Aliens

Ripley: I don't understand this. We have been here for three and a half hours. How many different ways you want me to tell you the same story? Van Leuwen: Look at it from our perspective, please. [points at an empty chair] Please. [Ripley sits down] Now, you freely admit detonating the engines of, and thereby destroying an M-class star freighter, a rather expensive piece of hardware. Insurance attorney: Forty-two million in adjusted dollars. That's minus payload, of course. Van Leuwen: The lifeboat's flight recorder corroborates some parts of your account. In that for reasons unknown, the Nostromo set down on LV-426, an unsurveyed planet at that time. That it resumed its course and was subsequently set for self-destruct, by you, for reasons unknown. Ripley: Not for reasons unknown. I told you. We set down there on company's orders, to get this thing, which destroyed my crew. And your expensive ship. Van Leuwen: The analysis team, which went over the lifeboat centimeter by centimeter, f

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Ripley: Van Leuwen? Why don't you just check out LV-426? Van Leuwen: Because I don't have to. There have been people there for over twenty years and they never complained about any hostile organisms. Ripley: [alarmed] What do you mean? What people? Van Leuwen: Terraformers. Planetary engineers. They go down there and set up these big atmosphere processors to make the air breathable. It takes decades. That's what we call 'shake'n'bake colony' [he tries to leave, but Ripley blocks his way with her arm] Ripley: How many are there? How many colonists? Van Leuwen: I don't know. Sixty, maybe seventy families [looks pointedly at Ripley's arm] Do you mind? Ripley: [lets him go and speaks to herself] Families. Jesus.

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Ripley: I don't believe this. You guys throw me to the wolves, and now you want me to go back out there? Forget it. It's not my problem. Burke: Can I finish? Ripley: No. There's no way. Gorman: Ripley, you wouldn't be going in with the troops. I can guarantee your safety. Burke: These Colonial Marines are very tough hombres. They're packing state-of-the-art firepower. There's nothing they can't handle. Lieutenant, am I right? Gorman: That's true. We've been trained to deal with situations like this. Ripley: [scoffs] You don't need me. I'm not a soldier. Burke: Yeah, but we don't know exactly what's going on out there. It may just a downed transmitter, okay? But if it's not... I'd like you to go there as an adviser. And that's all. Ripley: What's your interest in all this? Why are you going? Burke: Corporation co-financed that colony along with Colonial Administration. We're going into a lot of terraforming, building better worlds- Ripley: Yeah, yeah, I saw the commercial. Look, I don't

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Burke: Hello? Ripley? You're okay? Ripley: Just tell me one thing, Burke. You're going out there to destroy them, right? Not to study, not to bring back, but to wipe them out. Burke: That's the plan. You have my word on it. Ripley: [pause] All right, I'm in [disconnects, then turns to Jones, her cat] And you, you little shithead, you're staying here.

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Drake: They ain't paying us enough for this, man. Dietrich: Not enough to wake up every day to your face, Drake. Drake: What? Is that a joke? Dietrich: Oh, I wish it were. Drake: Hey, Hicks. Man, you look just like I feel. Apone: [walking along the line of cryo pods] All right, sweethearts, what are you waiting for? Breakfast in bed? Another glorious day in the Corps! Day in the Marine Corps is like a day on the farm. Every meal's a banquet. Every paycheck a fortune. Every formation a parade. I love the Corps! Hudson: Man, this floor is freezing! Apone: What do you want me to do, fetch the slippers for ya? Hudson: Gee, would you, sir? I'd like that. Apone: [peels back his eyelid] Look into my eye!

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Vasquez: Hey, mira, who's Snow White? [indicates Ripley] Ferro: She's supposed to be some kind of consultant. Apparently, she saw an alien once. Hudson: Whoopee-fucking-doo. Hey, I'm impressed. Vasquez: ¡Que bonita! Hudson: Hey, Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man? Vasquez: No. Have you?

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