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Dr. Karen Ross
- Monroe: So why'd you quit the CIA?
- Dr. Karen Ross: I never worked for the CIA.
- Monroe: Of course you didn't. But if you HAD worked for the CIA, why would you quit?
- Dr. Karen Ross: 'Cause they're a loveless bunch of sons of bitches.
- Monroe: And you're not?
- Dr. Karen Ross: And I'm not.
- Monroe: Glad to hear it.
- Monroe: And this is your cover?
- Dr. Karen Ross: Yes
- Dr. Peter Elliot: I'm nobody's cover. Cover for what?
- Monroe: ...find yourself in the middle of something.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: Cover for what?
- Monroe: I don't know and she won't tell you. But the kind of money her company's throwing around... they don't spend that on any gorilla. Relax. You're in better hands than you *should* be.
- Dr. Karen Ross: Why are they laughing?
- Monroe: They asked who was in charge and I said I was.
- Dr. Karen Ross: What's so funny about that?
- Monroe: I'm black. I should have luggage on my head.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: [as everyone on the plane prepares to jump] Why are they putting on parachutes?
- Dr. Karen Ross: FIGURE IT OUT!
- Richard: [Monroe tosses Richard a parachute] OH NO!
- Dr. Peter Elliot: [the crew members begin jumping out of the plane. Monroe hands Peter a parachute] This isn't going to work!
- Monroe: Oh, yes, it is. I'll take Amy.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: She might get hurt. I can't risk it!
- Monroe: Do you know how to fly this plane?
- Dr. Peter Elliot: No.
- Monroe: [nods toward the cockpit, where no one is at the controls] Well, the pilot and co-pilot are already gone, so what are you going to do?
- Captain Wanta: So Dr. Ross, I see you used to work for the C.I.A, and now you're Travi Com. Travi Com pays better than the C.I.A?
- Dr. Karen Ross: You have a BIG mouth.
- Captain Wanta: Everybody says that about me!
- [first lines]
- Rudy, TraviCom Security: [over PA system] Doctor Ross. Doctor Ross. We've got satellite in the Congo.
- Dr. Karen Ross: What did they say, Rudy?
- Rudy, TraviCom Security: I can't repeat anything in here.
- Dr. Karen Ross: It's Charles.
- Rudy, TraviCom Security: It's Charles.
- Rudy, TraviCom Security: [trying her access card] It won't work.
- Dr. Karen Ross: You changed the code already?
- Rudy, TraviCom Security: The old man's got me changing it every 3 hours now.
- [imitating Cary Grant for voice print]
- Rudy, TraviCom Security: Rudy, Rudy, Rudy, Rudy.
- Dr. Karen Ross: Very inventive!
- [last lines]
- Monroe: [in hot air balloon] There's a wind.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: I hope it blows us some place good.
- Dr. Karen Ross: Me too.
- Dr. Karen Ross: [after it's all over, setting up re-communication] I have some bad news. Charlie... he, uh... he was... killed.
- Dr. Karen Ross: DID YOU GET THE DIAMOND? DID YOU?
- Dr. Karen Ross: [in shock, after a long pause] ... yes.
- Travis: [a breath of relief] ... Good girl.
- Dr. Karen Ross: [after another pause, growing angry] Do you remember what I told you? That if I ever found out you sent me here for some diamond... and NOT for Charlie... that I would make you sorry?
- Monroe: That region of the Congo's uninhabited.
- Dr. Karen Ross: Well, something inhabits it.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: What exactly did you see on that tape?
- Dr. Karen Ross: A camp destroyed. People dead. A grey gorilla...
- Dr. Peter Elliot: There's no such thing as a grey gorilla.
- Dr. Karen Ross: Well, I saw one.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: It's hard to believe at this late date...
- Monroe: Why are you going in there?
- Dr. Karen Ross: Two men are unaccounted for: Geoffrey Weams, and Charles Travis, my fiance... My FORMER fiance.
- Monroe: Your former?
- Dr. Peter Elliot: Well, we better get to him then.
- Dr. Karen Ross: Are you sure there aren't some kind of gorillas that kill.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: Please, Dr. Ross. What's your area of expertise? Folk-singing?
- Dr. Karen Ross: [smugly] Communications technology.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: So you're a geek with a cellular phone.
- Dr. Karen Ross: I'm a scientist. But you and your protege, as far as I can see, belong in the circus.
- [looks at Amy eating flowers]
- Dr. Karen Ross: Name your price.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: I don't have a price! I'm not a pound of sugar, I'm a primatologist!
- Dr. Peter Elliot: Here's the story. They domesticated gorillas.
- Monroe: You call that domesticated? They're killing a man.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: So they taught them to be this way. They bred them to violence. They looked for the trait, and they encouraged it.
- Dr. Karen Ross: Guard dogs. And they turned on their masters.
- Monroe: What's that smell?
- Dr. Peter Elliot: [coming across a pile of bones] These are all the bones of gorillas.
- Monroe: You mean these are the...
- Dr. Peter Elliot: No, these are the bones of normal gorillas.
- [picking a skull up]
- Dr. Peter Elliot: This one's skull was crushed.
- Dr. Karen Ross: [Handing Peter a pistol] Here, Peter, take this.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: I don't like guns.
- Dr. Karen Ross: I didn't ask if you like it - take it.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: [coming across a crashed plane] Good Lord.
- Monroe: It's that plane we saw burning in the sky.
- Herkermer Homolka: Who were they?
- Dr. Karen Ross: Travis, my boss, he thought I wasn't gonna make it. He sent another expedition.
- Monroe: He tried to push away too far. Looks like a rocket got them. No point going in there.
- Dr. Karen Ross: My God, what a waste of life.
- Dr. Karen Ross: Why teach an ape to talk?
- Dr. Peter Elliot: No practical reason.
- Dr. Karen Ross: Then why'd you do it?
- Dr. Peter Elliot: "A lonely impulse of delight."
- Dr. Karen Ross: William Butler Yates.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: Very good.
- Dr. Karen Ross: Did it work?
- Dr. Peter Elliot: What do you mean?
- Dr. Karen Ross: You're not lonely anymore?
- Dr. Peter Elliot: Why are *you* going to Africa?
- Dr. Karen Ross: To find something I lost.
- Dr. Karen Ross: Tell me you love your son!
- Travis: I do!
- Dr. Karen Ross: And that's why you're sending me!
- Travis: It is!
- Dr. Karen Ross: Allright. But if I have one moment, one *moment* when I think otherwise, I will make you sorry. And that's a promise.
- Dr. Karen Ross: [Soldiers with guns run by] Who are they?
- Eddie Ventro: [to soldiers] Hiya fellas!
- [to Karen]
- Eddie Ventro: Fuck if I know, and it don't pay to ask.