Alien Nation (1989 TV Movie)

Gary Graham: Detective Matthew Sikes

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• [a group of human Purists have are protesting the admission of a Newcomer student by blocking the school door] 

  Ms. Purist : They're unnatural. They've already taking too many jobs, our jobs! If we let her in here now, there'll be a hundred more next week.

  Protestor : We don't want them mixing with our kids. Their quarantine wasn't long enough. The ACLU got them released too soon. How do we know they're really safe?

  Ms. Purist : I say we run them back to Slagtown!

  [Matt fires his gun and the crowd falls silent] 

  Matt : Why stop with running them back to Slagtown, why don't we just kill them?

  [fires his gun again] 

  Matt : Teach them a lesson. Keep them in their place. Keep America pure.

  [crowd cheers] 

  Matt : We don't even need to paint little stars on them to recognize them, do we?

  [cheering stops] 

  Matt : Hell, they'll be easy to round up. Look at them, they stand out even better than the Japs that we threw into concentration camps back in 1942. This will be a piece of cake. And if enough of us get together, it'll almost seem legal, won't it? Put little white pointy sheets on our heads and hang us a few Slags, huh? Let's start with this little one right here.

  [takes Emily's hand and winks at her] 

  Matt : Just 'cause she's an American citizen, that doesn't make her a human being, does it? So what if she's a little brighter than some of our kids? We can beat that out of her. Discourage her enough, she'll give up. So what if she might have come up with a cure for cancer someday? She's not *civilized* like us. So why don't we just put a gun to her head and end it all right here, huh?

  [starts offering his gun to the crowd, but no one will take it] 

  Matt : Come, pull trigger. Come on, take it. Come on!

  [to the rally leader] 

  Matt : How about you, Ms. Purist? I know you want to come pull the trigger. Get down over here! Come on down!

  [Ms. Purist doesn't move] 

  Matt : What, I have to do it myself? Okay.

  [cocks the hammer on his gun] 

  Protestor : No, we don't want her dead. We just want her back where she belongs.

  Matt : [uncocks gun's hammer]  She belongs *here*.

  [holsters his gun and turns to the crowd] 

  Matt : Aren't you shamed of yourselves?

  [faces a black man in the crowd of protestors] 

  Matt : Aren't *you*?

  [the protestors and the teachers come out to meet Matt and Emily] 

  Matt : Anybody gives this little one any trouble answers to me, got it?

  Principal : Yeah, I do.

  Matt : [to Emily]  You okay?

  [Emily nods] 

  Matt : Good girl. Now, go in there and show them your stuff.

  [the teachers take Emily into the school and Matt turns back to the protesters] 

  Matt : Party's over people. Anybody still here in three minutes will be under arrest for the violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

• Matt : That's disgusting, I'd never use a Prostitute! Well, once when I was a kid, but still!