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Herbert West: Who's going to believe a talking head? Get a job in a sideshow.
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[Visiting the morgue]
Dan Cain: What if we get caught?
Herbert West: What'll they do? Embalm us?
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[Re-re-animating the dead cat in the basement]
Herbert West: Don't expect it to tango; it has a broken back.
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Herbert West: I must say, Dr. Hill, I'm VERY disappointed in you. You steal the secret of life and death, and here you are trysting with a bubble-headed coed. You're not even a second-rate scientist!
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Swiss Woman Doctor: You killed him!
Herbert West: No, I did not. I gave him life.
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Dan Cain: He's dead?
Herbert West: Not anymore.
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Dr. Carl Hill: [Dr. Hill's head has just *awakened*] Wesssssssssst...
Herbert West: Yes, Doctor, it's Herbert West. What are you thinking? How do you feel?
Dr. Carl Hill: [wheezing] Youuuuuuuuuu...
Herbert West: [eagerly taking notes] "You..."
Dr. Carl Hill: Bassssstaaaaaarrrrrd!
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Dan Cain: [meeting for the first time] So West, what kind of medicine are you involved in?
Herbert West: Death.
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Herbert West: Meatball?
Dan Cain: Just put your shoes on.
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Dan Cain: [Dan's cat has died and been found in Herbert's refrigerator] You can call, or write a note.
Herbert West: I was busy pushing bodies around as you well know and what would a note say, Dan? "Cat dead, details later"?
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Herbert West: I know your work, Dr. Hill. Quite well. Your theory on the location of the will in the brain is... interesting. Though derivative of Dr. Gruber's research in the early 70s. So derivative in fact in Europe it's considered plagiarized.
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Dan Cain: [about the cat] He couldn't have been dead!
Herbert West: Do you agree that he's dead now?
[Picks up cat's body and drops it onto table]
Herbert West: Do you agree that he's dead now?
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Herbert West: [reading off toe tags in the morgue] Burn victim.
Herbert West: Here's your meatball.
Herbert West: Shotgun wound to the head
Dan Cain: Oh god he's rotten.
Herbert West: [amused] Malpractice.
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Herbert West: Hill! Hill took my serum, my notes, everything!
Dan Cain: Herbert you're insane! Now what happened here?
Herbert West: I had to kill him!
Dan Cain: What? He's dead?
Herbert West: [reluctantly] Not anymore.
Dan Cain: Herbert!
[grabbing Herbert and shaking him]
Dan Cain: This has got to stop!
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Herbert West: [Struggling to lift Dr. Halsey's body onto a table] Come on! Help me get him up.
Dan Cain: Is he dead?
Herbert West: Of course! Will you give me a hand here? Now, he interrupted an important experiment in progress. Granted, it was an accident. But this is the freshest body that we could come across save of killing one ourselves, and every moment that we spend talking about it costs us results! Now will you give me a hand? Dan, we can bring him back to life.
Dan Cain: [Hesitating, overwhelmed] Okay.
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Herbert West: [Hits Dr. Hill over the head from behind, with a shovel. Then, while decapitating him by driving the blade of the shovel through his neck:] Plagiarist!
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Mace: [Note: "Mace" is the security guard who guards the door into the morgue] Don't know why they keep locked doors around here. Nobody wants in... and ain't nobody gettin' out.
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