Novak Radzinsky quotes from Piranha 3D (2010)

Novak Radzinsky

Excuse me, but is that a **** piranha?

Novak

Excuse me... but is that a **** piranha?!

Julie Forester

Carl, it's not the only one.

Novak

Here, here. Yeah, look at this. There are thousands of them. Thousands. And they're pissed!

You know, I've heard of this happening. It's like those baby alligators in New Jersey, somebody leaves them and they breed...

Novak

What?

Nobody released this fish into the lake.

Julie Forester

What're you talking about?

This particular piranha vanished off the face of the Earth over 2 million years ago! [hurries to his office]

Novak

Um, where's he going?

Allow me...to introduce you...[shows the fossil] Pygocentrus nattereri, the original piranha. [Novak and Julie see the live piranha almost exactly matches the fossil] They used to swim the Colorado River, right up until the Pleistocene epoch! I still don't understand how you found one...alive!

Novak

We discovered a subterranean lake through a rift caused by the earthquake.

But, how could it have survived for so long, cut off from the surface?

CANNIBALISM. They must have fought each other to survive. [looks at the piranha] Look...oh, the scars on the scales. Notice the eyes.

Julie Forester

Jesus, it's like he's staring back at you.

No, no, no. Look, staring... sensing...[slowly lowers two tips of his fingers into the tank. The piranha rushes to bite them, Goodman pulls them away in the nick of time]

Novak

God, don't do that!

Piranha hunt in packs. Not for protection, but the overwhelming force. They're organized, methodical. The first bite draws blood, the blood draws the pack.

The piranhas that killed those divers, the ones you're hunting for, they're not fully developed. They're the babies.

Novak

The babies? Huh. So where are the parents? [an adult piranha jumps out of the water and kills Novak]