Grabbers Quotes

  • Tadhg Murphy: 'Tis no feckin' lobster!

  • Garda Lisa Nolan: It's always the quiet places where the mad shit happens.

  • Garda Ciarán O'Shea: [pours pure alcohol down the mouth of the main grabber] Sláinte.

  • Garda Lisa Nolan: What is that thing?

    Dr. Adam Smith: I haven't a clue. I've never seen anything like it before. It's a completely foreign species. I can't even begin to originate or class it.

    Paddy Barrett: A "grabber."

  • Dr. Jim Gleeson: In all my years I've never seen anything like it.

  • Brian Maher: Light me!

  • Brian Maher: You bring potcheen into my bar?

    Paddy Barrett: A bird never flew on one wing.

  • Garda Lisa Nolan: Get away from him, you cuuuuuunt!

  • Dr. Adam Smith: I can't feel my face!

  • Dr. Adam Smith: Your floor is broken.

  • Garda Ciarán O'Shea: [Touching the seemingly dead alien species] It's dead, right?

    Dr. Adam Smith: Ummm, I'm not sure.

    Garda Ciarán O'Shea: [Moves away cautiously] You're not what?

    Dr. Adam Smith: Basic tests I've done so far have shown up nothing usual or normal. It is beyond mystifying. I mean, really, I can't be sure without opening it up.

    Paddy Barrett: [Swiftly beats it with a stick; it doesn't move] Ah... Tis dead.

  • Dr. Adam Smith: I need a photograph with it for National Geographic! And Facebook.

  • Garda Lisa Nolan: You're drunk.

    Garda Ciarán O'Shea: No, I'm not. No.

    Garda Lisa Nolan: Is that right?

    [Ciarán chuckles]

    Garda Lisa Nolan: Say the alphabet backwards for me.

    Garda Ciarán O'Shea: Em... Zed... Et cetera.

    Garda Lisa Nolan: I hope you're not driving.

    Garda Ciarán O'Shea: No. I'm taking Johnny's horse. Yah.

    Garda Lisa Nolan: You're going to ride a horse while intoxicated?

    Garda Ciarán O'Shea: Yeah, so? The horse is sober.

  • Garda Ciarán O'Shea: What killed him, Jim?

    Dr. Jim Gleeson: The fact that he's just a head. You bring me someone with a head cold or a headache and I could do something, but you bring me just a head and you're taking the piss. Jesus, they could bury him in a shoe box.

    Garda Lisa Nolan: Doctor, we need to know.

    Dr. Jim Gleeson: He was mauled in some way by some... animal or... something. I dunno. A tiger?

  • Garda Lisa Nolan: Looks like it should be nice out.

    Una Maher: Ah, there's a storm coming.

    Garda Lisa Nolan: Oh? Really?

    Una Maher: Mmm.

    Garda Lisa Nolan: Are the gulls flying low or something?

    Una Maher: No, it was on the telly.

    [gestures to TV weather forecast]

  • Una Maher: You're throwing a party?

    Garda Ciarán O'Shea: Yeah.

    Una Maher: Why?

    Garda Ciarán O'Shea: Who needs a reason to have a laugh, ha-ha-ha?

    Garda Lisa Nolan: [slurring] It's a welcome party for me.

    Una Maher: Welcome party? But you're leaving in a fortnight.

    Garda Lisa Nolan: So it's a goodbye party, whatever.

    Una Maher: You only just got here.

    Garda Lisa Nolan: [slurring, to O'Shea] What's her problem?

  • Garda Ciarán O'Shea: What is it, Paddy?

    Paddy Barrett: Wouldn't you like to know?

    Garda Ciarán O'Shea: Not really, no.

    Paddy Barrett: You would, though.

    Garda Ciarán O'Shea: No, not really.

    Paddy Barrett: You would. If you were to know what I know, you'd want to know.

    Garda Ciarán O'Shea: All right, tell us then.

    Paddy Barrett: [leans in] Right, so, between you and me, I caught meself a sea monster today. Swear to God, may he strike me down. You don't believe me?

    Garda Ciarán O'Shea: Not a bit.

    Paddy Barrett: I am no liar.

    Brian Maher: Ha!

    Paddy Barrett: Feck off, you!

    Garda Ciarán O'Shea: All right, where is it?

    Paddy Barrett: In me bathtub.

    Garda Ciarán O'Shea: In your bathtub.

    Paddy Barrett: Having a bath.

    [Paddy laughs]

    Garda Ciarán O'Shea: Goodnight, Paddy.

  • Garda Lisa Nolan: Smith said it needs water, right?

    Garda Ciarán O'Shea: Pfff... says a lot of things.

    Paddy Barrett: Mostly bollocks.

    Garda Lisa Nolan: Whatever. But if it needs water to survive, how could it be movin' about on dry land?

    Paddy Barrett: It was rainin'. When it's rainin', there's no such thing as dry land.

  • Dr. Adam Smith: Youuuu... really are Irish!

  • Garda Ciarán O'Shea: If we taint our blood with booze, we're poisonous to eat.

  • Garda Ciarán O'Shea: As, as, as... flattering as it is... to hear a... a beautiful drunk s-slurrin' her feelings for me... now's not the time.

  • Paddy Barrett: I say we feed it Father Potts. Unless it eats shit, it'll choke to death.

  • [last lines]

    Dr. Adam Smith: See! It's Just An Animal

  • Garda Lisa Nolan: [to the main grabber as it screeches at her] Ah... Shut Your Hole

  • Una Maher: [on seeing the grabber being poisoned by the alcohol tainted blood] Must Be A Teetotaler

  • Garda Ciarán O'Shea: [after Adam shows the egg of the dead female grabber] How did that big egg... come out of that?

    Dr. Adam Smith: [Constantly looking at Lisa, even when replying to Ciarán] Mother Nature is a mysterious one, isn't she? Incredibly beautiful!

    [to Lisa]

    Dr. Adam Smith: You related?

  • Garda Ciarán O'Shea: [Touching the seemingly dead alien species] It's dead, right?

    Dr. Adam Smith: Ummm, I am not sure.

    Garda Ciarán O'Shea: [Moves away cautiously] You aren't, what?

    Dr. Adam Smith: Basic tests I have done so far, showed them nothing usual or normal. It's beyond mystifying. Really, I can't be sure without opening it up.

    Brian Maher: [Swiftly beats the alien with a stick; it doesn't move] It's dead.