Russell Franklin Quotes in Deep Blue Sea (1999)

Russell Franklin: So here's the riddle. What does an eight thousand pound mako shark with a brain the size of a flat head V8 engine and no natural predators think about?

Carter Blake: Well, I'm not waiting around here to find out!

Janice Higgins: There's doctor Jim Whitlock, the most brilliant man ever!

Russell Franklin: He's pissing into the wind! How brilliant can he be?

Janice Higgins: You'll see!

Russell Franklin: Just what the hell did you do to those sharks?

Dr. Susan McCallister: Their brains weren't large enough to harvest sufficient amounts of the protein complex. So we violated the Harvard Compact. Jim and I used gene therapies to increase their brain mass. A larger brain means more protein. As a side effect the sharks got smarter.

Janice Higgins: You stupid bitch!

Russell Franklin: You think water moves fast? You should see ice. It moves like it has a mind. Like it knows it killed the world once and got a taste for murder. After the avalanche, it took us a week to climb out. Now, I don't know exactly when we turned on each other, but I know that seven of us survived the slide... and only five made it out. Now we took an oath, that I'm breaking now. We said we'd say it was the snow that killed the other two, but it wasn't. Nature is lethal but it doesn't hold a candle to man.

Russell Franklin: Was that a goddamn shark broke through that door?

Carter Blake: I expect so.

Russell Franklin: You expect so? Huh. Well, well, well. Am I the only asshole down here who thinks that a tad bit odd?

Russell Franklin: It can do that? Bust through a steel door?

Preacher: You're the guy that got caught in that avalanche, right?

Russell Franklin: Yeah, I'm the one.

Preacher: Like black men don't have enough ways to get killed without climbing up some stupid ass mountain in the middle of God's nowhere! You leave that to the white folks! Brother!

Dr. Susan McCallister: Tell me Mr. Franklin, have you ever known anyone with Alzheimer's?

Russell Franklin: Well, no.

Dr. Susan McCallister: By the end all my father could do was ask why my mother wasn't at home, and each time I told him she was dead I had to watch him take that loss like a car wreck. 200,000 men and women develop Alzheimer's each year! What if you could end all that suffering with a single pill? Give me till Monday morning, 48 hours. I'll give you results that'll skyrocket your stock price or I'll help you pack the lab myself. It's your call.

Russell Franklin: Hey, an AGA mask! Did some wreck diving in one of these off the coast of Spain. Tourist thing, you know. You like wreck diving?

Carter Blake: It's okay.

Russell Franklin: Come on, I bet you're really good at it!

Carter Blake: We're on the water. Whole cat-and-mouse thing don't float. You're the man, right?

Russell Franklin: Yeah. Yeah, I'm the man.

Carter Blake: Well, the man's always got a file. What's it say?

Russell Franklin: Two years, Leavenworth, smuggling.

Carter Blake: How'd you make your money? You're the first rich guy in history who's squeaky-clean?

Russell Franklin: You do understand my concern, right?

Carter Blake: Look, I got a workable deal here. I don't make waves, I meet the terms of my parole. I'm not out to change the world like the doc, and I'm not out to wreck it either.

Russell Franklin: What in God's creation?

Jim Whitlock: Oh, not His. Ours.

Russell Franklin: Well I'll be damned.

Jim Whitlock: No, Mr.Franklin you've just seen what it like *not* to be damned.