Thir13en Ghosts (2001)

Matthew Lillard: Dennis Rafkin

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Quotes 

• Rafkin : There are ghosts in the basement!

  Maggie : This basement?

  Rafkin : Of course this basement! What is it with you people? If it was the basement next door I wouldn't give a shit, would I?

• Rafkin : Did I say there's a petting zoo downstairs? No! There are ghosts downstairs, Arthur!

• [Rafkin psychically probes the junkyard, then yells in pain] 

  Rafkin : You son of a bitch! You said he only killed nine people; there's over 40 victims here!

  Cyrus : Nine while he was alive. He's added a few since then.

• Rafkin : [notices several of the ectoplasmic doors are open]  What the hell? Give me those!

  [takes Maggie's glasses] 

  Rafkin : Let me see. Why are these open? I was down here before. They weren't open.

  [the Hammer spikes the ectoplasmic wall frame with his hammer] 

  Rafkin : Oh, God! I hate it when they do that!

  Maggie : Do what?

  Rafkin : They wait for your to stick your face right up against the glass! And then give you a big, fat "boo"!

• Maggie : Can I rely on you not to get me killed?

  Rafkin : I guarantee nothing.

• Rafkin : Oh. Oh, boy.

  Maggie : What?

  Rafkin : Uh, that's the symbol of the Jackal.

  Maggie : What's the Jackal?

  Rafkin : The Jackal is the Charlie Manson of ghosts. And if the Jackal's out, screw the kid! We gotta get out of this basement!

• Rafkin : I'm getting my ass out of the big glass house!

• Maggie : [the Angry Princess walks towards Maggie with a butcher knife]  Where? I can't see shit without the glasses, idiot!

  Rafkin : ...Well, I can see. And I think you should go this way! Go, go, go, go, go!

• Rafkin : I hate my job.

• Dennis Rafkin : I know this is gonna sound completely whacked, all right? But just - just stay with me. I used to hunt displaced spiritual energies with your uncle.

  Arthur Kriticos : I'm sorry?

  Dennis Rafkin : Uhh, P.K. agents. Revenants. Uh, uh, uh - Like wraiths. Wraiths? Do you have any idea what I'm talking about?

  Arthur Kriticos : [chuckling nervously and shaking his head "No"]  Uhh...

  Dennis Rafkin : That's okay. That's okay, I - I'll do this the easy way. Ghosts, Arthur. I used to - I used to hunt ghosts with your uncle Cyrus.

  Arthur Kriticos : [after a pause]  Goats?

  Dennis Rafkin : GHOSTS! Ghosts, goddammit! Listen to me!

• Arthur Kriticos : I told them not to leave this spot.

  Dennis Rafkin : They're kids - what do you expect?

  Arthur Kriticos : Yeah, well, thank you, Dr. Phil.

• Dennis Rafkin : Hey, Glass Family Robinson, you're wasting your breath!

• Dennis Rafkin : Oh Cyrus, you crazy son of a bitch, what did you do?

• Dennis Rafkin : Hey bro... You ain't nothin' but a BITCH!

• Dennis Rafkin : I sure as hell hope I don't bleed to death. That, would suck.

• [repeated line] 

  Rafkin : Son of a bitch!

• Dennis Rafkin : I hate this job...

  Kalina : Yeah, well, it doesn't seem to like you much either. I wonder why.

  Dennis Rafkin : You have something to say, say it.

  Kalina : All right, let's start with... THIS IS ALL YOUR GODDAMN FAULT! If you hadn't caught them we wouldn't be running from them, now would we?

  Dennis Rafkin : It's his uncle that built the damn house!

  Kalina : Yeah, but you helped him! How could you help him without knowing what he was doing?

  Dennis Rafkin : I had my reasons...

  Kalina : Money, you parasite, you stole people's souls for money! How depraved is that?

  Dennis Rafkin : If you hadn't noticed, I'M A LITTLE BIT OF A FREAK! I come within ten feet of anything dead I go into seizures. I touch somebody, and a whole life full of shit flashes in front of my eyes! Alright? So yeah, I'm depraved. But Cyrus was my friend and he accepted me, so...

  Kalina : [laughs]  He didn't accept you! You're so pathetic! He used you!

  Arthur Kriticos : Shut up! Both of you. Cut him some slack, would you? What difference does it make?

  Kalina : [looks at Dennis, shocked]  You didn't tell him, did you?

  Arthur Kriticos : [panicked]  Oh God, what? What? Tell me what? What now?

  Kalina : About the fourth ghost.

  Dennis Rafkin : No, don't do this... I didn't tell him, don't do this!

  Kalina : He has a right to know!

  Arthur Kriticos : What about the fourth ghost?

  Kalina : St Luke's hospital. Six months ago.

  Arthur Kriticos : [slowly realizing]  You're saying... my wife's spirit is trapped in this house?

  Dennis Rafkin : I didn't know you... I didn't know her. I didn't know she had a husband...

  Arthur Kriticos : [attacks Dennis in a fit of rage, tackling him to the ground]  Why? In God's name, why? Why her?

  Dennis Rafkin : I don't know why! Cyrus handpicked them all, including your wife. I found out who you were, and God, I've been trying to help you!

  Arthur Kriticos : You call this help? She's right! This is all your goddamn fault!

• [first lines] 

  Cyrus Kriticos : Is it bad tonight?

  Rafkin : Bad? That's one way to describe it. "Insane" seems a little more appropriate.