I am your detective for the evening. Please don’t leave the premises.
Uh, everything’s under control. Situation normal.
That’s weird, it’s like something out of that twilighty show about that zone.
Uh, Professor, are we even allowed in the Forbidden Zone?
“The laser is not a hair-browed scheme,” said the Professor. He was by now so angry that he stumbled over his words. “I mean it is not highbrained.”
Nitwit ideas are for emergencies. You use them when you’ve got nothing else to try. If they work, they go in the Book. Otherwise you follow the Book, which is largely a collection of nitwit ideas that worked.
And you can’t tell me what the proper channels are, because that’s classified information?
We broke into enough files and records to find out just where all the money came from.
“You’ve already demonstrated that you’re a very inventive and capable woman, Elaine. And it’s common knowledge that the files are stored in a high-security vault under the Youngs’ townhouse here in Landing. I’m sure that you could arrange for that vault—and the house, for that matter—to suffer some spectacular mischief. Without, I hasten to add, any loss of life.”
Lina loved her little sister so much it was like an ache under her ribs.
Dallas: [looking at alien skeleton] Alien life form. Looks like it’s been dead a long time. Fossilized. Looks like it’s growing out of the chair.
[climbs up for a closer look]
Dallas: Bones are bent outward, like he exploded from inside.
So this is planet Houston.
If you miss, we’re going to get a planet in the face.
I came back to see your little face. I’m so happy to see you. I’m going to eat your finger.
It’s a cookbook!!!
See, I need about ten thousand calories a day, so…
Ocean’s dying, plankton’s dying… it’s people. Soylent Green is made out of people. They’re making our food out of people.
Anybody hungry? Oh, the marvels of American science. Here we are millions of miles from earth, and we can still send out for pizza.
There’s only four things we do better than anyone else:
music
movies
microcode (software)
high-speed pizza delivery
What flavor?