The Ninth Configuration (1980)

Ed Flanders: Col. Richard Fell

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• Colonel Kane : Maybe we're just fish out of water.

  Col. Richard Fell : What was that?

  Colonel Kane : I just think about sickness, cancer in children, earthquakes, war, painful death. Death, just death. If these things are just part of our natural environment why do we think of them as evil? Why do they horrify us so?... unless we were meant for someplace else.

• Col. Richard Fell : [looking at a skull on his desk]  Don't blame me, I told them not to operate.

• Colonel Kane : What do you see?

  Captain Cutshaw : An old woman in funny clothes throwing poison darts at a buffalo.

  Col. Richard Fell : Bison.

• Captain Cutshaw : My god, Rick, help me!

  Col. Richard Fell : Casablanca.