How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Time Bandits.
Quote #4
KEVIN: You know, I never, ever want to go back.
AGAMEMNON: Don't you want to see all your friends again?
KEVIN: No, thanks.
AGAMEMNON: To be in your own home, to be with your own father and mother?
KEVIN: No.
AGAMEMNON: Very well, then.
Kevin doesn't talk much about his old life back in England, but with a few quick "no"s, we find out everything we need to know. He's not interested in going back, and in Agamemnon, he sees the person he's always wanted to be. That's somewhere worth escaping to.
Quote #5
VINCENT: I could scarce restrain the rushing of my feet. These 12 long years have been like chains that bound me.
PANSY: Oh. And the personal problem?
VINCENT: Much, much better. And now we will ride full tilt to Dover, and there embark for France!
PANSY: Oh, you don't have to wear the "special."
VINCENT: No, no, I don't have to wear the "special" anymore. Oh, Pansy. No more worries now, Pansy.
Pansy and Vincent are certainly keen to get away from England...though as we learn, they never quite manage it. Here, they end up being tied to a tree. In their future incarnation, they're on the Titanic, headed for America...before it hits an iceberg and sinks. No one, it seems, is able to get away in this movie, even with Vincent's personal problems—from which, we suspect, these is no escape.
Quote #6
CARTWRIGHT: But why, if that's the case, are you unable to escape from this fortress?
EVIL: That's a good question. Why have I let the Supreme Being keep me here in the Fortress of Ultimate Darkness?
ROBERT: Because you—
EVIL: Shut up, I'm speaking rhetorically.
ROBERT: Of course.
EVIL: I let him keep me here in order to lull him into a false sense of security.
ROBERT: Ah, clever, clever.
EVIL: When I have the map, I will be free...
The map is used as an instrument of escape for the dwarves, for Kevin, and for Evil, who clearly hasn't figured out that God will always be bigger than he is. But if the Supreme Being is always in charge of everything, is there really any escape at all, anyway?