Prancer (1989)
John Duda: Steve Riggs
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Quotes
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Jessica Riggs : See you later!
Steve Riggs : Not if I see you first!
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Jessica Riggs : Look, Steve. I'm not going to ever, ever live with Aunt Sarah.
Steve Riggs : Aunt Sarah?
Jessica Riggs : Dad wants to send me there, and I really don't want to go.
Steve Riggs : He does? Why is everyone keeping me in the dark about everything?
Jessica Riggs : I didn't think you'd care.
Steve Riggs : Of course I do.
Jessica Riggs : I thought maybe you might be glad.
Steve Riggs : Of course not. Now come on back, Jess. We'll work this out.
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Steve Riggs : It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a hat rack!
Jessica Riggs : It's a reindeer, you nerd.
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Minister : You have added inspiration to my day, young lady.
Steve Riggs : [leans over to Jessica, joking] What'd you do, hand out money?
Jessica Riggs : I don't have any idea what they're talking about!
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Aunt Sarah : Nancy Hooper works over at the hospital, and she says whenever there's a full moon, the patients on the eighth floor, you know, the mental patients, they all start acting up like crazy.
Jessica Riggs : Really? How?
Steve Riggs : Why don't you go there on Christmas Eve and find out? They'll show you magic.
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Jessica Riggs : [as John finds out about Prancer] Oh, no. He's gone. Daddy, where is he? Did you kill him?
John Riggs : You had that deer out in that shed all week, didn't you?
Jessica Riggs : Tell us, daddy.
John Riggs : That's why you skipped school. You gave him food from the barn, telling lies. Then I find a 40 pound sack of oats out there with a Christmas bow on it! Do you wanna tell me where that came from? Did you steal that, too?
Steve Riggs : No, she bought it with...
John Riggs : You were in on this, too, huh? I'll get to you later.
[Steve leaves]
Jessica Riggs : Daddy!
John Riggs : Sit down to read the newspaper for a change and all heck breaks loose. Darned deer lets the stock out then comes into the house! I got too much on my mind for all this. You kids are making me nuts.
Jessica Riggs : Daddy, you didn't shoot him. Tell me you didn't shoot him.
John Riggs : I didn't shoot it.
Jessica Riggs : You didn't?
John Riggs : No, I didn't.
Jessica Riggs : Really?
John Riggs : No, I didn't.
Jessica Riggs : Oh, thank you, daddy. Did he run away? Which way did he go? Did he go to Antler Ridge?
John Riggs : Down at Three Oaks. I sold him.
Jessica Riggs : Sold him?
John Riggs : To Herb Drier. He offered me $200 to take him off my hands.
Jessica Riggs : Mister Drier, the butcher? Daddy, he'll eat him!
John Riggs : No, he won't.
Jessica Riggs : He's a butcher, daddy. He'll cut him up and sell the pieces.
John Riggs : Now stop it.
Jessica Riggs : No, I won't. You don't understand what you've done. He's one of Santa's.
John Riggs : Oh, come on, Jessie!
Jessica Riggs : Mom would've never done this.
John Riggs : Look, a reindeer don't fly, okay? I hate to be the one to tell you that, but they don't.
Jessica Riggs : I'll shoot her instead of you.
[collapses on her bed in tears, having had enough of her father's racism]
Jessica Riggs : Die, I'm gonna die.
Aunt Sarah : [feeling sorry for Jessica] Oh, John, you really didn't do that, did you?