Sissy Spacek credited as playing...
Helen
- Adam: Say, mom?
- Helen: Yes, dear?
- Adam: I was wondering, you know, while I was up there and all, I was thinking, well, you know, I was wondering if maybe I could meet a girl? I've been thinking about that a little. Just these last fifteen years or so.
- Helen: Oh, Adam, it would be wonderful if you could meet a girl. One who's not a mutant and hopefully comes from Pasadena. Nothing against Valley girls but, in my day anyhow, girls from Pasadena, I don't know, just always seemed a little bit nicer.
- [the doors have unlocked, and Helen and Adam are thrilled; Calvin slightly less so]
- Adam: Do we just go on up?
- Calvin: No, son. Now is the time we must be at our most cautious. We wait for night.
- Helen: Oh, shit!
- [Helen, realizing Adam has heard her, immediately covers her mouth]
- Calvin: Helen Thomas Webber! Maybe we have been down here a little too long. Pardon her French, son.
- Adam: "Shit" is French?
- Calvin: [uncomfortably] Well, it's archaic French. It's a sixteenth-century colloquialism, meaning, roughly, good.
- Helen: Your father's right.
- Adam: Well. Shit!