Jennifer Connelly: Helen Benson
Photos
Quotes
-
Helen Benson : I need to know what's happening.
Klaatu : This planet is dying. The human race is killing it.
Helen Benson : So you've come here to help us.
Klaatu : No, *I* didn't.
Helen Benson : You said you came to save us.
Klaatu : I said I came to save the Earth.
Helen Benson : You came to save the Earth... from us. You came to save the Earth *from* us.
Klaatu : We can't risk the survival of this planet for the sake of one species.
Helen Benson : What are you saying?
Klaatu : If the Earth dies, you die. If you die, the Earth survives. There are only a handful of planets in the cosmos that are capable of supporting complex life...
Helen Benson : You can't do this.
Klaatu : ...this one can't be allowed to perish.
Helen Benson : We can change. We can still turn things around.
Klaatu : We've watched, we've waited and hoped that you *would* change.
Helen Benson : Please...
Klaatu : It's reached the tipping point. We have to act.
Helen Benson : Please...
Klaatu : We'll undo the damage you've done and give the Earth a chance to begin again.
Helen Benson : Don't do this. Please, we can change. We can change.
Klaatu : The decision is made. The process has begun.
Helen Benson : Oh God.
-
Professor Barnhardt : I have so many questions to ask you.
Helen Benson : [addressing Klaatu about the music playing] It's Bach.
Klaatu : It's beautiful.
Professor Barnhardt : So we're not so different after all.
Klaatu : I wish that were true.
-
Guardswoman : [Catching Helen with a cellphone after they had been forbidden] Is that a cell phone?
Helen Benson : [nods]
Guardswoman : [Chokingly] Can I borrow it?
-
Helen Benson : National security? Well that just means whatever you want it to mean.
-
Helen Benson : It's alright. He's here to help.
Klaatu : There's another side to you. I feel it now.
Helen Benson : [referring to large, black cloud] Is that how it ends?
Klaatu : Yes.
Helen Benson : You can't stop it?
Klaatu : I don't know. It would come at a price, to you and your way of life.
Helen Benson : But we can change, you know that now. Please, please, just give us a chance.
Klaatu : I'll try. I must get back to the city.
-
Regina Jackson : My name is Regina Jackson. I'm the Secretary of Defense of the United States of America.
Klaatu : This body will take some getting used to.
Regina Jackson : I've been sent here to determine who or what you represent and what your intentions are.
Klaatu : It feels unreal to me. Alien. It will take time to adapt.
Helen Benson : What were you before you were human?
Klaatu : Different.
Helen Benson : Different how?
Klaatu : It would only frighten you.
-
Helen Benson : Have you done your homework?
Jacob Benson : School's canceled on account of the aliens.
-
Jacob Benson : Mom!
[Jacob, bleeding from his nose, collapses in the arms of Helen]
Helen Benson : [to Klaatu] Whats happening to him? Jacob!
Klaatu : [checking Jacob] They are inside him... He is dying.
Helen Benson : [pleading Klaatu] Help him.
Helen Benson : [whipes blood from her own nose, discovering that she is also dying] Help him!... Please!
-
Helen Benson : [whispering to Klaatu] Run.
