Stephen Mendel credited as playing...
Agent Manners
- Sam: Marla, I want you to call around, and get a hold of Jill Metzner. Oh, call the FBI in Denver, too. Some asshole named Manners.
- [Sam sees Agent Manners in the office]
- Sam: Who are you?
- Agent Manners: I'm the asshole.
- Sam: Look, I just saw something that doesn't belong in this world, and it's out there killing my friends. Now, tell me what it is!
- Agent Manners: Jack Frost.
- Sam: No, Jack Frost died.
- Stone: Jack Frost changed.
- Sam: Changed?
- [after Jack has apparently been destroyed]
- Agent Manners: It's at a time like this, when I think all we can do is turn our eyes up to the heavens and say...
- [looks up and realizes Jack is back]
- Agent Manners: ...Oh shit.
- Agent Manners: Have the MV's been moved?
- Sam: Motor vehicles?
- Agent Manners: Have the murder victims been moved yet?
- Sam: No, uh, Jake and Sally Metzner have not been moved yet.
- Agent Manners: Fine. First take me to the crime scene. 'Scuse me, Jake and Sally's place. If everything checks out as I think it will, I'll have a task force in here by midnight.
- Sam: Does this mean this case is being taken out of my hands?
- Agent Manners: It was never in them, Sheriff.
- [Sam has frightened Stone with a warning shot]
- Stone: Do something!
- Agent Manners: Like what? Teach him how to shoot better?
- Sam: Look, I need everybody here to work with me on this, alright? I need you to stay calm. I need you to trust these people.
- Paul Davrow: Why in hell should we trust these guys?
- Agent Manners: Because we might just be your only hope.
- Sam: That's right!
- Stone: We hadn't even tested the acid on an amoeba, let alone a human cell. This is a disaster.
- Agent Manners: Disaster? You got to learn to look on the bright side of things.
- Stone: The bright side?
- Agent Manners: Sure. At least you know it works. It's just a shame that your guinea pig had to be a homicidal maniac like Jack Frost, who I now have to put back... in a test tube.
- [Sam has just been misinformed about the status of Jack Frost]
- Sam: It's over.
- Agent Manners: It's starting.
- Sam: Come on, shoot it!
- Stone: Those are not your orders.
- Agent Manners: Somebody remember to put out the cat.
- [Agent Manners fires his gun at Jack Frost, causing an explosion]