[Lloyd finally informs Flagg about spy Tom Cullen, only to find himself being throttled against the wall.]
Randall FlaggYou let me go upstairs without telling me?! I could pop your neck like a tick!
Played by Jamey Sheridan
The Stand · 57 quotes
Tied for 2nd most-quoted character in The Stand: in 10 of its 57 quotes
Most scenes with: Nadine Cross (5), Lloyd Henreid (2)
Lines by Randall Flagg 1
Randall FlaggScenes with Randall Flagg 9
[At night, on a desert highway, a tall, long-haired man in jeans spies a deer.]
Randall FlaggRub-a-dub-dub…
[He makes a gun-firing motion with his hand, light flashes, and the deer falls dead.]
Randall Flagg… thanks for the grub.
[The robed Monster Shouter passes down the road ringing a bell, continuing his chanted warning]
MSThe Monster Shouter
Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your --
[He sees Randall Flagg and stops still in his tracks, utterly terrified]
MSThe Monster Shouter
...the Dark Man...he is here!
[Flagg zaps him dead]
[Randall Flagg visits Lloyd in his prison cell.]
Can you let me outta here, mister? I'll do anything you want.
Randall FlaggYou poor guy. You look like ka-ka! [giggles] Tell me something, Lloyd—
How do you know my name?
Randall FlaggLucky guess. How'd you stay alive so long?
I saw it coming down, and I saved up some food, that's how.
[Flagg points to Lloyd's cot, and the mattress pulls itself up, revealing a partially-eaten rat.]
Randall FlaggBrer Rat, how'd he taste?
[snivelling] Poke should be here, not me! Everything was Poke's idea!
Randall FlaggAnd you got stuck with nothin' to eat but Rat Tartar.
. . .
Randall FlaggOh! I never even introduced myself, did I? Pleased to meet you, Lloyd. Hope you guess my name.
Huh?
Randall FlaggOh, uh… nothing. Just a little classical reference.
⇒ "Pleased to meet you / Hope you guess my name" are two lines from the chorus of The Rolling Stones' song "Sympathy for the Devil".
[Nadine dreams of the Dark Man.]
So… cold! No! He's warm, not you!
Randall FlaggBut I'm the one you belong to, Nadine. You are the Promised One.
[petulantly] Why me? Who promised?
[Nadine has another dream about Flagg.]
I'm here. I came to you.
Randall FlaggThe bride cometh to the bridegroom as a flame to the wick of a lamp.
Is that the Bible?
Randall FlaggHmm, Danielle Steele, I think.
[Nadine, her back turned to Mother Abagail, is next in the new arrivals' greeting line.]
[Sharply] Who's this woman who comes?!
[Nadine turns to look at the old woman.]
Randall Flagg[in Nadine's mind] Go to her!
My name is Nadine Cross.
[Warily] Mayhap it is, and mayhap it ain't!
I'm from New York.
Mayhap you are…
[muttering] Mayhap I ain't.
[She looks up.]
I won't keep you long.
[She slowly climbs the steps toward Abagail.]
You look so tired. Of course, anyone your age is bound to tire easily, isn't that so?
[She holds out her hand, but Joe rushes past her to hug Mother Abagail.]
Hello, Joe, what'd'ya know? [laughs]
[Dayna, her cover blown, gets an undesired audience with Flagg.]
DJDayna Jurgens
What happened to the chairs?
Randall FlaggOh, I had them taken out. [laughs] Liars sit in chairs, you know? Truth tellers just sort of… hunker down.
. . .
[Flagg tells Dayna about his problems psychically seeing who the third spy is.]
Randall FlaggBut every time I try to see this third spy… all I can see… is the Moon. "M-O-O-N, that spells moon."
. . .
[Flagg mentions Mother Abagail's death in passing.]
DJDayna Jurgens
Mother Abagail is not dead.
Randall FlaggOh… I'm afraid she is.
DJDayna Jurgens
I don't believe it.
Randall FlaggShe died in a coma… without saying a word.
[Nadine finally meets Flagg, physically, in the desert.]
I waited so long.
Randall FlaggThe waiting's over.
[Nadine stands at the balcony railing of Flagg's hotel suite.]
They're coming for you, you know. The old woman sent them before she died.
Randall FlaggGet your ass back in here.
Everything you've made here is falling apart. They're saying a simple retarded boy outwitted Randall Flagg. They're saying Judge Farris got away from your man in Idaho.
Randall FlaggHe's as dead as Judas Iscariot.
They're asking questions about Dayna, too. It's all slipping through your fingers. And they're whispering, Randy. I can see them, leaving their posts in the dead of night, and your eye can't see them. [sits on railing] And when they come here — Stu… and Ralph… and Glen… and La— when they get here, your time will end, and I'll be watching. I'll be watching from Hell, with your baby in my arms. [stands on railing]
Randall Flagg[uneasily] Come back in, Nadine. I'll give you everything you could ever want.
[laughing mockingly] Can you give me Larry again?
[Flagg's face becomes demonic.]
Your seed is cold. [falls over railing]
Randall Flagg[demon voice] YOU LIAR! [grabs at her, but misses] NOOOOOOO! [she hits the ground and dies]
[In his cell in Las Vegas, Glen muses on a cockroach skittering around the prison floor.]
You're quite a piece of work, Mr. Cockroach. We could take a lesson from you, especially in light of recent events. I have an idea that… I'll be gone, come this time tomorrow. But you'll still be trucking, won't you? Running your little roach errands.
[Suddenly a boot stomps on the roach. Pan up to reveal a grinning Flagg.]
Randall FlaggThat's a wrap on the roach.
. . .
Randall FlaggActually, uh… I've decided to let you go.
Really? Marvelous. Of course, I couldn't go without my friends.
Randall FlaggOh, of course not! No, you'll all go together. Tomorrow morning. Tonight, if you prefer. And, uh… once again, all you have to do is ask. Only… for a favor of this magnitude… I really think you ought to do it on your knees.
[Bateman bursts out in tremendous laughter.]
Randall FlaggStop it. Stop laughing at me!
Sorry! It's just that… it's just that we made such… such a business of you, and it turns out you're nothing more than another cockroach, scurrying around, running little roach errands! Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Randall FlaggShoot him.
What?
Randall FlaggYou heard me!
[Lloyd pulls out his gun, then looks back at Flagg.]
Randall FlaggSHOOT HIM, YOU IDIOT! SHOOT HIM!
He's an old man.
[Flagg starts to move toward Lloyd, who casually fires into the bars without effect.]
Randall FlaggCan't you do anything RIGHT?! HE'S STANDING RIGHT IN FRONT O' YA!
If you really feel you must shoot somebody, Mr. Henreid, I suggest Flagg. His world is crumbling, and we both know it. I think we also both know he can do a lot of damage on his way down. You could change that.
Randall FlaggWell, shoot one of us, anyway.
. . .
[Lloyd finally puts several shots into Glen, point-blank. Glen falls, then turns back toward Lloyd.]
It's all right, Mr. Henreid. You don't know any better.
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