Robert Thorn quotes from The Omen (2006)

Robert Thorn

What do you know about my son?

Robert Thorn

You want me to stab a child. A little boy. Can't you see how insane that is? It isn't real, Keith. There is no devil, there is no God—there is only here and now and life. And that is something I would never take away from any man, certainly not my own son.

Robert Thorn

Is she all right?

Father Spiletto

She is resting.

Robert Thorn

And the child?

Father Spiletto

The child is dead. She doesn't know.

Robert Thorn

It was... everything to her. A child.

Father Spiletto

Mr. Thorn... your wife, there was damage to the womb. She might not be able to...

Robert Thorn

She might not be able to what? [pause; staggers back and cries]

Father Spiletto

You love her very much. Then you must accept God's plan.

Robert Thorn

Very sorry. Send me the bill. I'll take care of it.

Keith Jennings

That's all right, Mr. Ambassador. Let's just say that you owe me one.

Robert Thorn

Father Brennan. Robert Thorn. What can I do for you?

Father Brennan

We haven't much time, Mr. Thorn.

Robert Thorn

Time for what?

Father Brennan

We must accept the Lord Jesus Christ as our Saviour. Accept him now. Ask for his forgiveness. Take Holy Communion, Mr. Thorn. Drink of his blood, eat of his flesh. For only when he is within you can you defeat the Devil's Son.

Robert Thorn

I'm sorry, Father. I--

Father Brennan

Accept responsibility, Mr. Thorn. You did it. You let them do it.

Robert Thorn

I think there's been some mistake, Father. If you'll excuse me...

Father Brennan

He's killed before. He'll kill again. He'll kill until everything that's yours is his.

Robert Thorn

Forgive me, Father, but I really should get back to work. Sorry. [Walks away]

Father Brennan

I was at the hospital, Mr. Thorn. [Robert stops.] The night your son was born. [Robert walks back] I... participated. I witnessed the birth. I beg of you, please, Mr. Thorn.

Robert Thorn

What do you want?

Father Brennan

I want to save you, Mr. Thorn. So Christ will save me and rescue me from Eternal Damnation.

Robert Thorn

What do you know about my son?

Father Brennan

Everything. I saw its mother.

Robert Thorn

You saw my wife.

Father Brennan

No. I saw its mother.

Robert Thorn

You're referring to my wife.

Father Brennan

Its mother, Mr. Thorn. Its mother.

Robert Thorn

Okay, that's enough. [to security guard] Sergeant!

Father Brennan

Its mother is a jackal!

Everything all right, Mr. Ambassador?

Robert Thorn

Yes, Travis. Please escort this man out of the building.

Father Brennan

We must accept the Lord Jesus each and every day, Mr. Thorn! Drink his blood! It is the only way, Mr. Thorn.

Robert Thorn

You've got five minutes. Now tell me why I'm here.

Father Brennan

"When the Jews return to Zion, When a comet rips the sky, When the Holy Roman Empire rises, Then you and I must die. From the Eternal Sea, He rises, creating armies on either shore, turning man against his brother, till man exists no more."

Robert Thorn

You said my wife is in danger.

Father Brennan

Go to the town of Megiddo, in the walled city of Dezrahel, there lives an old man named Bugenhagen. He alone can describe how the child must die.

Robert Thorn

What child? What are you talking about?

Father Brennan

Your son, Mr. Thorn. The Son of the Devil.

Robert Thorn

I came here because you said my wife was in danger.

Father Brennan

She's pregnant.

Robert Thorn

That's impossible.

Father Brennan

That's what they told you, Mr. Thorn. He'll not allow the child to be born. He'll kill it while it slumbers in the womb. He'll kill the unborn child, and then he'll kill your wife. And then, when he is certain to inherit all that you have, then, Mr. Thorn, then... he'll kill you.

Robert Thorn

That's enough.

Father Brennan

He has to die, Mr. Thorn. You must act now or all will be lost. Go to the town of Megiddo. See Bugenhagen before it's too late.

Robert Thorn

Now you listen to me. I don't know who you are or what you want but you stay away from my family. Do you understand? I don't want to see or hear from you ever again. [Leaves]

Father Brennan

You'll see me in hell, Mr. Thorn. We'll spend eternity together.

Keith Jennings

You see anything unusual?

Robert Thorn

No.

Keith Jennings

Here, here. [points to a faint line behind the nanny's head that curves around her neck] There. I know. I didn't think much of anything of it either at first. Thought it was just a bad roll of film but then it happened again. [points to another picture of the nanny with the same line] You see? That's another roll. And the digital files. [brings up another picture of the nanny on a computer that has the same line] That's digital. That's another camera. [grabs another set of pictures] Our friend, Father Brennan. [shows a picture of Brennan with a blurry, pointed line aiming down at him] Here. And here's one of him I snapped ten days later.

Robert Thorn

Same thing.

Keith Jennings

Yeah. Only much more pronounced on this one. Actually making contact with the body. [picks up newspaper] The rest, as they say, is history. [pause] I know. I don't get it either. Which is why I started digging. [grabs folder] The coroner's report showed that Brennan was riddled with cancer. Said he was high on morphine most of the time, injected himself two or three times a day.

Robert Thorn

He knew he was dying.

Keith Jennings

Well, apparently.

Robert Thorn

He said... he wanted to be forgiven by Christ.

Keith Jennings

No atheists in foxholes, eh?

Bugenhagen

That little priest Brennan... is he dead yet?

Robert Thorn

Yes.

Bugenhagen

We have work to do. Come.

Bugenhagen

It must done on Hallowed Ground, in the grounds of a church. The blood must be spilt on the Altar of God. [takes one] Each knife must be buried up to the hilt and then set so as to form the sign of a cross. [hands it to Robert] The first knife is the most important, for it extinguishes physical life and sets the centre of a cross. The subsequent knives extinguish spiritual life and radiate outwards.

Robert Thorn

This is a child we're talking about. A small boy who I've raised as my own son.

Bugenhagen

He's not your son! He's a beast! A beast! He's evil incarnate! Now don't you forget that!

Robert Thorn

What if you're wrong? What if he isn't?

Bugenhagen

I'm not wrong!

Robert Thorn

How do I know that?

Bugenhagen

Look. He... bears a birthmark. A sequence of sixes. So says the Bible, as do all the apostles of Satan.

Robert Thorn

No. He doesn't have it.

Bugenhagen

He must have it!

Robert Thorn

I've bathed him. I've gone over every inch of his body. He doesn't have it.

Bugenhagen

If the sign isn't visible, then it must be hidden, beneath the hair. Remove that, you'll find the number.

Keith Jennings

What about the woman, the nanny?

Bugenhagen

Oh, she's an apostate of Hell. She'll die before permitting this.

Robert Thorn

No. No. [sets the knife down] It's insane. All of you- oh, my God! [runs out]

Bugenhagen

Look, don't lose your nerve now, man! We'll all be in the cesspool if you do!
[Jennings takes the daggers and runs out]

Keith Jennings

Stop! Thorn, stop! We can't walk away from this. What the **** did you think he was gonna say? Why else have we come here?

Robert Thorn

He's a drunk. An insane, delusional drunk, and just like every other religious fanatic thinks that arcane scriptures justify killing!

Keith Jennings

What about me?!

Robert Thorn

What about you?

Keith Jennings

What about the photographs?! What if I'm next?!

Robert Thorn

Listen to yourself. Do you have any idea what you're saying. Huh? You're asking me to stab a child. [Takes the knives] A little boy. Can't you see how insane that is? It's not real, Keith. There is no devil, there is no God, there is only here, and now, and life. And that is something I'm not taking away from any man, certainly not my own son. [Throws the knives into an alley]

Keith Jennings

Well, if you won't, I will.

Robert Thorn

Our Father, who art in Heaven. Hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, in earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread [cries]. And forgive us our trespasses, [Prepares the dagger] as we forgive them that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation...

Please, Daddy, don't.

Stop! [shoots]