Sam Neill credited as playing...
Weir
- [Dr. Weir is protesting the abandonment of his ship]
- Dr. Weir: Captain... don't do this.
- Capt. Miller: It's done.
- Dr. Weir: What about my ship? You can't just leave her!
- Capt. Miller: I have no intention of leaving her, Doctor. I will take the Lewis and Clark to a safe distance, and then I will launch TAC missiles at the Event Horizon until I'm satisfied she's vaporized. Fuck this ship!
- Miller: Weir?
- Dr. Weir: [laughing] The ship brought me back. I told you she won't let me leave - she won't let anyone leave. Did you really think you could destroy this ship? She's defied space and time. She's been to a place you couldn't possibly imagine. And now... it is time to go back.
- Miller: [sounding bored] I know. To hell.
- Dr. Weir: You know nothing. Hell is only a word. The reality is much, much worse.
- Miller: Oh. My. God. What happened to your eyes?
- Dr. Weir: Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.
- Miller: What are you talking about?
- Dr. Weir: I created the Event Horizon to reach the stars, but she's gone much, much farther than that. She tore a hole in our universe, a gateway to another dimension. A dimension of pure chaos. Pure... evil. When she crossed over, she was just a ship. But when she came back... she was alive! Look at her, Miller. Isn't she beautiful?
- Miller: Your "beautiful" ship killed its crew, Doctor.
- Dr. Weir: Well... now she has another crew. Now she has us.
- Miller: Smitty, have you seen... anything unusual at all?
- Smith: No, I haven't seen anything and I don't need to see anything, sir. But I can tell you... this ship is fucked.
- Dr. Weir: Well, thank you for that scientific analysis, Mr Smith.
- [smirks]
- Smith: Yeah, well, you don't exactly have to be a scientist to figure it out, do ya?
- [grabs Dr. Weir by his uniform]
- Miller: [pulls Smith away] All right, all right!
- Smith: You break all the laws of physics and you seriously think there wouldn't be a price? You went and killed the last fucking crew, and now you wanna kill us as well!
- Dr. Weir: [describing how the Event Horizon functions] The ship doesn't really go faster than light; what it does is it creates a dimensional gateway that allows it to jump instantaneously from one point of the universe to another light years away.
- Lt. Starck, Executive Officer: How?
- Dr. Weir: [stammering] Well, that's - that's difficult to - it's all math...
- Miller: Try us, Doctor.
- Dr. Weir: Right. Well, um, using layman's terms... Use a rotating magnetic field to focus a narrow beam of gravitons - these, in turn, fold space-time consistent with Weyl tensor dynamics until the space-time curvature becomes infinitely large, and you produce a singularity. Now, the singularity...
- Miller: [interrupting, dumbfounded] "Layman's terms"?
- Cooper: Well, fuck layman's terms! Do you speak English?
- Dr. Weir: What was made public about the Event Horizon - that she was a deep space research vessel, that her reactor went critical, and that the ship blew up - none of that is true. The Event Horizon is the culmination of a secret government project to create a spacecraft capable of faster-than-light flight.
- Smith: Uhm, excuse me. See, you can't actually do that.
- Rescue 1 Technician: It's all right. It's all right. They're with us. They're with us.
- [the rescuer flips open his visor - to reveal the face of Dr. Weir]
- Dr. Weir: You're with us.
- [Starck starts screaming]
- Dr. Weir: [grabs a centerfold poster from Smith's bunk door] Um... Imagine, for a minute, that this piece of paper...
- Smith: Excuse me. Uh, that's Vanessa, and that's mine. Uh...
- Dr. Weir: Attractive piece of paper represents space-time, and you want to get from point "A" here...
- [pushes a pen through the top of the poster]
- Smith: Oh...
- Dr. Weir: To point "B" there.
- [pushes a pen through the bottom of the poster]
- Dr. Weir: Now, what's the shortest distance between the two points?
- Justin: A straight line.
- [some of the crew laugh]
- Dr. Weir: Wrong. The shortest distance between two points is zero. And that's what the gateway does. It folds space,
- [he folds the poster]
- Dr. Weir: so that point "A" and point "B" co-exist in the same space and time.
- [he pushes the pen through the holes]
- Dr. Weir: When the spacecraft passes through the gateway,
- [he unfolds the paper]
- Dr. Weir: space returns to normal.
- [he gives the ruined poster to Smith]
- Dr. Weir: It's called a gravity drive.
- Justin: How do you know all this?
- Smith: I built it.
- Cooper: [impressed] Well, I can see why they sent you.
