Them! (1954)

James Arness: Robert Graham

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• [last lines] 

  Robert Graham : Pat, if these monsters got started as a result of the first atomic bomb in 1945, what about all the others that have been exploded since then?

  Dr. Patricia 'Pat' Medford : I don't know.

  Dr. Harold Medford : Nobody knows, Robert. When Man entered the atomic age, he opened a door into a new world. What we'll eventually find in that new world, nobody can predict.

• [the nest has been saturated with cyanide] 

  Robert Graham : Boy, if I can still raise an arm when we get out of this place, I'm gonna show you just how saturated *I* can get.

• Robert Graham : Is's the only job you ever had?

  Railroad Yard Watchman : Yes, sir. I've been with the railroad thirty years and never a blot against my record.

  Robert Graham : Well, the yard cop seems to think you made a deal not to see that car broken into.

  Railroad Yard Watchman : Pfah! What kind of sense does that make? Is sugar a rare cargo? Is there a black market for it? Did you ever hear of a fence for hot sugar? If I was gonna make a deal with crooks to steal somethin', it wouldn't be for forty tons of sugar. And I'll swear I didn't hear a thing Friday night.

• Robert Graham : And I thought today was the end of them.

  Dr. Harold Medford : No. We haven't seen the end of them. We've only had a close view of the beginning of what may be the end of us.

• [Doctors Harold and Patricia Medford walk toward a waiting car after a brief introductory conversation with Sergeant Peterson and FBI agent Graham] 

  Robert Graham : I shoulda had this suit pressed.

  Police Sgt. Ben Peterson : She's quite a doctor, uh?

  Robert Graham : Yeah. If she's the kind that takes care of sick people, I think I'll get a fever real quick.

• [Tom Lodge has been found dead, mutilated, with his two young sons missing] 

  Robert Graham : Mrs. Lodge, was your husband accustomed to taking his boys out so early in the morning?

  Mrs. Lodge : [grief-stricken]  On Sundays. Tom works on Sundays from 9:00 to 7:00, an extra job he has. He works so hard for us, he doesn't have much time to spend with Jerry and Mike. That's why the three of them get up early on Sundays to go spend someplace to play together for a few hours.

• Dr. Patricia 'Pat' Medford : Now destroy everything in here. Burn it.

  Robert Graham : What?

  Dr. Patricia 'Pat' Medford : I said "Burn it!" Burn EVERYTHING!

• Dr. Harold Medford : May we visit the desert now, gentlemen?

  Robert Graham : It's getting pretty late, doctor.

  Dr. Harold Medford : Later than you think.