending here. None of them are good for you.
Mr. Smith I'll take my chances. One more step, fortuneteller, and it definitely won't be good for you.
[steps forward through multiple manifestations of experiential awareness of potential events, till Smith's gun is empty]
You have one way out of this. [Smith holds up the detonator; Ferris shoots it out of his hand] That wasn't it.
Director Wisdom I need actionable intelligence, not paranormals and bullshit magicians.
With all due respect, sir. This bullshit magician's shown a pattern of advanced awareness that is statistically impossible. You let me bring him in and you'll get what you want.
[as Cris demonstrates his precognitive abilities by switching TV channels, saying beforehand what will be said on each channel]
How are you doing this?
I have no idea how, but I can. I was born with it.
Is this some kind of a trick?
You know we don’t have time for that. You said anything was possible.
So you see things before they happen? You see the future?
My future. What'll effect me — and only two minutes ahead. Except you. For some reason I saw you. For some reason I saw you far beyond anything I'd ever seen before, and I don’t know why.
I don't understand. If you can help them why don't you?
Because I can't. I can only give them a two minute head start. And that's if my life is personally involved.
But with me you can see further.
Yeah. But they don't know that. [suddenly moves back, takes an envelope from his jacket] There's almost ten thousand dollars in this envelope. They know about you. You need to get away from here.
Irv [Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) TV show]
Oh, no! Who's watching ninja turtles?! Honey, who's watching the ninja turtles.
Don’t drink that! It's drugged. Oh God. I don’t know what I'm doing. I have no idea what I'm doing. Some federal agent came up to me and said that you were a delusional sociopath, and showed me this tape — so maybe you are. But I don’t want to believe that. I don’t think I can believe that. And she also said that if you ran, they would shoot you. So I should drug you instead. Even if what they said is true, I don't want you to die. I don't want you to die.
He's gone right? I missed him by seconds, didn't I?