Clyne Quotes in Spectral (2016)

Clyne: I think you're reaching.

Fran Madison: Our business requires us to make suppositions.

Clyne: My business requires us to prove them. Your technician's job is to find glitches, so, he sees glitches. Your job is to find the enemy, so, you see the enemy. Locals believe in spirits, so they see spirits. Everyone is biased in one way or another. So, my answer to you right now is that we lack data to support any theory.

Clyne: So, maybe there are things science can't answer.

[powering down]

Fran Madison: No. Wait, no. This is why we came here. This is the evidence. This is why you came, remember? Remember? So many people have died. You said it. You said, "I wanna know why."

Clyne: I know enough.

Fran Madison: You have to think about the bigger picture.

Clyne: I am.

[throws the switch]

Fran Madison: These are from real corpses.

Clyne: Each one is made from a real person. They're alive? They're not alive. They're not dead. They're just trapped somewhere in between.

Clyne: [about Sessions men gearing up again] They don't stop, do they?

Fran Madison: I don't think they know how.

[at around 6:30 minutes a team of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency officials are observing a Lab test of a potential weapon for use on the battlefield]

DoD official: Can you try this on living things?

Dr. Mindala: That wasn't our intent here... initially.

DoD official: We'd like you to test it.

Clyne: Any volunteers?

[several people around the lab chuckle under their breath]