The Dig (1995 Video Game)

Mari Weiss: Maggie Robbins, Reporter

Quotes 

• Maggie Robbins : Do you have a name?

  The Creator : I had a name once, when I was alive. But now that I am again and again dead, what need have I for names? My body is now so ancient, that the Crystal scarcely holds any power over me. I rise for a few minutes, and then I fall again. Soon, I shall cease to rise at all. Only then will my grief end. I want no name or memory to live after me.

• Maggie Robbins : [about Brink]  He is definitely insane.

  Boston Low : Is that your opinion as a journalist?

  Maggie Robbins : It's my opinion as a sane person.

• [Upon arrival of the planet] 

  Boston Low : Toto, I don't think were in Kansas anymore

  Maggie Robbins : [giggles]  If only I had ruby slippers.

• [Dr. Ludger Brink's hand is stuck in a crevice in the wall] 

  Brink : I don't care if you have to cut off my hand, just don't leave me to die here!

  Maggie Robbins : Don't be so dramatic Brink; nobody is going to cut off your hand.

  Boston Low : Don't make promises you might not be able to keep Maggie.

• Boston Low : Did you do anything to attract that monster to you?

  Maggie Robbins : I don't wear perfume, and heaven knows this outfit isn't exactly alluring. I was just sitting there.

  Boston Low : I guess that's enough.

  Maggie Robbins : That's usually enough for lonely men in bars.

• Boston Low : IF they can make bridges out of light, you have to wonder if they can make anything ELSE.

  Maggie Robbins : You mean... Light beer?

  Boston Low : I was thinking more of a light house.

  Boston Low : [player clicks same conversation trigger]  Light-minded.

  Maggie Robbins : Light-fingered.

  Boston Low : Light summer clothing.

  Maggie Robbins : Light-hearted.

  Boston Low : Light salad dressing.

  Maggie Robbins : De-lighted!

• Boston Low : Maggie! I found you!

  Maggie Robbins : I wasn't aware that I was missing.

• [Boston has found some metal plates] 

  Boston Low : Tell you what: I'll keep looking for more of them, and you decipher that language so we can read the directions.

  Maggie Robbins : Great. You get to look for metal things lying around, while I have to decode a completely alien language without any information about how they think or what they might be writing about. Yeah, that's a fair division of labor.

• Boston Low : There are some things Man was not meant to understand.

  Maggie Robbins : Yeah, but this one even Woman is having a hard time with.

• Boston Low : If I'd known we'd be making contact with an alien species, I'd have worn my Sunday best.

  Maggie Robbins : What's that? A t-shirt with *no* holes?

• Maggie Robbins : Did you invent the life crystals? To raise the dead is the greatest achievement we've seen.

  The Creator : What raises the dead can debase the living.

• Maggie Robbins : The creatures who live here now - did you people make them, or did they come later?

  The Creator : Millions of years have passed since then. What once were pets or companions have followed their own evolutionary paths. They have become as beautiful or as terrible, as clever or as stupid as it was in them to be.

• Cora Miles : My rule is: if you can pick it up, take it with you, cause you never know when you might need it.

  Ken Borden : I have the same rule, Cora, but I thought it only applied to women in bars. If you can pick her up -

  [laughs] 

  Ken Borden : .

  Cora Miles : [Laughs]  Careful, Ken. You don't wanna find yourself getting quoted as a sexist pig in Maggie's article.

  Maggie Robbins : I'm not here to spy on you.

  Boston Low : Lighten up, Robbins, they're just teasing you. If they thought you were *really* a spy, they'd never talk freely on the open frequency.

• Boston Low : [after arming the explosives on the asteroid]  This asteroid has a pair of landing lights now, kids. Stick a fork in us, we're done.

  Maggie Robbins : Who writes your material, Commander?

  Boston Low : I get it all out of the newspapers, Robbins.

• Maggie Robbins : Maggie, you made it!

  Maggie Robbins : How's my hair?

  Boston Low : You're worried about your...

  Maggie Robbins : I was joking, Boston. You know, like you strong manly tupes do when you just about get killed.

• Boston Low : I never would have found out anything from the map room if there hadn't been all those engraved keys lying around. Almost as if they were left for us.

  Maggie Robbins : Only intelligent beings would have been able to figure out how to use them.

  Boston Low : Maggie, that's the sweetest thing you've ever said to me.

  Maggie Robbins : I meant, any being over the intellectual level of, say, a baboon.

  Boston Low : Aw, now you're making me blush.

• Cocytan Leader : There will be friendship between our species forever.

  Maggie Robbins : I hope you're right. Not all human beings are as, uh, *nice* as us.

  Cocytan Leader : Oh, I know that. All young species are alike that way. But don't worry. If any of your people try to pick a fight... we'll mash them like bugs.

  Boston Low : How reassuring.