Wet Gold (1984 TV Movie)

Thomas Byrd: Chris Barnes

Quotes 

• Sampson : Well... you'll think of a few more things you want, before this is over. You'll *change*. Because gold is just like... booze or gamblin': you always want *more*. Gets in your blood, and nothin' else matters.

  Chris Barnes : [chuckles]  Well, that's not gonna happen to us.

  Sampson : Well, I've seen it. You know, I worked in a casino in Cuba in the '30s, and I seen rich people come in there, men and women, and go busted over the turn of a card. I seen what greed does.

  Chris Barnes : Good night, Sampson.

• Chris Barnes : Get that dress off, quick!

• Chris Barnes : [drunkenly, to expatriate in bar]  My friend, you are looking at a man who is about to become very, very rich.

  Sampson : [alarmed, to Chris]  Time to go.

  Expatriate : Is that - ?

  Sampson : Come on. Time to go.

  Chris Barnes : In a couple days I could buy out this whole town.

  Sampson : You're full of hot air.

  Expatriate : Where's all this money coming from?

  Sampson : Ain't no money! He's had a few too many.

  Chris Barnes : Me?

• Sampson : Too much talk. Lots of ears listenin'.

  Chris Barnes : I told him we were fishin'. I just didn't tell him what we were fishin' for!

  Sampson : Come on! We gotta get outta here.

  Chris Barnes : All that matters is getting that gold. My father says he's gonna cut me off. I'm gonna show him. I'm gonna show all of 'em. I'm gonna show Laura, too.

• Laura : Just a few people. I invited thirty, forty. Very simple. A little picnic on deck.

  Chris Barnes : Come 'ere. Will you come back here?

  Laura : What - How about some caviar, darling? Yes, and those little sandwiches. What do you call them? You know, the ones without the crusts?

  Chris Barnes : Canapes.

  Laura : Canapes. Oh, and champagne. Cases and cases of champagne. My dress. I'll get it all wrinkled before the party.

  Chris Barnes : I think you should take it off.

• Sampson : [counting gold bars]  Ninety-five. Ninety-six.

  Chris Barnes : Ninety-seven.

  [They laugh] 

  Chris Barnes : Laura: your piano!

  Laura : But not a rinky-dink out-of-tune piano. *I* want a baby grand. White. Mm! And I wanna travel. London, Paris, I wanna see Italy.

• Laura : We're back! Ben! Sampson's gonna be alright!

  Chris Barnes : Hi.

  Laura : Give us a hand.

  Chris Barnes : I'm glad you're back. You're lookin' a lot better.

  Laura : We found a doctor and got some medicine. Where's Keating?

  Chris Barnes : You guys must be starving. I'm gonna cook you some eggs.

  Laura : Ben! Where is he? Ben!

  Chris Barnes : It wasn't my fault, Laura.

  Laura : What wasn't?

  Chris Barnes : I told him not to go in the water, but... he wouldn't listen. He... wanted to take a swim.

  Laura : What are you talking about?

• [first lines] 

  Sampson : There's nothin' in the world like gold, you know that? Nothin' in the world. A gold bar is smooth as skin, and keeps shinin' and shinin'. It's beautiful. It has its own pure color, like nothin' else in this world. And it never rusts. Did you know that? Never! It just keeps shinin' down there. And I'm the only one that knows where it is.

  Chris Barnes : [chuckles]  Come on.

  Laura : Wait!

  Chris Barnes : Laura, there's no gold.

  Sampson : Shh! I'm the only one.

• Chris Barnes : I know where they hid their gold. I've been watching.

  Ben Keating, the Diver : Well that doesn't really matter, does it Barnes? We can't go anywhere until they get back.

  Chris Barnes : It'll take some work, but I'll figure out a way to steer this thing. What do you say we share it all fifty-fifty?

  Ben Keating, the Diver : You are really low, Barnes. You can't do it.

  Chris Barnes : [picks up his hidden rifle]  I don't need your permission. If you don't like it, it's too bad.

• Ben Keating, the Diver : Barnes! They're leaving!

  Chris Barnes : [the escaping boat explodes from one more rifle shot from Barnes]  And they're not comin' back.

• Chris Barnes : [awakening Keating by poking a rifle into him]  Your turn, Keating. Up on deck. It'll be self-defense. You went crazy and there was nothin' I could do. Get up!

  Ben Keating, the Diver : You won't get away with this.

  Chris Barnes : Come on, come on.

  Ben Keating, the Diver : Come on. Use your head.

  Chris Barnes : Go!