The Outer Limits (TV Series)

Nightmare (1963)

John Anderson: Ebonite Interrogator

Quotes 

• Ebonite Interrogator : Are you ready to talk, Dix?

  [Dix tries to speak, but no words come out] 

  Ebonite Interrogator : Perhaps you could speak if there was someone here you really wanted to speak to.

  Dix's Mother : [Appears in a hallucinatory vision]  Arthur. Arthur. You can talk to your mom, can't you, baby?

  Pvt. Arthur Dix : Mom?

  Dix's Mother : [Hugging and affectionate]  Oh. Oh. You can talk. Tell me what they want to know.

  [Dix shakes head] 

  Dix's Mother : Then whisper it to me then, baby. Whisper all about it.

  [Dix whispers in her ear] 

  Ebonite Interrogator : Private Dix. You may go.

• Ebonite Interrogator : Each of you will be invited to participate in an exploratory interview. I shall conduct it. Private Dix will be the first to accept my invitation.

  Col. Luke Stone : I demand that privilege.

  Ebonite Interrogator : Your demands shall be honored when ours are satisfied. Private Dix! Guard, escort Private Dix to my quarters.

  [Dix is sitting against a wall and panics] 

  Col. Luke Stone : Wait a minute, Dix. Listen, Dix. Go with him. He's not going to hurt you. Listen, they're not going to hurt you.

  [to approaching guard] 

  Col. Luke Stone : Now, don't hurt him. He's going to go with you.

  [Willimore is standing behind the guard] 

  Col. Luke Stone : [Guard leans over Dix, then turns and savagely blasts Willimore at close range in the face with his control wand] 

  Lt. James P. Willowmore : Ah! My eyes! Ah! Ah my eyes! I can't see! Ah! My eyes.

  [crying] 

  Col. Luke Stone : [Looks at Willimore]  Jimmy!

• Commanding General : I'm afraid we'll have to ask you to co-operate, if we're to continue.

  Col. Luke Stone : [Flabbergasted]  CONTINUE?

  Commanding General : We must, Colonel. We must! Do you realize that before this war...

  Ebonite Interrogator : We are NOT at war here! The grief and loss we caused your planet was an accident. We promised we would do anything to rectify this unforgivable mistake. But we cannot sanction the continuation of such immoral and inhuman experimentation.

  Commanding General : Inhuman? What do you know of humans, sir?