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The Black Hole (1979)

Anthony Perkins: Dr. Alex Durant

The Black Hole

Anthony Perkins credited as playing...

Dr. Alex Durant

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  • V.I.N.CENT: [beep] 2130; day 547. Unscheduled course correction due at 2200. Pre-correction check: rotation axis plus three degrees. Nitrous oxide pressure: 4100 rising to 5,000. Quad jet C and D on preselect. Rotor ignition sequence beginning in 3-0. Thruster line reactors on standby.
  • Captain Dan Holland: V.I.N.CENT, notify me with 15 to go. Alex?
  • Dr. Alex Durant: Yes, Dan?
  • Captain Dan Holland: Have you determined a difference in ETAs with and without our correction?
  • Dr. Alex Durant: Working on it. You know, we shouldn't be needing a correction at this time. V.I.N.CENT, run a confirmation on the last inertial fix and check it with another celestial, please.
  • V.I.N.CENT: [beep] I have. It is correct. But I think I've found the reason for our present variation. Mr. Pizer?
  • Lieutenant Charles Pizer: Yes, V.I.N.CENT?
  • V.I.N.CENT: [beep] Mr. Pizer, I think you should come up here.
  • Kate McCrae: Alex, I will not have you throw your life away for this!
  • Dr. Alex Durant: He can do it, Kate. I know he can.
  • Kate McCrae: Oh, God, Alex!
  • Dr. Alex Durant: There's an entirely different universe beyond that black hole. A point where time and space as we know it no longer exists. We will be the first to see it, to explore it, to experience it!
  • [Inside the Palomino]
  • Harry Booth: Damn it all, Dan! If we wait for Alex, we may be too late! Don't you see? He's hypnotized by that man!
  • Captain Dan Holland: V.I.N.CENT!
  • V.I.N.CENT: Yes, Captain?
  • Captain Dan Holland: Tell Kate I want her back here fast, with or without Alex. Tell her why.
  • Dr. Hans Reinhardt: Tonight, my friends, we stand on the brink of a feat unparalleled in space exploration. If the data on my returning probe matches my computerized calculations, I will travel where no man has dared to go.
  • Dr. Alex Durant: Into the black hole?
  • Dr. Hans Reinhardt: In - thorough - And beyond!
  • Kate McCrae: Alex, I'm beginning to feel you want to go with him.
  • Dr. Alex Durant: On a glorious pilgrimage straight into what may be the mind of God. I do. I do.
  • Dr. Hans Reinhardt: "And darkness was on the face of the deep. And the spirt of God moved upon the face of the waters."
  • Dr. Hans Reinhardt: I'm ready. Ready to embark on man's greatest journey.
  • Kate McCrae: It's certainly his riskiest.
  • Dr. Hans Reinhardt: The risk is incidental compared to the possibility to posses the great truth of the unknown. There - long cherished laws of nature - simply do not apply. They vanish!
  • Dr. Alex Durant: And - life?
  • Dr. Hans Reinhardt: Life? Life forever!
  • Dr. Hans Reinhardt: [Durant removes a reflective mask from one of the Cygnus's hooded crew members... whose human face is blank and expressionless due to being lobotomized. Kate reacts in terror as Reinhardt sees what's happening] What are you doing...? He would be dead by now. They *all* would be dead. This was the only way to keep them alive - one of my greatest achievements.
  • Dr. Alex Durant: Then... Why did you tell us the crew had *left* the ship?
  • Dr. Hans Reinhardt: Some cause must have created all this; but what *caused* that cause?
  • Dr. Alex Durant: Come on, Kate; let's get out of here!
  • [Maximilian cuts them off and slays Durant]
  • Harry Booth: My God! Right out of Dante's Inferno.
  • Dr. Alex Durant: Yes. A most destructive force - in the universe, Harry. Nothing can escape it, not even light.
  • Kate McCrae: I had a professor who predicted that eventually black holes would devour the entire universe.
  • Dr. Alex Durant: Why not? When you can see giant suns sucked in and disappear without a trace.
  • Dr. Alex Durant: Did you ever meet Commander Reinhardt?
  • Harry Booth: Collided with him would be a more accurate description.
  • Dr. Alex Durant: He's a legend.
  • Harry Booth: So he himself believed!
  • Dr. Alex Durant: You will be remembered as one of the greatest space scientists of all time.
  • Dr. Hans Reinhardt: I've never doubted that.
  • Dr. Hans Reinhardt: It's about time that people learned about their failures and my successes.
  • Dr. Alex Durant: So why not come back with us, and enjoy the recognition for those successes?
  • Dr. Hans Reinhardt: Because that's not the sort of recognition I enjoy anymore.
  • Dr. Alex Durant: Fascinating.
  • Kate McCrae: From a distance.
  • Dr. Hans Reinhardt: Are you interested in black holes?
  • Dr. Alex Durant: How can one not be overwhelmed by the deadliest force in the universe.
  • Kate McCrae: That long dark tunnel to nowhere.
  • Dr. Hans Reinhardt: Or somewhere! These are exactly answers yet to be explored.
  • Dr. Hans Reinhardt: We never knew what happened to the others.
  • Dr. Alex Durant: You've lived out here for 20 years? Alone?
  • Dr. Hans Reinhardt: Twenty years? Twenty *Earth* years. But I didn't live exactly alone. I've created companions, of a sort. They look a bit medieval... but I'm a romantic.

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