Ken Watanabe: Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
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Dr. Ishiro Serizawa : Sometimes... the only way to heal our wounds is to make peace with the demons who created them.
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Dr. Ishiro Serizawa : [to Godzilla] Goodbye, old friend.
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Dr. Vivienne Graham : A sort of symbiotic relationship, if you will. The lion and the mouse.
Senator Williams : Or the scorpion and the frog. So you'd want to make Godzilla our pet.
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa : No. We will be his.
[general laughter]
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Dr. Ishiro Serizawa : There are some things beyond our understanding, Mark. We must accept them and *learn* from them. Because these moments of crisis are also potential moments of faith. A time - when we either come together or fall apart. Nature always has a way of balancing itself. The only question is... What part - will we play.
Mark Russell : Did you just make that up?
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa : No. I read it in a fortune cookie once.
[beat]
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa : A really long fortune cookie.
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Mark Russell : Jesus! How many of these things are there?
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa : Seventeen. And counting, after Gojira.
Mark Russell : Seventeen!
Dr. Vivienne Graham : Most of them were discovered in deep hibernation. While others we've contained at top-secret sites around the world. Cambodia and Mexico, Skull Island. We even found one in Wyoming. They're everywhere.
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Dr. Ishiro Serizawa : Killing them would be a mistake. They returned because of us. It was our atomic testing that awoke Gojira. Other creatures like the MUTOs. From strip-mining and seismic surveys. But these are not monsters! They are animals, rising to reclaim a world that was once theirs!
Senator Williams : It almost sounds like you're protecting them, Dr. Serizawa. As if you admire them.
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa : [grimly] I admire all forms of life.
[standing]
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa : Senators. If we hope to survive, we must find ways to coexist with Titans. With Gojira.
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Dr. Ishiro Serizawa : [angrily] This is a dangerous path! You are meddling with forces beyond our comprehension, gambling with the lives of billions!
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Dr. Ishiro Serizawa : Hold your fire. We don't know if he will attack!
Mark Russell : Well he will if you keep those guns on him. Now I want him dead more that anybody, but unless this is a fight that you know that you can win for God's sakes, stand down.
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Mark Russell : [almost whispering] Open the shields.
Dr. Rick Stanton : [loudly] Oh yeah, sure, let's bring him in for a beer! You outta your goddamn mind?
Mark Russell : [almost whispering] Let him know we're not a threat. Open the shields.
[pause]
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa : [to Stanton] Do it.
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Colonel Diane Foster : The oxygen destroyer, why wasn't Monster Zero affected?
Chief Warrant Officer Barnes : I mean, I'm no scientist, but I think it has something to do with his goddamn head growing back.
Dr. Rick Stanton : Well, I've never seen anything like it. It violates everything we know about the natural order.
Dr. Ilene Chen : Unless he's not part of the natural order.
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa : What do you mean?
[shows a cave painting of Godzilla and Monster Zero]
Dr. Ilene Chen : I was able to piece this together.
Sam Coleman : Well, he looks vaguely familiar.
Dr. Ilene Chen : It tells of a great dragon who fell from the stars. A Hydra whose storm swallowed both men and gods alike.
Mark Russell : What, you mean an alien?
Dr. Ilene Chen : Yes. He's not part of our natural order. And he's not meant to be here.
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa : A false king.
Dr. Rick Stanton : An invasive species. That could explain how he's creating these massive storms and the effect he's having on the other Titans. It's almost he's reshaping the planet to his own liking.
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa : These legends, what did they call him?
Dr. Ilene Chen : Ghidorah. "The one who is many."
Mark Russell : Ghi-what?
Sam Coleman : She said, "Gonorrhea."
Mark Russell : Huh?
Dr. Ilene Chen : [enunciating] Ghidorah!
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Colonel Diane Foster : Is there another creature that might stand a chance against him?
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa : [thoughtfully] No. Ghidorah and Gojira's rivalry was ancient and unique.
Staff Sergeant Martinez : Right, so we killed - our best shot - at beating this thing?
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Dr. Vivienne Graham : The specimen at the site has been kept entirely off-book. And since it's a more recent discovery our data is limited. But it seems to be another apex predator.
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa : Emma called it - Monster Zero.
Dr. Vivienne Graham : It may have been a rival alpha to Godzilla, battling for dominance over the other Titans.