The Abyss Quotes

Virgil: Linds, I want you to stay away from that guy. I mean it.
Alan "Hippy" Carnes: The guy is gone. Did you see his hands?
Lindsey Brigman: What? He got the shakes?
Virgil: Look, he's operating on his own. He's cut off from his chain of command. He's showing signs of pressure-induced psychosis, and he's got

a nuclear weapon. So as a personal favor to me, will you try to put your tongue in neutral for a while?
Alan "Hippy" Carnes: [nervous] I got to tell you, I give this whole thing a sphincter-factor of about nine point five.

Virgil: You know, I can't believe you were dumb enough to come down here. Now you're stuck here for the storm. That was dumb, hot rod. Real dumb.
Lindsey Brigman: I didn't come down here to fight with you.
Virgil: Yeah? Well, why did you come down then?
Lindsey Brigman: You need me. Nobody knows the systems on

this rig better than I do. Once you're disconnected from the Explorer you are on your own for however long this storm lasts. I mean, what if something was to happen after the surface deport clears off? What would you have done?
Virgil: Yeah, right. Us poor, dumb old boys would've had to think for ourselves. Coulda been a disaster!

[the cab is flooding]
Virgil: All right, all right, here.
[takes off his dive suit collar]
Virgil: You put this on.
Lindsey Brigman: No, no! What are you doing?
Virgil: Don't argue with me, goddammit, just put it on!
Lindsey Brigman: Look, this is not an option, so just

forget about it, all right?
Virgil: Lindsey, shut up! Shut up, and put this thing on!
Lindsey Brigman: If you'll be logical for one second...
Virgil: FUCK LOGIC!
Lindsey Brigman: Please, listen! Just listen to me for one second. Now you've got the suit on, and you're a much better swimmer than I am,

right?
Virgil: [reluctantly] Yeah, maybe...
Lindsey Brigman: Right? Yes! So I've got a plan.
Virgil: What's the plan?
Lindsey Brigman: I drown, and you tow me back to the rig.
Virgil: No. No!
Lindsey Brigman: Yes! This water...

Virgil: NO!
Lindsey Brigman: ...is only a couple degrees above freezing! I g-go into deep hypothermia, my blood'll go like ice water, right? My body systems will slow down, they won't stop...
Virgil: Linds...
Lindsey Brigman: You tow me back and I can, I can be revived after, maybe ten or fifteen minutes.

Ten-fifteen minutes!
Virgil: [pushing the suit collar at her] Linds, you put this on, you put it on!
Lindsey Brigman: [pushing the collar back at him] No, it's the only way! Just put this on! Put this on, you know I'm right. Please, it's the only way, you've got all the s-stuff on the rig to do this! Put this on, Bud, *please*...

Virgil: [putting the collar back on] This is insane.
Lindsey Brigman: Oh my God, I know. But it's the only way.

Lindsey Brigman: I know how alone you feel... alone in all that cold blackness... but I'm there in the dark with you. Oh Bud you're not alone... Oh, God. You remember that time - you were pretty drunk, you probably don't remember - but the power went out in that little apartment we had on Orange Street? We were staring at that one little candle, and I, I said something really dumb

like, that candle was me, and like every one of us is out there alone in the dark in this life... and you just, you just lit up another candle and you put it beside mine and said "No! See, that's me. That's me"... and we stared at the two candles, and then... well, if you remember any of this, I'm sure you remember the next part. But there *are* two candles in the dark. I'm with you. I'll always

be with you Bud, I promise that.

Ensign Monk: Bud, give me a reading from your liquid oxygen gauge.
Virgil: [typing] 5 minuts worth
Lindsey Brigman: [shocked] What?
Alan "Hippy" Carnes: It took him *thirty* minutes just to get down there!
Lindsey Brigman: Bud! Do you hear me? You drop your weights and start back now,

Bud. The gauge could be wrong. Do you hear me? Just drop your weights and start back now. The gauge could be wrong! The gauge could be wrong, you drop your weights and start back now!
Virgil: [typing] Going to stay awhile
Lindsey Brigman: No, you won't stay there, do you hear me, you drop your weights! You can breathe *shallow*, do you hear me? Bud,

please listen to me, *please*, goddammit, you dragged me back from the bottomless pit, you can't leave me here *alone* now, please...
[sobs]
Lindsey Brigman: Oh God, Virgil, please... please...
Virgil: [typing] Don't cry baby. Knew this was one way ticket, but you know I had to come. Love you wife.

Virgil: [looking at the picture Lindsey took of the alien craft] That's a great shot, Linds.
Catfish De Vries: You drop your dive light?
Lindsey Brigman: No, come on you guys, come on. Now that's the small one, that's the small one here. You can kinda see how it's zigging around.
Alan "Hippy" Carnes: Yeah,

whatever it is.
Lindsey Brigman: I'm *telling* you what it is, you're just not *hearing* me.
Catfish De Vries: Now Lindsey, you...
Lindsey Brigman: There is something down there! Something not us.
Catfish De Vries: You could be more specific.
Virgil: [humorously] Somethin' that

"zigs".
Lindsey Brigman: Not *us*. Not *human*, get it? Something non-human, but intelligent... A non-terrestrial intelligence.
Alan "Hippy" Carnes: A non-terrestrial intelligence. NTIs. Oh man, that's better than UFOs. Oh, but that works too, huh? "Underwater Flying Objects".