A scene from Phenomenon 1996
Banes

[George goes to the bar after his tests]

What did they find out?

George

I'm pregnant. That's how it feels. [Roger smirks]

Roger

How what feels?

George

Yeah, you know, to be full of ideas and you can't deliver, okay? I mean, you know, you're ready to break out and you can't deliver. You know, uh, this professor, he won't even talk to me. He won't even talk to me.

Nate Pope

You're not going to Berkeley, George?

George

Oh, come on. Me, at Berkeley? That's a thought, huh?

Nate

I'm sorry, buddy.

Jimmy

You mean, inventions? You got inventions?

George

No, no. Ideas, okay? I get a thousand ideas a day, every d-damn minute. Okay? I got big, big, holy cow kind of ideas and, and little what if ideas. All right? Hey, I got ideas for you, Jimmy. Look at this. Look at this. Your parking lot- [shows papers] it's laid out all wrong, okay? Now, if you just follow this, right, you can put six more cars in and no one gets fender benders. All right? Where's Paulette? Where is she? Bonnie, here. Take this. [slides papers to her] This is a new route for our mail. Okay? Now, if she does this, she can save an hour a day and everybody gets their mail by three o'clock. Imagine, three o'clock. Oh, and l got a holy shit idea too. Look at this. [shows Jimmy diagram on legal pad] Now this may be the most efficient way to store solar energy. Okay? Take it.

Jimmy

Well, what am I gonna do with it?

George

What the hell am I supposed to do with it, huh? You know what that light was? You know what that sound was?

Jimmy

Tell us.

George

I'm gonna tell you what it was.

Jimmy

Well, tell us!

Banes

It was a damn alien.

Nate

Don't say that. You don't know what it was.

George

I know what it is, Nate.

Nate

You don't know what it was. Don't say that.

Jimmy

Well, tell us!

George

It's a GODDAMN mistake, is what it is! Okay? It was supposed to happen to someone smart, someone that's scientific, someone who is a leader. But it didn't. It happened to me, George freakin' Malley. Look at him. Now look at him. Look! [his psychic powers slightly break the glass panel at the bar and Jimmy heads for cover]

In this scene

Banes Sean O'Bryan
Jimmy Michael Milhoan
Nate Pope Forest Whitaker
Roger Troy Evans

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