Prometheus
Quotes: Striking Concept
(Total Quotes: 91)
Prometheus quotes seem to lay the ground work for an Alien prequel rather than giving it to us fully. Although the narrative does retrace the steps of the original movie and presents us with a striking concept, it just falls short of being truly satisfying. The story begins by the discovery of a star map by archaeologists Elizabeth Shaw and Charlie Holloway, among the remnants of several ancient Earth civilizations. After which the story then centers on the crew of the spaceship Prometheus as they follow this star map and seek the origins of humanity as they are led to a distant and advanced civilization, but instead they discover a threat that could cause extinction of the human race. There's plenty of reasons to recommend Prometheus; it's visually thrilling and haunting and the actors do a pretty good job in their roles, with Fassbender probably the most impressive. The plot is fully crammed, thought provoking and challenging but it's also coldly analytical, failing to give a smooth flow and leaves too many open ended moments, raising more questions than answers, which I imagine is maybe leading us to the sequel to resolve. It may not gain the classic status as Alien did, it's still worth viewing and making up your own mind about it.
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Written by:
Jon Spaihts
Damon Lindelof
Starring:
Noomi Rapace - Elizabeth Shaw
Michael Fassbender - David
Charlize Theron - Meredith Vickers
Idris Elba - Janek
Guy Pearce - Peter Weyland
Logan Marshall-Green - Charlie Holloway
Sean Harris - Fifield
Rafe Spall - Millburn
Emun Elliott - Chance
Benedict Wong - Ravel
Kate Dickie - Ford
Patrick Wilson - Shaw's Father
Lucy Hutchinson - Young Shaw
Prometheus
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[the movie
begins with a pale, muscled human-looking
alien standing
near a waterfall with a spaceship hovering above him, he
disrobes
places an object on the ground, opens the object which has a liquid in
it, he drinks the liquid, the spaceship flies away and the alien starts
getting effected to a molecular level by the liquid, his DNA splits and
his body disintegrates, falling down into the waterfall to his death,
with what's left of the alien's body floating into the water, reforming
itself into DNA and splitting cells][at an archaeological dig, Shaw has just broken through into a cave, she calls for Holloway to come and look at her findings, they gaze in wonder at cave paintings etched into the cave]
Charlie Holloway: Did you date it?
Elizabeth Shaw: Thirty five thousand years, maybe older.
[Shaw shows Holloway a painting on the ceiling where a man is pointing to a star map]
Charlie Holloway: You gotta be kiddin' me! It's the same configuration, only it's gotta predate the others by a millennium.
[Shaw holds Holloway's hand as they gaze at the paintings]
Elizabeth Shaw: I think they want us to come and find them.
[on the ship, Prometheus, David checks on the crew who are in hypersleep, he gazes upon Shaw and sees what she's dreaming of, which is from her childhood when she is with her father in a foreign land looking at a funeral procession]
Young Shaw: What happened to that man?
Shaw's Father: He died.
Young Shaw: Why aren't you helping them?
Shaw's Father: They don't want my help. They're God's different than ours.
Young Shaw: Why did he die?
Shaw's Father: Sooner or later everyone does.
Young Shaw: Like mommy?
Shaw's Father: Like mommy.
Young Shaw: Where do they go?
Shaw's Father: Everyone has their own word; heaven, paradise. Whatever it's called, it's someplace beautiful.
Young Shaw: How do you know it's beautiful?
Shaw's Father: Cause that's what I choose to believe. What do you believe, darling?
[at that point David comes out of watching he dream]
[as the crew are in hypersleep, we see David pass the time by bouncing a basketball around, riding a bicycle, taking language lesson, watching Lawrence of Arabia and bleaching his hair to look like Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia, and repeating lines from the movie]
David: The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts.
[as Prometheus reaches their destination, David finds Vickers awake from hypersleep, looking wet and doing push ups]
Meredith Vickers: Robe!
[he gets a robe for her and hand it to her]
Meredith Vickers: How long?
David: Two years, four months, eighteen days, thirty six hours, fifteen minutes.
Meredith Vickers: Any casualties?
David: Casualties, ma'am?
Meredith Vickers: Has anyone died?
David: No, ma'am. Everyone's fine.
Meredith Vickers: Well then wake them up.
[as the ship's crew are all awakening from hypersleep, we see David comforting Shaw as she's throws up]
David: Try to relax, Dr. Shaw. My name is David. Your mind and body are in a state of shock as a result of stasis. It's alright, it's perfectly normal.
[Holloway, who's also just awakened calls to Shaw from behind her]
Charlie Holloway: Eli, we're here, baby.
[as the crew are eating and making small talk, Milburn sits opposite Fifield]
Millburn: I'm Milburn, Biology. Nice to meet you.
[Milburn holds out his hand but Fifield ignores him and carries on eating his food]
Fifield: Look, uh...no offense, but uh...I've been asleep two years. I ain't here to be your friend, I'm here to make money. You got that?
Millburn: Okay.
[the crew assemble for the mission briefing, which Vickers begins]
Meredith Vickers: Good morning. For those of you I hired personally, it's nice to see you again. For the rest of you, I am Meredith Vickers, and it's my job to make sure you do yours. Okay then, on with the show.
[David brings up a hologram of an elderly Peter Weyland, who addresses the crew in a pre-recorded message]
Peter Weyland: Hello, friends. My name is Peter Weyland, I am your employer. I am recording this, 22 June, 2091. If you're watching it, you have reached your destination, and I am long dead. May I rest in peace. There's a man sitting with you today, his name is David. He is the closest thing to
a son I will ever had,
unfortunately, he is not human. He will never
grow old and he will never die. And yet he is unable to appreciate
these remarkable gifts, for that would require the one thing that David
will never have; a soul. I have spent my entire lifetime contemplating
the questions; Where do we come from? What is our purpose? What happens
when you die? And I have finally found two people who have convinced me
that they're on the verge of answering it. Doctors Holloway and Shaw,
if you would, please stand.[Holloway and Shaw stand]
Peter Weyland: As far as you're concerned, they're both in charge. The Titan, Prometheus, wanted to give mankind equal footing with the Gods. For that, he was cast from Olympus. Well, my friends, the time has finally come for his return.
[pointing to Shaw and Holloway]
Peter Weyland: Doctors, please.
[Shaw and Holloway stand beside Peter Weyland's hologram]
Peter Weyland: The floor is yours.
[Peter Weyland's hologram turns and walks off and fades out]
[as Weyland's hologram walks off and fades out, Holloway addresses the assembled crew]
Charlie Holloway: Okay. Wow! Alright. Never had to follow a ghost before. Okay. Let me show you why you guys are here.
[he holds up a cube places it on the floor and opens up another hologram showing images]
Charlie Holloway: These are images of archaeological digs from all over the earth.
[pointing to the different images]
Charlie Holloway: That's Egyptian, Mayan, Sumerian, Babylonian. That's Hawaiian at the end there and Mesopotamian. Now this one here is our most recent discovery, it's a thirty five thousand year old cave painting from the Isle of Sky in Scotland. These are ancient civilizations, they were separated by centuries, they shared no contact with one another, and yet...
[he gathers the hologram images to line up and he goes through each one]
Charlie Holloway: The same pictogram, showing men worshiping giant beings pointing to the stars was discovered at every last one of them. The only galactic system that matched, was so far from earth, that there's no way that these primitive ancient civilizations could have possibly known about. But it just so happens, that system has a sun, a lot like ours. And based on our long range scans, there seemed to be a planet. Just one planet with the moon, capable of sustaining life, and we arrived there this morning.
[after Holloway has given his presentation about the pictorgrams to the crew]
Fifield: So you're saying we're here because of a map you two kids found in a cave, is that right?
Elizabeth Shaw: No.
Charlie Holloway: Yeah. Um...
Elizabeth Shaw: No. Not a map. An invitation.
Fifield: From whom?
Elizabeth Shaw: We call them Engineers.
Fifield: Engineers? Do you mind um...telling us what they engineered?
Elizabeth Shaw: They engineered us.
Fifield: Bullshit!
Millburn: Okay, so uh...do you have anything to back that up? I mean, look, if you're willing to discount three centuries of Darwinism, that's...wooh! But how do you know? Mm?
Elizabeth Shaw: I don't. But it's what I choose to believe.
David: Doctors. Miss Vickers would like to have a word, before the adventure begins.
[David opens the door to Vickers quarters]
Charlie Holloway: Wow! Nice place!
David: It's actually a separate module, with its own self-contained life support. Air, food, anything Miss Vickers would need to survive a hostile environment.
Charlie Holloway: Okay, so she lives on a life boat.
[as they are looking around her chamber, Vickers walks in from behind them]
Meredith Vickers: Yes, I do. I like to minimize risk. David, why don't you make the doctors a drink. I'll take a vodka, up.
Meredith Vickers: I think there might be some confusion about our relationship. Weyland found you impressive enough to fund this mission, but I'm fairly certain your Engineers are nothing but scribblings of savages living in dirty little caves. But let's say I'm wrong, and you do find these
Charlie Holloway: Um...Miss Vickers, is there an agenda that you're not telling us about?
Meredith Vickers: My company paid a trillion dollars to find this place and to bring you here. Had you raised the money yourself, Mr. Holloway, we'd happily be pursuing your agenda. But you didn't, and that makes you an employee.
[Holloway laughs and takes the drink that David offers them]
Elizabeth Shaw: But if we can't make contact, why did you...why did you even bring us here?
Meredith Vickers: Weyland was a superstitious man. He wanted a true believer on board.
[she takes the drink offered by David]
Meredith Vickers: Cheers.
Charlie Holloway: So, no response?
David: I'm sorry, no.
Charlie Holloway: Maybe they didn't understand it. How are you lessons going, David?
David: I spent two years deconstructing dozens of ancient languages, to their roots. I'm confident I can communicate with them, provided you're thesis is correct.
[Holloway laughs]
Charlie Holloway: Provided it's correct. That's good!
David: That's why they call it a thesis, doctor.
[David smiles, gets up and walks off and Shaw smiles]
Charlie Holloway: What are you smiling about?
[as they get ready to enter the atmosphere of the planet]
Janek: All personal, this is the captain. Brace for entry. That means you too, Vickers.
[everyone takes their seats and buckles themselves in]
Janek: What is the atmosphere?
Ravel: Atmosphere, seventy one percent nitrogen, twenty one percent oxygen, traces of argon gas.
Janek: Woh! Now that's weather!
[Holloway turns to Ford as he buckles himself into his seat]
Charlie Holloway: Just like home.
Ford: Only if you're breathing through an exhaust pipe! CO2 is over three percent. Two minutes without a suit, you're dead.
[as they get nearer to the planet, Ford looks at her monitor]
Ford: Peak, port side. Woh! Fifty two thousand! Makes earth look like a baby brother.
Janek: Alright. Take us round. We'll use it as our point of entry.
[as Prometheus is entering the planet]
Ravel: No radio, no feed source.
Millburn: Nobody's home!
[David quotes a line from Lawrence of Arabia]
David: There is nothing in the desert, and no man is nothing.
Ford: What is that?
David: Just something from a film I like.
[as Prometheus is entering the planet]
Janek: Going through, nice and slow. Keep it steady, boys.
[suddenly Holloway spots something]
Charlie Holloway: There!
[he gets up from his seat]
Elizabeth Shaw: No, what are you doing?
Janek: Dr. Holloway, why don't you take a seat?
Charlie Holloway: Right there. God does not build in straight lines. Starboard side, this valley! Captain, do you think you could put us down there?
Janek: Yeah, I wouldn't be any good if I couldn't do that.
[after Prometheus has landed on the planet]
Charlie Holloway: Captain, would you please tell the survey team to suit up and meet us in the airlock.
Janek: There's only six hours left of day light. Why don't you leave it till the morning?
Charlie Holloway: Oh, no, no, no, no! It's Christmas, Captain, and I wanna open up my presents.
[he turns and point to David and Ford]
Charlie Holloway: You, Ford, you're coming with us.
David: I'd be delighted.
[as they are getting ready to go outside, Shaw notices one of the crew is holding a large looking weapon]
Elizabeth Shaw: Hey, Jackson. What's that for?
Jackson: Expedition security. My job's to make sure everybody's nice and safe.
Elizabeth Shaw: This is a scientific expedition. No weapons.
Jackson: Alright then. Good luck with that.
[as they are getting suited up to go out to the planet]
Charlie Holloway: David, why are you wearing a suit, man?
David: I beg your pardon?
Charlie Holloway: You don't breath, remember? So, why wear the suit?
David: I was designed like this, because you people are more comfortable interacting with your own kind. If I didn't wear the suit, it would defeat the purpose.
Charlie Holloway: Making you guys pretty close, huh?
David: Not too close I hope.
[as the team is sent out to investigate the large dome shaped structure that Holloway had noticed earlier]
Charlie Holloway: This is just one small step for mankind.
Elizabeth Shaw: Seriously?
[he holds her head close to his letting their helmets touch, he turns and sits opposite Fifield]
Charlie Holloway: Wooh! Come on! You ready to do this? I know you are!
[Fifield ignores him]
[as they drive up to the dome shaped structure]
Charlie Holloway: Hey, Fifield. I want a spectrograph on the structure. I wanna know if it's natural or if somebody put it there, alright?
Fifield: I can't tell you if it's natural or not. But what I can tell you is, it's hollow.
[referring to the dome shaped building they have just driven up to]
Elizabeth Shaw: Prometheus, are you seeing this?
Janek: Affirmative, we see it.
[as they enter the large dome shaped structure]
Charlie Holloway: Mr. Fifield, let's get a grid of the structure. I want the whole interior.
Fifield: If there's anything in here worth looking at, these pups will find them.
Charlie Holloway: Pups?
[Fifield holds up drone globes]
Fifield: Yeah, pups. My pups.
[Fifield sends out several of the globes which begin mapping the interior of the building]
Fifield: Prometheus, we are now mapping.
Janek: Copy that.
[back on Prometheus, Janek, Vickers and the rest of th crew watch as the hologram of the map of the interior is being created]
Janek: Well, I'll be damned.
[as they reach an area of the structure that has water streaming down and the sun shining through the open ceiling]
Charlie Holloway: Look at this!
Elizabeth Shaw: Oh, Charlie!
Ford: Jesus! Sun light's heating the water. Check out the humidity.
Charlie Holloway: Yeah, look at the CO2 levels. Outside it's completely toxic and in...in here, there's nothing. It's breathable.
[as Holloway prepares to take off his helmet]
Elizabeth Shaw: What are you doing? Charlie, don't be an idiot!
Charlie Holloway: Hey, don't be a skeptic. Right? There's something generating an atmosphere. David?
David: Dr. Holloway is correct.
Ford: Cleaner than earth, actually.
Charlie Holloway: They were terraforming here!
Elizabeth Shaw: Please, don't do...
Charlie Holloway: Look, Eli...
Elizabeth Shaw: Please, don't!
Charlie Holloway: Eli, I'm not wearing this thing anymore! Wish me luck, babe.
[he takes off his helmet, takes a large breath of the air and laughs]
Elizabeth Shaw: You crazy bastard!
[after Holloway takes off his helmet the others start doing the same]
Fifield: Prometheus, connect our suit cameras if you want to continue watching this freak show. We are taking our helmets off.
Ravel: Copy that. Switching feeds.
[back on the ship, after the team have taken off their helmets in the dome shaped structure]
Chance: Well, come on! Pay up.
Ravel: Pay? Pay what?
Chance: What do you mean, pay what? Something manufacturing breathable air down there. That, mate, it's terraforming.
Ravel: No, no, no, no! The bet was why we came here. If you said the dead old man wanted to talk to Martians, then I pay.
Chance: Oh, come on! A hundred credits! Put it towards a lap dance of Miss Vickers. How about that, hey?
[as they continue to explore the interior of the structure]
Ford: It's minus twenty in here.
Millburn: So why is this water not frozen?
Fifield: Maybe it ain't water.
Millburn: Maybe it's Martian piss.
Fifield: That's your um...scientific theory, is it, Mr. Biology?
[after David comes across some markings and activates what seems to me a kind of ship's log, the crew suddenly hear a hollow scream coming from the corridors]
Elizabeth Shaw: David? David?
Ford: What is that?
Charlie Holloway: David?
[Charlie pushes Eli out of the way as they see a bunch of ghost like holograms of humanoid aliens run across the corridors]
Charlie Holloway: Eli!
Millburn: What the hell was that?
Fifield: Aren't you glad we didn't bring any weapons?
Charlie Holloway: Come on, Eli. Let's go.
Fifield: Who's idea was that?
[they start running after the holographic humanoid alien images]
[as they run after the holographic images of the aliens, one of the holographic images trips and falls and disappears]
Elizabeth Shaw: Where did it go?
Charlie Holloway: Wait! Wait!
[Holloway moves closer to where the holographic image had fallen]
Charlie Holloway: There it is. There it is. There it is.
[they find a dead body of an Engineer]
Elizabeth Shaw: Oh, my God, Charlie! We found them!
Fifield: What do you mean, them?
Charlie Holloway: It is them, Eli.
[Holloway moves closer to the Engineers body to inspect it]
Charlie Holloway: Looks like a door, and he's been decapitated by it.
[back on Prometheus, Janek, Vickers and the rest of the crew are watching them on their monitor]
Meredith Vickers: Son of a bitch! They were right.
Janek: What, did you want them to be wrong?
[after finding the decapitated Engineers body, they find more markings on the wall]
Charlie Holloway: David, please tell me you can read that.
David: Perhaps.
Fifield: No. No. I'm out of here!
[looking freaked out, Fifield turns to leave]
Elizabeth Shaw: Hey, Fifield! Where you going?
Fifield: What? Look, I'm just a geologist! I like rocks! I love rocks! Now it's clear you two don't give a shit about rocks. But what you do seem to care about is gigantic dead bodies, and I don't really have anything to contribute in the gigantic dead body arena! I'm gonna go back to the ship, if you don't mind.
[he turns to face the others]
Fifield: Anyone want to join me, hey?
[to Millburn]
Fifield: You staying?
Millburn: Uh...no. Ship's good.
Fifield: Yeah. Ship very good.
[to Shaw]
Fifield: Congratulations on meeting your maker.
Elizabeth Shaw: Thank you.
Charlie Holloway: Pull yourself together, man.
[to Fifield, as Fifield and Millburn start walking off back to the ship]
Millburn: I thought you were the crazy one.
[to Holloway as they inspect the dead Engineers body]
Elizabeth Shaw: Do you have the carbon reader?
[Holloway gives her the reader]
Elizabeth Shaw: Thank you.
[Shaw uses the carbon reader on the Engineers body]
Charlie Holloway: How long has he been dead?
Elizabeth Shaw: Two thousand years, give or take.
[as David is touching the markings on the wall]
Elizabeth Shaw: What are you doing, David?
David: I'm attempting to open the door.
Elizabeth Shaw: Wait! We don't know what's on the other side.
[suddenly the door opens]
David: Oops! Sorry.
[Shaw spots the head of the decapitated Engineer]
Elizabeth Shaw: Look, Ford. It's the head!
Ford: An amazing state of preservation.
Elizabeth Shaw: We'll take it in.
Ford: Yeah.
[looking around the room he's just opened, David notices a bunch of metal jars and a large human looking statue]
David: Remarkably human.
[as they all look up at the statue, no one notices the small wriggling insect like beings wriggling on the floor, David notices the mural on the walls]
David: Beautiful painting.
Elizabeth Shaw: It's a mural.
[David walks closer to one of the jars and tries to examine it]
Elizabeth Shaw: Stop! Stop! Don't touch it.
David: It's alright.
Elizabeth Shaw: Please, don't touch anything.
David: It's sweating.
[David notices a thick black liquid substance on the jar and touches it]
David: Organic.
[Shaw moves closer to inspect the mural]
Elizabeth Shaw: Oh, no! Charlie, the murals are changing! I think we've affected the atmosphere in the room. Charlie, do you copy? Oh, the head! Ford, quickly help me bag the head!
[they quickly go to take the Engineers head]
[back on the ship, they notice a storm front is coming]
Janek: Ground crew, this is Janek. I need you to hustle back right now! Ground crew, do you copy me? I got two hundred kilometer winds with airborne silica and enough static to fry your suit.
[as they are trying to bag the dead Engineers head]
Elizabeth Shaw: Copy that, sir. But we need more time here.
[Vickers, who's standing behind Janek back on the ship, interjects]
Meredith Vickers: I'll be closing the outer doors in fifteen minutes. I sincerely hope you can make it.
[back in the room, Shaw shouts to Charlie and David]
Elizabeth Shaw: Charlie! David! We must leave now!
[to himself, as he hears Shaw call to him]
Charlie Holloway: This is just another tomb.
[on hearing Shaw, David quickly bags one of the jars]
Elizabeth Shaw: David!
[Shaw and Ford finish bagging the Engineers head and start moving out]
Elizabeth Shaw: Let's go!
[the others start to leave, as David is in the middle of bagging the jar]
Charlie Holloway: David, we are leaving!
[they rush out and drive to the ship, but just as they make it to the ship they drop the head, Shaw goes to retrieve it but is blown away by the storm and as Holloway goes after her he's also blown away, David manages to rescue them by using a winch]
[after David has rescued Shaw and Holloway from the storm]
Charlie Holloway: So what was that, Eli? Huh? You could have compromised the entire mission, not to mention almost killing yourself!
[David turns to Shaw]
David: Are you alright?
Elizabeth Shaw: Yes. Thank you, David.
David: My pleasure.
[after Janek finds out that Fifield and Millburn are still wandering around in the cave]
Millburn: We've been here before, Fifield!
Fifield: I don't know, it all looks the same to me.
[Janek contacts them from the ship]
Janek: Boys, this is the Captain. Listen up. Between the static electricity and the wind speed, well, there ain't no safe way to come get you.
Fifield: What?
Janek: Now the temperature is dropping rapidly, so get your helmets on and stay warm, until the storm passes.
Fifield: Captain, can you get a message to the scientist and that girlfriend of his?
Janek: Mmhmm.
Fifield: You got a pen nearby?
Janek: Nope. Nope. I think we got it.
Fifield: Tell them to fuck themselves.
[Janek and the rest of the crew who heard this laugh]
Fifield: Copy?
Janek: Copy that. Alright, boys. Keep you head down and we'll come get you in the morning.
[in a lab on Prometheus, Shaw begins examining the Engineer's head]
Ford: Sample is sterile, no contagion present.
Elizabeth Shaw: David.
[at that moment Vickers enters the lab]
Meredith Vickers: So are they all dead?
Elizabeth Shaw: What? Who?
Meredith Vickers: Your Engineers. Are the all dead or aren't they?
Elizabeth Shaw: I don't know. We just got here.
[to David]
Elizabeth Shaw: Scan.
[to Vickers]
Elizabeth Shaw: Do you even care they're all dead?
Meredith Vickers: Weyland cared.
[as Ford looks at the alien's head scan image]
Ford: Dr. Shaw, have a look at this.
[Shaw looks at the monitor showing image of the scan from the alien head]
Elizabeth Shaw: That's not an exoskeleton.
Elizabeth Shaw: I think it's a helmet. Let's see if we can lift it up.
Ford: Yep, should be able to prise this open
Elizabeth Shaw: It's too heavy for us. David?
[David walks over and tries to pry the helmet open]
Elizabeth Shaw: Careful.
[David manages to open the helmet and lift it off the head]
David: Like so.
[the head under the helmet is like the human-looking alien that was seen at the beginning of the movie]
Meredith Vickers: What is that on its head?
Elizabeth Shaw: It looks like new cells, in a state of...
Ford: Change!
Elizabeth Shaw: Yes!
Meredith Vickers: Changing into what?
[to Ford]
Elizabeth Shaw: Can you run a stemline into the locus coeruleus? I...I think we can trick the nervous system into thinking its still alive.
[Ford gets the stemline ready to probe into the aliens skull]
Elizabeth Shaw: Thirty amps.
Ford: Okay.
Elizabeth Shaw: No more.
Ford: Lightly making an incision.
Elizabeth Shaw: Okay. Go up forty.
Ford: Okay, forty up. Did you see that?
Elizabeth Shaw: Yes.
Ford: Yep, see!
Elizabeth Shaw: Go up another ten.
Ford: Okay, up ten.
[as Ford increases the voltage suddenly the alien head's eyes start to twitch open]
Elizabeth Shaw: You went a little bit too much. Go down ten.
Ford: Jesus! Okay, go down ten.
[the alien's face keeps twitching, with the eyes and mouth opening and closing]
Elizabeth Shaw: Down another twenty.
Ford: Yeah...give me time. It's up and down.
Elizabeth Shaw: Go down.
Ford: There's something wrong!
Elizabeth Shaw: Ford, stop it!
[the alien's face is now violently twitching and a black liquid is coming out of the skull]
Ford: David! Contain it, now!
Meredith Vickers: Turn it off, now!
Ford: Oh, God! The smell!
[David contains the head in an glass shield and they all watch in shock as the head suddenly explodes]
David: Mortal after all.
Elizabeth Shaw: Ford, take a sample. Let's have a look.
[we see David wearing a helmet and it seems like he is communicating with someone]
David: No, sir. I will take care of it.
[there's a short pause as David listen to a reply]
David: Yes, sir. Understood. I'm sorry. Unfortunately slightly broken.
[another pause as David listens to the reply again]
David: Of course, sir.
[David turns, takes off the helmet, walks off down the corridor and sees Vickers, who steps in front of him]
David: Miss Vickers.
Meredith Vickers: What did he say, David?
David: I don't think he'd want me to tell you.
[David steps aside to walk off but Vickers steps in from him again]
Meredith Vickers: What did he say?
David: I'm sorry...
[suddenly in anger Vickers pushes David against the wall]
David: That's confidential!
Meredith Vickers: Oh, my God! I will find the cord that makes you run and I will cut it. What did he say it?
David: He said, try harder. Cup of tea, ma'am?
[Vickers shoves David face aside and walks off in anger]
[as Shaw tries to analyze the alien's DNA]
Elizabeth Shaw: Genetic view.
Ford: Okay.
Elizabeth Shaw: Let's have a look at its DNA.
[looking through the microscope]
Elizabeth Shaw: Isolate the strand.
Ford: Okay. Compare it to the gene sample.
Elizabeth Shaw: Yep.
Ford: Overlay.
[the computer processes the information and finds a match with human DNA]
Elizabeth Shaw: Oh, my God! It us! It's everything! What killed them?
[David begins to examine the vase he'd snuck in, opening it, he takes a droplet of the black thick liquid substance onto his index finger and looks at it]
David: Big things have small beginnings.
[after David takes a sample of the liquid he found in the vase, David finds Holloway looking drunk]
David: Am I interrupting?
[indicating to the bottle he's holding]
David: Thought you might be running low.
[David takes a glass from the shelf]
Charlie Holloway: Pour yourself a glass, pal.
David: Thank you, but I'm afraid it would be wasted on me.
Charlie Holloway: Oh, right. I almost forgot, you're not a real boy, huh?
David: I'm very sorry that you're Engineers are all gone, Dr. Holloway.
Charlie Holloway: You think we wasted our time coming here, don't you?
David: You're question depends on the understanding, what you hope to achieve by coming here?
Charlie Holloway: What we hope to achieve? Well, it's to meet our makers. To get answers. Why they...why they even made us in the first place.
David: Why do you think your people made me?
Charlie Holloway: We made you cause we could.
David: Can you imagine how disappointing it would be for you to hear the same thing from your creator?
[Holloway laughs]
Charlie Holloway: I guess it's a good thing you can't be disappointed, huh?
David: Yes, it's wonderful actually.
David: May I ask you something?
Charlie Holloway: Please do.
David: How far would you go to get what you came all this way for? Your answers? What would you be willing to do?
Charlie Holloway: Anything and everything.
David: That's worth drinking to I'd imagine.
[he pours Holloway a drink and as he's about to hand the glass to Holloway he quickly inserts the same index finger that he'd earlier had the droplet of thick black liquid on from the vase, contaminating the drink]
Charlie Holloway: Here's mud in your eye, pal.
[Holloway downs the entire drink]
David: Good health.
[as Fifield and Millburn are wandering around in the interior of the structure they're stranded in, they find a large pile of dead Engineer bodies]
Millburn: It's those things. Are they real?
Fifield: Of course they're real!
Millburn: Jesus Christ! Look at the pile? Look how high up they are?
Fifield: Yeah, it looks like they were running from something.
Millburn: Okay. Don't touch, okay? Maybe those things opened up from the inside. It looks like it exploded.
Fifield: Looks like a scene out of some sort of holocaust painting.
[to Fifield, as they are still looking at the pile of dead Engineer bodies]
Millburn: So whatever killed them, is long gone, right?
[suddenly Janek interrupts from the ship as he starts hearing a pinging signal from the holographic image of the interior of the structure they'd mapped earlier]
Janek: Millburn, Fifield, what is your position?
Millburn: Prometheus, this is Millburn. Uh...we are at seven-four-zero-one-four-seven- seven, why?
Janek: Just got a ping, about one click west of you.
Millburn: What do you mean, a ping?
Janek: Well, whatever that probe was picking up, it's not dead, it's reading lifeform.
Millburn: Okay, what do you mean a lifeform?
Fifield: Is it...is it moving?
Janek: No. I don't think so.
Fifield: Look, Captain, you're uh...you're obviously not seeing what we're seeing down here. But if you were, you wouldn't be talking about a bloody ping, yeah?
Janek: No, boys. The signal's been coming in sporadically, since the storm hit.
Fifield: That's no good to us here, Captain! Is it...is it moving? Are these things moving?
[suddenly Janek notices the pinging noise has stopped]
Janek: No. No, it just disappeared actually. Must be a glitch.
Millburn: What do you mean, a glitch?
Janek: Alright, boys. Sleep tight. Try not to bug each other.
Millburn: What do you mean, a glitch?
Fifield: Millburn! Millburn!
Millburn: What do you mean?
[Janek ignores them but watches their movements on the monitor]
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