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Dead or alive, you're coming with me.
— RoboCop · 1987
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The line is the human cop's promise made good by a machine. Murphy says it before he dies, RoboCop says it after, and the repetition is how the film tells you someone is still in there. Fans quote it for a promise carried through and as a flat, final arrest line for anyone refusing to be shaken off.
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In context
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In RoboCop (1987), this is the arrest line of the cyborg that Omni Consumer Products rebuilt from the murdered Detroit officer Alex Murphy. It is spoken twice: first by the living Murphy, in the ambush that ends with Clarence Boddicker's gang killing him, and later by RoboCop, when he catches up with gang member Emil, who has a young hostage at gunpoint. Emil stares at him and says he knows him, because he and the gang killed him.
Sources (2)
- Wikipedia: RoboCopPlotReference checked
- Springfield! Springfield!: RoboCop transcripttranscriptReference checked
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