The Signal (2007)

Anessa Ramsey: Mya Denton

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Quotes 

• Rod : Did you kill anybody last night?

  [Mya shakes her head] 

  Rod : How am I supposed to know? Tell me. Wait, where did you go? Where were you?

  Mya Denton : [slowly]  I hid in the apartment across the hall.

  [Rod unties Mya] 

  Rod : I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I couldn't trust anybody. I went looking for you. I couldn't find shit. Everybody's either dead, dying, or completely flipped. Mad. Crazy.

  Mya Denton : Why did Lewis hurt Jerry?

  Rod : Hurt? Jerry's dead, lady. Lewis got it. Fucking snapped. I couldn't get any sense into him. I got his bat, knocked him out, I taped him up so that he couldn't hurt anybody else. I had no choice. Then I saw the hallway. I've never seen anything like that. One out of two people just started killing each other. They just decided to kill people! I mean, what do I do? I've never killed anybody before. What do I do? I'm not going to fuck around. What do I do?

• [first lines] 

  Ben : What was that? That was strange.

  Mya Denton : [in bed]  Come back.

  Ben : The TV turned itself on.

  Mya Denton : [reaching out]  Come back.

  Ben : Okay.

• Ben : Just sit down and relax.

  Mya Denton : [getting dressed]  I can't relax, Ben. I've never done this before. I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know how to do this. I don't know how to do this.

  Ben : First, you just breathe, and then realize that it's okay.

  Mya Denton : It's okay, what we're doing?

  Ben : Do you love your husband?

  Mya Denton : [after a long pause]  It doesn't matter.

• Ben : You can just drop your stuff right now, and stay here tonight, and never go back there again.

  Mya Denton : Ben...

  Ben : Or we could... go up to the rooftop and build an exotic flower garden. Or we could take one of my cameras, and dress up like homeless people, and infiltrate their community and take pictures of their lives. Or we could take my TV and throw it off the balcony and replace it with coloring books. Or we could leave Terminus tomorrow. New Years fucking Eve. We could.

  Mya Denton : Leave?

  Ben : Go down to the station, we'll walk up to Terminal 13, and we'll get on a train and we'll get into our own private compartment, rip each other's clothes off, and fuck our way to freedom. We'll go to the country and start a life. A real life. Mya and Ben. New Years Eve. Terminal 13. Mya and Ben. And you don't look back.

  Mya Denton : That's beautiful.

  Ben : It's possible.

• Mya Denton : [after kissing Lewis]  I feel gross.

• Rod : I pull the fire alarm. I don't know why. Maybe somebody will come. Maybe they won't. Maybe they're screwed up too. So I fight my way to the roof; gotta see the big picture. One's gotta know, I have to know, right? And I see it in the streets, all of Terminus. It's happening everywhere. People going crazy in their head all over. At first, it's just murder. The crazy you know kill anybody, everybody, each other, indiscriminate. It looks like chaos. But then I realize they're thinking. Then I get really scared because it's rational. They know what they're doing. I mean, they think it makes sense, but it doesn't make any sense. It's different for everybody. Let me tell you, they are going to fucking murder the world. And I'm thinking they all gotta die. I mean, but I can't kill them all. I'm thinking that there's too many. Maybe I'll run, but run where? Thinking... then I get hit in the head.

  [turns head to show wound] 

  Rod : Is this bad?

  Mya Denton : You'll be fine.

  Rod : Fucker has a hammer. I have a hammer going through my head! So I smash his face... and I realize he's not crazy. He thinks I'm crazy. I'm not crazy. He's hurt really bad, so I finish him. I taped up twelve people last night. All of them had been killed by morning... all but Lewis. What do I do?

• Mya Denton : I'm trying to have an intimate moment with my husband before the end of the world.

  Lewis Denton : But I'm your husband.

  Mya Denton : You're not my husband. You're a homicidal maniac.