The Happening (2008)

Mark Wahlberg: Elliot Moore

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Quotes 

• Mrs. Jones : Planning on stealing something?

  Elliot Moore : No, ma'am, we're not.

  Mrs. Jones : Plan on murdering me in my sleep?

  Elliot Moore : What? No!

• Elliot Moore : [to house plant]  Hello. My name is Elliot Moore. I'm just going to talk in a very positive manner, giving off good vibes. We're just here to use the bathroom, and we're just going to leave. I hope that's okay.

  [Elliot touches leaf] 

  Elliot Moore : Plastic. I'm talking to a plastic plant. I'm still doing it.

• Elliot Moore : If we're going to die, I want you to know something. I was in the pharmacy a while ago. There was a really good-looking pharmacist behind the counter. Really good-looking. I went up and asked her where the cough syrup was. I didn't even have a cough, and I almost bought it. I'm talking about a completely superfluous bottle of cough syrup, which costs like six bucks.

  Alma Moore : Are you joking?

  [Elliot nods his head] 

  Alma Moore : Thank you.

• Elliot Moore : [shots are heard firing in the distance]  Oh no...

  Alma Moore : What "oh no"?

  Elliot Moore : The toxin? The toxin's affecting them?

  Woman in Group : Are those people killing themselves?

  Realtor : You were with the Private, what do we do?

  Alma Moore : We need to do something!

  Elliot Moore : Just let me think...

  Alma Moore : [as shots continually fire in the background]  They're dying!

  Elliot Moore : I need a second...

  Realtor : They released it? We're not near the roads!

  Alma Moore : We can't just stand here as uninvolved observers!

  Elliot Moore : I need a second okay? Just give me a second!

  Alma Moore : We're not gonna be one of those assholes on the news who watches a crime happen and not do something! We're not assholes!

  Elliot Moore : Just a second!

  Woman in Group : There were children in that group!

  Alma Moore : Elliot please tell us what to do!

  Elliot Moore : I need a second okay? Why can't anybody give me a goddamn second?

  [talks to himself] 

  Elliot Moore : All right, be scientific, douchebag. Identify the... rules... design the experiment... careful observation, measurements, that's what I'm trying to do, interpret the experimental pattern, interpret... What if it IS the plants? That group was larger than ours. This thing's been escalating all day. Smaller and smaller populations have been setting this off. They react to human stimulus. Maybe people are setting off the plants?

  Alma Moore : What are you saying? That guy was crazy! We have to save them!

  Elliot Moore : They're already dead! What if they're targeting us as threats? This part of the field may not have been set off. Something in this field could be releasing the chemical into the air when there's too many of us together. Let's just stay ahead of the wind!

• Nursery Owner : We're packing hot dogs for the road. You know hot dogs get a bad rap? They got a cool shape, they got protein. You like hot dogs right? By the way, I think I know what's causing this.

  Elliot Moore : You do?

  Nursery Owner : It's the plants. They can release chemicals.

  [to his plants] 

  Nursery Owner : OK babies, we are going to be going, but we will be back soon, OK?

  [to Elliot] 

  Nursery Owner : Oh, plants react to human stimulus, they've proved it in tests.

  [to his wife] 

  Nursery Owner : You get the mustard?

• Train Conductor : The train service has been discountinued. This will be the last stop for all passengers.

  Elliot Moore : Hey, what do you mean? Where are we?

  Train Conductor : Filbert, Pennsylvania.

  Elliot Moore : Filbert? Does anybody know where that is? Why are you giving me one useless piece of information at a time? What's going on? Hey, why would you just stop? You can't just leave us here!

  Train Conductor : Sir, we lost contact.

  Elliot Moore : With whom?

  Train Conductor : Everyone.

• Elliot Moore : You're not interested in what happened to the bees?

  [Jake shakes his head] 

  Elliot Moore : You should be more interested in science, Jake. You know why? Because your face is perfect. The problem is, your face is perfect at 15. Now if you were interested in science, you would know facts like the human nose and ears grow a fraction of an inch each year. So a perfect balance of features now might not look so perfect five years from now, and might look down right whack ten years from now.

  [students laugh] 

  Elliot Moore : Come on, buddy. Take an interest in science. What could be the reason bees have vanished?

  Jake : [after a long pause]  An act of nature, and we'll never fully understand it.

  Elliot Moore : Nice answer, Jake. He's right. Science will come up with some reason to put in the books, but in the end it'll be just a theory. I mean, we will fail to acknowledge that there are forces at work beyond our understanding. To be a scientist, you must have a respectful awe for the laws of nature.

  [Jake raises his hand] 

  Elliot Moore : Jake?

  Jake : How much does the human nose grow each year?

  Elliot Moore : It's miniscule, buddy. Okay? Don't worry about it. You're going to be a heartthrob your whole life. I was just messing with you.

• Elliot Moore : Do you remember our first date? You were so quiet.

  Alma Moore : You bought me the mood ring.

  Elliot Moore : It turned purple when you wore it.

  Alma Moore : Then you said "that means you're in love".

  Elliot Moore : Got you to talk, didn't it?

  Alma Moore : But then we checked the little paper chart and it turned out that it meant that I was horny. You loved that.

  Elliot Moore : I had no idea.

  Alma Moore : Yours was blue. Peaceful, right?

  Elliot Moore : Right.

  Alma Moore : What color was love?

  Elliot Moore : I don't remember.

  Alma Moore : Me neither.

• Nursery Owner : This woman's talking to her daughter. She's talking to her daughter in Princeton. Isn't that where your friend went?

  Elliot Moore : Come on!

  [they run over to the woman] 

  Woman on Cell Phone : [speaking to her daughter at Princeton]  It's OK, honey, honey, it's OK.

  [to the fellow survivors] 

  Woman on Cell Phone : She's so scared... You just stay in that room, you don't open the door for nothing. Just keep watching out the window with the tree, baby, someone will come and get you soon.

  Elliot Moore : Tell her, tell her not to go near the window with the tree, just tell her!

  Woman on Cell Phone : Baby, don't go near the window with the tree!

  Elliot Moore : Ask her if Princeton's been affected.

  Woman on Cell Phone : Honey, someone wants to know if Princeton's had any problems... she says everyone's dead outside.

  [they all gasp] 

  Woman on Cell Phone : You just stay in your room... Honey, honey you're talking funny, what's wrong with you?

  Elliot Moore : What do you mean? Everyone's dead?

  Woman on Cell Phone : What? Stacy, you're scaring me, I don't, I don't understand what you're saying. What, baby? She's just not making any sense.

  Young Woman Voice on Phone : Calculus, I see... in calculus. Calculus. Calculus.

  Woman on Cell Phone : Stacy... Stacy...

  [loud noise, then silence on Stacy's end of the line] 

  Woman on Cell Phone : Stacy Ann?

  [woman starts weeping] 

  Woman on Cell Phone : Oh no no no no no Stacy, Stacy, oh no no no... Oh, Stacy!

• Elliot Moore : [Alma looks troubled]  What's wrong?

  Alma Moore : Okay, I was going to tell you, okay? There was this guy Joey. His name is Joey; he's at work. We went out and we had dessert; I went out and had dessert with him when I told you I worked late and I didn't work late and I'm feeling really guilty in case we're gonna die. I just wanted you to know that.

  Elliot Moore : You... lied to me?

• Elliot Moore : [notices a plant moving inside the house they'd intruded upon, slowly walks to it and begins speaking softly to it]  Hello? My name is Elliot Moore. Just want to talk in a very positive manner, giving off good vibes. We're just here to use the bathroom, and then we're just going to leave. I hope that's OK.

  [feels the plant] 

  Elliot Moore : Plastic. I'm talking to a plastic plant.

  [pauses] 

  Elliot Moore : I'm still doing it.

• Julian : Hey, I'm going to tell you something that you should never tell your best friend.

  Elliot Moore : Why is everybody saying that?

  Julian : [referring to Alma]  I saw her on your wedding day.

  Elliot Moore : Again with the wedding. What?

  Julian : I walked into her waiting room by mistake, and she was crying. She looked up and I saw her face. She wasn't ready to jump in, Elliot. That's not who she is. She's never going to jump in when you need her, man.

• Nursery Owner : I think I know what's causing this.

  Elliot Moore : You do?

  Nursery Owner : It's the plants. They can release chemicals.

• Jared : Got kids?

  Elliot Moore : No.

  Jared : How come? You got... a problem?

  Elliot Moore : No. She wanted to wait.

  Jared : Really? For what?

  Elliot Moore : For me to grow up. Why are we talking about this?

• Elliot Moore : The event must've ended before we went out today.

• Elliot Moore : Can this really be happening?

• Elliot Moore : You know that everyone gives off energy, right? It's scientifically proven. They got these cameras that can record what color you are when you're feeling different things. People that are angry give off a different color than people that are sad. See this ring? This ring can supposedly tell you what you're feeling. Let's see what you're feeling right now.

  [places mood ring on Jess' finger] 

  Elliot Moore : Oh yellow! Well that's cool. That means you're about to laugh.

  [Jess looks at Elliot dead serious] 

  Elliot Moore : I'm not making it up. That's what yellow means. You must be about to laugh or something. Something good's probably about to come out. We'll wait.

  [Jess starts to smile] 

  Elliot Moore : I got all day.

  [Elliot makes a noise and Jess laughs]