The Ray Bradbury Theater (TV Series)

A Sound of Thunder (1989)

Kiel Martin: Eckles

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Quotes 

• Travis : If we kill a mouse here, all the future family of that mouse is killed, right? And all the families of all the families. You step on a mouse, you annihilate one, a thousand, a million possible mice.

  Eckles : Well?

  Travis : Well... For want of ten mice, a fox dies. For want of a fox, a lion starves. For want of a lion, infinite billions of life forms cease to exist. A caveman goes hunting, but you, friend, have stepped on all his lions. The caveman starves. From his loins might have sprung ten sons. From these a hundred. Kill this one man, you destroy a race of people, an entire history of life. Europe remains forever a dark forest. Step on a mouse, you leave your print like a grand canyon across eternity. So stay on the path!

• Eckles : Does the safari guarantee I come back alive?

  Agent : We guarantee nothing, except the dinosaurs.

• Travis : Didn't you write a book... "Dinosaurs I Have Known"?

  Eckles : Mere fantasy.

  Travis : Right. You've known nothing until today.

• Eckles : Every hunter that ever lived would envy us today. Huh. From now on, Africa will seem like Illinois.

  Travis : Have you ever visited Hell, Mr. Eckles? Until you visit Hell, don't make comparisons.

  Eckles : I'm ready.

  Travis : Yes.