Richard T. Jones credited as playing...
Cooper
- 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?
- Cooper: [calling Justin back and handing him his toolkit] Oh whoa, honey, honey, you forgot your briefcase!
- Cooper: Starck? Would you like something hot and black inside you?
- [Starck gives him the finger]
- Cooper: Oooh! Is that an offer?
- Lt. Starck, Executive Officer: [smiles] It is not.
- Cooper: Well how about some coffee, then?
- [Purging his airtank for propulsion to get him back to Event Horizon]
- Cooper: [shouting] Here I come, motherfucker!
- 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.
