Contact (1997)

William Fichtner: Kent

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• Dr. Kent Clark : [Kent is blind]  Nice to smell you again, Mr. Kitz.

  Michael Kitz : You too.

  Dr. Kent Clark : [aside]  Wouldn't have pegged him as a Polo man.

• Dr. Kent Clark : Dr. Arroway will be spending her precious telescope time listening for... uh... listening for...

  Ellie Arroway : Little green men.

• Dynamics : 100% target velocity.

  Electrical : Steve, picking up tremendous E.M.I. levels around the machine. All field measurements are pegged off-scale high.

  Dynamics : Steve, we're approaching our abort limits.

  [Mission director reaches for the abort switch] 

  Ellie Arroway : Okay to go!

  [Mission director unlocks abort control and prepares to push the button] 

  Dr. Kent Clark : I hear her! I hear her. Barely, but, but she's there.

  Ellie Arroway : [weakly]  Okay to go...

  Dr. Kent Clark : She says she's okay to go.

  Dynamics : Steve, we're real close.

  Mission Director : Electrical, what's your reading on the core?

  Electrical : [puzzled]  The internal environment looks normal. Inside the core, the... weather's beautiful.

  [Mission director re-locks abort control] 

  Ellie Arroway : [softly]  I'm okay to go... okay to go... I'm okay to go...

  Mission Director : Initiate drop sequence on my mark. Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three two...

  Ellie Arroway : I'm okay to go...

  [pod drops into machine] 

  Ellie Arroway : OH GOD!

• Dr. Kent Clark : Uh... These are government-owned telescopes, they can lease them to whomever they want. And they don't want the high priestess of the desert using them anymore.

  Ellie Arroway : What?

  Dr. Kent Clark : Staring at static on TV for hours at a time, listening to washing machines. Did you really think these stories wouldn't get out?

  Ellie Arroway : I was looking for patterns in the chaos, come on!

  Dr. Kent Clark : It doesn't matter anymore! We're a joke to them, they want us out.