Ernie Hudson credited as playing...
Captain Monroe Kelly
- Monroe: So why'd you quit the CIA?
- Dr. Karen Ross: I never worked for the CIA.
- Monroe: Of course you didn't. But if you HAD worked for the CIA, why would you quit?
- Dr. Karen Ross: 'Cause they're a loveless bunch of sons of bitches.
- Monroe: And you're not?
- Dr. Karen Ross: And I'm not.
- Monroe: Glad to hear it.
- Monroe: And this is your cover?
- Dr. Karen Ross: Yes
- Dr. Peter Elliot: I'm nobody's cover. Cover for what?
- Monroe: ...find yourself in the middle of something.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: Cover for what?
- Monroe: I don't know and she won't tell you. But the kind of money her company's throwing around... they don't spend that on any gorilla. Relax. You're in better hands than you *should* be.
- Dr. Karen Ross: Why are they laughing?
- Monroe: They asked who was in charge and I said I was.
- Dr. Karen Ross: What's so funny about that?
- Monroe: I'm black. I should have luggage on my head.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: You're some kind of criminal, aren't you?
- Monroe: Aren't we all?
- Dr. Peter Elliot: No. I'm not a criminal, I'm a scientist.
- Monroe: Scientist? I run a few guns. You sons of bitches ruin the world.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: [as everyone on the plane prepares to jump] Why are they putting on parachutes?
- Dr. Karen Ross: FIGURE IT OUT!
- Richard: [Monroe tosses Richard a parachute] OH NO!
- Dr. Peter Elliot: [the crew members begin jumping out of the plane. Monroe hands Peter a parachute] This isn't going to work!
- Monroe: Oh, yes, it is. I'll take Amy.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: She might get hurt. I can't risk it!
- Monroe: Do you know how to fly this plane?
- Dr. Peter Elliot: No.
- Monroe: [nods toward the cockpit, where no one is at the controls] Well, the pilot and co-pilot are already gone, so what are you going to do?
- [last lines]
- Monroe: [in hot air balloon] There's a wind.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: I hope it blows us some place good.
- Dr. Karen Ross: Me too.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: They are gorillas. They're some kind of gorillas.
- Monroe: Never saw an animal move like that. They just... well, look. They just kill.
- Herkermer Homolka: So that's why Solomon's diamonds were never found. The myth of the killer ape is true!
- Dr. Peter Elliot: I can't believe it.
- Monroe: The ghost tribe has several levels of "dead." Someone's not dead until they're completely "dead."
- Monroe: That region of the Congo's uninhabited.
- Dr. Karen Ross: Well, something inhabits it.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: What exactly did you see on that tape?
- Dr. Karen Ross: A camp destroyed. People dead. A grey gorilla...
- Dr. Peter Elliot: There's no such thing as a grey gorilla.
- Dr. Karen Ross: Well, I saw one.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: It's hard to believe at this late date...
- Monroe: Why are you going in there?
- Dr. Karen Ross: Two men are unaccounted for: Geoffrey Weams, and Charles Travis, my fiance... My FORMER fiance.
- Monroe: Your former?
- Dr. Peter Elliot: Well, we better get to him then.
- Monroe: When these little African countries get into a dispute, they tend to just murder everybody. They live for the opportunity to settle scores... and they have a lot of scores to settle.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: Here's the story. They domesticated gorillas.
- Monroe: You call that domesticated? They're killing a man.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: So they taught them to be this way. They bred them to violence. They looked for the trait, and they encouraged it.
- Dr. Karen Ross: Guard dogs. And they turned on their masters.
- Monroe: What's that smell?
- Dr. Peter Elliot: [coming across a pile of bones] These are all the bones of gorillas.
- Monroe: You mean these are the...
- Dr. Peter Elliot: No, these are the bones of normal gorillas.
- [picking a skull up]
- Dr. Peter Elliot: This one's skull was crushed.
- Monroe: Don't go in there! I'll check it out.
- Dr. Karen Ross: Give me a gun and a flashlight!
- Monroe: Well, don't be so John Wayne. You could get killed. Now that I've said that, I'm not going in there alone, either.
- Herkermer Homolka: I must go.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: Let's all take a look.
- Richard: Uh, I-I think I'll just stay out here with Amy.
- Monroe: Not alone, you won't.
- Monroe: [seeing Amy with a troop of wild gorillas] Well, look at that.
- Dr. Karen Ross: Is that Amy with the...
- Dr. Peter Elliot: The silverback. So she's... I see. I see. She's home.
- [as the nearby volcano continues to erupt, the gorillas leave when they aren't looking]
- Dr. Peter Elliot: Will she be all right?
- Monroe: They know what to do. It's us I'm worried about.
- Dr. Karen Ross: We've gotta go. Come on.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: [following them away] Bye, Amy.
- Monroe: What the hell?
- Herkermer Homolka: It's the mines.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: "We are watching you." It's the trainers talking. Teacher is watching you.
- Monroe: Dead teachers.
