Blade Runner (1982)

Rutger Hauer: Batty

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• Batty : I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time to die.

• Batty : Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.

• Tyrell : [Tyrell explains to Roy why he can't extend his lifespan]  The facts of life... to make an alteration in the evolvement of an organic life system is fatal. A coding sequence cannot be revised once it's been established.

  Batty : Why not?

  Tyrell : Because by the second day of incubation, any cells that have undergone reversion mutation give rise to revertant colonies, like rats leaving a sinking ship; then the ship... sinks.

  Batty : What about EMS-3 recombination?

  Tyrell : We've already tried it - ethyl, methane, sulfinate as an alkylating agent and potent mutagen; it created a virus so lethal the subject was dead before it even left the table.

  Batty : Then a repressor protein, that would block the operating cells.

  Tyrell : Wouldn't obstruct replication; but it does give rise to an error in replication, so that the newly formed DNA strand carries with it a mutation - and you've got a virus again... but this, all of this is academic. You were made as well as we could make you.

  Batty : But not to last.

  Tyrell : The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long - and you have burned so very, very brightly, Roy. Look at you: you're the Prodigal Son; you're quite a prize!

  Batty : I've done... questionable things.

  Tyrell : Also extraordinary things; revel in your time.

  Batty : Nothing the God of biomechanics wouldn't let you into heaven for.

• Batty : Fiery the angels fell. Deep thunder rolled around their shores; burning with the fires of Orc.

• Batty : Yes!

  [smiles] 

  Batty : Questions... Morphology? Longevity? Incept dates?

  Hannibal Chew : Don't know, I don't know such stuff. I just do eyes, ju-, ju-, just eyes... just genetic design, just eyes. You Nexus, huh? I design your eyes.

  Batty : Chew, if only you could see what I've seen with your eyes!

• Batty : Not very sporting to fire on an unarmed opponent. I thought you were supposed to be good. Aren't you the "good" man? C'mon, Deckard. Show me what you're made of.

• Batty : [taunting Deckard with a counting rhyme]  Six! Seven! Go to Hell or go to Heaven!

  Deckard : [Deckard smashes an iron rod against Batty's head]  Go to Hell!

  Batty : [grabbing the iron rod]  GOOD! THAT'S THE SPIRIT!

• Tyrell : I'm surprised you didn't come here sooner.

  Batty : It's not an easy thing to meet your maker.

  Tyrell : What could he do for you?

  Batty : Can the maker repair what he makes?

• Batty : I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion... I watched sea-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... Time to die.

• [Batty wants Tyrell to extend his lifespan] 

  Tyrell : Would you... like to be upgraded?

  Batty : I had in mind something a little more radical.

  Tyrell : What... what seems to be the problem?

  Batty : Death.

  Tyrell : Death; ah, well that's a little out of my jurisdiction. You...

  Batty : *I want more life, fucker/father!* (IMDb Editor's note: see trivia section for details)

• Batty : Gosh, you've... really got some nice toys here.

• Roy : [grabbing Sebastian]  If we don't find help soon, Pris hasn't got long to live. We can't allow that.

  [Roy goes to the chess board, studying the game in progress] 

  Roy : Is he good?

  J.F. Sebastian : Who?

  Roy : Your opponent.

  J.F. Sebastian : Oh, Dr. Tyrell? I've only beaten him once in chess. He's a genius! He designed you.

  Roy : Maybe he could help.

  J.F. Sebastian : I'd be happy to mention it to him.

  Roy : [smiles and puts his hand on Sebastian's shoulder]  Better if I talk to him in person. But I understand he's a sort of hard man to get to.

  [Pris wraps her legs and arms around Sebastian] 

  J.F. Sebastian : Yes.

  Roy : Will you help us?

  J.F. Sebastian : I can't.

  Pris : We need you, Sebastian. You're our best and only friend.

• Batty : We're not computers, Sebastian, we're physical.

• Roy : We've got a lot in common.

  Sebastian : What do you mean?

  Roy : Similar problems.

  Pris : Accelerated decrepitude.

• Batty : Did you get your precious photos?

  Leon : [shaking his head]  ... Someone was there.

  Batty : Men?

  [Leon hesitates, then nods] 

  Batty : POLICE men?

• [Batty has grabbed Deckard's gun hand and pulled it, along with the gun, through a hole in the wall] 

  Batty : Proud of yourself, little man?

  [Batty takes the gun out of Deckard's hand] 

  Batty : This is for Zhora!

  [Batty breaks one of Deckard's fingers] 

  Batty : This is for Pris!

  [Batty breaks another one of Deckard's fingers, puts the gun back into his hand and lets him go] 

  Batty : C'mon, Deckard. I'm right here, but you've gotta shoot straight!

  [Deckard shoots through the hole in the wall and blows one of Batty's ears off] 

  Batty : Straight doesn't seem to be good enough! Now it's my turn! I'm going to give you a few seconds before I come. One, two. - Three, four.

• Roy : There's only two of us now.

  Pris : Then we're stupid and we'll die.

  Roy : No we won't.

• Batty : You'd better get it up, or I'm gonna have to kill you!

• Pris : We need you, Sebastian. You're our best and only friend.

  Roy : We're so happy you found us.

• Batty : Time... enough.

• Batty : That was irrational of you... not to mention unsportsmanlike.

• Roy : That's the spirit!

• Roy : Why are you staring at us Sebastian?

  J.F. Sebastian : Because. You're so different. You're so perfect.

• Batty : Four. Five. How to stay alive?

• Batty : Pris...

• Batty : Six! Seven! Go to hell, or go to heaven!