- Cletus Poffenberger: [to Burt] All your life, you thought someone was out to get you. Me, I *knew* it.
- Burt Gummer: The way I see it, this creature of yours is sweeping the valley in a classic grid pattern: north to south, south to north. Feel free to chime in.
- [Cletus doesn't reply]
- Burt Gummer: There's a wrong time for silence, Cletus. You created this thing.
- Cletus Poffenberger: Why yes... yes I did. It was my job to breed 4-12 for combat.
- Burt Gummer: Vietnam?
- Cletus Poffenberger: Seemed like everybody had given up on the war except the hardliners in the military and at Proud Foot. They thought 4-12 could track down North Vietnamese soldiers in the jungle at night. Maybe even root the VC out of the tunnels in Cu Chi province. Hell, 4-12 is expendable. Kill one, they'd send a dozen more just like him.
- Burt Gummer: Flesh and blood killing machine.
- Cletus Poffenberger: Well, the strongest thing I ever called it was a hybrid. The combination of a rhino, switchback spider and a wolverine.
- Burt Gummer: Impossible.
- Cletus Poffenberger: You're wrong, Burt. We made a big breakthrough in the lab. Enormous, to tell you the truth.
- Burt Gummer: What kind of breakthrough?
- Cletus Poffenberger: We created a compound that allowed us to blend DNA from different species. We called it Mixmaster.