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Logan's Run (1976) More at IMDb Pro »

P.A. System: Last day. Capricorn 15's. Year of the city - 2274. Carousel begins.

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Logan: NO! Don't go in there! You don't have to die! No one has to die at 30! You could live! LIVE! Live, and grow old! I've seen it! She's seen it!
[Shows the crystal on his palm]
Logan: Well, look! LOOK! LOOK, IT'S CLEAR!
[Crowd laughs]
P.A. System: Lastday, Capricorn 29's. Year of the City: 2274. Carousel begins.
Jessica: No! Don't! Don't go! Listen to him! He's telling the truth!
[More laughter]
Jessica: We've been outside! There's another world outside! We've seen it!
[Sandmen grab them]
Logan: Life clocks are a lie! Carousel is a lie! THERE IS NO RENEWAL!

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Jessica 6: A friend of mine went on carousel. Now he's gone.
Logan 5: Yes, well, I'm sure he was renewed.
Jessica 6: He was killed.

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Box: Regular storage procedure. The same as the other food. The other food stopped coming. And they started.
Logan 5: What other food?
Box: Fish, and plankton. And sea greens, and protein from the sea. It's all here, ready. Fresh as harvest day. Fish and sea greens, plankton and protein from the sea. And then it stopped coming. And they came instead. So I store them here. I'm ready. And you're ready. It's my job. To freeze you. Protein, plankton...

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Box: Overwhelming, am I not?

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Box: Fish, plankton, sea greens... protein from the sea!

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Francis 7: Logan... you renewed!

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Logan 5: There... is... no... sanctuary.

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Logan 5: Killed? Why do you use that word?
Jessica 6: Isn't that what you do? Kill?
Logan 5: I've never killed anyone in my life. Sandman terminate runners. What's your name?
Jessica 6: Jessica.
Logan 5: You're sad enough. You're beautiful. Let's have sex.
Jessica 6: No.
Logan 5: Then why are you wasting my time, hmmm? Why did you put yourself on the circuit?
Jessica 6: I thought I had to do something. I told you it was a mistake. And I've changed my mind.
Logan 5: Because I'm a Sandman? Am I your first?
Jessica 6: Yes.

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Box: Welcome Humans! I am ready for you.

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Logan 5: Run, runner!

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Billy: [after trapping Logan & Jessica] Looks like we got a runner and his pair up. And look who decided to run.

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Doc: Just imagine what would happen to you if the healing stopped functioning!

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Logan: You're beautiful. Let's have sex.

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Logan: No Cubs over 15, Billy! Look, have you ever seen a Cub that's gone to green? You'll have to leave Cathedral then, Billy, because they won't let you stay here. And if you do try to stay here, Billy, your young friends here will rip your guts apart!

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[watching Logan's son, Logan 6, in the nursery]
Francis 7: Do you know who his seed mother was?
Logan: Of course not! I'm curious, not sick!

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Jessica 6: You can have any woman in the city. What do you really want?
Logan 5: You know.
[both begin laughing]
Jessica 6: The choice is still mine?
Logan 5: Of course.
Jessica 6: This time, the answer is yes.

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The Old Man: [Admiring Logan and Jessica's time crystals] Can I have one of those?
Logan 5: I'm afraid that's not possible.

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Logan 5: [after Francis 7 looks angrily at a red] Look, why were you so angry just now? What did he do to you?
Francis 7: That Reds gonna run, I can always tell.

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P.A. System: Capricorn 15's. Born 2244. Enter the Carousel. This is the time of renewal.
[Crowd applauds]
P.A. System: Be strong and you will be renewed. Identify.
[Capricorn 15's show flashing crystals]

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Francis 7: [wondering about the Red he and Logan 5 terminated] He showed some life in the end. Why do they run?

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Logan 5: What's wrong? Do you prefer women?
Jessica 6: No.

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Computer: Do you identify the word Sanctuary?
Logan 5: Negative.
Computer: Sanctuary is a pre-catastrophe code word. Used for a place of unity.

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Mary 2: Don't be afraid.
Jessica 6: What's your name?
Mary 2: Mary 2.
Jessica 6: Where do you live Mary?
Mary 2: Here.
Jessica 6: Why aren't you in nursery?
Mary 2: I'm very smart.
Jessica 6: When are you green? When do you go up?
Mary 2: I never go upstairs. You're a nice old lady.
[She steals Jessica 6's bracelet and runs away]
Jessica 6: Hey!

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1st Sanctuary Man: Runner. Follow the corridor with the pipes overhead. The way is always down.

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Logan 5: Who are you?
Box: I am more than machine. More than man. More than a fusion of the two. Don't you agree? Wait for the winds. Then my birds sing. And the deep grottos whisper my name. Box... Box... Box...

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Logan 5: This place is a link to Sanctuary, isn't it?
Box: Link? Hmmmm...
Logan 5: How do you think we got here?
Box: Same as the others. Don't you remember?
Logan 5: Why do you think we're here?
Box: [very confused] Why? Why?

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Jessica 6: [seeing the sun for the first time] What is it?
Logan 5: I don't know. Whatever it is, it's warm.

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Logan 5: You knew your mother and father?
The Old Man: Sure, you know... they raised me.
[starts muttering to himself]

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Logan: We got past Box.
The Old Man: What?

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Logan: Everything made sense... until Box.

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[first lines]
Logan: [tapping on a glass window of maternity room] Wake up.
Francis 7: Logan, you are here. I couldn't believe it when they told me. What are you doing?
Logan: [indicates baby] Logan 6. Well it's not everyday that they authorize a new sandman. I tell you Francis,
[indicating baby]
Logan: that's him.
Francis 7: Well maybe, maybe not. What does it matter? Anyway, he isn't yours anymore.
Logan: [continues tapping lightly on the glass]
Francis 7: All right, you want me to wake him?
[bangs loudly on the glass with his baton]
Francis 7: [alarms ring and lights flash]

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Francis 7: Aw, what the hell took you so long?
Logan: It was the debriefing, uh... it ws more complicated than usual.
Francis 7: Well, c'mon. Get in the water.
Logan: Francis, did you - did you ever SEE anybody renew?
Francis 7: Ha ha! I think you've been skulking out too much. First nursery, now silly qustions.
Logan: No, but - did you?
Francis 7: Did I what?
Logan: See anybody renew.
Francis 7: Of course!
Logan: Anybody we know?
Francis 7: Look, get into the water. You need it. More than I do.
Logan: Francis, I have to talk to you... Well, I'll see you.

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The Old Man: [paraphrasing T.S. Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats"] The naming of cats is a difficult matter, it's not just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I'm mad as a hatter, when I tell you that each cat's got three different names.

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Francis 7: [to Logan] Runner...you are terminated.

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Jessica: Things don't change.

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