Dan Cain Quotes in Re-Animator (1985)

Dan Cain: [Dan's cat has died and been found in Herbert's refrigerator] You can call, or write a note.

Herbert West: I was busy pushing bodies around as you well know and what would a note say, Dan? "Cat dead, details later"?

[Visiting the morgue]

Dan Cain: What if we get caught?

Herbert West: What'll they do? Embalm us?

Dan Cain: He's dead?

Herbert West: Not anymore.

Dan Cain: [meeting for the first time] So West, what kind of medicine are you involved in?

Herbert West: Death.

Herbert West: Meatball?

Dan Cain: Just put your shoes on.

Dan Cain: [about the cat] He couldn't have been dead!

Herbert West: Do you agree that he's dead now?

[Picks up cat's body and drops it onto table]

Herbert West: Do you agree that he's dead now?

Herbert West: [reading off toe tags in the morgue] Burn victim.

Herbert West: Here's your meatball.

Herbert West: Shotgun wound to the head

Dan Cain: Oh god he's rotten.

Herbert West: [amused] Malpractice.

Herbert West: Hill! Hill took my serum, my notes, everything!

Dan Cain: Herbert you're insane! Now what happened here?

Herbert West: I had to kill him!

Dan Cain: What? He's dead?

Herbert West: [reluctantly] Not anymore.

Dan Cain: Herbert!

[grabbing Herbert and shaking him]

Dan Cain: This has got to stop!

Dan Cain: You're alive!

Gloria: Alive.

Dan Cain: She's alive!

Dan Cain: She's gonna be uncontrollably spastic.

Dan Cain: I'm a doctor!

Dr. Herbert West: ...who will be a scientist.

Dan Cain: I'm moving out.

Dr. Herbert West: What?

Dan Cain: I'm moving out.

Dr. Herbert West: Dan, you can't turn your back on this, this is the key to creating life. Parts... re-animated parts!

Dan Cain: We're trying to save whole people, not parts.

Dr. Herbert West: Exactly! And what are people over and above a collection of living parts? We can create new life!

Dan Cain: This morbid doodling with human body parts... is this what it's all about? Is this what all our great work has led to?

Dr. Herbert West: Exactly what are you insinuating?

Dan Cain: This is madness... it had nothing to do with me!

Dr. Herbert West: Oh, I see!

Dan Cain: No!

Dr. Herbert West: Oh, I didn't see. I didn't see you rejecting my work when Meg was lying there dead. Where were your great ideals then?

Dan Cain: Don't!