Fear Changes Everything
Billy: What is it, Daddy?
David: Mist?
Stephanie: On the lake?
David: We've had mist on the lake before.
Stephanie: Coming off the mountain like that?
David: Two fronts meeting, left over from the storm, something like that...
Stephanie: You sure?
David: Honey, I'm not the weatherman.
Something in the mist!
Something in the mist took John Lee!
I could hear him screaming!
~Dan Miller
No, don't go out there.
It's the end of days.
~Mrs. Carmody
What the hell were those tentacles even attached to?
~David Drayton
Ollie: We've got to discuss how we're gonna stop that thing getting in here.
Myron: Wait, what do you mean getting in here?
You shut the loading door.
Ollie: Yeah, but the entire front of the store is plate glass.
You can't convince some people there's a fire, even when their hair is burning.
Denial is a powerful thing.
~Ollie Weeks
We are experiencing some kind of disaster.
I don't know whether it's man-made or natural,
but I do know that it's definitely not supernatural or biblical,
and, no offense Mrs Carmody, but the only way we're gonna help ourselves is to seek rescue.
We're going out.
~Brent Norton
David: You sure there's no way I can talk you out of this?
Brent: David, there's noting out there.
Nothing in the mist.
David: What if you're wrong?
Brent: Then I guess the joke would be on me after all.
David: Want another reason to get the hell out of here?
I'll give you the best one.
Mrs. Carmody.
She's our very own Jim Jones.
I'd like to leave before people start drinking the Kool-Aid.
Mike: Right. Flakier people get, the better she's gonna look.
Amanda: No, I don't buy that.
It's obvious she's nuts.
Look, a few people maybe, but...
David: No, I count 4.
She's preachin' to them right now.
By noon, she'll have 4 more.
By tomorrow night, when tjose things come back, she'll have a conregation,
and then we can start worryin' about who she's gonna sacrifice to make it all better.
You, Amanda? My little boy?
Dan: He's right.
Amanda: You don't have much faith in humanity, do you?
Dan: None whatsoever.
Amanda: I can't accept that.
People are basically good, decent.
My God, David, we're a civilized society.
David: Sure, as long as the machines are working and you can dial 911.
But you take those things away, you throw people in the dark, you scare the shit out of them.
No more rules, you'll see how primitive they get.
Dan: You scare people badly enough, you can get them to do anything.
They'll turn to whoever promises a solution, or whatever.
Amanda: Ollie, plese, back me up here.
Ollie: I wish I could.
As a species, we're fundamentally insane.
Put more than 2 of us in a room, we pick sides
and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another.
Why do you think we invented politics and religion?
I'd rather die out there trying than in here waiting.
~Amanda Dunfrey
Promise you won't let the monsters get me.
Ever.
No matter what.
~Billy Drayton
They're dead... for what?
~David Drayton
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