Nicolas Cage credited as playing...
Zoc
- Lucas Nickle: It's funny. The sky looks exactly the same. Everything else is so different but it's the same sky, the same stars.
- [he yawns]
- Zoc: Why must you keep doing that? Are you ill?
- Lucas Nickle: What? Oh, you mean yawning. I'm just tired.
- Zoc: Please stop. It's disgusting.
- Lucas Nickle: Ants don't yawn?
- Zoc: Uh, definitely not, thank you.
- Lucas Nickle: [Yawns]
- Zoc: [Disgusted sighs] So this city of yours, it's like a nest?
- Lucas Nickle: Well, yeah. Kind of.
- Zoc: And the humans that live there are all brothers working together for the greatness of their colony?
- Lucas Nickle: Well, not exactly. It's a little more like, you know, every man for himself.
- Zoc: But that's so primitive. How does anything get done?
- Lucas Nickle: Some people work together.
- Zoc: Some. Why not all?
- Lucas Nickle: I suppose it's because of their differences.
- Zoc: But it's the differences that make a colony strong. Foragers, scouts, drones, nurses, regurgitators all are different but an essential part of the whole. This is where we ants draw our strength.
- Lucas Nickle: My differences just get me beat up.
- Zoc: And why is that?
- Lucas Nickle: I don't know. Some humans prefer to clobber people they don't understand.
- Zoc: Like you prefer to clobber ants.
- Lucas Nickle: I guess I didn't think about what I was doing. Seems to happen a lot.
- [he yawns]
- Zoc: Zoc: I suppose sometimes I, too, can act without thinking. Heh. Perhaps in this way, we are alike.
- [he yawns widely as he drifted off to sleep]
- Zoc: Good night, Lucas.
- Lucas Nickle: Good night, Zoc.
- Zoc: [glares at crystal in hand] Kraznoks! You... rock. Curse upon your children.
- Hova: Hmm. I don't think rocks have children.
- Zoc: [throws crystal to the ground] They won't now.
- Hova: Okay. What's the matter?
- Zoc: Hova, the potion is supposed to change color. It's not changing color. It's not changing color.
- [grabs two more rocks]
- Zoc: I call upon the elements: Wind, rain, et cetera. Transform my potion and clacktiel.
- [beats the crystals together. Nothing happens. He gets frustrated]
- Zoc: Clackteil, clackteil...
- [beats the crystals violently together]
- Zoc: But - But who will teach him our ways?
- Hova: I will.
- Zoc: Hova?
- Queen Ant: It is done. Let us continue our work.
- Lucas Nickle: That's it? How long am I gonna be like this? I want to go home! Wait! It's inhuman!
- Head of Council: Yes. It is.
- Zoc: You know what this is? This is the potion that will make you big again. I just wanted you to take a good, long look at it. Because this is the last time you will ever see it.
- Lucas Nickle: What do you mean?
- Zoc: I mean there is no way I'm ever going to make you big again.
- [chuckles]
- Zoc: Ever. You are a threat to every ant in this colony. Especially to Hova.
- Lucas Nickle: But I would never do anything to hurt Hova. I just - I - I just wanna go home.
- Zoc: Well, then, if I were you, I'd try to find help somewhere else, because there is nothing for you here. Nothing.
- Hova: Where's Lucas?
- Zoc: Isn't he with you?
- Hova: No.
- Zoc: Lucas? Lucas? Huh. That's weird. Well, he's probably off destroying some other poor, unfortunate colony. You know how they are. Destroyers.
- Hova: Zoc, what have you done?
- Zoc: Me? What did I do?
- Hova: Where is he?
- Zoc: He's gone.
- [Hova worried about Lucas was about to rush out]
- Zoc: He led you into a trap, Hova.
- Hova: There was no trap. He led us to food. He was trying to protect us from...
- Zoc: From what? What, Hova?
- Hova: From something.
- Zoc: Oh, something!
- [laughs]
- Zoc: And I was worried it was from nothing. He's blinded you, Hova.
- Hova: No, you are the one who's blind. You are so consumed by your hatred for the humans, you see only what you want to see
- Zoc: Oh, come on.
- Hova: Zoc, I see a young pupa, a human learning our ways becoming part of this colony, becoming an ant.
- Zoc: Impossible.
- Hova: Listen to yourself, Zoc. A wizard knows no such word. So, what are you now? Certainly not the ant I love.
- [walks away]
- Zoc: Hova! I did it for you, for the colony.
- Hova: You did it for yourself.
- Zoc: Hova, I...
- Queen Ant: Be still, be still. Tonight we have a choice. We could destroy this human and make safe this day. Or we could change the nature of his human and perhaps create a brighter future for all ants. I therefore the human to live and work in the colony to learn our ways. He must become an ant.
- Lucas Nickle, Zoc: What?
- Zoc: No. No, my queen. What if he does not become an ant? Okay, I mean, come on.
- Queen Ant: That would be regrettable.