Endangered Species (1982)

JoBeth Williams: Harriet Purdue

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Quotes 

• Ruben Castle : So how you like chasin' bad guys?

  Harriet Purdue : Aw, we don't have many bad guys out here in the sticks, Lieutenant.

  Ruben Castle : Lesson Number One: There are bad guys everywhere.

• Harriet Purdue : Fred, I showed you Ben Morgan's body. The man virtually *exploded*.

  Mayor : What do you expect out of somebody who was thrown out of a damned pickup truck?

• Dr. Ross : The test results from the catalog that you sent to me were interesting.

  Harriet Purdue : Really! What'd you find?

  Dr. Ross : First, the incisions. Laser surgery is what I'd have to guess. And we also found traces of a rare bacterium: Clostridium botulinum.

  Harriet Purdue : What?

  Dr. Ross : Botulinum. It's a poison, extremely deadly. And uh, this particular strain has been modified by gene splicing.

  Harriet Purdue : Where does it come from?

  Dr. Ross : Well, I'd never sign my name to this. Uh, Lieutenant Castle did say he wouldn't quote me?

  Harriet Purdue : No, I won't.

  Dr. Ross : Yes, well, uh, the only place I've ever heard of it showing up was in some germ warfare tests that the government was doing, back before this was all banned, back in 1969 and 1970. So, what have you got going on out there?

• Harriet Purdue : [after bull runs away on fire]  Is that bull all right?

  Ruben Castle : About medium rare.