Morlock Quotes

Tom Mullen: Why would they ever let my son go, no matter what I do? I mean, no matter what I do... pay, don't pay, comply, tell him to go fuck himself - why would they give him back? I mean, he's a witness any way you cut it. It's all bullshit, it's all just... seven out of ten.
Kate Mullen: What are you saying?
Tom Mullen: All

right: Morlock Man gets his money, I don't think we'll ever see Sean again. That's if he's still alive to begin with.
Agent Lonnie Hawkins: Whoa, now. Are you talking about not paying?
Kate Mullen: No! No, we pay him!
Tom Mullen: Now wait a minute. Listen to me... Morlock man says the pickup guy will give me an address for

Sean. I get there, the guy sticks a gun in my face. I said, "You want the money, now give me the address? Where's the address?" You should've seen his face. He had no, absolutely NO idea what I was talking about. None!
Agent Lonnie Hawkins: Okay...
Tom Mullen: This is not business to him. This is very personal.
Agent Lonnie

Hawkins: I tell you that everybody pays, and we get back 7 out of 10.
Tom Mullen: If we give him what he wants, he will kill Sean!
Agent Lonnie Hawkins: Tom, you've got to play the odds, man. I've been doing this for eighteen years, and if I were a betting man, I would bet on the people who pay every time, out of the gate.
Tom

Mullen: Did you bet on the ones where you got back a corpse?

Det. Jimmy Shaker: [talking on the radio as they are both driving] You a movie fan, Tom? Ever seen that movie, The Time Machine?
Tom Mullen: No.
Det. Jimmy Shaker: It's the land of the future, right? There's only two kinds of people in the world now, the Morlocks and the Eloi.
Tom Mullen: Okay.

Det. Jimmy Shaker: The Eloi, they live above ground... they wear togas, they're all blond, they eat grapes and shit like that. It's like the garden of Eden out there, I mean basically everybody just plays around.
Tom Mullen: How do I get my boy back?
Det. Jimmy Shaker: The Morlocks, they live underground, all right? Big hairy ugly

suckers, like you wouldn't wish on an ape. Down there with all this machinery, they're doing all the labor, they're making sure that the Eloi have enough food and togas...
Tom Mullen: Are you gonna answer me?
Det. Jimmy Shaker: Oh, great deal if you are an Eloi, right? There's only one thing - every once in a while a Morlock comes up to the surface

and snatches an Eloi, takes him down there...
Tom Mullen: All right, I'm done driving until you tell me what I want to know!
Det. Jimmy Shaker: The Morlocks, they don't eat grapes... they're cannibals. They eat Eloi. So when I think of The Time Machine, it kind of reminds me of New York City, you know? See, you're an Eloi. You and all your friends

walking around like zombies with no fucking idea of the shit going on down below. So... does this make me a Morlock? I don't like to think of myself like- I guess it does. And every once in a while, one of you gets snatched.