Lloyd Henreid quotes from The Stand ... TV Quotes Database

[Two men are boozing it up, cruising in their convertible down a remote Arizona highway.]

PPoke

Ya know what time it is?

Lloyd Henreid

What time is it?

PPoke

Time to make a cash withdrawal!

Lloyd Henreid

I heard that!

PPoke

And if anybody — I mean anybody — says anything, or does anything to stop us…

[Lloyd talks into the barrel of Poke's gun.]

Lloyd Henreid

We gonna Pokerize 'em!

PPoke

Dead right! Damn straight!

Part I: The Plague

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[Randall Flagg visits Lloyd in his prison cell.]

Lloyd Henreid

Can you let me outta here, mister? I'll do anything you want.

Randall Flagg

You poor guy. You look like ka-ka! [giggles] Tell me something, Lloyd—

Lloyd Henreid

How do you know my name?

Randall Flagg

Lucky guess. How'd you stay alive so long?

Lloyd Henreid

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 Flagg

Brer Rat, how'd he taste?

Lloyd Henreid

[snivelling] Poke should be here, not me! Everything was Poke's idea!

Randall Flagg

And you got stuck with nothin' to eat but Rat Tartar.

. . .

Randall Flagg

Oh! I never even introduced myself, did I? Pleased to meet you, Lloyd. Hope you guess my name.

Lloyd Henreid

Huh?

Randall Flagg

Oh, 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".

Part II: The Dreams

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Lloyd Henreid

Flagg wants to see you.

TMTrashcan Man

[whispering intensely] My life for him. Yes. My life for him!

[The Rat Man turns to Lloyd, whispering.]

RMRat Man

Dude's crazy.

Lloyd Henreid

Like we're not?

Part III: The Betrayal

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Lloyd Henreid

And remember what I told you — don't mark him!

DRDave Roberts

Right! I mean, copy!

. . .

Lloyd Henreid

[to himself] If black powder were brains, that guy couldn't blow his nose.

Part IV: The Stand

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[In his cell in Las Vegas, Glen muses on a cockroach skittering around the prison floor.]

Glen Bateman

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 Flagg

That's a wrap on the roach.

. . .

Randall Flagg

Actually, uh… I've decided to let you go.

Glen Bateman

Really? Marvelous. Of course, I couldn't go without my friends.

Randall Flagg

Oh, 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 Flagg

Stop it. Stop laughing at me!

Glen Bateman

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 Flagg

Shoot him.

Lloyd Henreid

What?

Randall Flagg

You heard me!

[Lloyd pulls out his gun, then looks back at Flagg.]

Randall Flagg

SHOOT HIM, YOU IDIOT! SHOOT HIM!

Lloyd Henreid

He's an old man.

[Flagg starts to move toward Lloyd, who casually fires into the bars without effect.]

Randall Flagg

Can't you do anything RIGHT?! HE'S STANDING RIGHT IN FRONT O' YA!

Glen Bateman

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 Flagg

Well, shoot one of us, anyway.

. . .

[Lloyd finally puts several shots into Glen, point-blank. Glen falls, then turns back toward Lloyd.]

Glen Bateman

It's all right, Mr. Henreid. You don't know any better.

Part IV: The Stand

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