Tremors (1990)

Finn Carter: Rhonda LeBeck

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• [trapped on top of a boulder by a Graboid, Val, Earl, and Rhonda are thinking of explanations for where the creatures came from] 

  Valentine McKee : [joking]  They're mutations caused by radiation. No, wait; the government made 'em. *Big* surprise for the Russians.

  Rhonda LeBeck : Well, there's nothing like them in the fossil record, I know that for sure. Okay, so they predate the fossil record. But that'd make them a couple of billion years old... and we've just never seen one until now. Right.

  Earl Bassett : I vote for outer space. No way these are local boys.

• Rhonda LeBeck : I think I have a plan. What if we throw a bomb that way, the way we want to go? Then when it goes off, I mean, if it scares them away, we run like goddamn bastards!... Pardon my French.

  Melvin Plug : But what if they don't get scared, what if they don't run?

  Rhonda LeBeck : I don't think it *does* scare them, it *hurts* them! They're so sensitive to sound, they *gotta* run!

• [Earl Bassett and Valentine McKee have just been chased by a 30 foot long monster] 

  Rhonda LeBeck : Hey guys. What's goin' on? Hey, did you notice anything weird a minute ago?

• Rhonda LeBeck : They only respond to vibration, right? Couldn't we... distract them somehow?

  Valentine McKee : Yeah, something to keep 'em busy, like a... like a decoy!

  Miguel : Hey Melvin... wanna make a buck?

  Melvin Plug : [Flips him the bird]  Eh, eat it!

• [as the graboid feels at the building] 

  Valentine McKee : What's it doing, Rhonda?

  Rhonda LeBeck : Why do you keep asking me?

• [Monster slams into a concrete retaining wall] 

  Earl Bassett : Stupid son-of-a-bitch, knocked itself cold!

  Valentine McKee : Cold my ass. He's dead! We killed it. We killed it! FUCK! YOU!

  Rhonda LeBeck : Hey guys. What's going on? Hey, did you notice anything weird just now? I mean, it just hap-

  [she notices the dead monster] 

  Rhonda LeBeck : ... What's that?

• Rhonda LeBeck : [to Val]  Well, thanks for everything, you know, saving my life and stuff.

• Rhonda LeBeck : No, you don't understand, these creatures are absolutely unprecedented.

  Nestor : Yeah, but where do they come from?

• Valentine McKee : Wait wait wait. This one's not falling for it. This one ain't dumb. He's tryin' to trick us.

  Earl Bassett : Use your bomb!

  Valentine McKee : It's our *last one!*

  Earl Bassett : Well what else you gonna use it for?

  Valentine McKee : So what if we make it to the rocks? We'll be dead in three days anyway!

  Earl Bassett : Well I wanna live for the three days!

  Burt Gummer : What the hell, what's the matter? Use the bomb, for Chrissake!

  Melvin Plug : Throw that bomb, man! Scare them away!

  [pause, they look at Rhonda] 

  Rhonda LeBeck : Throw the bomb!

  Valentine McKee : [looking at the bomb]  This bastard ain't smarter than us.

  Earl Bassett : For Christ's sake, Val!

  Valentine McKee : I'm gonna go for it.

  Earl Bassett : Go for *what?*

  [Valentine takes off running; Earl runs after him as the graboid bursts out of the ground] 

  Earl Bassett : Shit! What're you *doing?*

  Valentine McKee : I GOT A GODDAMN PLAAAAN!

• Earl Bassett : [Graboid eats Rhonda's shovel]  Don't he have a home to go to?

  Valentine McKee : That's why Edgar never got down off that damn tower.

  Rhonda LeBeck : I think I have an idea.

  Earl Bassett : You know, we're gonna have to come up with some sort of plan, he's just going to wait us to death.

• Earl Bassett : [Earl and Val have fled from the creatures into a concrete trench. One of the creatures crashes through the wall]  Stupid sumbitch. Knocked itself cold.

  Valentine McKee : Cold my ass. He's *dead.* We killed it! We killed it! FU--UCK! YOU!

  Rhonda LeBeck : Hey guys! What's going on?

  [Not seeing the monster's corpse] 

  Rhonda LeBeck : Did you notice anything weird a minute ago? I mean, it just hap-

  [finally seeing the creature] 

  Rhonda LeBeck : What's that?