Jeffrey Tambor credited as playing...
Tom Manning
- Hellboy: Are you okay?
- [manning nods weakly. Hellboy brings out a cigar and fires up his Zippo]
- Hellboy: You'd better stay here. I'll find a way out. We'll come back for you.
- Tom Manning: You call that thing a cigar?
- Hellboy: Yup.
- Tom Manning: You never, ever light a cigar that way.
- Tom Manning: [he digs out one of his fine cigars, cuts it and hands it to Hellboy] Use a wooden match. It preserves the flavor.
- Hellboy: [he lights it for him and Hellboy grins] Thank you.
- Tom Manning: [smiles] My job.
- Tom Manning: [two government agents have died under Hellboy's command and Manning is displeased] You know what my problem with you is? You're reckless. Those two men trusted you to lead them as a team. Where were you?
- Hellboy: I knew those men better than you did.
- Tom Manning: Ah, I see. That makes it all right then.
- Hellboy: No, it doesn't make it all right, but I stopped that thing, didn't I?
- Tom Manning: Yeah, that's what you do. That's why we need you. You have an insight. You know monsters.
- Hellboy: What are you trying to say?
- Tom Manning: This whole thing is a farce, because in the end, after you've killed and captured every freak out there - there's still one left: you.
- Hellboy: [sighs and acts natural] Manning, I wish I could be more gracious, but...
- [furiously pulls a machine from off the floor, lifts it and heaves it in Manning's direction]
- Tom Manning: Let me tell you - let me tell you something about the Bureau of...
- Television Host: Paranormal Research and Defense.
- Tom Manning: ...of Paranormal Research and Defense: there is no such thing.
- [cut to BPRD headquarters in New Jersey]
- [in a large cemetery, searching for Rasputin's mausoleum]
- Tom Manning: Where are you going?
- Hellboy: To ask for directions.
- [opens an amulet]
- Hellboy: Come on, find me a talker...
- Tom Manning: Have you found them yet?
- Hellboy: I got 'em right below me. Matter of minutes.
- Tom Manning: Okay, good. Could you hurry up, because it's a... it's a little spooky in here.
- [on TV, Manning is confronted with the latest picture of Hellboy]
- Tom Manning: I have a question. Why is it, in these pictures, pictures of aliens, UFOs, the yeti, Hellboy, why is it they're always out of focus?
- [audience laughs]
- Tom Manning: So, how many escapes, this year alone? Five!
- Professor Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm: Tom, he's our guest, not a prisoner!
- Tom Manning: Yeah, well, your guest happens to be six-foot five, bright red, has a tail, and is government funded.
- Tom Manning: Hey, fish stick. Don't touch anything.
- Abe Sapien: I need to touch it to see.
- Tom Manning: See what?
- Abe Sapien: Past, future. Whatever this object holds.