Frank Collison: Nursery Owner

The Happening

Nursery Owner

Nursery Owner: We're packing hot dogs for the road. You know hot dogs get a bad rap? They got a cool shape, they got protein. You like hot dogs right? By the way, I think I know what's causing this.
Elliot Moore: You do?
Nursery Owner: It's the plants. They can release chemicals.
[to his plants]
Nursery Owner: OK babies, we are going to be going, but we will be back soon, OK?
[to Elliot]
Nursery Owner: Oh, plants react to human stimulus, they've proved it in tests.
[to his wife]
Nursery Owner: You get the mustard?

Nursery Owner: You know plants have the ability to target specific threats. Tobacco plants when attacked by heliothis caterpillars will send out a chemical attracting wasps to kill just those caterpillars. We don't know how plants obtain these abilities, they just evolve very rapidly.
Alma Moore: Which species is doing it if you think it's true?
Nursery Owner: Plants have the ability to communicate with other species of plants. Trees can communicate with bushes, and bushes with grass, and everything in between.

Nursery Owner: We're packing hot dogs for the road. You know, hot dogs get a bad rep. They gotta cool shape, they got protein.

Nursery Owner: This woman's talking to her daughter. She's talking to her daughter in Princeton. Isn't that where your friend went?
Elliot Moore: Come on!
[they run over to the woman]
Woman on Cell Phone: [speaking to her daughter at Princeton] It's OK, honey, honey, it's OK.
[to the fellow survivors]
Woman on Cell Phone: She's so scared... You just stay in that room, you don't open the door for nothing. Just keep watching out the window with the tree, baby, someone will come and get you soon.
Elliot Moore: Tell her, tell her not to go near the window with the tree, just tell her!
Woman on Cell Phone: Baby, don't go near the window with the tree!
Elliot Moore: Ask her if Princeton's been affected.
Woman on Cell Phone: Honey, someone wants to know if Princeton's had any problems... she says everyone's dead outside.
[they all gasp]
Woman on Cell Phone: You just stay in your room... Honey, honey you're talking funny, what's wrong with you?
Elliot Moore: What do you mean? Everyone's dead?
Woman on Cell Phone: What? Stacy, you're scaring me, I don't, I don't understand what you're saying. What, baby? She's just not making any sense.
Young Woman Voice on Phone: Calculus, I see... in calculus. Calculus. Calculus.
Woman on Cell Phone: Stacy... Stacy...
[loud noise, then silence on Stacy's end of the line]
Woman on Cell Phone: Stacy Ann?
[woman starts weeping]
Woman on Cell Phone: Oh no no no no no Stacy, Stacy, oh no no no... Oh, Stacy!

Private Auster: My name is Private Auster. I'm stationed at Westover Military Base about ten miles back. I think they've been affected by whatever's happening. I lost communication with them. When I approached the base, I saw military personnel in... the barbed wire in... the fence. So I suggest no one take that road.
Nursery Owner: There's a town about eight miles behind us. There were bodies on the road into town.
Private Auster: Cheese and crackers.