Sergeant Neil Howie Don't you see that killing me is not going to bring back your apples?
Played by Edward Woodward 
The Wicker Man (1973) · 18 quotes
The Wicker Man (1973) · 18 quotes
Most-quoted character in The Wicker Man (1973): in 10 of its 18 quotes
Most scenes with: Lord Summerisle (5)
Oh, God... I humbly entreat you for the soul of this, thy servant, Neil Howie... who will today depart from this world. Do not deliver me into the enemy's hands... or... put me out of mind forever. Let me not undergo the real pains of Hell, dear God, because I die unshriven... and establish me... in that bliss... which knows no ending... through Christ... our Lord.
More lines from Sergeant Neil Howie
3 quotes Sergeant Neil Howie Sergeant Neil Howie [upon seeing the Wicker Man]
OH GOD!! OH JESUS CHRIST!!!
Sergeant Neil Howie [singing]
The Lord's my shepherd; I'll not want. He makes me down to lie in pastures... Oh, God.
Scenes with Sergeant Neil Howie
6 scenes
May Morrison
Can I do anything for you, Sergeant?
Sergeant Neil Howie No, I doubt it, seeing you're all raving mad!
[outside, several young girls are dancing naked over a fire]
Afternoon Sergeant Howie. I trust the sight of the young people refreshes you.
Sergeant Neil Howie No sir, it does not refresh me.
Sergeant Neil Howie Your lordship seems strangely... unconcerned.
I am confident your suspicions are wrong, Sergeant. We do not commit murder here. We are a deeply religious people.
Sergeant Neil Howie Religious? With ruined churches, no ministers, no priests... and children dancing naked!
They do love their divinity lessons.
Sergeant Neil Howie But they are... a-are naked!
Well, naturally. It's much too dangerous to jump through fire with your clothes on.
Sergeant Neil Howie What religion can they possibly be learning jumping over bonfires?
Parthenogenesis.
Sergeant Neil Howie What?
Literally, as Miss Rose would doubtless say in her assiduous way, reproduction without sexual union.
Sergeant Neil Howie Oh, what is all this? I mean, you've got fake biology, fake religion... Sir, have these children never heard of Jesus?
Himself the son of a virgin, impregnated, I believe, by a ghost.
Sergeant Neil Howie But what of the true God, to whose Glory, churches and monasteries have been built on these islands for generations past? Now sir, what of Him?
He's dead. He can't complain. He had His chance and in modern parlance, "blew it."
Sergeant Neil Howie He brought you up to be a pagan!
A heathen, conceivably, but not, I hope, an unenlightened one.
Sergeant Neil Howie [after being anointed]
No matter what you do, you can't change the fact that I believe in the life eternal, as promised to us by our Lord, Jesus Christ. [shouted] I believe in the life eternal, as promised to us by our Lord, Jesus Christ!
That is good, for believing what you do, we confer upon you a rare gift, these days - a martyr's death. You will not only have life eternal, but you will sit with the saints among the elect. Come. It is time to keep your appointment with the Wicker Man.