Return of the Living Dead II (1988)
Dana Ashbrook: Tom Essex
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Quotes
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Jesse Wilson : Hello? Hello, is there anybody out there? Come in, come in. Can you hear me? Is anybody out there? Hello? Can you tell us where to go?
Special Zombie : Come to the hospital.
Jesse Wilson : Sure, we'll be right there!
Doc Mandel : Hold it, hold it! Uh, pardon me, but would you mind telling me who the President of the United States is?
Special Zombie : Um, Harry Truman.
Jesse Wilson : Who's Harry Truman?
Tom Essex : They want brains, we'll give them brains.
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Tom Essex : [trying to start the Cadillac] Cherry, huh?
Doc Mandel : Well, it was cherry.
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Tom Essex : [finds Lucy raiding her grandfather's gun cabinet] You know how to uh, use one of those?
Lucy Wilson : You *do* know how to pull a trigger, don't you?
Tom Essex : Sure, do you?
Jesse Wilson : She's junior class champion for the whole state.
Lucy Wilson : Here's yours.
[gives him a Winchester rifle]
Jesse Wilson : Oh terrific, great, what can I shoot with this, mice?
[later, puts the rifle back and gets a Smith and Wesson Model 27/28]
Jesse Wilson : Go ahead, make my night.
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Jesse Wilson : Doctor Mandel, open up!
Doc Mandel : [opens door] Oh, it's you. Why aren't you out playing in the traffic? How'd you get in here, what seems to be the problem?
Tom Essex : Where're the keys to your car?
Doc Mandel : Why? Are we going for a ride?
[hears zombies screaming outside]
Doc Mandel : There seem to be hooligans terrorizing the neighborhood.
Lucy Wilson : No, it's the dead, they've come back to life!
Doc Mandel : Dead? Dead what?
Tom Essex : People! We need your car!
Doc Mandel : Well it sounds to me like you need a hearse.
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Doc Mandel : You will also notice there is no pupillary response, no reflexes, obviously lividity, suggesting chronic, retractable, rigor mortis.
Tom Essex : Is it serious?
Doc Mandel : Is *dead* serious?
Brenda : But they can talk!
Joey : Oh God it hurts! I can't move my arms or legs!
Brenda : See? Now you call this dead? They are not dead, you jerk!
Doc Mandel : Have you noticed he isn't breathing? Care to check heartbeat? In my opinion they should be contained.
Tom Essex : Contained?
Doc Mandel : Bagged.
Tom Essex : Bagged?
Doc Mandel : Bagged.
[dramatically draws up the zipper on Ed's jacket]
Ed : [moaning in pain] Owie!
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Brenda : [the hospital is empty] Anybody here?
Jesse Wilson : [tries phone] Dead.
Lucy Wilson : Don't say that word.
Tom Essex : Why? Dammit why? Where'd they all go?
Brenda : Hello? Where is everybody?
Jesse Wilson : When are you guys going to wake up? Nobody can help us except...
Doc Mandel : A trained physician, such as myself. Hold this my son, thank you very much. Ah, yes yes yes.
Brenda : What what what?
Doc Mandel : [to Joey and Ed] When did you two have your last bowel movement? Hmm? Do you happen to know what a catheter is?
Jesse Wilson : They gotta have police here, emergency stuff, somebody somewhere!
Tom Essex : I'll take a look around town.
Jesse Wilson : Not without me!
Lucy Wilson : You! Stay put!
Jesse Wilson : No way, I saw it, I'm the one who knows stuff.
Tom Essex : Kid's got a point.
Lucy Wilson : Ha! That'll be the day.
Tom Essex : Come on, cut it out you two. If we're going let's go together, we'll be a team.
Jesse Wilson : Teams suck.
[storms off]
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Tom Essex : Son of a bitch!
[sees zombie chasing a dog across the street, steps on the accelerator]
Lucy Wilson : What're you doing?
Tom Essex : Yeah I know, they're already dead. I don't care, I'm gonna kill it anyway!