John Doe Quotes in Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)

John Doe: I'm afraid of heights.

Woman in Plane: Don't be a pussy.

John Doe: [to Maggie] Look, do you have any, um... caffeine pills or coffee? Maybe some coke? I meant the soda.

John Doe: [talking about Spencers dream with Freddy] I have to go in.

Tracy: What about Freddy?

John Doe: Freddy won't hurt me, I'm family.

Tracy: Ok, so how you gonna go in?

John Doe: [picks up broken table leg] You're gonna have to lay me out.

Tracy: [grabs it] What? Wha...

John Doe: C'mon just fucking lay me out!

Tracy: Wait a second, Doc told me a different way. All you gotta do...

John Doe: There's no time to talk! Just do it!

[slaps her]

Tracy: [Tracy immediately belts him and knocks him into a dream]

John Doe: [after orienting himself] Jesus Christ.

Tracy: [five seconds later, Tracy materializes in the dream] I told you I knew an easier way. Concentration. Meditation. That's what Doc always says.

[John just stares at her]

Tracy: This place is incredible.

John Doe: I know why you let me go.

Freddy Krueger: Ohh. Do you think *I'm* your daddy? Mm-mm! Wrong!

[Freddy begins slicing at John's parachute line]

John Doe: But you let me live.

Freddy Krueger: Only long enough for to bring me back my daughter.

John Doe: Your daughter?

Freddy Krueger: [begins slicing away at other parachute line] And now, she's gonna take me to a whole new playground.

John Doe: No!

Freddy Krueger: [chops away at last line] Grounded!

John Doe: 4567 bottles of beer on the wall, 4567 bottles of beer, if one of those bottles should happen to fall, what a case of i...

[is hit with a pillow]

Angry Boy: Hell, I'll break a bottle over your head if you don't shut the fuck up!

John Doe: [glares] ... 4566 bottles of beer on the wall...

John Doe: Not again. He's not gonna get me again. Nothing is gonna make get off this bed.

[bedroom catches fire]

John Doe: Damn it! I hate this house.

John Doe: [looks at a child's drawing] "K. Krueger." Could mean anything from Kevin to Kyle.

Maggie Burroughs: All it really means is there was a child here by that name.

John Doe: No. It's me. I'm his kid. That's why he's kept me alive. He's trying to play some sick game with me.

Maggie Burroughs: *He* is dead, all right. He's dead, and your not his kid.

John Doe: How do you know?

[points at Orphanage Woman]

John Doe: She remembered me.

Maggie Burroughs: She remembered me, too, and 50 other imaginary friends. Let's get out of here.

John Doe: Free me, you idiot! I'm your fucking memory!

Springwood Teacher: Here's a crucial point! Anybody know what I'm getting at? Anybody? C'mon people! We covered this!

[jabs time line on chalkboard with pointer]

Springwood Teacher: This is where they took away his child!

John Doe: What child?

Springwood Teacher: Taken away, put in a town orphanage.

John Doe: [to Maggie] Freddy had a kid. Freddy had a kid!

[John and Maggie leave quickly]

Springwood Teacher: [to empty classroom again] Fourteen hundred and ninety four: Freddy came back... to look... for more...

John Doe: Carlos?

[Spencer crashes through kitchen window, flies across the table then finally ends up on the floor]

John Doe: I found Spencer!

John Doe: [Spencer is being violently attacked by Freddy in a dream] I'll go into his dream, I'll try and bring him out before he gets killed.

Maggie Burroughs: That's crazy.

[Spencer suddenly flies to his feet, launches into the ceiling and gets his head stuck]

John Doe: Well, what do you call that? Rational?

John Doe: Wanting people to listen, you can't just tap them on the shoulder anymore. You have to hit them with a sledgehammer, and then you'll notice you've got their strict attention.

David Mills: Wait, I thought all you did was kill innocent people.

John Doe: Innocent? Is that supposed to be funny? An obese man... a disgusting man who could barely stand up; a man who if you saw him on the street, you'd point him out to your friends so that they could join you in mocking him; a man, who if you saw him while you were eating, you wouldn't be able to finish your meal. After him, I picked the lawyer and I know you both must have been secretly thanking me for that one. This is a man who dedicated his life to making money by lying with every breath that he could muster to keeping murderers and rapists on the streets!

David Mills: Murderers?

John Doe: A woman...

David Mills: Murderers, John, like yourself?

John Doe: [interrupts] A woman... so ugly on the inside she couldn't bear to go on living if she couldn't be beautiful on the outside. A drug dealer, a drug dealing pederast, actually! And let's not forget the disease-spreading whore! Only in a world this shitty could you even try to say these were innocent people and keep a straight face. But that's the point. We see a deadly sin on every street corner, in every home, and we tolerate it. We tolerate it because it's common, it's trivial. We tolerate it morning, noon, and night. Well, not anymore. I'm setting the example. What I've done is going to be puzzled over and studied and followed... forever.

[William Somerset looks at an object in the road]

David Mills: What do you got?

William Somerset: Dead dog.

John Doe: I didn't do that.

John Doe: It's more comfortable for you to label me as insane.

David Mills: It's VERY comfortable.

John Doe: What sick ridiculous puppets we are / and what gross little stage we dance on / What fun we have dancing and fucking / Not a care in the world / Not knowing that we are nothing / We are not what was intended.

John Doe: Realize detective, the only reason that I'm here right now is that I wanted to be.

David Mills: No, no, we would have got you eventually.

John Doe: Oh really? So, what were you doing? Biding your time? Toying with me? Allowing five innocent people to die until you felt like springing your trap? Tell me, what was the indisputable evidence you were going to use on me right before I walked up to you and put my hands in the air?

John Doe: People will barely be able to comprehend it, but they won't be able to deny it.

John Doe: I visited your home this morning after you'd left. I tried to play husband. I tried to taste the life of a simple man. It didn't work out, so I took a souvenir... her pretty head.

John Doe: It seems that envy is my sin.

John Doe: [to Mills] Detective. Detective. DETECTIVE! You're looking for me.

John Doe: Become vengeance, David. Become wrath.

[picks up the phone]

David Mills: Hello?

John Doe: I admire you. I don't know how you found me, but imagine my surprise. I respect you law enforcement agents more everyday.

David Mills: Well, I appreciate that... John. I tell you...

John Doe: No, no, you listen, all right? I'll be readjusting my schedule in light of today's little... setback. I just had to call and express my admiration. Sorry I had to hurt... one of you, but I really didn't have a choice, did I?

David Mills: Hmm.

John Doe: You will accept my apology, won't you? I feel like saying more, but I don't want to ruin the surprise.

[hangs up]

John Doe: Nothing wrong with a man taking pleasure in his work. I won't deny my own personal desire to turn each sin against the sinner.

John Doe: Don't ask me to pity those people. I don't mourn them any more than I do the thousands that died at Sodom and Gomorrah.

William Somerset: Is that to say, John, that what you were doing was God's good work?

John Doe: The Lord works in mysterious ways.

John Doe: I spared you, David.

David Mills: Hold on John, I seem to remember us knocking on your door.

John Doe: Oh, that's right, and I seem to remember breaking your face.

John Doe: [about Tracy to Mills] She begged for her life...

William Somerset: Shut up!

John Doe: She begged for her life and...

William Somerset: Shut up!

John Doe: She begged for her life, and the life of the baby inside her.

William Somerset: [backhanding Doe] Shut up!

[Mills freezes in grieved disbelief, and Doe notices]

John Doe: [to Somerset] Oh...! He didn't know.

John Doe: I'm excited! I hope you are, too!

John Doe: I'm coming for you, my dear.