Testament Movie Quotes
Brad Wetherly
Doesn't radiation get into water?
Carol Wetherly
Well, it can. Maybe it won't be so bad here. But we'd better be careful.
Scottie Wetherly
What's "radation"?
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Mary Liz Wetherly
Here, have a banana.
Scottie Wetherly
You never gave me one before.
Mary Liz Wetherly
I did now.
Carol Wetherly
There may not be any... more for a while.
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Mary Liz Wetherly
[Remember]
the morning I walked in on you and Dad?
Carol Wetherly
Yes.
Mary Liz Wetherly
What's it like?
Carol Wetherly
What's what like?
Mary Liz Wetherly
Making love. Don't play mother with me.
Carol Wetherly
That's what I am.
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Brad Wetherly
[after finding Hiroshi abandoned at home]
I'd better take you home with me, Hiroshi... because I don't think your dad is coming back.
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Carol Wetherly
I don't know what day it is, I've lost track. Henry thinks some miracle may save us yet, he's foolish. The cemetery's full, they're burning the bodies.
[sewing up a makeshift body bag]
Carol Wetherly
My firstborn, my daughter.
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Carol Wetherly
[Carol recalls in her diary how she and the kids found Scottie's maple sapling dead from radiation exposure]
... Scottie's tree... I can't write today.
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Newscaster
This is San Francisco. We have lost our New York signal. Radar sources confirm the explosion of nuclear devices there, in New York, and up and down the East Coast. Ladies and gentlemen, this is real. This is...
Emergency Broadcast System Announcer #1
[interrupting with a high-pitched tone] We interrupt this program at the request of the White House. This is a national emergency. This is an Emergency Action Notification. I repeat, we interrupt this program at the request of the White House. Do not use your telephone. Telephone lines should be kept open for official use. Important instructions will follow.
Carol Wetherly
[telephone rings] Hello? Tom? Hello?
Emergency Broadcast System Announcer #2
Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States.
[the TV suddenly goes dark, a blinding flash appears outside the living room window, and air raid sirens begin to wail]
Brad Wetherly
Mom?
Mary Liz Wetherly
Mom?
Carol Wetherly
Get away from that window!
Scottie Wetherly
Mommy!
Carol Wetherly
Get down on the floor. Get down!
Mary Liz Wetherly
Was that Dad?
Brad Wetherly
Is he in San Francisco?
Scottie Wetherly
I'm scared!
Carol Wetherly
I don't know. Put your heads down! Cover your eyes! Oh my God. My God.
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Father Hollis Mann
I'm sorry I'm late. Let's begin.
Carol Wetherly
Not yet!
Father Hollis Mann
God said...
Carol Wetherly
[hysterical]
Forget God! No one is touching him! No one is burying him until I find his bear! Do you hear me? You understand?
[Carol runs back to the house, pause]
Father Hollis Mann
...whosoever believeth in me shall never die.
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Brad Wetherly
What do we do now?
Carol Wetherly
Make a wish.
Brad Wetherly
What do we wish for, Mom?
Carol Wetherly
[final lines of the film]
That we remember it all. The good and the awful. The way we finally lived. That we never gave up. That we will last, to be here... ... to deserve the children.
[it is implied that Carol, Hiroshi and Brad are the only people left in the United States, possibly the world, who haven't died yet from radiation poisoning]
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Scottie Wetherly
Tell it to stop.
Carol Wetherly
I can't.
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Carol Wetherly
Who did this? Goddamn you.
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