"People always ask me if I know Tyler Durden." "Three minutes." "This is it." "Ground zero." "Want to say a few words for the occasion?" "you speak only in vowels." "I can't think of anything." "I forget about Tyler's controlled demolition thing and I wonder how clean that gun is." "It's getting exciting now." "it works both ways." "We have front-row seats for this theater of mass destruction." "The demolitions Committee of Project Mayhem wrapped the foundation columns of a dozen buildings with blasting gelatin." "primary charges will blow base charges and a few blocks will be reduced to smoldering rubble." "I know this because Tyler knows this." "Two and a half." "Think of everything we've accomplished." "the revolution - has got something to do with a girl named maria Singer." "Bob." "Bob had bitch tits." "This was a support group for men with testicular cancer." "that was Bob." "We're still men." "we're men." "Men is what we are." "Bob had had his testicles removed." "Then hormone therapy." "He developed bitch tits 'cause his testosterone was too high and his body upped the estrogen." "That was where I fit." "They'll have to drain my pecs again." "sweating tits" "the way you'd think of God's as big." "you cry now." "wait." "Back up." "Let me start earlier." "I couldn't sleep. nothing's real." "Everything's far away." "Everything's a copy of a copy of a copy." "it'll be the corporations that name everything." "The IBM Stellar Sphere." "The Microsoft galaxy." "The planet Starbucks." "I need you out of town this week to cover some red flags." "It must have been Tuesday." "He had on his cornfIower-bIue tie." "You want me to deprioritize my reports until you advise of a status upgrade?" "Prioritize these." "Here's your flight coupons." "Call me if there's any snags." "He was full of pep." "Must have had his grande latte enema." "I had become a slave to the Ikea nesting instinct." "l'd like to order Erika Pekkari dust ruffles." "please hold." "like a coffee table I had to have it." "The Klipsk personal office unit." "The Hovetrekke home exerbike." "Or the Ohamshab sofa with the Strinne green stripe pattern." "Even the Ryslampa wire lamps of environmentally friendly unbleached paper." "I'd flip through catalogs and wonder:" "What kind of dining set defines me as a person?" "indigenous peoples of..." "please hold." "...wherever." "We used to read pornography." "Now it was the Horchow collection." "No." "You can't die of insomnia." "What about narcolepsy?" "I wake up in strange places." "I have no idea how I got there." "You need to lighten up." "Can you please just give me something?" "Iipstick-red SeconaIs... natural sleep." "Chew some valerian root and get more exercise." "come on. I'm in pain." "You wanna see pain?" "Tuesday nights." "See the guys with testicular cancer." "That's pain." "I always wanted three kids." "Two boys and a girl." "Mindy wanted two girls and a boy." "We never could agree on anything." "she had her first child last week." "A girl." "With her... with her new husband." "And thank God." "You know?" "l-l'm glad for her." "Because she deserves it." "let's thank Thomas for sharing himself with us." "Thomas." "and I see a lot of courage." "And that gives me strength." "We give each other strength." "It's time for the one-on-ones." "So let's all of us follow Thomas's example and really open ourselves up." "Could you find a partner?" "And this is how I met the big moosie." "His eyes already shrink-wrapped in tears." "Knees together." "Those awkward little steps." "My name is Bob." "Bob?" "Bob had been a champion bodybuilder." "You know that chest expansion program on late-night TV?" "That was his idea." "I was a juicer." "You know - using steroids." "Diabonal and..." "Wisterol." "for Christ's sakes. my two grown kids won't even return my phone calls." "rubbery one." "Go ahead..." "Cornelius." "You can cry." "And then... something happened." "I let go." "That's really good." "Lost in oblivion." "Dark and silent and complete." "I found freedom." "Losing all hope was freedom." "It's OK." "Babies don't sleep this well." "I became addicted." "people always assumed the worst." "They cried harder... then I cried harder." "the heart chakra... I wasn't really dying." "I wasn't host to cancer or parasites." "I was the warm little center that the life of this world crowded around." "Imagine your pain as a white ball of healing light." "healing you." "Now keep this going." "Remember to breathe." "And step forward through the back door of the room." "Where does it lead?" "To your cave." "Step forward into your cave." "That's right." "and you're going to find your power animal." "Slide." "Every evening I died." "And every evening I was born again." "Resurrected." "Bob loved me because he thought my testicles were removed too." "ready to cry." "This was my vacation." "And she... ruined everything." "right?" "did not have testicular cancer." "She was a liar." "She had no diseases at all." "Thursdays." "my bimonthly sickle-cell circle." "Friday night." "the big tourist." "Her lie reflected my lie." "I felt nothing." "I couldn't sleep." "I'll grab that bitch maria Singer and scream:" "get out!" "I hadn't slept in four days." "We'll just let that dry..." "you're never really asleep and you're never really awake." "Chloe would like to say a few words." "yeah." "chloe." "chloe looked the way MeryI Streep's skeleton would look if you made it walk around a party being extra nice to everybody." "I'm still here." "But I don't know for how long." "That's as much certainty as anyone can give me." "But I've got some good news." "I no longer have any fear of death." "But..." "I am in a pretty lonely place." "No one will have sex with me. and all I want is to get laid for the last time." "Chloe." "let's thank Chloe." "Chloe." "let's ready ourself for guided meditation." "You're standing at the entrance of your cave." "You step inside your cave and you walk... I'd name it Marla." "maria." "The scratch on the roof of your mouth but you can't." "...deeper into your cave as you walk." "You feel a healing energy all around you." "Now find your power animal." "Slide." "OK." "Let's partner up." "Pick someone special to you tonight." "Hey." "We need to talk." "Sure." "l'm onto you." "What?" "Yeah." "You're a faker." "You're not dying." "Sorry?" "I know we're all dying." "But you're not dying the way Chloe back there is dying." "So?" "So you're a tourist." "I saw you at tuberculosis." "I saw you at testicular cancer!" "I saw you practicing this." "Practicing what?" "Telling me off." "is it going as well as you hoped..." ""Rupert"?" "l'll expose you." "Go ahead. I'll expose you." "Come together." "Let yourselves cry." "God." "Why are you doing this?" "It's cheaper than a movie and coffee's free." "this is important." "These are my groups." "I've been coming for over a year." "Why do you do it?" "l don't know." "they really listen to you instead of... instead of waiting for their turn to speak." "Yeah." "Yeah." "completely." "You don't want to get into this." "It becomes an addiction." "Really?" "l'm not kidding." "and I need this." "So you gotta find somewhere else to go." "Candy-stripe a cancer ward." "It's not my problem." "Wait a second." "Hold on." "OK?" "You take lymphoma and tuberculosis." "You take tuberculosis." "My smoking doesn't go over at all." "Good." "Fine." "Testicular cancer should be no contest." "I have more right to be there." "You still have your balls." "You're kidding." "l dunno." "Am I?" "No." "No." "What do you want?" "l'll take the parasites." "You can't have both." "Take the blood parasites." "I want brain parasites." "but I want brain dementia." "l want that." "You can't have the whole brain." "you have four. I only have two." "OK." "Take both the parasites." "They're yours." "Now we both have three..." "Hey!" "You left half your clothes." "I'm selling some clothes." "we each have three." "That's six." "What about the seventh day?" "I want bowel cancer." "The girl had done her homework." "No." "No. I want bowel cancer." "That's your favorite too?" "we'll split it." "Take the first and third Sunday of the month." "Deal." "Looks like this is goodbye." "Let's not make a big thing out of it." "How's this for not making a big thing?" "Marla!" "Marla!" "Maybe we should exchange numbers." "Should we?" "We might wanna switch nights." "OK." "This is how I met maria Singer." "Marla's philosophy of life was that she might die at any moment." "was that she didn't." "It doesn't have your name!" "Who are you?" "Cornelius?" "Rupert?" "Travis?" "Any of the stupid names you give each night?" "You wake up at SeaTac." "SFO." "LAX." "You wake up at O'Hare." "Dallas Fort Worth." "BWI." "Pacific." "Mountain." "central." "Lose an hour." "Gain an hour." "Check-in for that flight isn't for another two hours." "and it's ending one minute at a time." "You wake up at Air Harbor International." "could you wake up as a different person?" "tiny life." "single pat of butter." "The microwave cordon bleu hobby kit." "Shampoo-conditioner combos." "sample package mouthwash." "Tiny bars of soap." "they're single-serving friends." "but that's all we get." "welcome!" "the survival rate for everyone drops to zero." "I was a recall coordinator." "My job was to apply the formula." "The infant went through the windshield." "Three points." "A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60mph." "The rear differential locks up." "The teenager's braces are stuck to the ashtray." "Might make a good anti-smoking ad." "The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside." "should we initiate a recall?" "The father must've been huge." "See where the fat burned to the seat?" "The polyester shirt?" "Very modern art." "A." "B." "C." "A x B x C... equals X." "we don't do one." "Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents?" "You wouldn't believe." "Which car company do you work for?" "A major one." "I prayed for a crash or a mid-air collision." "Anything." "Life insurance pays off triple if you die on a business trip." "If you are seated in an emergency exit row please ask a flight attendant to reseat you." "lt's a lot of responsibility." "Wanna switch seats?" "No. I'm not sure I'm the man for that particular job." "000 feet." "Mm-hm." "The illusion of safety." "Yeah. I guess so." "You know why they put oxzgen masks on planes?" "So you can breathe." "Oxzgen gets you high." "you take giant panic breaths." "docile." "You accept your fate." "It's all right here." "600mph." "Blank faces." "Calm as Hindu cows." "um..." "That's an interesting theory." "What do you do?" "What do you mean?" "What do you do for a living?" "Why?" "So you can pretend you're interested?" "OK." "You have a kind of sick desperation in your laugh." "We have the exact same briefcase." "Soap." "Sorry?" "l make and I sell soap." "The yardstick of civilization." "And this is how I met..." "Tyler Durden." "Did you know if you mix gasoline you can make napalm?" "I did not. ls that true?" "That's right." "One can make all kinds of explosives using simple household items." "Really?" "lf one were so inclined." "you are by far the most interesting single-serving friend I've ever met." "I get it." "Very clever." "Thank you." "How's that working out for you?" "What?" "Being clever." "then." "Keep it right up." "a question of etiquette." "do I give you the ass or the crotch?" "How I came to live with Tyler is..." "Airlines have this policy about vibrating luggage." "Was it ticking?" "Throwers don't worry." "Modern bombs don't tick." "Sorry." "Throwers?" "Baggage handlers." "the throwers have to call the police." "My suitcase was vibrating?" "but... every once in a while... it's a dildo." "It's company policy never to imply ownership in the event of a dildo." "never "your dildo"." "I don't own... I had everything in that suitcase." "My CK shirts." "My DKNY shoes." "My AX ties." "Never mind." "Hey!" "That's my car!" "Home was a condo on the 15th floor of a filing cabinet for widows and young professionals." "The walls were solid concrete." "A foot of concrete's important when your next-door neighbor has to watch game shows at full volume." "Or when a blast of debris that used to be your personal effects blows out of your windows and sails flaming into the night." "I suppose these things happen." "There's... nothing up there." "You can't go into the unit." "Police orders." "Do you have somebody you can call?" "How embarrassing." "A houseful of condiments and no food." "The police later told me the pilot light" "letting out a little bit of gas." "That gas could have slowly filled the condo - 1700 square feet with high ceilings - for days and days." "Then the refrigerator's compressor could have clicked on." "Yeah?" "you..." "I couldn't tell you why I called him." "Hello?" "Who's this?" "Tyler?" "Who is this?" "Um..." "We met..." "We met on the airplane." "We had the same suitcase?" "yeah." "Right." "I called a second ago." "There was no answer. I'm at a payphone." "I *69'd you." "I never pick up my phone." "So what's up?" "Uh..." "Well..." "You're not gonna believe this." "It could be worse." "A woman could cut off your penis while you sleep and toss it out of a car." "There's always that." "you tell yourself:" "That's the last sofa I'll need." "I've got that sofa problem handled." "I had it all." "I had a stereo that was very decent." "A wardrobe that was getting very respectable." "I was close to being complete." "man." "And now it's all gone." "All gone." "All gone." "Do you know what a duvet is?" "A comforter." "lt's a blanket." "Just a blanket." "Why do guys like us know what a duvet is?" "is this essential to our survival in the hunter-gatherer sense?" "No." "then?" "l dunno." "Consumers." "Right." "We're consumers." "We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession." "poverty." "These things don't concern me. some guy's name on my underwear." "Rogaine." "Viagra." "Olestra." "Martha Stewart." "Fuck Martha Stewart." "She's polishing the brass on the Titanic." "It's all going down." "So fuck off with your sofa units and Strinne green stripe patterns." "I say never be complete." "I say stop being perfect." "I say let's evolve." "Let the chips fall where they may." "and I could be wrong." "Maybe it's a terrible tragedy." "It's just stuff. lt's not a tragedy." "You did lose a lot of versatile solutions for modern living." "I don't smoke." "so..." "What?" "The things you own end up owning you." "man." "it's late." "man." "I should find a hotel." "Oh!" "What?" "What?" "A hotel?" "Yeah." "man." "What are you talking about?" "God." "Three pitchers of beer and you still can't ask." "What?" "You called me 'cause you need a place to stay." "you did." "So just ask." "man." "Would..." "Would that be a problem?" "is it a problem for you to ask?" "Can I stay at your place?" "Yeah." "Thanks." "sure." "I want you to hit me as hard as you can." "What?" "l want you to hit me as hard as you can." "Let me tell you a little about Tyler Durden." "he worked." "He had one part-time job as a projectionist." "A movie doesn't come all on one big reel." "It comes on a few." "So someone has to switch the projectors at the exact moment that one reel ends and the next one begins." "you can see little dots come into the upper right corner of the screen." "we call them cigarette burns." "That's the cue for a changeover." "movie keeps going and the audience has no idea." "Why would anyone want this shit job?" "'Cause it affords him interesting opportunities." "Like splicing a frame of pornography into family films." "So when the snooty cat and the courageous dog you'll catch a flash of Tyler's contribution to the film." "Nobody knows that they saw it but they did." "Nice big cock." "Even a hummingbird couldn't catch Tyler at work." "Tyler also works sometimes as a banquet waiter at the luxurious Pressman Hotel." "He was the guerrilla terrorist of the food service industry." "Do not watch." "I cannot go when you watch. sneezed on endives..." "As for the cream of mushroom soup... tell 'em." "You get the idea." "You just want me to hit you?" "Come on." "Do me this one favor." "Why?" "l don't know." "Never been in a fight." "You?" "No." "But that's a good thing." "You can't know yourself if you haven't." "I don't wanna die without any scars." "God." "This is crazy." "So go crazy!" "Let it rip." "l don't know about this." "l don't either." "Who gives a shit?" "No one's watching." "What do you care?" "This is crazy." "You want me to hit you?" "That's right." "in the face?" "Surprise me." "This is so fucking stupid." "Motherfucker!" "You hit me in the ear!" "I'm sorry." "Ow!" "Christ!" "man?" "that was perfect." "Ugh!" "Agh!" "it's all right." "It really hurts." "Right." "you hit me." "Come on!" "We should do this again sometime." "Where's your car?" "What car?" "but he said he'd been there for a year." "It looked like it was waiting to be torn down." "Most of the windows were boarded up." "There was no lock on the front door kicked it in." "The stairs were ready to collapse." "I didn't know if he owned it or was squatting." "Neither would have surprised me." "Yep." "That's you." "That's me." "That's the toilet." "Good?" "thanks." "What a shithole." "Nothing worked." "Turning on one light meant another light in the house went out." "There were no neighbors." "Just warehouses and a paper mill." "That fart smell of steam." "The hamster-cage smell of wood chips." "Hey." "What have we here?" "guys." "Hey." "we had to kill the power." "I didn't miss TV." "stale refrigerator." "Can I be next?" "man." "Lose the tie." "Tyler and I were alone for half a mile in every direction." "Rain trickled down through the plaster and the light fixtures." "Everything wooden swelled and shrank." "Everywhere were rusted nails to snag your elbow on." "The previous occupant had been a bit of a shut-in." "What are you reading?" "Listen to this." "It's an article written by an organ in the first person." "I am Jack's medulla oblongata." "Jack could not regulate blood pressure or breathing." "There's a whole series of these." "I Am Jill's Nipples." "l Am Jack's Colon." "Yeah. "l Get Cancer. I Kill Jack." "Whoop!" "Agh!" "everything else in life got the volume turned down." "What?" "You could deal with anything." "Have you finished those reports?" "who would you fight?" "probably." "Really?" "Yeah." "Why?" "Who would you fight?" "l'd fight my dad." "I don't know my dad." "six years old." "Married this other woman and had some other kids." "He did this every six years." "He moves city and starts a new family." "Fucker's setting up franchises." "so it was real important that I go." "That sounds familiar." "now what?" "Get a job."" "Same here." "now what?" "I dunno." "Get married." "You can't get married." "I'm a 30-year-old boy." "We're a generation of men raised by women." "I'm wondering if another woman is really the answer we need." "we were Ozzie and Harriet." "we were finding something out." "We were finding out more and more that we were not alone." "I'd just clean my condo." "polish my Scandinavian furniture." "haggling with my insurance company." "I should have been upset about my nice flaming little shit - but I wasn't." "The premise of cybernetting an office is make things more efficient." "all I thought about was next week." "Can I get the icon in cornflower blue?" "Absolutely." "people." "Because waste is a thief." "didn't you?" "You can swallow a pint of blood before you get sick." "It was right in everyone's face." "Tyler and I just made it visible." "It was on the tip of everyone's tongue." "Tyler and I just gave it a name." "you've gotta go home!" "Turn off the jukebox." "Lock the back." "Tyler gave the rules that he and I decided." "Gentlemen!" "Welcome to Fight Club." "The first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club." "The second rule of Fight Club is... you do not talk about Fight Club!" "Third rule of Fight Club: the fight is over." "Fourth rule: only two guys to a fight." "fellas." "no shoes." "Seventh rule: fights will go on as long as they have to. you have to fight." "couIdn't remember whether you ordered pens with blue ink or black." "But Ricky was a god for ten minutes when he trounced the maitre d' of a local food court." "packing sounds over the yelling." "Or the wet choke when someone gasped and sprayed..." "Stop!" "You weren't alive anywhere like you were there." "But Fight club only exists in the hours between when Fight club starts and ends." "I wouldn't be talking to the same man." "Who you were in Fight club is not who you were in the rest of the world." "A guy came to Fight club for the first time." "His ass was a wad of cookie dough." "he was carved out of wood." "who would you fight?" "Alive or dead?" "Doesn't matter." "Who'd be tough?" "Hemingway." "You?" "Shatner. I'd fight William Shatner." "We all started seeing things differently." "we were sizing things up." "trying to look like how calvin klein or Tommy Hilfiger said they should." "is that what a man looks like?" "self-improvement is masturbation." "self-destruction..." "Excuse me." "Fight club wasn't about winning or losing." "It wasn't about words." "like at a pentecostal Church." "ls that it?" "Stop!" "nothing was solved." "But nothing mattered." "Cool." "we all felt saved." "man." "How about next week?" "How about next month?" "you too." "tyler spoke for me." "He fell down some stairs." "I fell down some stairs." "Fight club became the reason to cut your hair short or trim your fingernails." "OK." "Any historical figure." "l'd fight Gandhi." "Good answer." "How about you?" "Lincoln." "Lincoln?" "Mm-hm." "big reach." "Skinny guys fight till they're burger." "Fuck!" "even the Mona Lisa's falling apart." "Hello?" "Where have you been the last eight weeks?" "Marla?" "How did you find me?" "You left a forwarding number." "I haven't seen you at any support groups." "We split 'em up." "That was the idea." "Remember?" "but you haven't been going to yours." "How do you know?" "l cheated." "I found a new one." "Really?" "lt's for men only." "Like the testicle thing?" "Whah!" "this is a bad time." "l've been going to Debtors Anonymous." "Some really fucked-up people." "l'm on my way out." "Me too. I've got a stomach full of Xanax." "I took what was left of a bottle." "It might have been too much." "Picture maria Singer throwing herself around her crummy apartment." "This isn't a for-real suicide." "It's probably a cry for help." "This could go on for hours." "So you're staying in tonight?" "Do you wanna hear me describe death?" "Do you wanna listen and see if my spirit can use a phone?" "Have you ever heard a death rattle before?" "Tyler's door was closed." "I'd been here for two months and his door was never closed." "You won't believe the dream I had last night." "I can hardly believe anything from last night." "What are you doing here?" "What?" "This is my house." "What are you doing here?" "Fuck you!" "you've got some fucked-up friends!" "though." "Silly cooze." "I come in last night." "Phone's off the hook." "Guess who's on the other end." "I knew the story before he told me." "Have you ever heard a death rattle before?" "Do you think it'll live up to its name?" "Or will it just be a death hairball?" "Prepare to evacuate soul." "eight..." "think it was a bad thing that maria Singer was about to die?" "three..." "Hang on." "You got here fast." "Did I call you?" "Huh?" "The mattress is all sealed in slippery plastic." "Don't worry. lt's not a threat to you." "fuck!" "Somebody called the cops." "where's 513?" "End of the hall." "lovely girl." "She has lost faith in herself." "let us help you!" "She's a monster!" "You have every reason to live." "She's infectious human waste!" "Miss Singer!" "Good luck trying to save her!" "I'm done for." "You're gonna have to keep me up... all night." "Un-fucking-believable." "He was obviously able to handle it." "I didn't." "Never?" "No." "not at all." "I am Jack's raging bile duct." "I'm sure." "Put a gun to my head" "and spray my brains." "That's good." "She's a predator posing as a house pet." "Stay away." "I had never heard!" "My God." "I haven't been fucked like that since grade school." "Euch!" "How could Tyler not go for that?" "he was splicing sex organs into "Cinderella"." "just a caseworker." "it's sport fucking." "She invaded my support groups and now my home." "hey." "Sit down." "l can't have you talking to her about me." "Why would I talk to her?" "You say anything about me or what goes on we're done." "Now promise me." "OK." "You promise?" "l promise." "I promise!" "What..." "That's three times you promised." "none of this would've happened." "harder!" "I couId have moved to another room." "On the third floor where l might not have heard them." "But I didn't." "Ow!" "What are you doing?" "Just going to bed." "You wanna finish her off?" "Ooh!" "thank you." "l found a cigarette." "Who were you talking to?" "Shut up." "I became the calm little center of the world." "I was the Zen master." "I wrote little haiku poems." "I emailed them to everyone." "is that your blood?" "yeah." "You can't smoke in here." "Take the rest of the day off." "Come back Monday with clean clothes." "Get yourself together." "these are bruises from fighting."" "I'm comfortable with that." "I am enlightened."" "...and you have to come home to this." "Hello?" "This is Detective Stern with the Arson Unit." "We have new information about the incident at your former condo. but someone sprayed Freon into your front-door lock." "They used a chisel to shatter the cylinder." "I wasn't aware of that." "I am Jack's cold sweat." "sir." "Very strange." "The dynamite..." "Dynamite?" "...left a residue of ammonium oxalate potassium perchloride." "Do you know what this means?" "No." "What does it mean?" "It means it was home-made." "sir." "Whoever set this dynamite could have blown out your pilot light days before the explosion." "The gas was just a detonator." "Who'd do such a thing?" "l'll ask the questions." "Tell him." "The liberator who destroyed my property realigned my perceptions." "Excuse me." "Are you there?" "Yes. lt's hard to know what to make of this." "Have you recently made enemies who might have access to home-made dynamite? especially material possessions." "I know it's serious." "it's very serious." "nobody takes this more seriously than me." "That condo was my life." "OK?" "I loved every stick of furniture in that place." "That was not just a bunch of stuff that got destroyed." "lt was me!" "l thank the Academy." "ls this not a good time for you?" "Just tell him you fucking did it!" "Tell him you blew it all up!" "That's what he wants to hear." "Are you still there?" "Wait." "Are you saying that I'm a suspect?" "so you let me know if you're gonna leave town." "OK?" "OK." "Tyler and Marla were never in the same room." "My parents pulled this exact same act for years." "The condom is the glass slipper of our generation." "You slip one on when you meet a stranger." "then you throw it away." "I mean." "Not the stranger." "What?" "I got this dress at a thrift store for $1." "It was worth every penny." "It's a bridesmaid's dress. then tossed it." "Like a Christmas tree." "So special." "Then... bam!" "It's on the side of the road." "Tinsel still clinging to it." "bound with electrical tape." "it suits you." "You can borrow it sometime." "Get rid of her." "What?" "You get rid of her!" "Don't mention me." "passing messages between parents." "I'm leaving." "Not that we don't love your visits." "You are such a nutcase. I can't keep up." "Gotta get off" "Thanks." "Bye." "Gotta get off of this merry-go-round gotta get..." "You kids!" "Why do you still waste time with her?" "I'll say this about Marla." "At least she's trying to hit bottom." "And I'm not?" "Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken." "What are we doing tonight?" "Tonight... we make soap." "first we render fat. so the best fat for soap comes from humans." "Wait." "What is this place?" "A liposuction clinic." "Aha!" "Pay dirt!" "creamiest fat in the world." "The fat of the land!" "No!" "Don't pull it." "God!" "Give me another one." "the tallows float to the surface." "Like in Boy Scouts." "lt's hard to imagine you as a Boy Scout." "Keep stirring." "you skim off a layer of glycerin." "you got nitroglycerin." "you got dynamite." "one could blow up anything." "Tyler was full of useful information." "Ancient peoples found clothes got cleaner when washed in one part of the river." "You know why?" "No." "Humans were once sacrificed on the hills above." "water seeped through the ashes to create lye." "This is lye." "The crucial ingredient." "a soapy discharge crept into the river." "please?" "What is this?" "This is a chemical burn." "Agh!" "Aaagh!" "It'll hurt more than you've ever been burned and leave a scar." "it could work for this." "God! like the first monkey shot into space." "we would have nothing." "I tried not to think of the words "searing" or "flesh"." "this is your burning hand." "I'm going to my cave to find my power animal." "No!" "Don't deal with this the way those dead people do!" "Come on!" "l get the point!" "No!" "You're feeling premature enlightenment." "and you're missing it!" "I am not..." "Shut up!" "Our fathers were our models for God." "what does that tell you about God?" "Listen to me." "You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you." "he hates you." "This is not the worst thing that can happen." "We don't need him!" "fuck redemption." "We are God's unwanted children?" "So be it!" "l'm getting water!" "You can use water and make it worse or..." "Look at me!" "please!" "you have to give up." "you have to know - not fear - you're gonna die." "You don't know how this feels!" "It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything." "OK." "Congratulations." "You're one step closer to hitting bottom." "Tyler sold his soap to department stores at $20 a bar." "God knows what they charged." "Susan." "It was beautiful." "We were selling rich women their own fat asses back to them." "He was wearing his yellow tie." "I didn't even wear a tie to work anymore." "The first rule of Fight Club is don't talk about Fight Club"?" "I'm half-asleep again." "I must have left it in the copy machine." "The second rule..." ls this yours?" "Huh?" "Pretend you're me." "Make a managerial decision." "You find this." "What would you do? very careful who you talk to about that." "Because the person who wrote that is dangerous." "Oxford-cloth psycho might just snap and then stalk from office to office pumping round after round into colleagues and co-workers." "This might be someone you've known for years." "very close to you." "Tyler's words coming out of my mouth." "And I used to be such a nice guy." "Or maybe you shouldn't bring me every piece of trash you pick up." "Compliance and Liability." "My tit's gonna rot off." "Will you excuse me?" "I need to take this." "What do you mean?" "I need you to check for a lump in my breast." "Go to a hospital." "l can't afford to waste money on a doctor." "Marla." "Please?" "She didn't call tyler." "I'm neutral in her book." "That's nice." "Taking food to..." "Mrs. Haniver and Mrs. Raines." "exactly?" "they're dead." "I'm alive and I'm in poverty." "Want any?" "no." "l got one for you." "Thanks for the thought." "What happened to your hand?" "nothing." "Right there?" "Mm." "Feel anything?" "No." "make sure." "I'm pretty sure." "You feel nothing?" "nothing." "that's a relief." "Thank you." "No problem." "l wish I could return the favor." "Breast cancer doesn't run in my family." "l could check your prostate." "l think I'm OK." "anyway." "we're done." "See you... around." "Cornelius?" "Cornelius!" "It's me!" "Bob!" "Bob." "no." "Still here." "Bob?" "Better than I've ever been in my whole life." "Really?" "Still Remaining Men Together?" "no." "I got something so much better now." "what is it?" "Well... I'm not supposed to talk about it." "And the second rule is... I'm not supposed to talk about it." "Bob. I'm a member." "Bob." "That's fucking great." "l've never seen you there." "l go Tuesdays and Thursdays." "l go Saturday." "Congratulations." "right?" "Have you heard about the guy that invented it?" "actually..." "l hear all kinds of things." "he was born in a mental institution and he sleeps only one hour a night." "He's a great man." "Oh..." "Do you know about Tyler Durden?" "did I?" "you did." "thank you." "Fight club." "This was mine and Tyler's gift." "Our gift to the world." "I see a lot of new faces." "Shut up!" "Which means a lot of people have been breaking the first two rules of Fight Club." "I see in Fight Club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived." "I see all this potential." "And I see it squandered." "an entire generation pumping gas." "Waiting tables." "Slaves with white collars." "Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes." "Working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need." "men." "No purpose or place." "We have no Great War." "No Great Depression." "Our great war is a spiritual war." "Our great depression is our lives." "We've all been raised on TV to believe that one day we'd be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars." "But we won't." "We're slowly learning that fact." "very pissed off." "Yeah!" "do not talk..." "Who are you?" "Who am I?" "Yeah." "There's a sign on the front that says Lou's Tavern." "I'm fucking Lou." "Who the fuck are you?" "Tyler Durden." "Who told you motherfuckers you could use my place?" "We have a deal worked out with Irvine." "Irvine's at home with a broken collarbone." "He don't own this place. I do." "How much money does he get?" "There is no money." "Really?" "Free to all." "actually." "stupid fuck!" "l want everybody out of here right now." "Hey!" "You should join our club." "Did you hear what I just said?" "You and your friend." "You hear me now?" "Lou." "Still not getting it." "I got it." "I lost it." "Back!" "All of you!" "Everybody back!" "Lou!" "man!" "We really like this place." "Lou." "Get it out." "Shut the fuck up." "yeah!" "That's fucking funny?" "I'm telling you." "Unbelievable." "my God!" "You don't know where l've been!" "Lou!" "Lou!" "I want your word!" "On my mother's eyes." "Lou." "big guy." "We'll see you next week." "each one of you has a homework assignment." "You're gonna go out." "You're gonna start a fight with a total stranger. and you're gonna lose." "sir." "jackass!" "Come on!" "this is not as easy as it sounds." "What..." "Son of a bitch!" "Most people - normal people - do just about anything to avoid a fight." "Excuse me!" "You sprayed me with your hose." "That's not necessary." "Jay!" "Go call 911!" "Put the hose down." "Stop it!" "Stop it!" "Sorry." "You bastard!" "We need to talk." "OK." "Where to begin?" "With your constant absenteeism?" "With your unpresentable appearance?" "You're up for review." "l am Jack's complete lack of surprise." "What?" "Let's pretend." "OK?" "Someone informs you that this company installs front-seat mounting brackets and fuel injectors that explode and burn people alive." "What then?" "Are you threatening me?" "No..." "Get the fuck out of here." "You're fired!" "l have a better solution." "Keep me on the payroll as an outside consultant my job will be never to tell people these things that I know." "I don't even have to come into the office." "I can do this job from home." "you crazy little shit?" "Security!" "l am Jack's smirking revenge." "Agh!" "What the hell are you doing?" "That hurt." "Why would you do that?" "my God!" "No!" "Please stop!" "What are you doing?" "no!" "Please!" "No!" "with Tyler." "No!" "something horrible had been growing. and you won't ever see me again." "at our most excellent moment together..." "Thank God!" "Please don't hit me again." "52 weekly paychecks and 48 airline flight coupons." "We now had corporate sponsorship." "This is how Tyler and I were able to have Fight club every night of the week." "nobody was the center of Fight club except the two men fighting." "out in the darkness." "Tyler was now involved in a lawsuit with the Pressman hotel over the urine content of their soup." "I am Jack's wasted life." "sir." "Tyler dreamed up new homework assignments." "He handed them out in sealed envelopes." "I heard." "There's one in Penns Grove too." "Bob even found one up in New Castle." "I thought you did." "No." "Stop." "What are we doing?" "Turn around." "What are we doing?" "Homework assignment." "What kind?" "Human sacrifice." "ls that a gun?" "Please tell me it's not." "lt's a gun." "Meet me in the back." "Don't fuck around!" "Meet me in the back." "the survival rate for everyone drops to zero." "Stop." "What are you doing?" "Hands behind your back." "Give me your wallet." "Apartment A." "Cramped basement apartment?" "How did you know?" "They give shitty apartments letters." "Raymond!" "You're going to die." "No!" "is that your mom and dad?" "They're gonna have to call the kindly doctor." "Pick up your dental records." "Know why?" "There'll be nothing left of your face." "Come on!" "Raymond?" "S..." "Stuff." "Stuff?" "Were the midterms hard?" "mostly." "Why?" "l don't know." "Raymond K Hessel?" "was:" "what did you want to be?" "Raymond!" "Jesus!" "Veterinarian." "Veterinarian." "Animals." "I got that." "So you need more schooling." "Too much school." "please... in the back of a convenience store?" "no." "I'm keeping your license." "Gonna check in on you." "I know where you live. you will be dead." "Now run on home." "run!" "I feel ill." "this isn't funny!" "What the fuck was the point of that?" "Tomorrow will be the most beautiful day of Raymond K Hessel's life." "His breakfast will taste better than any meal you and I have ever tasted." "You had to give it to him." "Come on." "He had a plan." "And it started to make sense in a Tyler sort of way." "No fear." "No distractions." "The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide." "You are not your job." "You're not how much money you have in the bank." "You're not the car you drive." "You're not the contents of your wallet." "You're not your fucking khakis." "all-dancing crap of the world." "I'll be out of your way in a sec." "You don't have to go." "Whatever." "I mean..." "It's OK." "Are you still going to groups?" "Yeah." "Chloe's dead." "Wow." "Chloe." "When did that happen?" "Do you care?" "I dunno." "I haven't thought about it in a while." "well... lt was the smart move on her part." "um..." "What are you getting out of all this?" "What?" "all this." "Why do you keep... ls this making you happy?" "sometimes." "I don't know. I don't understand." "Why does a weaker person need to latch on to a strong person?" "What is that?" "What do you get out of it?" "No..." "That's not the same thing at all." "It's totally different with us." "Us"?" "What do you mean by "us"?" "l'm sorry." "Do you hear this?" "Hear what?" "All that noise." "Hold on." "wait!" "Don't change the subject!" "I want to talk about this." "are you?" "No." "What?" "You playing doctor." "What was going on?" "What are you talking about?" "Nothing." "Nothing." "l don't think so." "What do you want?" "Look at me." "No." "What?" "What is that?" "lt's nothing." "Don't worry." "My God." "Who did this?" "A person." "Guy or girl?" "What do you care?" "What do you care if I ask?" "Leave me alone." "You're afraid to say." "l am not." "Let me go." "No!" "Talk to me." "Let go of me." "Leave me alone!" "This conversation..." "This conversation..." "...is over." "...is over." "can I?" "this is getting a little old!" "What is..." "What is all this?" "What do you think?" "why do we need bunk beds?" "Hey!" "Too young." "Sorry." "What's all that?" "too old or too fat." "Applicant? he may enter and begin training." "Training for what?" "You think this is a game?" "end of story." "Quit wasting our time." "Get the fuck out of here." "friend." "It's not gonna happen." "Sorry if there was a misunderstanding." "It's not the end of the world." "Just... go away." "Go." "You're trespassing and I will have to call the police." "Don't you look at me!" "You're never getting in this fucking house!" "Never." "Now get the fuck off my porch!" "Get off my porch!" "we all became what Tyler wanted us to be." "I'm gonna go inside and I'm gonna get a shovel." "Got two black shirts?" "Two pair of black pants?" "sir." "One pair black boots?" "Black socks?" "Sir." "One black jacket?" "Sir." "$300 personal burial money?" "sir." "All right." "fat man." "Your tits are too big." "Get the fuck off my porch." "Bob!" "Bob!" "Like a monkey ready to be shot into space." "Space monkey." "Ready to sacrifice himself for the greater good." "fatty!" "And you..." "You're too fucking blond!" "the both of you!" "And so it went." "maggots." "You are not special." "You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake." "You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else." "Tyler built himself an army." "all-dancing crap of the world." "We are all part of the same compost heap." "Why was Tyler Durden building an army?" "To what purpose?" "For what greater good?" "In Tyler we trusted." "Yeah!" "what's all this?" "Hey!" "OK!" "What's going on?" "We're celebrating." "What are we celebrating?" "Go on." "Hey." "Let me get that for you." "Same great taste." "Pepsi." "Generation Next." "Shh!" "Investigators are on the scene." "The police Commissioner has arrived." "could you tell us what you think has happened here?" "We believe this is one of many recent acts of vandalism around the city somehow related to underground boxing clubs." "We will be coordinating a rigorous investigation." "That was Commissioner Jacobs who just arrived on the scene" "of a four-aIarm fire that broke out..." "She's hot." "Back to you in the studio." "Yeah!" "Yeah!" "Holy shit!" "Yeah!" "What the fuck did you guys do?" "Arson investigators are on the premises... sir." "The victory in the war against crime will not come overnight." "cooperation." "Streets are safer now." "There is hope in the inner city." "However..." "l gotta take a piss." "These are the first steps in a long journey." "That is why we have created Project Hope..." "Bob." "...helping others with prevention and enforcement." "Project Hope will be a joint effort between the police and community leaders." "It will be a powerful new weapon in the war against crime." "Wrap it around the top of his Hacky Sack." "Man!" "His balls are ice-cold." "Hi." "You're gonna call off your rigorous investigation." "You will publicly state there is no underground group or these guys are gonna take your balls." "They'll send one to the New York Times and one to the LA Times." "the people you are after are the people you depend on." "We cook your meals." "We haul your trash." "We connect your calls." "We drive your ambulances." "We guard you while you sleep." "Do not fuck with us." "Ball check!" "this way." "Let's go." "I am Jack's inflamed sense of rejection." "Hey!" "Yeah!" "I felt like putting a bullet in every panda that wouldn't screw to save its species." "I wanted to open the dump valves on oil tankers and smother all those French beaches I'd never see." "I wanted to breathe smoke." "psycho boy?" "I felt like destroying something beautiful." "Get him to a fucking hospital." "Yeah." "Mr. Durden." "Airport parking." "Long term." "Mr. Durden." "After you." "dear?" "No." "Yeah." "Why wasn't I told about Project Mayhem?" "First rule of Project Mayhem is you do not ask questions." "Why wasn't I included in the beginning?" "Fight Club was the beginning." "Now it's left the basements and it's Project Mayhem." "We started Fight Club together." "Remember?" "It's as much mine as it is yours." "ls this about you and me?" "Yeah." "Weren't we doing this together?" "This does not belong to us." "We are not special." "Fuck that." "You should have told me." "Tyler!" "Tyler!" "What do you want?" "A statement of purpose?" "Should I email you?" "Look..." "You decide your level of involvement!" "I will!" "I wanna know certain things first!" "The first rule of Project Mayhem..." "Shut up!" "l wanna know what you're thinking." "Fuck what you know! and especially about you and me." "What is that supposed to mean?" "What..." "What are you doing?" "What'll you wish you'd done before you die?" "Paint a self-portrait." "Build a house." "And you?" "l don't know." "Nothing." "Get in the right lane." "You have to know!" "how would you feel about your life?" "I don't know!" "Nothing good." "is that what you want to hear me say?" "Come on!" "Not good enough." "Stop fucking around!" "Tyler!" "Jesus Christ!" "Goddamn it!" "Goddamn it!" "Fuck you!" "Fuck Fight Club." "Fuck Marla!" "I am sick of all your shit!" "man." "OK." "Quit screwing around." "Steer!" "Look at you!" "Steer!" "Look at you!" "You're fucking pathetic!" "Why?" "Why?" "What are you talking about?" "Why do you think I blew up your condo?" "What?" "Hitting bottom isn't a weekend retreat." "It's not a goddamn seminar." "Stop trying to control everything and just let go!" "Let go!" "All right." "Fine." "Fine." "I'd never been in a car accident." "This must have been what all those people felt like before I filed them as statistics in my reports." "Goddamn!" "We've just had a near-life experience!" "you're stalking elk through the Grand Canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center." "You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life." "You'll climb the thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower." "laying strips of venison in the empty car-pool lane of some abandoned superhighway." "champ." "And then..." "Tyler?" "...Tyler was gone." "Was I asleep?" "Had I slept?" "unique snowflake..." "wet inside from so many people sweating and breathing." "We are all part of the same compost heap... the house moved." "Planet Tyler." "trapped inside this clockwork of space monkeys." "You can't be smoking!" "You know how much ether is in here?" "Cooking and working and sleeping in teams." "Hang on a second." "sir." "Where's Tyler?" "the first rule of Project Mayhem is you do not..." "Right." "OK." "I'm all alone." "My father dumped me." "Tyler dumped me." "I am Jack's broken heart." "What comes next in Project Mayhem only Tyler knows." "The second rule is you do not ask questions." "Get the fuck away from me!" "Get the fuck away!" "Who are all these people?" "The Paper Street Soap Company." "Can I come in?" "He's not here." "What?" "Tyler isn't here." "Tyler went away." "Tyler's gone." "Jesus!" "Get some help!" "Two gunshot wounds coming through!" "Make some fucking room!" "What happened?" "What happened?" "We were on assignment." "We were supposed to kill two birds with one stone." "Destroy a piece of corporate art..." "Operation Latte Thunder." "Go!" "...and trash a franchise coffee bar." "sir." "lt went smooth until..." "Police!" "Freeze!" "What?" "They shot Bob." "They shot him in the head." "Fucking pigs!" "God!" "Those motherfuckers!" "You morons." "You run around in ski masks trying to blow things up?" "What did you think was gonna happen?" "quick!" "We gotta get rid of the evidence - his body!" "Bury him." "What?" "Take him to the garden and bury him." "let's go!" "Get the fuck off!" "Get away from him!" "What are you talking about?" "This isn't fucking evidence." "This is a person." "He's my friend and you're not burying him in the garden!" "sir." "in... we have no names." "you listen to me." "OK?" "Robert Paulsen?" "and he's dead now because of us." "Do you understand that?" "I understand." "a member of Project Mayhem has a name." "His name is Robert Paulsen." "His name is Robert Paulsen." "His name... is Robert Paulsen." "His name is Robert Paulsen." "guys." "Please." "Stop it." "His name is Robert Paulsen." "Shut up!" "This is all over with!" "Tyler?" "this is Detective Stern of the Arson Unit." "I need to see you... bar-hopping." "and somehow I just knew." "I'm looking for Tyler Durden." "It's very important that I talk to him. sir." "I knew a Fight club was close." "Hey!" "Hey!" "Taxi!" "Look at my face. I'm a member." "I just need to know if you've seen Tyler. be able." "You're a moron." "l'm gonna have to ask you to leave." "setting up franchises all over the country." "Was I asleep?" "Had I slept?" "or am I Tyler's?" "We've just heard the stories." "What stories?" "Nobody knows what he looks like." "He has plastic surgery every three years." "That's the stupidest thing I ever heard." "ls it true about Fight Club in Miami?" "ls Mr. Durden building an army?" "I was living in a state of perpetual déjà vu." "I felt I'd already been there." "It was like following an invisible man." "The smell of dried blood." "bare footprints circling each other." "like fried chicken." "The feel of a floor still warm from a fight the night before." "I was always just one step behind Tyler." "His name is Robert Paulsen." "His name is Robert Paulsen." "His... sir." "How have you been?" "Do you know me?" "sir?" "No." "This is not a test." "You were in here last Thursday." "Thursday?" "asking how good security is." "sir." "Who do you think I am?" "this is not a test." "You're Mr. Durden." "You're the one who gave me this." "Please return your seat backs to their full upright and locked position." "it's me." "Have we ever done it?" "Done what?" "Had sex." "What kind of stupid question is that?" "Stupid because the answer's yes or because it's no?" "ls this a trick?" "No." "I need to know..." "You wanna know if I think we were just having sex or making love?" "We did make love?" "ls that what you're calling it?" "Just answer the question!" "Did we do it or not?" "you hate me." "then you turn into an asshole." "Tyler?" "We have just lost cabin pressure." "What did you say?" "What is wrong with you?" "Say my name!" "Tyler Durden." "you fucking freak!" "What's going on?" "l'm coming over!" "l'm not there!" "You broke your promise." "Tyler." "You talked to her about me." "What the fuck is going on?" "l ask you for one thing." "One simple thing." "Why do people think that I'm you?" "Answer me!" "Sit." "Answer me." "Why do people think I'm you?" "I think you know." "you do." "Why would anyone possibly confuse you with me?" "I..." "I don't know." "You got it." "No." "Do not fuck with us!" "Say it." "Because..." "Say it!" "Because we're the same person." "That's right." "all-dancing..." "l don't understand this." "You wanted a way to change your life." "You could not do this on your own." "All the ways you wish you could be - that's me." "l'm free in all the ways that you are not." "no." "Tyler's not here." "Tyler went away." "What?" "This isn't possible." "This is crazy." "People do it every day." "They talk to themselves." "They see themselves as they'd like to be." "They don't have the courage you have to just run with it." "so sometimes you're still you." "We should do this again sometime." "you imagine you're watching me." "you have to fight." "you're just letting yourself become..." "Tyler Durden." "You are not your job or how much money you have!" "No." "You have a house." "Rented in your name." "a life." "You work nights because you can't sleep." "Tyler." "you are." "But it's all the same to her." "my God." "Now you see our dilemma." "She knows too much." "I think we're gonna have to talk about how this might compromise our goals." "What..." "What are you saying?" "This is bullshit." "This is bullshit!" "I'm not listening to this." "You are insane!" "No." "You're insane." "And we simply do not have time for this crap." "It's called a changeover." "and nobody in the audience has any idea." "Sir!" "Are you checking out?" "Yeah." "Bill me." "please." "When were these made?" "Between 2:00 and 3:30 this morning." "Have I been going to bed earlier every night?" "Have I been sleeping later?" "Have I been Tyler longer and longer?" "is anybody here?" "all over again." "one could blow up anything." "my God." "1888." "Who am I calling?" "franklin." "This is maintenance." "Hello?" "Hello?" "Franklin Street?" "Yes." "Can I help you?" "yeah." "I need to talk to your supervisor right away." "listen to me." "Something terrible is about to happen to your building." "sir." "sir." "We're solid." "2160." "wait!" "Wait!" "I gotta talk to you!" "Marla!" "Marla!" "Your bald freaks hit me with a fucking broom!" "They almost broke my arm!" "They were burning their fingertips with lye." "but hear me out." "Here comes an avalanche of bullshit." "A little more faith than that." "I don't wanna hear anything you have to say." "You have every right to be... thanks." "sir." "Why is it free of charge?" "Don't ask." "Whatever. fried chicken with a baked potato and chocolate chiffon pie." "please." "I advise against the clam chowder." "No clam chowder." "Thank you." "You got about 30 seconds." "OK?" "I know it seems there's two sides to me..." "Two sides?" "You're Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Jackass." "I deserved that." "But I realized something important." "What? for reasons I won't go into." "l know I haven't treated you well." "Whatever." "don't open your mouth." "I'm trying to tell you I'm sorry." "Marla." "You do?" "l really do." "I care about you and I don't want anything bad to happen to you because of me." "Your life is in danger." "What?" "You need to leave town for a while." "Get out of any major city." "Just go camping..." "You're an insane person." "l've involved you in something terrible." "No." "Shut up!" "You're not safe." "Shut up!" "Tyler. I really tried." "l know you did." "spectacular in bed." "But... you're intolerable." "You have very serious emotional problems for which you should seek professional help." "everyone's sorry." "I can't do this anymore." "I can't. I won't." "I'm gone." "Marla!" "You're not safe!" "you don't understand!" "Leave me alone!" "I am trying to protect you!" "l never want to see you again!" "lf that's what it takes..." "Wait right here." "Hold it right there!" "Shut up!" "Take this money and get on this bus." "I promise I will never bother you again." "Shut up!" "Please get on the bus." "Please get on the bus." "Why are you doing this?" "They think you're a threat." "I can't explain now." "Trust me." "you won't be safe." "I'm not paying this back." "I consider it asshole tax." "OK?" "Tyler..." "You're the worst thing that ever happened to me." "Hello. I need you to arrest me." "I am the leader of a terrorist organization responsible for numerous acts of vandalism and assault all over this city." "we had probably 200 members." "Chapters have sprung up in five or six other major cities already." "This is a tightly regimented organization with many cells capable of operating independent of central leadership." "OK?" "1537 Paper Street." "That's our headquarters." "you'll find the body of Robert Paulsen." "you'll find some bathtubs that have been used very recently to make large quantities of nitroglycerin." "I believe the plan is to blow up the headquarters of these credit-card companies and the TRW building." "Why these buildings?" "Why credit-card companies?" "then we all go back to zero." "You'll create total chaos." "Keep him talking." "I need to make a phone call." "I really admire what you're doing." "What?" "You're a brave man to order this." "sir. we gotta get his balls." "Mr. Durden." "lt'll set quite an example." "You're making a big mistake!" "You said you'd say that." "l'm not Tyler Durden!" "You told us you'd say that too." "All right. I am Tyler Durden." "Listen to me. I'm giving you a direct order." "We're aborting this mission now." "You said you would definitely say that." "Let me go!" "Are you fucking out of your minds?" "You're police officers!" "is somebody timing this?" "Keep your mouth shut." "Shit!" "Some of this information checks out." "Uh-huh?" "Let's go to that house on Paper Street." "Be right there." "wait!" "You got him?" "l got him." "we have to do this." "Stop fighting!" "Where's the rubber band?" "Get away from me!" "Drop that fucking knife!" "Back up." "Face down on the floor right now!" "Get down on the floor!" "First person that comes out this door gets a lead salad!" "Understand?" "Get away!" "Stay away!" "I ran." "I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid." "Then I ran some more." "running around in your underpants?" "You look crazy!" "No. I'm onto you." "I know what's going on here." "then. I got us a great place to watch from. lt'll be like Pay-per-view." "Christ." "Now what are you doing?" "l'm stopping this." "Why?" "The greatest thing you've ever done." "l can't let this happen." "There are 10 other bombs in 10 other buildings." "Since when is Project Mayhem about murder?" "The buildings are empty." "We're not killing anyone." "We're setting them free!" "Bob is dead." "They shot him in the head." "you gotta break eggs." "No. I'm not listening to you." "You're not even there." "Wouldn't do that." "Not unless I knew which wires were what." "then I know." "so I spent all day thinking about the wrong ones." "You think?" "no." "Not the green one." "Pull any one but the green one." "I asked you not to do that!" "Fuck!" "get away from the van." "I'm not kidding!" "Get away from the van!" "Goddamn it!" "Whoa!" "Whoa!" "OK." "You are now firing a gun at your imaginary friend near 400 gallons of nitroglycerin!" "Tyler!" "come on!" "Don't go!" "What?" "Three minutes." "This is it." "The beginning." "Ground zero." "I think this is about where we came in." "Want to say a few words for the occasion?" "I'm sorry?" "I still can't think of anything." "Ah." "Flashback humor." "It's getting exciting now." "Two and a half." "Think of everything we've accomplished." "we will view the collapse of financial history." "One step closer to economic equilibrium." "Why is she here?" "Tying up loose ends." "you bald-headed fuck!" "please don't do this." "l'm not doing this." "We are doing this." "This is what we want." "No. I don't want this." "Right." "Except "you" is meaningless now." "We have to forget about you." "You're a voice in my head." "You're a voice in mine!" "Why can't I get rid of you?" "You need me." "No. I don't. I really don't anymore." "You created me. I didn't create some loser alter ego to make me feel better." "Take some responsibility." "l do." "and I accept that." "please call this off." "Have I ever let us down?" "How far have you come because of me?" "I will bring us through this. and in the end you will thank me." "Tyler." "Tyler." "I'm grateful to you for everything that you've done for me." "But this is too much. I don't want this." "watching sitcoms?" "Fuck you!" "I won't do it." "so shut up!" "60 seconds till cri." "No." "I can figure this out." "This isn't even real." "You're not real." "That gun..." "That gun isn't even in your hand." "The gun's in my hand." "Good for you. lt doesn't change a thing." "Why do you wanna put a gun to your head?" "Tyler." "Our head." "Interesting." "Ikea boy?" "Hey. lt's you and me." "Friends? I want you to really listen to me." "OK." "My eyes are open." "What's that smell?" "no." "What's going on?" "Mr. Durden!" "my God!" "Sir!" "sir?" "sir." "What happened?" "sir." "He's not kidding." "You look awful." "You need assistance." "l'm fine." "I'm fine." "Everything's fine." "Ow!" "Stop it!" "Let her go." "Christ Almighty!" "You!" "Marla." "Leave her with me." "Meet me downstairs." "Are you sure?" "I'm sure." "putting me on a... your face!" "I know." "What happened?" "Don't ask." "I'm shot." "my God." "l can't believe he's standing." "Tough motherfucker." "Who did this?" "actually." "Find some gauze." "look at me." "I'm really OK." "Trust me." "Everything's gonna be fine." "You met me at a very strange time in my life." "With your feet on the air and your head on the ground" "Try this trick and spin it" "Yeah!" "Your head will collapse but there's nothing in it" "And you'll ask yourself" "Where is my mind?" "Where is my mind?" "Where is my mind?" "Way out in the water" "See it swimming?" "I was swimming in the Caribbean" "Animals were hiding behind a rock" "Except the little fish" "When they told me east is west coy koi" "Where is my mind?" "Where is my mind?" "Where is my mind?" "Way out in the water" "See it swimming?" "With your feet on the air and your head on the ground" "Try this trick and spin it" "Yeah!" "Your head will collapse lf there's nothing in it" "And you'll ask yourself" "Where is my mind?" "Where is my mind?" "Where is my mind?" "Way out in the water" "See it swimming?" "Your feet are on the air and your head on the ground" "Try this trick and spin it..."