Howell Quotes in Shipwrecked (1990)

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Howell Quotes:

  • Merrick: Officer Howell.

    Howell: Merrick?

    Merrick: Yes, it's me.

    Howell: Impossible. Merrick died.

    Merrick: The British Navy did its best, but I'm still alive, my friend.

  • Col. Breen: Mars is dead, nothing there but a few scraps of lichen.

    Professor Bernard Quatermass: Five million years ago it may have been very different. Suppose at that time there were living beings on it with techniques that let them visit the Earth at a time when the most highly evolved creatures here, our own ancestors, were only a type of Pliocene ape.

    Minister of Defense: Go on.

    Professor Bernard Quatermass: They may have wanted to found another colony, when their own world was doomed, but couldn't endure our atmosphere, so they experimented.

    Minister of Defense: Oh, and the insects were responsible?

    Professor Bernard Quatermass: There is clearly some connection. My guess is that those were ape mutations being brought back for release on Earth.

    Col. Breen: And you really believe this was possible? That apes were systematically taken from this planet to another and...

    Professor Bernard Quatermass: Altered, by selective breeding, atomic surgery, methods we can't guess, and with new faculties instilled in them, high intelligence, perhaps something else.

    Howell: In effect, a colonization.

    Professor Bernard Quatermass: It would be a way of possessing the Earth. Only a colony by proxy, but better than leaving nothing at all behind.

    Howell: Surely it had to be carried out on a hugh scale.

    Professor Bernard Quatermass: Yes, if I'm right, if I'm right, we've come on a single instance, probably an accident, a landing that went wrong and they all died. The Thames valley was swamp then.

    Minister of Defense: You realize what you are implying? That we owe our human condition here to the intervention of insects.

    Professor Bernard Quatermass: I suppose I am.

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