30 Days of Night (2007)

Josh Hartnett: Eben Oleson

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• Sheriff Eben Oleson : Hell of a day.

  The Stranger : Just you wait.

• Deputy Billy Kitka : You know, Beau's not so bad. Why'd you bother writing him up?

  Sheriff Eben Oleson : He lives all alone out there on the south ridge. A little citation now and then lets him know he's a part of this town.

• Sheriff Eben Oleson : Stop the truck.

  Stella Oleson : What?

  Sheriff Eben Oleson : Stop the fucking truck!

  [Stella stops and they get out] 

  Sheriff Eben Oleson : I thought I saw something.

  [Stella looks through binoculars] 

  Stella Oleson : Get in the truck.

  Sheriff Eben Oleson : What?

  Stella Oleson : Get in the fucking truck!

• Stella Oleson : I should have fought harder, kept Wilson here.

  Sheriff Eben Oleson : It's hard to stop someone when their family's at stake. The things you'll do to save your own.

  Stella Oleson : We were like that once... weren't we?

• Sheriff Eben Oleson : [upon finding Beau working on his truck]  Got a problem?

  Beau Brower : Nothing I can't handle my own fucking self.

  [Eben sees oil leaking from his truck] 

  Sheriff Eben Oleson : This for generators?

  Beau Brower : Yeah. Yeah, mostly.

  Sheriff Eben Oleson : Well, Beau, I'm going to have to cite you for it. I can't have it leaking all over the street.

  Beau Brower : What? For that? You don't... you don't have to cite me. You don't have to do anything. Isn't that why we live out here? You know, for a little freedom?

  Sheriff Eben Oleson : [handing Beau the citation]  Happy motoring.

• Sheriff Eben Oleson : They're burning down the town.

  Denise : Nobody will know what happened. They'll just think it was some horrible accident.

  Lucy Ikos : Next time they'll take out Point Hope, Wainwright.

• The Stranger : Mr. and Mrs. Sheriff. So sweet. So helpless against what is coming.

  Stella Oleson : He's just trying to freak us out.

  Jake Oleson : It's working.

  Sheriff Eben Oleson : We have more important things to think about. I'll check on Gus.

  The Stranger : Check on Gus. Board the windows. Try to hide. They're coming. This time they're gonna take me with them... honor me. Yeah. For all that I have done.

  Sheriff Eben Oleson : They? Who are they?

• The Stranger : No whiskey. No rum.

  Lucy Ikos : Alcohol's illegal this month. Folks have hard enough time in the dark without booze making it worse.

  The Stranger : Well forget about... the liquor, Lucy. Just bring me a bowl of raw hamburger.

  Lucy Ikos : You can only get meat two ways around here - frozen or burned.

  [the Stranger grabs Lucy's hand] 

  The Stranger : You don't bring me what I want to eat. What I want to drink.

  Sheriff Eben Oleson : That's enough, pal. Leave the lady be.

  [the Stranger releases Lucy, and Eben sits down next to him at the counter] 

  Sheriff Eben Oleson : Hey, what do you say the two of us go outside and have a little talk, huh?

  The Stranger : Now what's wrong with a man who wants a little fresh meat?

  Sheriff Eben Oleson : Come on. You and me. Let's go. I'm taking you outside.

  [the Stranger suddenly gets up and faces him] 

  The Stranger : I would like to see that.

• Deputy Billy Kitka : [overlooking the final sunset]  I brought Peggy here on our first date.

  Sheriff Eben Oleson : Yeah, we all did.

  [Billy turns and looks at Eben] 

  Sheriff Eben Oleson : Not Peggy, of course.

• Sheriff Eben Oleson : [yelling to distract the vampires]  Come on, motherfuckers!

• [last lines] 

  Stella Oleson : What did you do to yourself?

  Sheriff Eben Oleson : What I had to. Should I go after them?

  [Stella shakes her head] 

  Sheriff Eben Oleson : It's almost dawn. We made it.

  Stella Oleson : Eben... the dawn...

• Sheriff Eben Oleson : [upon seeing pictures of Carter's family]  Can't your wife bring you up a sweater or two? Or bring the whole tribe up while she's at it?

  Carter Davies : They'll come when they're ready, I guess.

• Sheriff Eben Oleson : We'll sleep in shifts. We'll ration our food, and then we'll figure out the next step. We have two advantages - we know this town, and we know the cold. We live here for a reason: because nobody else can.

• Sheriff Eben Oleson : [to the Stranger]  Let me tell you what I got. You don't work at the refinery. You didn't fly in; somebody'd seen you. And you're definitely not from around here. How'd you get in?

  [the Stranger remains silent] 

  Sheriff Eben Oleson : All right. Well, we got a long time to figure this out. Nobody's coming for you for a month.

  [the Stranger smiles] 

• The Stranger : They didn't take me.

  Sheriff Eben Oleson : Who did they take?

  The Stranger : [upset]  They didn't take me!

• Sheriff Eben Oleson : All right, time to talk. Who are you here with? Who are you here with?

  [the Stranger whimpers in pain] 

  Sheriff Eben Oleson : Who did that to Gus?

  The Stranger : You're a dead man.

  Sheriff Eben Oleson : Where are they?

  The Stranger : [while foaming at the mouth]  I don't talk to dead men. I don't talk to dead men!

  Sheriff Eben Oleson : Well, if I'm dead no one lets you loose from here.

  The Stranger : You're all dead!

• [first lines] 

  Sheriff Eben Oleson : Strange.

• Sheriff Eben Oleson : I can smell your blood.

• Sheriff Eben Oleson : Yeah, it worked. But they're gonna cut off the power, so...

  [the power suddenly goes out] 

• [upon finding a bag of pot at the sheriff's station] 

  Sheriff Eben Oleson : What the hell is that?

  Jake Oleson : It's pot. It helps her with her cancer.

  Helen Munson : Didn't tell you I got a little greenhouse at home. Didn't want you arresting me.

  Sheriff Eben Oleson : Now I know why you wanted to go live with grandma.