Tin Man (TV Mini Series)

Into the Storm (2007)

Alan Cumming: Glitch

Quotes 

• Glitch : My noggin' wasn't always this way you know. In my hay-day, I was government advisor numero one. I was the top dog's... right-hand man.

• Glitch : [watching Zero attacking Cain and his family]  Even with half a brain, I can tell that we've gotta get out of here.

  [DG grabs a stick and runs toward them] 

• DG : [seeing Glitch hanging from the ceiling]  What are you doing...

  Glitch : up here? The little ANKLE-BITERS, thought it would be funny to keep me hanging around. Loosen that rope, and I might have the last laugh.

  [DG hesitates] 

  Glitch : Come on doll, if mom and pop really are on the route to central city, then you're falling further and further behind.

  DG : You know the way?

  Glitch : Sure, though, it's kind of hard to give directions like this. Unless you have a better offer?

• DG : I'm DG, by the way. And this is...

  Cain : I know, a head-case.

  Glitch : I have a proper name, you know. A-And when I remember it, I will tell you.

  DG : What's a head-case?

  Cain : It's what the state does to re-educate criminals. Rip out their brains, make 'em prisoners of their own minds. Ain't that right, convict?

  Glitch : Hey! Whoa, I ain't no convict!

  [hesitates] 

  Glitch : And just in case I am, it-it was a bogus charge, a-a frame job, I'm sure of it!

• Glitch : Name's Glitch, on account of sometimes my synapses don't fire right. Sometimes my synapses don't fire right.

  DG : You just said that.

  Glitch : Did I? There you go, glitching again!

• DG : Why would they remove your brain?

  Glitch : 'Cause of what I know. Or used to know.

• Cain : I'll see you down the road.

  DG : Oh, actually, a road is what we're looking for. We're looking for the...

  DG , Glitch : Brick Route.

  DG : That leads to a place called...

  DG , Glitch : Central City.

  DG : Do you know of it?

  Cain : Yeah. That's where Zero was headed after... It's where I'm headed now.

  DG : Great! We'll go with you.

  Cain : I got business. Besides, I don't travel with kids, or convicts.

• Cain : Look, nothing personal kid, but look at you. First sign of trouble, you're just gonna cut and run.

  DG : Nothing personal, but when we found you, you were in a tin box! You don't know me. Come on Glitch, we'll find the way ourselves.

  [DG and Glitch walk off] 

  Cain : The way? The way leads through the fields of the Papay.

  Glitch : [Glitch stops]  Papay?

  DG : [DG walks back]  What? I've been tossed into a storm, trussed up by lawn gnomes, chased by mad men on horseback, how bad can Papays be?

  Cain : I've seen them gnaw poeple in half in thirty seconds.

  [pause] 

  Cain : Zipper-head keep your mouth shut, kid you stay behind me.

  DG : Why the sudden change of heart?

  Cain : Believe me, heart's got nothing to do with it.

• DG : Hey, you wanna come closer to the fire? Warm up?

  Raw : Shoulda left me to die.

  Glitch : Oh great, a basket-case!

• Raw : [about Cain]  Brave man. Good man. Tin Man.

  Glitch : Oh, I mighta known you were a Tin Man, what with that attitude!

  DG : What's a Tin Man?

  Glitch : It-It's what they call policemen in Central City.

  [hesitates] 

  Glitch : At least, I think it is.

• DG : You knew my mother.

  Glitch : I knew I wasn't an idiot!

  [to Cain] 

  Glitch : Or a convict!

• Man in audience : Mystic Man, answer me this: What is the meaning of life?

  Mystic Man : The answer to that question is as timeless as the moons. We must serve the forces of the universe in all our humanity, and all our humility.

  [Azkadellia's vapors are being sprayed] 

  Mystic Man : First, we must inhale the magic...

  Glitch : This is the man with all the answers? What's wrong with him?

  Mystic Man : And hold it!

  Glitch : He's out of his mind, literally!

  Mystic Man : Hold it! And you know the meaning of life!

  [laughs] 

• Cain : [after being chased by the Papays to the edge of a cliff]  Go!

  Glitch : The fall might kill us!

  Cain : Well, they definitely will!

• DG : [at the Northern Island]  Dig!

  Glitch : Dig?

  Cain : What do you mean dig? Wait, wait, wait!

  DG : [reciting, while digging with an ax]  Daughter of light came upon a glistening white mountain, frozen in time on a sea of ice. Above all else she knew, that this mountain was more than it appeared. It was home!

• Cain : [jumping off a cliff]  Okay, on the count of three. One...

  Glitch : THREE!

• Glitch : [happily]  Hey, there's that guy who locked up Cain.

  [gasps, scared] 

  Raw : We go now.

  Glitch : We've gotta get outta here.

  DG : No, I'm not leaving until I get my answers.

• Glitch : Gotta be careful not to lose your marbles. But ah, since the sorceress made her medicos take mine, well, you flick the abacus.

• Glitch : I've been thinkin', if Mystic Man really does have all the answers, then maybe, after he's helped DG find her mom, he could help me refill my noggin. Give Raw here some spine, and maybe do something for you about your lousy attitude!

  Cain : Or maybe he could put a zipper where it'll do some good.