She-Wolf of London (TV Series)
The Wild Hunt (1990)
Neil Dickson: Dr. Ian Matheson
Quotes
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[Randi explores an ugly scrapyard while Ian ponders a map]
Randi Wallace : A relaxing weekend away, you said. In a charming pastoral setting, you said.
Dr. Ian Matheson : I knew I should have made a left when I made a right.
Randi Wallace : You'll love the quaint cottages, you said.
Dr. Ian Matheson : Or was it a right at the left?
Randi Wallace : Can't beat the clean country air, you said.
Dr. Ian Matheson : I knew it. We should have gone straight. Have no fear, we shall soon be at our destination.
[when Ian starts his car its engine breaks down in smoking ruin]
Dr. Ian Matheson : Well, what do you know? We're here.
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Randi Wallace : Ian. Ian. Ian, wake up!
Dr. Ian Matheson : I am awake. I expect the entire town is awake.
Randi Wallace : If they're not, then they should be because I just saw a madman on a horse and he was dragging a headless corpse.
Dr. Ian Matheson : That's nice.
Randi Wallace : How can you sleep when there's a lunatic roaming the streets?
Dr. Ian Matheson : Because I didn't eat a herd of cattle for dinner.
Randi Wallace : This was not a dream.
Dr. Ian Matheson : Not to mention a whole hog's worth of bacon and whatever kind of diseased animal they use to make *hot dogs*.
Randi Wallace : I know what I saw.
Dr. Ian Matheson : I *know* what you ate.
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Randi Wallace : There's something strange going on in this town.
Dr. Ian Matheson : So?
Randi Wallace : So? Is that all you can say, "So?"
Dr. Ian Matheson : Would you prefer, "So what?"
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Dr. Ian Matheson : We must leave. How about a rent-a-car?
Mechanic : No.
Dr. Ian Matheson : A horse and a carriage?
Mechanic : No.
Dr. Ian Matheson : A bus that comes through? A delivery truck? Anything?
Mechanic : No.
Dr. Ian Matheson : Are you telling me there's no transportation in our out of here?
Mechanic : Yes. You see, that's why people come to our lovely resort community - to escape the hustle and bustle of city life.
Dr. Ian Matheson : And how do they escape from here?
Mechanic : They don't.
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[with their car broken down and the full moon approaching, Ian has forged makeshift shackles to restrain Randi]
Dr. Ian Matheson : Comfy?
Randi Wallace : If this is your idea of a weekend getaway, I can't imagine what you'd do with a full vacation.
Dr. Ian Matheson : Believe me, this is not what I had in mind. I was hoping for something more picturesque.
Randi Wallace : Romantic.
Dr. Ian Matheson : Secluded.
Randi Wallace : Just us.
Dr. Ian Matheson : Well, we're alone. I got that part right.
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Betty Biddles : Look, a hundred years ago, this whole area was farmland only nothing was growing. The townspeople were poor, hungry and ill, but he still had a rich harvest to hoe, a huge forest to hunt.
Harley Clayton : He wouldn't share so much as an ear of corn. If he caught someone on his land, the son-of-a-bitch would hunt him down, kill him.
Dr. Ian Matheson : That must have done wonders for the property prices in the area.
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Dr. Ian Matheson : I don't understand this. Why don't we all just leave?
Betty Biddles : When we killed the Huntsman, we understood why his crops were so bountiful.
Dr. Ian Matheson : We? I thought all this happened a hundred years ago.
Betty Biddles : It did. I'm a 134 years old.
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[Ian and Randi prepare to return home]
Randi Wallace : A relaxing weekend away, you said.
Dr. Ian Matheson : The Huntsman came back from the grave simply to get his land back and when he did, and when the land was his again, he ceased to be.
Randi Wallace : In a charming pastoral setting, you said.
Dr. Ian Matheson : Or did he? Is there a metaphysical force remaining even though his physical manifestation has vanished?
Randi Wallace : Can't beat the clean country air, you said.
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Harley Clayton : If the Huntsman so much as thinks we tried to help him, we'll be dead, too!
Dr. Ian Matheson : Dead as in inconvenienced, disappointed, ripped off, or dead as in...
Betty Biddles : Dead! As in your head sliced off; your twitchin' corpse dragged through the streets on the Huntsman's robe.
Dr. Ian Matheson : Oh. That dead.
Harley Clayton , Betty Biddles : That dead.
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Betty Biddles : The Huntman was a warlock. He enchanted his land. Everything on it prospered, includin' him. He hadn't aged a day. We built the docks on his land, so now we don't change, either, but if we leave, we'll age again like normal people.
Dr. Ian Matheson : And for that, you're willing to live in this wasteland and let him pick you off one by one?