Hulk (2003)

Josh Lucas: Talbot

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• Bruce Banner : Talbot.

  Talbot : Yeah?

  Bruce Banner : You're making me angry.

  Talbot : Oh, am I?

  [Banner turns into the Hulk] 

• Talbot : See, I need your cells to trigger some chemical distress signals. You know, so you can turn a little green for me again, and I can carve off a piece of the real you, analyze it, patent it, make a fortune. Do you mind?

  Bruce Banner : I'll never let you.

  Talbot : I'm not sure you've got much of a choice.

  [Talbot abuses Bruce] 

  Talbot : Come on, Bruce. Aren't you feeling a little angry? After all, you've only got me to play with now that Betty's dumped you and gone back to Berkeley.

  Bruce Banner : You're lying!

  Talbot : You know, for me this is a win-win situation. You turn green, and all these guys come in and kill you and I perform the autopsy. You don't, and I mop the floor with you, and maybe by accident go too far and break your neck. Bad science, maybe, but personally gratifying.

• Talbot : You and I have never had the chance to get to know each other properly.

  Bruce Banner : Well, that's because I don't want to get to know you. Properly or improperly.

• Talbot : [Last words]  So long, big boy.

• Betty Ross : Good morning. Glenn dropped by.

  Bruce Banner : What's he doing here?

  Talbot : You know, Dr. Krenzler, you and I have never had the chance to get to know each other properly.

  Bruce Banner : Well, that's because I don't want to get to know you, properly or improperly. So, leave.

  Talbot : Hey, no worries. You know, let me give you a little heads-up. There is a hairsbreadth between friendly offer and hostile takeover. I've done my homework. The work you're doing here is dynamite. Think: GIs embedded with technology that makes them instantly repairable on the battlefield in our sole possession. That's a hell of a business.

  Bruce Banner : Well, it's not what we're doing here. We're doing the basic science for everyone.

  Talbot : You know, someday I'm gonna write a book and I'm gonna call it When Stupid Ideals Happen To Smart, Penniless Scientists. In the meantime, Bruce, you will be hearing from me.

• Talbot : Bingo! That must be some jumbo nightmare he just had.

• Talbot : You know, consciously, you may control it, but subconsciously, I bet that's another story.

• Betty Ross : What happened to your uniform?

  Talbot : Oh, I, uh - I switched over. I'm still working with your father, but - Well, you know, the military's subcontracting out all the most interesting work, and - Can't argue with a paycheck. I basically run all the labs on the base now.

  Betty Ross : Oh.

  Talbot : Hey, you're uh - you're looking good. You're the genetics expert. Ah, the good old college days. So, how's business?

  Betty Ross : What do you want?

  Talbot : All right, I'll cut to the chase. I've been hearing interesting things about what you guys are doing here. Your little molecular machines have some incredible implications. How would you like to come work for Atheon? Get paid ten times as much as you earn now and own a piece of the patents. You just have to say the word.

  Betty Ross : Two words: the door.

• Talbot : You pathetic freak.

• Bruce Banner : Talbot

  Talbot : Yeah?

  Bruce Banner : You're making me angry

  Talbot : Oh am I?

  [Bruce stares at him and starts crushing his hand as his face starts turning Green. Talbot is then thrown onto the couch as Bruce groans, grows, and rips his clothes off becoming the Hulk]