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Atoll enforcer: [To the Mariner having just arrived at the Atoll] You know me ? Mariner: I know what you are. Atoll enforcer: Good. Then you know if you look for trouble while you're here, you'll find more than you can handle. Atoll enforcer: You got two hours. Mariner: I'll only need one.

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Deacon: What you got? Nord: Couple of heartbeats over there. Aren't saying much. Deacon: [To two Atoll captives hanging up on gear spindles] If you'll notice the arterial nature of the blood coming from the hole in my head, you can assume that we're all having a real lousy day. So here it is, I need to know about that tattooed girl. First one that tells me lives. Atoll captive 1: I saw a girl. I saw... Atoll captive 2: It was... she had a big tattoo on her. Deacon: [Shoots Atoll captive 1, to Atoll captive 2] You won. Start over. Atoll captive 2: I saw a girl. I'm not sure, but I think she got on that boat with three hulls. Deacon: The boat that cost me 1,000 G's of go-juice? Atoll captive 2: Yeah, the mute-o's boat. Deacon: Mute-o? Atoll captive 2: Yeah. He got these slits here. Like... [laughs] like fish gills. He wasn't really a man. fluke of evolution. Deacon: Oh, I'm sorry. A fluke of, uh... Atoll captive 2: Evolution. Deacon: I know! Let's have an intelligent conversation here: I

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Depth Gauge: Sir? Your Deaconship? Good day! Or night. Whatever the case may be... Deacon: What is it? I'm a busy man. Depth Gauge: I thought you should know. There's exactly nine feet and four inches of THE BLACK STUFF... [the Deacon spits on the Depth Gauge's head] Oh, thank you!

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Deacon: [After the deck of the Deez clears, one lone figure walks toward the bridge] Why aren't you rowing? [The Mariner removes his mask] Nord: [Derisively laughs] It's him. Enola: It is him! You guys are in so much trouble! Deacon: Well, I'll be damned. It's the gentleman guppy. Nord: You know, he's like a turd that won't flush. Mariner: I want the girl. Deacon: You know, I thought you were stupid, friend. But I underestimated you. You are a total freaking retard! [Derisively laughs'] Mariner: I want the girl. That's all. Deacon: Well, what on this screwed-up earth of ours makes you think you're gonna get her? [The Mariner takes a flare from his belt, and holds it over a fume pipe leading down to the Deez's fuel hold] Mariner: You know what this is. I drop it, you burn. Doctor: We all burn... Deacon: Now-now-now, let's not do anything rash here. I mean, are you sure this kid is worth it? I mean, she never does stop talking, she never shuts up! Mariner: I noticed. Deacon: So what is i

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Deacon: [After the Doctor has been painting a ball bearing in the Deacon's eye socket to resemble a prosthesis] Well? How's it look? Smokers: Not bad, not bad at all... Doctor: I- I like it better than your real eye. Smokers: Much better. Deacon: What do you say, Toby? The truth. Toby: Looks like shit. Deacon: That's why I love children: no guile. [looks at his new eye in a mirror] It DOES look like shit! And it feels like cold shit! [Ball bearing falls out and rolls on floor]

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Mariner: Two drifters meet. Something needs to be exchanged. Drifter: I know the code. But I'll give this one to you for free. Mariner: Nothing's free in Waterworld.

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Helen: Did you see anything out there? Mariner: See what? Helen: An end, to all this water? Mariner: That old woman they buried today? She found the only end there is.

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Mariner: What are the markings on her back? Helen: Some say it's the way to dry land. Mariner: Dry land is a myth. Helen: No, you said it yourself, that you've seen it. Mariner: You're a fool to believe in something you've never seen. Helen: But the things on your boat...! Mariner: The things on my boat... WHAT?! Helen: There are things on your boat that no one has ever seen! These shells, the music box and the reflecting glass! Well, if not from dry land, then where?! Where?! Mariner: You wanna see dry land? You really wanna see it? I'll take you there.

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Deacon: [While holding Helen and the Mariner at gunpoint] All right, that's it! If you won't tell us where she is, let's just KILL 'EM ALL! [He fires a gun into the air] Enola: [Popping up from her hiding place] NO! Deacon: Ha-ha, so gullible!

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Nord: So which way we rowin'? Deacon: I don't have a goddamn clue. Don't worry, they'll row for a month before they figure out I'm fakin' it.

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Gregor: You see? Right down there. There's several of us survivors. We'll just start over again. Atoll survivor man 1: You can't ask us to go get her ! Atoll survivor woman 1: Enola's the reason we're in all this trouble. Helen: They don't have any reason to kill her. They need to find Dryland just like we do. Gregor: Of course. Helen: If the Mariner's willing to go, why not us ? Atoll survivor woman 1: If he wants to go, then let him ! Atoll survivor woman 2: We don't want you here! You or the girl ! Gregor: Helen. The papers the Mariner brought you, it's the same language the tattoo is written in. They're numbers. Atoll survivor man 1: Gregor, you're as crazy as she is ! Atoll survivor woman 1: We can't stay here ! Mariner: We're wasting valuable time. More Smokers will come. We need to be moving now! Gregor: My friends, don't you see we need this child if we want to find Dryland?

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Enola: You're not so tough, you know that? How many people have you killed? Ten? Twenty? Mariner: You talk a lot. Enola: I talk a lot because you don't talk at all. Now, how many? Mariner: Including little girls? Enola: I'm not afraid of you. I told Helen you wouldn't be so ugly if you cut your hair. Mariner: In fact, you talk all the time. It's like a storm when you're around!

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Enola: He's killed dozens of people, and he doesn't have any mercy or anything. He even kills little girls. Nord: Haven't we all?

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Helen: [Trying to stop Mariner from throwing Enola off the boat] She can cook. She can fish. Mariner: So can I. Helen: [Removing necklace] Here. Take my necklace. Take my necklace. Mariner: I got better ones below. Helen: No, look! After what you went through back there on the atoll, I can understand why you would want to. But she's a child.

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Helen: You've been there, haven't you? Dryland? You know where it is. Mariner: Yeah, I know where it is. Helen: And, uh, and we're going? Mariner: You and I are. The kid we gotta pitch over the side. Helen: What? Mariner: My boat's tore up. I'm taking on water. [Points to water filtration] I'd be lucky to get half a hydro ration out of that. Helen: You know, I said I won't drink. Mariner: For twelve days? Helen: [Nods] Mariner: No. It's better that one of you dies now, then both of you die slow. Helen: Wait, wait. We saved your life. We got you out. Mariner: No. You got me out so you could get out. We're even.