Contact (1997)
William Fichtner: Kent
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Quotes
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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.
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Dr. Kent Clark : Dr. Arroway will be spending her precious telescope time listening for... uh... listening for...
Ellie Arroway : Little green men.
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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!
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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.