V The Final Battle quotes

Dr. Walker! Excuse me. Dr. Walker. [offers hand for handshake] Kristine Walsh. We met in Palm Springs, Gerald Ford's? I've been such an admirer of yours, I wanted to -

I remember you, Ms. Walsh. You were a newswoman.

[taken aback] Well, I'm still a newswoman.

[shaking his head] No, Ms. Walsh, I know what you are, but you're certainly not a newswoman. At best, a press secretary; at worst, a collaborator.

[stunned at reaction] I don't know what you've been told, Dr. Walker, but I'm just doing my job.

[contemptuous] Familiar words. I wonder how many times that phrase was used at the Nuremberg Trials.

[offended] That is insulting and untrue-

Ms. Walsh, I'll tell you what is untrue. It is untrue that you're still a newswoman. It is untrue that you're working for a benevolent regime. It is untrue that you're an impartial journalist. What's true is that fascists have taken over our planet, and you're their minister of propaganda. You're a discredit to your profession. You've allowed personal ambition to corrupt your integrity, and you no longer have credibility. Good day. [turns on his heel and walks away, passing Steven and Diana nearby, implying they witnessed the exchange.]

John

I trust you'll have the President ready for the interview... and soon?

Diana

It would be much easier if I was supervising the conversion process personally. But tough as he is, I'm told he'll be ours in a day or two.

John

It's taking too long, Diana.

Diana

Conversion can be a long and difficult process, John. It can't be rushed.

John

Kristine is losing faith in us.

Diana

It's not as simple to tap their minds as it is their water resources. [opens a panel in front of them, revealing a twitching Dr. Walker in the conversion chamber] One mistake and our Nobel laureate, Dr. Walker, will be a babbling idiot.

Mike Donovan

We need to get those passes. Mark, you're a cop.

Ex-cop.

Mike

Elias, you're a hood.

Elias Taylor

Ex-hood.

Mike

[rolls eyes] Together, I think you two could come up with the best counterfeiter around.

[after pondering] Pascal.

Elias

Dan Pascal?

Yeah.

Elias

[sarcastic] If he's still alive.

Mike

Find him.

OK. [motions to Elias] Let's go.

[points a gun at Mike Donovan] Stop right there!

Mike

[turns around and sees Eleanor] Hello, mother. Well... this is a charming photograph for our family album.

What are you doing, sneaking around here? [Mike puts his hand inside his jacket] I'm warning you...!

Mike

I'm not gonna shoot it out with you, mother. [takes out a photograph of his son Sean and shows it to Eleanor] That's what I'm doing here. Look at us. [puts the photo back in his jacket] This is crazy.

Why have you forced me into this position?!

Mike

Because you said it could never happen here! But we woke up one morning and we were in a fascist state!

Those of us who respect law and order are free! It's criminals like you who cry "Fascists"!

Mike

You're just as free as the leash you're on. You tug it too hard, they'll hang you by it. Good night, mother.

Don't test me, Michael! I'm warning you!

Mike

You'd shoot your own son?

[points a shotgun at Kristine Walsh, who sits at the camera area] All right, pretty face, grab some air!

[shoots into the air] Everybody freeze!

The Visitors are not our friends! They've come to rape our planet and kill us! They are NOT who they appear to be! [Rips off part of John's face to the horrors of the audience, revealing a reptiloid face.] This is not science-fiction, this is what they are!

Diana

[to Steven] You're rather accessible.

When the need arises.

Supreme Commander John

[annoyed] You certainly made us rather accessible last night. If Diana hadn't been able to cover for your incompetence with this bit of instant movie-making, our credibility on this planet would've been all but destroyed.

Ham Tyler

I like to get everyone's attention. That way, I don't have to repeat myself.

Are there many more like him?

Mike Donovan

Fortunately, selective breeding keeps their population to a minimum.

Ham Tyler

You know, from this distance I could almost cut him in half.

Mike

Anything more than a flesh wound and you get the same.

Ham Tyler

You know, if you let them live, Gooder, they're gonna breed.

Mike Donovan

I prefer them to you.

Ham

I may bring the neighborhood down, but they'll eat it!

Diana, my dear, sex for favors is as old as ambition. And sex is much too fragile a platform to support your ambition.

Diana

[acidly] You've managed.

That's because I've managed my ambition. You might reflect that your...lover...has sent you 65 trillion miles away from him...hardly an indication he can't bear to be apart from you...

Diana

Tell me, Mr. Donovan, what is your opinion of the truth?

Mike Donovan

Depends on who I hear it from. [injects him with truth serum]

Diana

What color is your hair, Mr. Donovan?

Mike

[trying to fight the serum's effects] Blue. [She injects him a second time.]

Diana

What color is your hair, Mr. Donovan?

Mike

[gives in] ....brown...

Diana

Yes...a lovely shade of brown. [tousles Donovan's hair] Tell me, Mr. Donovan...The Fifth Column...who is its' leader? [Try as he might, Donovan is absolutely powerless to resist...]

Mike

Martin... [Both Diana and her guards whip around to face Martin, but he manages to drop both guards. Unfortunately, Diana manages to escape.]

Diana

[furious] I want the ship cordoned off! Search section by section! I want Donovan and that traitor found!

[smug] Is that the sound of panic in your voice, Diana?

Diana

[stern at reaction] The situation is under control.

Oh, "under control," you say? One of your most trusted leftenants has betrayed you, escaped right under your nose with the leader of the Resistance, and you have the gall to tell me that everything is under control?

Diana

They will be captured, and dealt with.

Oh, I hope so...[turns to leave, but turns back as if there was something she forgot to say. She closes the distance between herself and Diana.] Otherwise...I'll be forced to strip you of your command! Is that clear?

Diana

Very. [Pamela exits.]

Are you gonna kill him?

Ham Tyler

As many times as I can!

No, I got a better idea. [knocks out Daniel with a pistol-whipping to the back of his head]

Ham

That's it?

Trust me!

What are you going to do with me, Stephen?

Send you where you'll serve us well.

[Sees two white-coated orderlies enter the room] Where is that?

Where else? On a serving platter. [snaps fingers at guards]

No! Stephen, no!!!! NOOOO!!!!! [The guards haul off Daniel, followed by the orderlies]

[utters single word from computer] Pretanama. [Visitorese for 'Peace']

Diana

[firm] It's not in our destiny.

Pretanama.

Diana

NO!