Michael Gross credited as playing...
Burt Gummer
- [Upon being introduced to Burt's anti-tank rifle]
- Earl Bassett: Man Burt, you put a whole new shine on the word 'overkill'.
- Burt Gummer: When you need it, and don't have it... you sing a different tune.
- [hiding from the Shriekers, Earl, Grady, and Kate are on top of some containers, Burt is inside the scoop of a bulldozer]
- Grady: Hey, Burt! Are you SURE you don't have any more bullets? Did you check ALL your pockets?
- Burt Gummer: [looking angry] You know, as I lie here, I can't help but comment: the reason I am out of nine-millimeter rounds is I was NOT... properly briefed, and the reason for that is this mission was NOT properly researched. If certain people had bothered to gather intelligence on the creatures before BUMBLING into the situation...
- Earl Bassett: Knock it off, Burt! Nobody made you come!
- Burt Gummer: We wouldn't be down here with single-shot big bores when we should be packing full auto, preferably belt-fed!
- [a Shrieker near Burt grunts loudly]
- Burt Gummer: SHUT UP!
- Grady: They're Precambrian lifeforms, Burt! How's anybody supposed to research Precambrian lifeforms...
- Earl Bassett: [cuts him, bellows] WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE NOW! We're stuck on a goddamn roof with a bunch of--a bunch of what's-it's trying to eat us! I mean, I've done this before, and I did not like it!
- Grady: [furiously offended] Oh, okay! Now it's all my fault! So, things didn't work out exactly the way we planned! Oh, I'm SO sorry!
- Earl Bassett: Well, you should be!
- Burt Gummer: [yells over them] If I had the right tools, I'd finish the job!
- Kate (White) Reilly: JEEZ! Would you just all relax! Now look... Nobody's heard from us since last night. Which means that pretty soon they're going to be up here looking for us, right? So, all we have to do is sit... and wait. Okay?
- [Grady and Earl go silent]
- Kate (White) Reilly: Burt?
- [Burt crosses his arms reluctantly agreeing with her]
- Grady: [realizing Earl tricked him] Wait a minute!
- [turns to Burt]
- Grady: Paper wraps rock, doesn't it?
- Burt Gummer: [sighs in annoyance] Paper ALWAYS wraps rock.
- Grady: Damn!
- Burt Gummer: [solemnly] Heather's not coming back.
- Earl Bassett: No?
- Burt Gummer: She called and told me to send her the HK91.
- Earl Bassett: Ouch!
- Burt Gummer: I knew it. Infrared. It doesn't hear us; it doesn't actually see us; it senses the heat of our bodies. See that? The thing that rises up must be the heat sensor. You feel that? Gives off a lot of heat when it screams.
- Kate (White) Reilly: That's it. I bet that's the way they communicate. The sound doesn't matter. I mean they make noise, but they signal each other with their body heat.
- Earl Bassett: It only sees heat?
- Kate (White) Reilly: Yes, that's not so weird. A rattlesnake strikes at body heat.
- Earl Bassett: Well that's why they tore up the cars-- because the engines were hot. They thought it was food.
- Kate (White) Reilly: And the same thing with the radio tower. That electronic gear puts off all kinds of heat.
- Burt Gummer: So basically, they bite anything that's warm.
- Grady: You mean they been actin' so smart 'cause they're so stupid?
- Burt Gummer: I didn't know... how could I have known? I wanted maximum penetration!
- Earl Bassett: [Looks at destroyed engine] Well, you got it.
- Grady: [it's night, Grady and Earl are waiting on top of their stranded truck for Pedro to arrive, an explosion sounds in the distance]
- [referring to Burt]
- Grady: Jesus! He got another one.
- Earl Bassett: That man never sleeps.
- [two more explosions sound in the distance]
- Burt Gummer: [over radio] Guys, Burt here. Doing a little night fishing. Got three of 'em on a cluster chare. I'd say we're about even now. Over.
- Earl Bassett: Come on, Burt. This isn't a competition.
- Burt Gummer: [over radio] Well, who's competing? I'm just saying the score is tied, that's all. Over.
- Grady: Well, 'son', no it isn't, cuz we just caught a live one. How 'bout that.
- Burt Gummer: [over radio] A live one? How in the hell...
- Grady: Well, that's our little secret. Happy hunting, Burt.
- [turns radio off]
- Earl Bassett: [laughing] I'll bet that burned his skinny ass!
- Burt Gummer: [Earl has set a bomb to blow up a garage containing the Shriekers] Earl! Earl, the bomb, how long did you set it for?
- Earl Bassett: Oh, I... I don't know, I just punched in some numbers and threw it in the back of your truck!
- Burt Gummer: [horrified] You WHAT? That's 2,5 tons of high explosives, Earl!
- Earl Bassett: You mean that's not enough?
- [panicking]
- Earl Bassett: Oh Burt, don't tell me it's not enough!
- Burt Gummer: Not enou... Never mind, just run! Run!