The Car (1977)

James Brolin: Wade Parent

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• Donna : Wade... there's something I... I wanna tell you about last night. Well, the old lady... well, Chas, he didn't translate everything that she said.

  Wade Parent : What do you mean?

  Donna : Well, uh... she said... there was no driver in the car.

• Wade Parent : Whatever happened to last Thursday? I had it made last Thursday.

• Chas : [about Lauren]  I shouldn't have left her.

  Wade Parent : Nothing would have changed. He would have taken you out too. I talked to her... she called me when she got back here. She could hear the engine coming down the street.

  Wade Parent : [choking back the tears]  She was so frightened. I don't know... I don't know.

  Luke Johnson : I know why he didn't go into the cemetery.

  [Wade turns to look at Luke] 

  Luke Johnson : I know why. There's no other reason... the ground... was hallowed.

  [Wade gives Luke a skeptical glare] 

  Luke Johnson : That's what I say... but you think about it. Everything that's happened... what it did to the guys, and how.

  [Wade turns and walks out of the house] 

  Luke Johnson : Everybody else was killed on the street! Lauren was killed in the middle of her own living room! She was special... why? Because she cursed him, that's why!

  Wade Parent : I don't believe it, I don't accept it.

  Luke Johnson : Wade, that car flew into that house four feet off the ground. And how did he know where she lived?

  Wade Parent : Keep the road blocks up, get all the other guys. Get 'em down at the station right away.

• Wade Parent : Yeah... yeah, ten years of giving out traffic tickets, and all this in one day!