Goliath Awaits (1981)

Mark Harmon: Peter Cabot

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• Peter Cabot : Then you tell me why no one has challenged him to change his system.

  Paul Ryker : How? With armed guards walking around & people believing how great he is? You'd end up in jail if you did. Like me. Or worse. You suddenly die of an affliction peculiar to Goliath. Mysterious affliction called Palmer's disease. And always fatal.

• Peter Cabot : For years, he's been murdering people, and you've known about it.

  Dr. Goldman : No.

  Dr. Sam Marlowe : Yes, you have, and you've condoned it.

  Dr. Goldman : My father... he started it all. The Supreme Council insisted. When he died, I didn't want to know. I couldn't face the truth.

  Dr. Sam Marlowe : So you let Wesker & his thugs do it for you. Just like the Nazis.

  Dr. Goldman : It was a matter of survival! There were too many mouths to feed.

• Peter Cabot : Sir, the only thing that has happened down here is that you have been responsible for the death of innocent people.

  John McKenzie : Have I?

  [produces a top-secret packet intended for the President of the United States] 

  John McKenzie : These are the papers that your government wanted so badly. The real infamy is here... in these pages. Your presidential envoy was afraid that Britain would not be able to stand up against the German assault. So, in order not to take the risk that the Royal Navy would be lost to Germany, he recommended to your President that the United States Navy would open fire on the British ships. And sink them, regardless of any loss of life. The document, and the maps with it showing all the different locations of all the different British vessels wasn't delivered, as you know. And England survived. So who is the greater criminal? Why should I believe that life up there in your world is any better than life down here on Goliath?

• Peter Cabot : Sir, you know, I watch you all the time on movies on late night television.

  Ronald Bentley : You mean they finally perfected that silly little box?

  Peter Cabot : Yes, more or less.

• Peter Cabot : Surely, Sir, the people here will want to be rescued.

  John McKenzie : Yes, of course they will, Yet, you know, I can't help feeling that if a spaceship was to land upon Earth from another planet and aliens said to the people: "We have come to rescue you", the answer might be: "Rescue us? From what?"

• Ronald Bentley : [At the party]  Where's the cake?

  Sally Crane : [Puts her daughter, Beth, down]  I'll just go and get it.

  Peter Cabot : Cake? You have cake? What do use for flour?

  [nervous laughter] 

  Peter Cabot : No. Forget it. I don't want to know.