Pandorum (2009)

Dennis Quaid: Payton

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• Payton : Maybe this is a bad time to tell you, but the door is open.

  Bower : Are you fucking kidding me?

  Payton : Ya I'm kidding you.

• [Bower sees that his hand is shaking uncontrollably, and he speaks to Payton over the walkie-talkie] 

  Bower : Payton? Pandorum, you ever felt the symptoms?

  Payton : [aghast]  Of all the things to remember, why would you pick that? Were you thinking of the Eden mission?

  Bower : What about the Eden?

  Payton : You just had to remind me of the biggest fucking catastrophe in space travel, the flight cautionary tale from Hell.

  Bower : I remember, didn't they have some kind of hypersleep malfunction?

  Payton : Three years into their shift, one of their officers had a psychological breakdown. The doctors referred to it as ODS symptom. The privates, we call it Pandorum. It drove him insane. He became convinced that the flight was cursed. Evil.

  Bower : What did he do?

  Payton : He evacuated the ship. He launched them all into oblivion. Five thousand people sent to their death with one push of a button.

• Payton : We're not out on the belt collecting data. And we're not hauling cargo. We *are* the cargo.

• Payton : We call it... pandorum.

• Payton : I can't remember any of my life before this flight began.