The Thing (1982)

Joel Polis: Fuchs

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• Fuchs : There's something wrong with Blair. He's locked himself in his room and he won't answer the door, so I took one of his notebooks from the lab.

  MacReady : Yeah?

  Fuchs : Listen: "It could have imitated a million life-forms on a million planets. It could change into any one of them at any time. Now, it wants life-forms on Earth."

  MacReady : It's gettin' cold in here, Fuchs, and I haven't slept for two days.

  Fuchs : Wait a minute, Mac, wait a minute.

  [reads from the book] 

  Fuchs : "It needs to be alone and in close proximity with the life-form to be absorbed. The chameleon strikes in the dark."

  MacReady : So is Blair cracking up or what?

  Fuchs : Damn it, MacReady!

  [reading from the notebook] 

  Fuchs : "There is still cellular activity in these burned remains. They're not dead yet!"

• Fuchs : [whispering]  I have to talk to you.

  MacReady : I'm tired of talkin', Fuchs. I just wanna get up to my shack and get drunk.

  Fuchs : Mac, it's important.

  MacReady : What is it?

  Fuchs : Outside.

  MacReady : It's 40 below zero outside.