Quotes

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Coroner Putnam: I finished the autopsy on Gramps Johnson. Do you want it technical or plain? Trooper Capt. Fred Edwards: Just plain, Doc. Get to the verb. Coroner Putnam: Well, Old Man Johnson could've died in any one of five ways: His neck and back were broken, his chest was crushed, his skull was fractured... and here's one for Sherlock Holmes - there was enough formic acid in him to kill twenty men.

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Robert Graham: Pat, if these monsters got started as a result of the first atomic bomb in 1945, what about all the others that have been exploded since then? Dr. Patricia 'Pat' Medford: I don't know. Dr. Harold Medford: Nobody knows, Robert. When Man entered the atomic age, he opened a door into a new world. What we'll eventually find in that new world, nobody can predict.

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Robert Graham: And I thought today was the end of them. Dr. Harold Medford: No. We haven't seen the end of them. We've only had a close view of the beginning of what may be the end of us.

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Dr. Patricia 'Pat' Medford: [observing the tunnel walls] Look! Held together with saliva! Police Sgt. Ben Peterson: Yeah! Spit's all that's holding me together right now, too.