The Fly

Veronica: [recording him with a camera] We've gotta do this, Seth. Talk to the tape. Get in the habit. The world will want to know what you're thinking-- Seth: [angrily] "FUCK" is what I'm thinking! Veronica: Good... The world will want to know that... What else? Why didn't it work? Seth: [more calmly] I think it turned the baboon inside-out. Veronica: Why? Seth: It can't cope with the flesh. It only seems to work on inanimate objects; nothing that's living. Must be my fault. Veronica: Why? Seth: Computers are dumb. They only know what you tell them. I must not know enough about the flesh myself. I'm gonna have to learn. [is silent for a moment] I don't wanna talk now.

The Fly (1986 film), CC BY-SA 4.0

Veronica: Those weird hairs growing out of your back, I took them to a lab. I had them analyzed. Seth: The hairs? The hairs? Oh. Yeah, that’s a strange thing to do. Veronica: Not as strange as the results. The guy at the lab had trouble identifying them. He finally came to the conclusion that they were definitely not human. Seth: [points upwards] Oh, very good. Veronica: Not human, Seth. In fact, very likely insect hairs. Seth: [scared; in denial] That's silly, that's ridiculous-- Veronica: Look, now there's more. Look at your face... Something happened when you went through, Seth. You've got to get some help, I think you must be sick-- Seth: [exploding] YOU'RE JEALOUS!! I've become free, I've been released and you can't stand it! You'll do anything to bring me down! Come here, does this look sick? Does this look like a sick man to you? Veronica: No, stop it! Seth: Know any sick man who can do that?!

The Fly (1986 film), CC BY-SA 4.0

Seth: I seem to be stricken by a disease with a purpose, wouldn't you say? Maybe not such a bad disease after all. Veronica: I can't stay here. Seth: [jumps down onto floor] No, no, no! Why not? Why can't you? Veronica: I can't take it... It's too much. Seth: What's there to take? The disease has just revealed its purpose. We don't have to worry about contagion anymore, I know what the disease wants. Veronica: Turned into what? Seth: What do you think, a fly? Am I becoming a hundred-and-eighty-five pound fly? No, I'm becoming something that's never existed before. I'm becoming... Brundlefly. Don't you think that's worth a Nobel Prize or two?

The Fly (1986 film), CC BY-SA 4.0

Seth: You have to leave now, and never come back here. Have you ever heard of insect politics? [Veronica shakes her head] Neither have I. Insects don't have politics. They're very brutal. No compassion, no compromise. We can't trust the insect. I'd like to become the first insect politician. Y'see, I'd like to, but...I'm afraid... [groans] Veronica: I don't know what you're trying to say! Seth: I'm saying... I'm saying I-I'm an insect who dreamt he was a man, and loved it. But now the dream is over...and the insect is awake. Veronica: No, no, Seth... Seth: I'm saying...I'll hurt you if you stay.

The Fly (1986 film), CC BY-SA 4.0

Seth: Help me. Help me be human. Veronica: How? Seth: [indicating the appropriate telepods] Well, I go there, and you go there. We come apart, and then we come together there. You, me and the baby. Together. [starts the countdown] Veronica: No... Seth: We'll be the ultimate family. A family of three, joined together in one body. More human than I am alone. Veronica: No!!

The Fly (1986 film), CC BY-SA 4.0