Jack Carter: Mayor

Alligator

Mayor

[they're overlooking a footprint]
Marisa: This is amazing. I mean, according to this, it should be 30 to 40 feet long.
David: But it is an alligator.
Mayor: David. This is Colonel Brock--
[explosions are heard]
Col. Brock: What the hell is that?
Chief Clark: We're setting off charges to see if we can bring him up.
Col. Brock: It's a wild animal, not a submarine.
Mayor: I've flown in Colonel Brock to take charge of the operation.
David: Take charge?
Mayor: Yeah, well, he's hunted big game animals all over the world.
Chief Clark: It's a new ballgame, Dave.
David: What the hell do you expect me to do?
Col. Brock: You just stay out from under my feet.
David: Start right now, guys.
[He walks off]
Mayor: Now, look, Madison...
Marisa: You know, it's not his fault the alligator got loose.
Col. Brock: Who is this pretty girl?
Chief Clark: Oh, Colonel Brock, this is Dr. Kendall. She's the...
Col. Brock: Oh, yes, the lizard lady. Welcome and now you can go back to your books.
Marisa: You'd better take all the help you can get. You know, I've seen what this animal can do.
Col. Brock: Well, if I couldn't get myself killed chasing it, what fun would it be?

Chief Clark: The safety of the public is my job!
Mayor: Well, you've got no job unless I get reelected. Now, look, this could generate a lot of good publicity. And I can't have your people fumble the ball for us. And that's all.

Reporter 1: Thomas Kemp, popular columnist for the National Probe Magazine is missing and presumed dead. His camera, the only clue to his disappearance, was fished out of a filtration tank at the city sewage works late last night. The film inside the camera was salvaged
[David changes the channel]
Newswoman: What appeared to be an abnormally large alligator or similar reptile who is now believed to be responsible for at least four deaths.
[David changes the channel again]
Mayor: But as mayor, I tell you that no effort and no expense will be spared by this--
[David changes the channel again]
Madeline: Professor, herpetologist, author, and probably the leading authority here in the Midwest on reptile and amphibian life, as well as a native of our own city, Dr. Kendall, what animal is it?
Marisa: It's an alligator.
Madeline: Couldn't it be a...
Marisa: There's no question. It's definitely an alligator.
Madeline: I see. Well how large do you think it is from the photographs you've seen?
Marisa: If it's been living in the sewer, it couldn't be very large. Even under ideal circumstances, in a zoo for example, they don't grow nearly as large as they would in their natural habitat.
[David turns off the TV]
David: [looking over a map of the city] this makes it one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine... 13...
[looks at a toy alligator on the map]
David: Where are you?

Mayor: Oh, Mr Slade, I'd have to go to the City Council for a reward.
Slade: Now common now, let's stop fussing. I'll put up the money. I'll put up the money. Listen, the wedding is tomorrow. I want you to pick up all this silver, all the tables, put 'em back the way it should be later.
Mayor: Look, that's very generous of you, Mr. Slade.
Slade: Mayor, listen, we have got four products, four products pending with the Food and Drug Administration right now. Four products. And that's a lot of politics involved.
Mayor: Oh, I see. And if they traced it back to the company...
Slade: You mean if they traced it back here to us?
Mayor: Yeah.
Slade: Well you'd be out of a job for one thing. Arthur. Mayor Ledeux, my future son-in-law, Arthur Hill.
Mayor: Oh, how you do?
Scientist Arthur Helms: Nice to meet you.
Slade: Arthur is my number one boy.
Mayor: Oh.
Slade: My number one boy, yes, sir.