Watchers (1988)

Michael Ironside: Lem

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• Lem : [Lem shoots at Travis his mother and Tracy but Cliff stops him]  What?

  Cliff : What the hell are you doing? You're going to kill somebody!

  Lem : Understand this Cliff, none of these people can ever leave this place.

  Cliff : But it's a woman and a couple of kids, why!

  Lem : Because that's the way it's gotta be.

  Cliff : I can't and I won't do it.

  Lem : Okay, I'll do it myself

  Cliff : [disgusted]  Your a cold son-of-a-bitch

  Lem : That's right, I am. Remember I told you there were three biological experiments at Bannatyne. The Oxcom, the Dog, and their best animal. It's me Cliff, I'm the third experiment.

  Cliff : What makes you so... fuckin special?

  Lem : I'm the perfect killing machine, I've got no conscience.

  [Shoots and kills Cliff] 

• Lem : The oxcom and the dog they're like brothers.

  Cliff : How do you mean?

  Lem : The shared genetic material which was used in their creation, the oxcom, the dog and a third experiment.

  Cliff : Was the oxcom's hate for the dog a mistake?

  Lem : Yes, totally. No one knows why he ended up absolutely hating the dog. The dog was like a homing device, the creature a search and destroy missile. It would have been the perfect weapon had it worked

  [burns tape] 

  Lem : born a fighter, consumed in flames.

• Lem : [looking over photos]  This is where they kept them.

  Cliff : Any word on the device that triggered the explosion?

  Lem : No, and I doubt there ever will be. The people who did the job were top notch.

  Cliff : Jesus. Look at those bones.

  Lem : OXCOM 18. Outside Experimental Combat Mammal. They're were seven now there's only one.

  Cliff : Well now it's kind of nice to know that in the future though there may still be wars, we won't have to fight them.

  Lem : Well that's progress, isn't it?

  Cliff : Though its gonna be kinda hard to catch the one that got away. The ultimate predator.

  Lem : We just gotta be smarter than it is.

  Cliff : How smart is this thing?

  Lem : How smarts a crazy person?

• Lem : Listen.

  Sheriff Gaines : What?

  Lem : Can you hear them?

  Sheriff Gaines : Huh?

  Lem : The crickets they're talking to each other.

  Sheriff Gaines : Johnson I don't have the time, and I'm in no mood. Now what the hell happened? This got something to do with what went on down at Bannatyne?

  Lem : Yes. We called it the Francis project. Saint Francis of Assisi was a monk who had an affinity with animals he could communicate with them and we were developing new animals. animals with extraordinary mental abilities, animals with extraordinary physical powers.

  Sheriff Gaines : You mean like this thing which killed my partner you mean is intelligent?

  Lem : Yes.

  Sheriff Gaines : Well why doesn't somebody reason with it, can't you control it, it's got to be stopped.

  Lem : It's experimental, it has a mind that can reason but it's never been right emotionally.

  Sheriff Gaines : What do you mean?

  Lem : It's disturbed. Insane

  Sheriff Gaines : There's got to be some kind of pattern to this things actions.

  Lem : It's after a dog.

  Sheriff Gaines : A dog?

  Lem : A golden retriever, there was another experiment, like the creature it has some human genetic material it's almost human in its intelligence, almost.

  Sheriff Gaines : You bastards. Goddamned government thinks it can do any goddamn thing it likes. Is that all there is huh? these two animals, when we catch them it's going to be over?

  Lem : Sure Walt, everybody 'ill stop making weapons, then there'll be peace on Earth.

  [the sheriff starts to walk away] 

  Lem : Walt

  Sheriff Gaines : What?

  [Lem kills the sheriff] 

• Lem : [referring to the explosion]  Who escaped?

  Man on Boat : What makes you think anything lived through that?

  Lem : You called me. If you wanted to know who blew the place up you would've got phelan or Davis. You called me because I know Banodyne.

  Man on Boat : GH3.

  Lem : The dog? Of course he would have smelled the explosives.

  Man on Boat : And one of the Oxcom's.

  Lem : Number 7?

  [He nods his head] 

  Lem : Always the bad seed.

  Man on Boat : Cliff Somes is our local agent, keep him on a need-to-know basis.

  Lem : The dog still transmitting?

  Man on Boat : Yes.

  Lem : Are the Oxcom and the dog still telepathically linked?

  Man on Boat : On a bio-frequency that only the Oxcom can receive. We have a maximum of 72 hours before the Oxcom kills the dog amd anyone with him.

  Lem : You know whoever blew up Banodyne did you a big favor. This Oxcom projects been a total disaster.

  Man on Boat : Disaster? No. Behind schedule. Over budget. Results we never expected. But certainly not a disaster. Imangine 20 Oxcom's in the field, tracking their pray ceaselessly, gorging on their quarry, growing stronger with every kill. Drawn by a dog that insinuates itself into the enemy's camp, an innocent..

  Lem : Yeah well that's a nice scenario. But there's one big problem, the Oxcom's keep killing the dogs.

  Man on Boat : There are defects, will solve them on the next go-round. You just find them and bring them back.

  Lem : What if they don't want to come back?

  Man on Boat : Do your job.