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Paycheck (2003) More at IMDb Pro »

Jimmy Rethrick: I am the future.

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Rachel Porter: You don't remember me.

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Michael Jennings: If you love me, if you care about me, go. Have a good life. Remember me.

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Jimmy Rethrick: And what were you doing during all of this?
Wolfe: I was eating pie.

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[Michael begins to suspect that the woman with him isn't really Rachel]
Michael Jennings: What's my favorite baseball team?
Maya: What?
Michael Jennings: What's my favorite baseball team?
[Maya pulls out a gun]
Maya: Who cares?
[Rachel appears behind Maya and knocks her out]
Rachel Porter: That would be the Red Sox?

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[after seeing Michael's future demise on the machine]
Jimmy Rethrick: Mr. Jennings has a date on the catwalks. Let's make sure he makes it.

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[after having his three-year memory erased]
Michael Jennings: What happened?

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Jimmy Rethrick: Michael, you're done!

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James Rethrick: Michael Jennings is not a super agent, he's an engineer.

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Shorty: Say one word about this hat, and I'm outta here.

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Rachel Porter: Hey, I said you were okay, okay?
Michael Jennings: Okay!

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[first lines]
Holographic Woman: It's time to wake up... and get a life. We live in a 3-dimensional world. Until now, the world of computing has been a flat world, consisting of 2-dimensional imagery. Now, through the use of exclusive breakthrough technology, ARC has made it possible for you to get a life. A-Life, where we can work and play in a lifelike world of 3-dimensional reality. A-Life, the living monitor.

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[last lines]
Shorty: You know what? I think now's probably a good time to discuss my commission, 33%.
Michael Jennings: I thought it was 5.
Shorty: No, 33 percent.
Michael Jennings: 33 percent!
Rachel Porter: He deserves it.
Shorty: It was found on my premises.
Michael Jennings: I'll get back to you. I'm gonna cash this in.
[arguing continues, indistinctly]

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Rachel Porter: Some of the best things in life are total mistakes.

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Michael Jennings: If you only look where you can't go, you might just miss the riches below.

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Jimmy Rethrick: Hey, Mike, you remember when we were kids - we wanted to change the world?
Michael Jennings: I thought we wanted to *save* the world, Jimmy.
Jimmy Rethrick: [he shrugs] That's semantics.

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Rachel Porter: I want to save the world.
Michael Jennings: I don't think I'm your guy. But would you settle for someone who wants to help you change it?
Rachel Porter: Hmm, OK!
Michael Jennings: Good.

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Shorty: Whoa, whoa, whoa, don't leave me alone.
Michael Jennings: What? You'll be okay. Talk. Mingle.
[leaves]
Shorty: [looks around] I don't want to mingle.

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Shorty: [after being shot at] Great seein' ya again Mike!

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[as Michael and Rachel are kissing]
Shorty: Break it up! Break it up! The bird man cometh!

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Shorty: C'mon, don't be mean to the one that does everything for you.

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Michael Jennings: Wait, I remember these birds...
Shorty: Oh, great. You can see into the future but all you remember are Polly and Tweety?

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