Technician Quotes in AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004)

[first lines]

Technician: Hey. Hey, hey, come here, take a look at this.

Technician: Sir, the oxygen level is bottoming out in Sector G. What do you want me to do about it?

Vilos Cohaagen: [as if obvious] Don't do anything.

Technician: But they won't last an hour, sir.

Vilos Cohaagen: Fuck 'em. It'll be a good lesson to the others.

Ross: Shut down all power to the main hall.

Technician: Sir?

Ross: Show him the way out. We'll fight him outside.

Peter Martin: What's the matter with you?

Technician: Hold out your hands. Lemme see your hands!... You're a guest! You really gave me a scare. Look, ah, everything's broken down! The machines have gone crazy!

Peter Martin: You know about the machines?

Technician: Yeah. I repair 'em.

Peter Martin: There's one chasing me now... a gunslinger.

Technician: Gunslinger... must be a model 404, maybe a 406. If he's a 406, he's got all the sensory equipment... Ah! it's a beautiful machine!

Peter Martin: He's after me!

Technician: I don't doubt it!

Peter Martin: What can I do?

Technician: There's nothing you can do! If he's after you, he'll get you! You haven't got a chance!

Peter Martin: There must be something!

Technician: Oh, don't kid yourself! There's things you could try... acid for his visual systems... noise for his hearing... no matter what you do, he'll always be one step ahead of you! You haven't got a chance!

Peter Martin: Yes, I do.

Chief Sterns: O'Neil... get in here!

April O'Neil: [to the technician on her way in] Time me.

Chief Sterns: Just what is it you hope to accomplish out there, besides BUSTING MY CHOPS?

April O'Neil: I think you know just as much as I do about this Foot Clan and I don't think you're doing anything about it.

Chief Sterns: You expect me to waste precious manpower because some immigrants are reminded of something that supposedly happened, years ago in Japan!

April O'Neil: Have you got anything else?

Chief Sterns: Are you tryin' to tell me HOW TO DO MY JOB?

Technician: [cut to April running out of the office, he checks his watch] 1:07. A new record.

Female Technician: Have you got the answer to Hydronaut's question?

Technician: I'm just sending it out now.

Dr. Philip Volker: ANFSQ7. Answer my request. Top priority reply. Computer analysis as follows: rook takes queen, check.

[Several technicians dump boxes containing the same equipment and tools that the astronauts have with them onto a table]

Technician: We've got to find a way to make this

[square CSM LiOH canister]

Technician: fit into the hole for this

[round LEM canister]

Technician: ... using nothing but that.

Technician: How much power have we got to work with?

John Aaron, EECOM Arthur: Barely enough to run this coffee pot for nine hours.

Jerry Bostick - FIDO White: Looks like Mrs. Kranz pulled out the ol' needle and thread again...

Technician: Last one looked like he bought it off a gypsy.

Jerry Bostick - FIDO White: Well I guess you can't argue with tradition.

Technician: [Gene puts on a flight vest with an Apollo 13 patch on it, everyone begins applauding] Hey Gene, I guess we can go now!

Gene Kranz: Save it for splashdown fellas...

Technician: [presenting Hawking with the speech-generating device] Welcome to the future.

Stephen Hawking: [speaks for the first time] My name is Stephen Hawking...

Jane Hawking: [astonished] It's American!

Technician: Is that a problem?

Jane Hawking: Oh, my goodness, well... is there another voice?

Technician: It's the only one lately I have at the moment.

Jane Hawking: [smiles with delight] I think it's great!

Announcer: Welcome to Eyewitness News at Six, with Susan Ortega, Evan Baxter, Fred Donahue Sports, Dallas Coleman Weather. And now, Buffalo's Number One News Team.

Susan Ortega: Good Evening and welcome to Eyewitness News at Six. I'm Susan Ortega.

Evan Baxter: And I'm Evan Baxter and here's what's making news. A potential scandal with the Buffalo P.D. surfaced today when the mayor d-bow debit

[choked off]

Evan Baxter: [high pitched] D-bow d-bit d-bow

[unintelligible chicken squawking]

Evan Baxter: Bucka-bow, dee buck.

Director: Someone get him some water please.

Susan Ortega: Looks like my new co-anchor may need a glass of water.

Evan Baxter: [clears throat] Oh, there we go. Sorry about that. In other news the Prime Minister of Sweden visited Washington today and my tiny little nipples went to France.

Director: What'd he just say? Check the prompter.

Technician: The prompter's fine.

Director: Evan, READ THE COPY. Please. The copy's good. Just read it.

Evan Baxter: The White House reception committee greeted the Prime Ribroast Minister and... I do the cha-cha like a sissy girl. I lik-a do da cha-cha. I'm sorry we seem to be having some technical difficulties. In other news

[breaks wind]

Evan Baxter: Ohhhh. My apologies. Bulla blah, bulla blabity bulla bla

[rapid unitelligible gibberish]

Evan Baxter: Blabity blab bulla blah

[explosive gibberish]

Evan Baxter: [continues for 35 seconds]

[vaguely Chinese]

Evan Baxter: Kaa kaa poo poo. PEE PEE

[nervous laugh]

Mission Director: [Machine systems integration test: Unusual vibrations are occurring] David, we're not seeing anything abnormal down here

David Drumlin: No good! Hold the sequence. I'm gonna take a direct reading.

Mission Director: What the hell's he talking about?

Technician: Can anyone say "grandstanding"?

2nd Technician: He sure knows *he's* on TV.

Communications: [heavy Texas accent] Back home, that's what we call a "overcooked ham".

General Jonathan B. Thompson: Well, this confirms my first guess. The only answer is to blast that thing out of the sky.

Technician: We'll never make it, chief, it's coming too fast.

General Jonathan B. Thompson: We'll just have to move faster.

Mattson: Goor morning, Mr. Sullivan.

Mr. Sullivan: I have an important meeting in a few minutes with some very jittery stockholders Mattson. I hope you have good news for me.

Mattson: Yes sir, I do sir. Every supermarket tabloid in the country's running headlines about Andy Barclay and his killer Good Guy doll.

Mr. Sullivan: What about his mother and the police were on the case?

Mattson: The police were smart, they denied everything. Which is fine which means now they can't hurt us. But, the mother's a different matter. She backed up her boy's story in court, so now she's under psychiatric observation.

Mr. Sullivan: Where's the boy now?

Mattson: Midtown Children's Crisis Center. Foster custody pending.

Mr. Sullivan: My stomach hurts Mattson. Is this what you call "good news?"

Mattson: Yes, sir - well, I'm getting to that sir. A lot of...

Worker: Good morning, Mr. Sullivan.

Mattson: A lot of people believe that some joker, here at the company, must've tampered with the doll's voice cassette. You know, like "Hi, I'm Chucky. I'm the Lakeshore Strangler. And I'm gonna kill you!"

[laughs]

Mattson: Something like - well, something like that. But the "good news", Mr. Sullivan, is that now - we've got the doll. We rebuilt it from head to toe. But everything checks out the voice cassette, servomechanism, we found absolutely nothing.

[hands Mr. Sullivan a file]

Mattson: This a quality-controlled report. I'm sure it will make the stockholders very happy.

Mr. Sullivan: I want to see the doll for myself.

Mattson: Certainly.

[knocks on glass window]

Mattson: Gentlemen, Mr. Sullivan's here.

Technician: Well, give us a minute we're not used to making them manually.

[punches code into machine]

Technician: [machine malfunctions]

Technician: What's wrong?

Technician: I don't know, it's stuck?

Mattson: [growing nervous] They'll have this... worked out.

Mattson: Every headline in the country is reading about Andy Barclay and his killer Good Guy doll.

Mr. Sullivan: What about his mother and the police were on the case?

Mattson: The police were smart, they denied everything. Which is fine which means now they can't hurt us. But the mother's a different matter. She backed up her boy's story in court, so now she's under psychiatric observation.

Mr. Sullivan: My stomach hurts Mattson. Is this what you call "good news?"

Mattson: Yes sir - well I'm getting to that sir. A lot of people...

Worker: Good morning, Mr. Sullivan.

Mattson: A lot of people believe that some joker here at the company must've tampered with the doll's voice cassette. You know like "Hi, I'm Chucky. I'm the Lakeshore Strangler. And I'm gonna kill you!"

[laughs]

Mattson: Something like that - well something like that. But the "good news" Mr Sullivan is that now, we've got the doll. We rebuilt it from head to toe. But everything checks out the voice cassette, servomechanism, we've found absolutely nothing.

[hands Mr. Sullivan a file]

Mattson: This is a quality-controlled report. I'm sure it will make the stock holders very happy.

Mr. Sullivan: I want to see the doll for myself.

Mattson: Certainly.

[knocks on glass window]

Mattson: Gentlemen, Mr. Sullivan's here.

Technician: Well give us a minute, we're not used to making them manually.

Deadshot: Anybody who touches me is dead. Anybody who to...

[screams as he is injected]

Deadshot: Lady. Hey.

Technician: Injection successful.

Deadshot: Hey. Miss? What was that?

Technician 2: Location verified. Next!

Deadshot: Oh, you deaf. You one of them deaf hoes.

Harley Quinn: What is that? What is that? Who are you?

Technician: Stand by. Arming device.

Harley Quinn: Who are you? I don't know who you are.

Technician: Device armed.

Harley Quinn: Hey! Hey, I'm talking to you. Hey, I'm talking to you!

Technician: Ready.

[Harley screams]

Technician: Injection successful.

Technician 2: Location verified.