Grim Fandango Dialog Transcript
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Manny
What's going on in that bottle? A tugboat?
Velasco
This happens to be a perfect scale replica of the SS Lumbago!
Velasco
I'm just having a little trouble getting the walking beam to fit in the neck, here...
Manny
Hm-that's funny because a lumbago is usually more of a problem in the lower back than the neck...
Velasco
Eh-hmmm?
Manny
Nothing.
Manny
Alright, so I'm ready to sail!
Velasco
On what?
Manny
On the Limbo, Man, let's go!
Velasco
Manny, Manny, Manny... The Limbo's not a passenger ship!
Velasco
She's small cargo, son, and every hand on board works!
Manny
I'll work!
Velasco
What are your skills?
Manny
Sales and restaurant management.
Velasco
Ohhhh...hey, there is ONE opening on the Limbo's crew...
Manny
Yeah?
Velasco
Yeah, it's in the engine room, and your buddy Glottis would be perfect for it!
Velasco
But he'd have to get his own tools...
Manny
Okay, if I get Glottis some tools, can we board?
Velasco
Uh, HE can, yes.
Velasco
No offense, Manny, but there's just no place for you aboard the Limbo.
Velasco
She's fully manned already.
Velasco
In fact, her whole crew is on board, ready to sail at dawn...
Velasco
...except for that one guy...
Manny
Who's the one guy who hasn't boarded yet?
Velasco
Yeah, well-uh, Seaman Naranja's a little late, but he'll be here before they sail.
Manny
What job did Naranja have?
Velasco
He ran the galley...
Manny
Ah ha! Restaurant management!
Velasco
Yeah, it's similar to what you're doing now, except the fish is fresher on the Limbo.
Manny
What if Naranja doesn't show up? I can fill his spot, right?
Velasco
Manny, you're not even in the maritime union!
Manny
I know that, and you know that, but we're two guys who can keep secrets, right?
Velasco
Glottis is exempt, but the captain will ask for YOUR card, and if you don't have one...
Velasco
...They'll serve you to the sharks like chum, and what's worse...
Velasco
I'll get fined!
Velasco
It's a tough union, boy, and I don't mess with 'em!
Manny
So let me get this straight...
Manny
If I get Glottis some tools...
Velasco
Then I can get him a job on the Limbo.
Manny
...and if Seaman Naranja doesn't show up for work...
Velasco
But he will.
Manny
...and I get a maritime union card...
Velasco
...which you'll never get.
Manny
Then I can sail on the Limbo in the morning?
Velasco
Sheeese.
Velasco
I GUESS SO.
Manny
What kind of tools does Glottis need?
Velasco
Authentic Sea Bee equipment only.
Manny
Where do I get Authentic Sea Bee equipment?
Velasco
Why don't you ask a Sea Bee?
Velasco
Afraid of gettin' stung?
Velasco
HA HA HA, HA-HA!!!
Manny
Where do you think Naranja is?
Velasco
Probably home selecting recipes for the trip!
Manny
I'd better go finish packing.
Velasco
Aye, you do that, son.
EXT The Blue Casket Building NIGHT
Manny
This elevator goes up to my club.
EXT Dry Docks NIGHT
Manny
Hmmm... These bees don't seem too busy...
Manny
Cold one, huh Terry?
Terry
Yeah. It's always cold when you're unemployed, Manny.
Manny
Who's unemployed? Aren't you guys in the union?
Terry
The Union?
Terry
Ha, they don't look after us little guys!
Terry
They're run by the coppers, and you of all people should know, Manny...
Terry
That the cops are in bed with the gambling joints.
Manny
Hey, I run an honest joint. We ain't in bed with nobody.
Terry
What about the protection money?
Manny
We pay every week on the nose, through the nose, like an honest place should!
Terry
See what I mean?
Terry
This town is just a big conga line of hustlers...
Terry
...all laughing and dancing and scratching each other's backs!
Manny
Why aren't you guys up there working?
Terry
You don't know the deal down here on the docks, do ya, Manny?
Terry
If you want to get the jobs, you have to pay the union's "extra dues," and that ain't cheap.
Terry
We don't pay, and so they put us on barrel duty.
Manny
You bees are being exploited! You should do something about it!
Terry
Ah, what can we do?
Terry
We're just a handful of unorganized drones!
Terry
We don't know nothing about nothing except just how to take it on the chin.
Manny
If the union is crooked, why don't you register a complaint?
Terry
Ha ha ha!
Terry
Ha! That's a good one, Manny!
Terry
Did you hear that guys? He thinks we should register a complaint.
Manny
Since you're not using your tools, think I could borrow them?
Terry
Well we sold 'em to feed our families.
Manny
Then how are you ever going to work?
Terry
I...I TOLD ya things were messed up down here, Manny, I...I told ya.
Manny
If the cops own the union, and gambling's in bed with the cops...
Terry
...Yeah, yeah and then who really runs the gambling right?
Terry
Well, no offense, but Maximino is really the big boy in town, obviously.
Terry
But word is, he gets his orders from some hardcore gangsters in El Marrow.
Terry
That fancy cat track is really just a big laundromat, if you get my drift.
Manny
Hey, can I borrow one of your union cards?
Terry
What are you kiddin'?
Terry
You know how much I had to pay Chowchilla Charlie to get mine?
Manny
You guys know a Seaman Naranja?
Terry
See Bees and sailors don't mix.
Manny
But you're in the same union...
Terry
Well maybe so, but some traditions are sacred there, Manny.
Manny
I think you're just a bunch of complainers.
Terry
You don't know what it's like, Man!
Terry
Every day we come down here, we try an' make an honest living...
Terry
We find out that you gotta be a crooked bee to win down here!
Terry
It knocks the pollen off of you, Manny--Makes you weak.
Manny
Why don't you just pay the union off, then?
Terry
We got our pride, Manny!
Terry
We're straight stingers, you know?
Terry
Not to mention that we just don't have any cash to spare, now that we're not working.
Terry
I mean, it's like a problem where-uh... uh... the solution... makes the problem... uh... worse.
Manny
Like a catch-22?
Terry
Yeah. Wow, I wish I knew words like that!
Manny
You bees gotta be strong!
Terry
Things just aren't the way they should be down here, Manny.
Terry
It's like the worker bees they do all work, but we can't affect the-uh...
Terry
...the...uh...
Terry
Ah...it's like the way things are produced should be controlled by...
Terry
I mean, we should...
Terry
Ahhhh! Forget it!
Terry
I'm just a dumb, hungry, out-of-work bee.
Manny
What's the buzz, boyz?
Terry
It's bad down here, Manny. It's like...
Terry
It's like we want to control the means of-of...
Terry
like, uh, ...things and stuff, you know?
Manny
You bees gotta be strong!
Terry
Easy for you to say, Topsider.
Salvador
Manuel, I am sorry to hear that you have not heard from your Meche.
Salvador
You must be patient, and let your heart remain open.
Salvador
If it is meant to be, you will someday be reunited.
Manny
Ah, he still thinks I'm in love with her!
Manny
I'm keeping this little gold mine to myself.
Manny
I don't really want to do that.
Salvador
Manuel, we have found the head of the serpent!
Salvador
Using the computer access you provided us, we picked up a thread that lead us to the man who corrupted the Department of Death!
Salvador
His name is Hector LeMans.
Salvador
Once a small-time racketeer, he has grown fat and powerful by robbing the newly-dead.
Salvador
Watch out for the name Hector LeMans, Manuel, and be careful.
Manny
Busy bees.
Manny
Hey, why don't you guys lend me some tools so I can help out?
INT. The Blue Casket NIGHT
Manny
Hey, look!
Manny
Dead Beats!
Manny
Hi, what's your name?
Manny
Hi, what's your name?
Manny
Crazy.
Manny
"Labor Organization and Revolt... Made Easy!"
Manny
Hey, can I borrow this book?
Alexi
Why? So you can freak on our plans for organizing labor and go rat us out to your pal, Chief Bogen?
Manny
Hey, I'm just looking for something to read on the can, all right?
Alexi
No dice, Cummerbund.
Manny
"Labor Organization and Revolt... Made Easy!"
Slisko
But don't ya see?
Slisko
When the government fades away, so will our troubles.
Gunnar
Ah, nonsense. We will always need some armed force to fight off the return of capitalism!
Alexi
That sort of fascist thinking is as dead as you are, comrade.
Alexi
When we get rid of all the guns, that's when people will begin to self-police, and the public opinion alone will keep them from committing crimes!
Manny
Hola, trust-funders!
Slisko
Hey, look who's making the scene!
Slisko
It's Manny Calavera, the up- the down- the back-side of the Nouveau Riche.
Alexi
Beat it, Dinner Jacket.
Alexi
We're talking about things you wouldn't understand, like truth and beauty!
Manny
Buenas noches, comrades.
Gunnar
Hey, Manny, no offense, but we don't have time for establishment-types like yourself.
Manny
What makes you guys think I'm so establishment?
Slisko
You smell like bacon and oppression, man!
Manny
Qué?
Manny
Hey, kids!
Gunnar
Sorry, Manny.
Gunnar
No room for the bourgeois in our revolution.
Slisko
Yeah, man. No room for the big fat cat from the uptown party that didn't send out invitations to the working class.
Manny
I'm keeping this little gold mine to myself.
Manny
I don't really want to do that.
Manny
More hep cats...
Manny
Hi, what's your name?
Manny
Lola? What are you doing here?
Manny
This crowd doesn't go much for souvenir pictures.
Manny
Except, maybe of Lenin…
Lola
Shhh! Manny, I'm on a stakeout!
Lola
I'm gonna prove to Maximino once and for all that Olivia's no good for him.
Manny
Still hung up on Max, eh?
Manny
Take my advice, Angel.
Manny
Forget about him.
Manny
He's a gambling racketeer--
Lola
Ha ha. Like you?
Manny
Oh, that hurts, baby.
Lola
Shhh! Here they come!
Virago
Come on, sugar.
Virago
How about a kiss for the road.
Olivia
Oh, ick. Don't let me down, Nick.
Olivia
You're a lawyer.
Olivia
You're not supposed to have feelings.
Virago
I don't but I know a good tort when I see one.
Virago
Virago
Hey!
Virago
If Maximino sees that, we're gonna end up in matching terracotta pots!
Olivia
Don't be silly.
Olivia
He wouldn't hurt me.
Olivia
He LOVES me.
Virago
Rrrr.
Olivia
Manny! At last we're alone.
Olivia
Tell me, how are the bourgeoisie?
Manny
Fine, how's Max?
Olivia
Oh, Gramps, don't start.
Manny
What are you doing with a snake like Nick?
Olivia
I'd lay it on you, Manny, but uh, I don't think you'd get it.
Manny
Messing around with your boyfriend's lawyer is pretty dangerous.
Olivia
Oh, maybe I was wrong...
Olivia
You do get it!
Manny
I'm a little worried about Lola...
Olivia
That's because she's doomed, Manny.
Olivia
She fell in love with Maximino!
Olivia
That's the one mistake I never made.
Manny
Do you think Nick would hurt her?
Olivia
Only if he finds her, and take it from me--he's not good at finding things.
Manny
Open mic night seems like a big hit.
Olivia
It always takes those timid souls a while to get up the nerve.
Manny
Maybe it would help if you went up there and started things rolling?
Olivia
Oh, Manny.
Olivia
Read poetry in my own club?
Olivia
That would be like this whole place was just a big temple set up to worship me.
Manny
Oh, come--
Olivia
Okay!
Olivia
Alive!
Olivia
We slept!
Olivia
Life's just some rapid-eye-movement
Olivia
In a warm, cozy bed...
Olivia
Buried!
Olivia
We wake!
Olivia
The flesh dream is over, Daddy!
Olivia
Now that we're all crazy dead!
Manny
That was great.
Olivia
Yeah, but that's the last one!
Manny
Little dark in here, don't you think?
Olivia
Dark and cold, like the hearts of men.
Manny
Uh...
Manny
You know, I'm thinking of buying this place.
Olivia
Really, I thought about buying yours for a while.
Olivia
But then I just decided to ask my boyfriend Max to buy it for me.
Manny
You can have it. I'm leaving town.
Olivia
Manny!
Olivia
You sound so exciting all of a sudden!
Olivia
Why are you leaving town?
Manny
I'm chasing a woman I met once and can't forget.
Olivia
Well, I have a poem I wrote just for you.
Olivia
Pay attention because it's pretty short. Here it goes.
Olivia
Chuuuuuuuummmmmmmm-P!
Manny
Hey, how about another poem?
Olivia
Okay!
Olivia
Ashes to ashes
Olivia
...to ashes
Olivia
to ashes...
Olivia
...to ashes
Olivia
to ashes...
Olivia
...to ashes
Olivia
to ashes...
Olivia
to ME...
Olivia
...to ashes
Olivia
to ashes...
Olivia
...to ashes
Olivia
to ashes...
Manny
That was great.
Olivia
Yeah, but that's the last one!
Manny
Hey, how about another poem?
Olivia
Okay!
Olivia
I called my cat "Boney."
Olivia
'Til she said it wouldn't do.
Olivia
I said, "Why?"
Olivia
She said, "Sister,
Olivia
'Cuz that's what I'VE been calling YOU!"
Manny
That was great.
Olivia
Yeah, but that's the last one!
Manny
Hey, how about another poem?
Olivia
Okay!
Olivia
Okay, last one folks.
Olivia
With bony hands I hold my partner
Olivia
On soulless feet we cross the floor
Olivia
The music stops as if to answer
Olivia
An empty knocking at the door
Olivia
It seems his skin was sweet as mango
Olivia
When last I held him to my breast
Olivia
But now we dance this grim fandango
Olivia
And will four years before we rest
Manny
That was great.
Olivia
Really, this time. I just don't have anymore.
Manny
Hey, how about another poem?
Olivia
I'm bone dry, flesh out of poems!
Manny
Just begin again at the top, they get better each time.
Olivia
Really?
Olivia
Okay!
Olivia
Alive!
Olivia
We slept!
Olivia
Life's just some rapid-eye-movement
Olivia
In a warm, cozy bed...
Olivia
Buried!
Olivia
We wake!
Olivia
The flesh dream is over, Daddy!
Olivia
Now that we're all crazy dead!
Manny
That was great.
Olivia
Yeah, but that's the last one!
Manny
Well, catch you later, hep chick.
Olivia
Keep practicing that lingo, Man, you'll get it!
Manny
Oooh, smells like this door leads to the kitchen.
INT. Blue Casket Kitchen NIGHT
Beatnik waiter
Just a dab will drop ya!
Beatnik waiter
Hey, man. You didn't see me put the secret ingredient in these coffin shooters, did ya?
Manny
Relax. Olivia stole the recipe from me in the first place.
Beatnik waiter
Yeahhhh...she steals from the rich, and gives to me to pour...
Manny
These plates are filthy.
Manny
I'm not going to eat off of dirty plates, and I'm not going to clean them.
Manny
The sink is full of dirty hookah water.
Manny
I'm not going to drink dirty hookah water, and I can't carry it with my bare hands.
Manny
I don't get the feeling those cleaning supplies are used much around here.
Manny
Let the waiter clean up after himself.
Manny
Nothing in the dishwasher.
Manny
Nothing in the dishwasher.
Manny
Not to sound like the capitalist oppressor, but I have people who do that for me now.
Manny
I'm keeping this little gold mine to myself.
Manny
I don't really want to do that.
Manny
Nothing in the dishwasher.
Manny
Let the waiter clean up after himself.
INT. The Blue Casket NIGHT
Manny
Mind if I go in?
Olivia
You don't want to go in there.
Olivia
I haven't cleaned up yet.
Manny
Well, catch you later, hep chick.
Olivia
Keep practicing that lingo, Man, you'll get it!
Manny
Strong stuff. That oughta kill the pain.
Manny
Helloooooo!
Manny
Hmmm. No effect.