The Running Man Quotes

[Amber is being introduced to the audience as a special guest 'runner']
Phil Hiton: ...Later, she cheated on college exams. Had sexual relationships with two, sometimes three different men in a year. And then she met Mad Dog Ben Richards, her *Confederate*, her LOVER!
Amber Mendez: That was a lie!
Damon Killian: Dear, dear,

dear. Let's reunite these little lovebirds! GO!
[audience cheers]
Damon Killian: [Amber is sent down to the game zone]

Buzzsaw: Richards, I love this saw. This saw's part of me and I'm going to make it part of you.
Ben Richards: [after a brief struggle Richards successfuly positions the sea between Buzzsaw's legs] That's alright. Keep it!
[Richards begins slicing him through the crotch]
Ben Richards: [Buzzsaw screams in agonizing pain as

people are watching with shock]

Damon Killian: [after the introduction of Dynamo] Oh, thank you. You're beautiful. Well, it's been an exciting show so far, right? We've had shocks. We've had surprises. And we thought, why not one more surprise?
[Killian laughs]
Damon Killian: Will you please help me welcome our mystery contestant: Miss Amber Mendez!
[Amber is dragged onstage

by Sven and his other two guards; audience applauds]
Amber Mendez: Let me go!
Damon Killian: Amber. Amber! Now I understand that you're single, Amber, and that you live on the West Side. And not surprisingly, she's flaunted the law and traditional morality all of her life.
Amber Mendez: Go ahead. Tell some lies about me now.

Damon Killian: We don't lie. Phil, tell us all about her.

Damon Killian: We have one hell of a show for you tonight. Phil, please, if you will, introduce tonight's guest runner...
Damon Killian: [to Mrs. Agnes McArdle and the audience] ... and watch that screen.
[an CGI falsified version of the actual events of the Bakersfield massacre is shown; the police heilcopter is flying over the city]

Phil Hiton: Our star runner tonight needs no introduction. He's Ben Richards, the brutal slayer of 60 men, women, and children in the Bakersfield massacre.
Ben Richards: Food riot in progress. Approximately 1,500 civilians. Moving in.
Dispatcher: [to Richards] Yankee-nine-niner, the crowd is unarmed. Repeat, unarmed. Abort attack. Acknowledge,

Yankee-Nine-Niner.
Ben Richards: [to dispatch] The hell with you.
Dispatcher: Lieutenant Sanders, take command. Detain Richards and return to base.
[Ben attacks Sanders and the crew; Thousands of shanty residents, the audience, and the guests in the locker room, including Captain Freedom, are watching the shocking events infolding]
Dispatcher:

Acknowledge, Yankee-Nine-Niner! Acknowledge! Return to base! Those are innocent, unarmed people down there! Cease fire! CEASE FIRE!
[Ben starts shooting at the crowd with an automatic machine gun and laying waste to the entire city using rocket launchers; The audience and the residents watch in sheer horror]
Damon Killian: Well, we all know the aftermath: Grieving

parents, orphaned children, and a nation shocked to its very core. Here he is, ready to pay the price for our home audience. In person, the Butcher of Bakersfield!

Dispatcher: Proceed with plan alpha. Eliminate anything moving.
Ben Richards: I said the crowd is unarmed. There are a lot of women and children down there. All they want is food for God's sake!
Dispatcher: As you were, Richards. Proceed with plan alpha. All rioters must be eliminated.
Ben Richards: The hell with you. I will not fire on

helpless people. Abort mission. We return back to base.
Dispatcher: Lieutenant Sanders, do you copy?

Damon Killian: [Killian is explaining the rules of the game] Once inside the zone, the runners have three hours! They gotta go through all four game quads! Three hours or less and they're gonna need every second! Cause you know who's on their tail?
Audience members: The stalkers!
Damon Killian: Who?
Audience members: The stalkers!

Damon Killian: And you know what happens then!
Audience members: Anything goes!
Damon Killian: What?
Audience members: Anything goes!
Damon Killian: Right! Without further ado, it's time to start... RUNNING!