It's beautiful but it does get a little lonely. Sometimes I think
Contact (1997)
PETER
A screenplay character in Contact (1997).
- lines
- 52
- words
- 781
- scenes
- 15
- dialogue
- 5.8%
- avg words / line
- 15
- shortest / longest
- 1 / 61
Sample dialogue
Ellie... even if you do manage to raise the money, have you thought about what it would really mean to follow through on this? I mean a college fetish is one thing, but we're talking about your career. You won't be publishing. You won't be taken seriously... and you could spend your entire life looking and never find anything at all.
scene 27 — EXT. MT. ARECIBO (PUERTO RICO) - DAYEllie--I'm getting married.
scene 27 — EXT. MT. ARECIBO (PUERTO RICO) - DAYThat is true. But it's also true that if I really thought we wanted the same things, I'd follow you anywhere... but the truth is I don't think you want the company.
scene 27 — EXT. MT. ARECIBO (PUERTO RICO) - DAYLike it or not.
scene 155 — INT. CONTROL ROOMEllie... we saw you enter the machine. The benzels spun up, generating some sort of atmospheric disturbance. The benzels spun down. And then... just now... you stepped out. We were out of radio contact exactly... seven minutes and thirty- five seconds. The machine never went anywhere.
scene 176 — INT. COMMAND CONTROL - CONTINUOUS ACTION
Bookends
That's one way of putting it. Kitz, the President, the I.S.C. have shut down all official communications; there've also been reports of riots flaring up across the U.S. and Europe. Until we figure out what went wrong things may get rough, especially for you--