Firestarter Page #3

Synopsis: Andrew and Vicky McGee met while earning money as guinea pigs for an experiment at college. The experiment was shrouded in suspicion and mystery, and seemed to be related to psychic abilities. The two were married and had a daughter Charile, who has the ability to start fires by merely thinking about it. Naturally, the government takes a great interest in Charlie, and operatives from the secret department known as "The Shop" want to quarrantine and study her.
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Director(s): Mark L. Lester
Production: MCA Universal Home Video
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.0
Metacritic:
50
Rotten Tomatoes:
38%
R
Year:
1984
114 min
646 Views


- Morning, sir.

Welcome back, Rainbird.

- How was Venice?

Sinking.

- Is our problem there solved?

- Our problem there is solved.

- Dr Wanless is here.

- Christ, there goes a beautiful day.

Ah, the good doctor.

What do you want, Joe?

- Have you caught them yet?

- We'll catch them. What do you want?

What do I always want?

Why do I stay alive?

To try to persuade you

to sanction them both,

expunge them,

wipe them from the face of the earth.

Andrew McGee and his daughter

constitute the greatest threat

that's confronted this nation.

- That's a lot of crap.

- You feel guilt!

Eight out of ten of our young volunteers

have died, committed suicide.

You want to justify your participation.

You were all in favour of it at the time.

I know.

I didn't realise.

None of us did.

Lot Six was nothing more

than a synthetic copy of pituitary extract.

- A powerful painkiller hallucinogen.

- For God's sake, Joe, don't start again.

You see...

You see...

This pituitary extract is responsible

for the occasional flashes of psi ability

which most human beings demonstrate

from time to time.

Precognition, telekinesis,

mental domination,

the kind of domination that this

experiment brought out in Andrew McGee.

What is the point, Doctor?

Since this child was born, her father has

tried to inhibit her use of those powers.

But what if his control

had weakened now?

Why would he lose control now

after all these years?

Ask yourself this question.

How exhausting must it have been

for Victoria and Andrew McGee

when this child was an infant?

The bottle is late. The baby cries.

And at that moment, one of her stuffed

toys right there in the crib beside her

bursts into smoky flame.

Joe, she's just a little girl.

She can light fires, yes,

but you're making her sound

like Armageddon.

That's what it might well be.

Suppose lighting fires

is merely the tip of the iceberg.

I don't know what you're talking about.

I am talking about a talent

that is directly linked

to this child's pituitary gland,

undeveloped pituitary gland.

What happens when she becomes

adolescent and that sleeping gland wakes

and becomes, for 20 months, the most

powerful force in the human body?

Suppose we have a child here

who some day is capable

of creating a nuclear explosion

simply by the power of her will.

- That's insane.

- Is it? Is it?

Then allow me to progress

from insanity to utter lunacy.

Suppose there is a little girl out there

somewhere today, this morning,

who has within her,

lying dormant at present,

the power some day

to crack the very planet in two,

like a china plate in a shooting gallery.

What if we could train this little girl?

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