The Rock Movie Quotes
Stanley Goodspeed
I'll do my best.
John Mason
Your "best"! Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen.
Stanley Goodspeed
Carla *was* the prom queen.
John Mason
Really?
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General Hummel
Did they bother to tell you who I am and why I'm doing this or are they just using you like they do everybody else?
John Mason
All I know is that you were big in Vietnam, I saw the highlights on television.
General Hummel
Then you probably have no idea what it means to lead some of the finest men on God's earth into combat and then watch their memories get betrayed by their own fucking government.
John Mason
I don't quite see how you cherish the memory of the dead by killing another million. And, this is not combat, it's an act of lunacy, General Sir. Personally, I think you're a fucking idiot.
General Hummel
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson.
John Mason
"Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious," according to Oscar Wilde.
[Hummel strikes him, and he falls to his knees]
John Mason
Thank you for making my point.
General Hummel
Where are the guidance chips?
[Points his gun at Mason's head]
General Hummel
WHERE ARE THE GUIDANCE CHIPS?
John Mason
I've destroyed them.
General Hummel
That was a bad move, soldier.
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[after Mason has killed a Marine, the corpse's foot twitches]
John Mason
What, the feet thing?
Stanley Goodspeed
Yeah, the feet thing.
John Mason
Yeah, it happens.
Stanley Goodspeed
Well I'm having a hard time concentrating. Can you do something about it?
John Mason
Like what, kill him again?
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Stanley Goodspeed
[in the lower lighthouse]
Listen, I think we got started off on the wrong foot. Stan Goodspeed, FBl. Uh - Let's talk music. Do you like the Elton John song, "Rocket Man"?
Captain Darrow
I don't like soft-ass shit.
Stanley Goodspeed
Oh, you - Oh, oh. Oh. Well, I only bring it up because, uh, it's you. You're the Rocket Man.
[Goodspeed fires a rocket at him]
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Paul (hotel barber)
[to Mason, in the elevator]
Okay, I don't want to know nothing. I never saw you throw that gentleman off the balcony. All I care about is: are you happy with your haircut?
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General Hummel
Major Anderson, if you have any concern for the lives of your men, you will order them to safety their weapons and place them on the deck.
Agent Paxton
This is not happening...
Commander Anderson
Sir, we know why you're out here. God knows, I agree with you. But like you, I swore to defend this country against all enemies, foreign, sir... and domestic. General, we've spilled the same blood in the same mud. And you know god damn well I can't give that order.
Navy SEAL
We're dead!
General Hummel
Your unit is covered from an elevated position, Commander. I'm not gonna ask you again. Don't do anything stupid. No-one has to die here.
Commander Anderson
[raising his voice]
You men following the General: you're under oath as United States Marines, have you forgotten that? We all have shipmates we remember, some of them were shit on and pissed on by the Pentagon. But that doesn't give you the right to mutiny!
General Hummel
You call it what you want! You're down there, we're up here! You walked into the wrong goddamn room, Commander!
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John Mason
Well, it's certainly more enjoyable than my average day... reading philosophy, avoiding gang rape in the washrooms... though, it's less of a problem these days. Maybe I'm losing my sex appeal.
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John Mason
Womack! Why am I not surprised, you piece of shit!
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Stanley Goodspeed
May I also suggest a haircut?
John Mason
Am I out of style?
Stanley Goodspeed
Unless you're a 20 year old guitarist from Seattle. It's a grunge thing.
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Stanley Goodspeed
[to Mason]
Look, I'm just a biochemist. Most of the time, I work in a little glass jar and lead a very uneventful life. I drive a Volvo, a beige one. But what I'm dealing with here is one of the most deadly substances the earth has ever known, so what say you cut me some FRIGGIN' SLACK?
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Captain Darrow
Excuse me, general... but what about the fucking money?
General Hummel
There is no fucking money. The mission's over.
Captain Frye
Bullshit it's over!
Major Tom Baxter
You're talking to a General, soldier! Maintain discipline.
Captain Darrow
I'm not a soldier, Major. The day we took hostages, we became mercenaries. And mercenaries get paid. I want my FUCKING money!
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Stanley Goodspeed
"I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts."
John Mason
Ah, an educated man.
[Stanley gives a modest wave]
John Mason
That, of course, rules out the possibility of you being a field agent.
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John Mason
In charge of what? Fucking me over for another three decades?
Agent Paxton
I don't know anything about your previous matters. We've brought you here because there's a situation that we think you can help us with.
John Mason
And what might that be? I've been in jail longer than Nelson Mandela, so maybe you want me to run for president.
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Stanley Goodspeed
[while in a cell on Alcatraz]
You broke out, let me see if I can get this straight, down the incinerator chute, on the mine car, through the tunnels to the power plant, under the steam engine - that was really cool by the way - and into the cistern through the intake pipe. But how, in the name of Zeus' BUTTHOLE!... did you get out of your cell? I only ask because in our current situation, well, it could prove to be useful information. *Maybe*!
[Mason does not answer, but opens up his prison door with an improvised tool]
[to Goodspeed's surprise, his own door suddenly opens]
John Mason
Trade secrets, my son.
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General Hummel
Remember Operation Desert Storm? Those surgical hits made by our smart bombs that were covered so well on CNN? It was my men on the ground that made those hits possible by lazing the targets. Twenty of those men were left to rot outside Baghdad after the conflict ended. No benefits were paid to their families. No medals conferred. These men died for their country and they weren't even given a goddamn military burial. This situation is unacceptable. You will transfer one hundred million dollars from Grand Cayman Red Sea trading company to an account I designate. From these funds, one million dollars will be paid to each of the eighty-three marines' families. The rest of the funds, I will disperse at my discretion. Do I make myself clear?
Womack
Except for the Red Sea Trading Company. What is that?
General Hummel
Identify yourself.
Womack
This is FBI Director Womack, General.
General Hummel
It's a slush-fund where the Pentagon keeps proceeds from illegal arms deals...
General Al Kramer
Jesus, Frank, this is classified information!
General Hummel
You alert the media, I launch the gas. You refuse payment, I launch the gas. You've got forty hours, until noon, day after tomorrow, to arrange transfer of the money. I am aware of your countermeasure. You know and I know it doesn't stand a chance. Hummel from Alcatraz, out.
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Stanley Goodspeed
Well, I'm one of those fortunate people who like my job, sir. Got my first chemistry set when I was seven, blew my eyebrows off, we never saw the cat again, been into it ever since.
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John Mason
[Mason and Goodspeed are defusing a poison gas rocket in the prison morgue]
What exactly does this stuff do?
Stanley Goodspeed
If the rocket renders it aerosol, it could take out the entire city of people.
John Mason
Really? And what happens if you drop one?
Stanley Goodspeed
Happily, it'd just wipe out you and me.
John Mason
How?
Stanley Goodspeed
It's a cholinesterase inhibitor. Stops the brain from sending nerve messages down the spinal cord within thirty seconds. Any epidermal exposure or inhalation and you'll know. A twinge at the small of your back as the poison seizes your nervous system...
Stanley Goodspeed
[Mason has lifted the chem round to look at it]
DO NOT MOVE THAT! Your muscles freeze, you can't breathe, you spasm so hard you break your own back and spit your guts out. But that's after your skin melts off.
John Mason
My God...
Stanley Goodspeed
Oh, I think we'd like God on our side at the moment, don't you?
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Chief of Staff Hayden Sinclair
Southern China? We've never even admitted we sent troops into China.
General Hummel
Who is this? Identify yourself!
Chief of Staff Hayden Sinclair
White House Chief of Staff Hayden Sinclair, General.
General Hummel
How OLD are you Mr. Sinclair?
Chief of Staff Hayden Sinclair
I'm 33.
General Hummel
Well Mr. Sinclair, you've probably got no FUCKING idea what I'm talking about! By your 9th birthday, I was running BlackOps into China and my men were responsible for over two-hundred enemy kills. Now someone put some rigging tape over Mr. Sinclair's mouth, he's wasting my time!
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FBI Director Womack
What do you know about V.X. gas?
Dr. Stanley Goodspeed
Liquid; failed pesticide; discovered by mistake in 1952. Uhh, actually, it's kind of like champagne that way. The Franciscan monks thought they were making white wine. Somehow the bottle carbonated. Voila, champagne, and uhh, then the whole thing...
FBI Director Womack
The gas, Dr. Goodspeed.
Dr. Stanley Goodspeed
It's very, very horrible sir. It's one of those things we wish we could disinvent. This isn't a training exercise, is it?
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Carla
[after telling Stanley she's pregnant]
You didn't mean what you just said, did you?
Stanley Goodspeed
When?
Carla
Just right now, when you were talking about bringing a child into the world, and having it be an act of cruelty.
Stanley Goodspeed
I meant it at the time.
Carla
Stanley, "at the time"? You said it seven and a half seconds ago!
Stanley Goodspeed
Well... gosh, kind of a lot's happened since then.
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Commander Anderson
[to the Navy Seals]
Make no mistake, gentlemen. We are in the fight of our lives, against one of the greatest battalion commanders of the Vietnam War, I shit you not.
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Stanley Goodspeed
[last lines]
Stanley Goodspeed
[while looking at the microfilm by using a miniature magnifying glass that was left by Mason]
Honey? Uh... You wanna know who really killed JFK?
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Commander Anderson
Have you ever been in a combat situation before?
Stanley Goodspeed
Define combat, sir.
Commander Anderson
Shep?
Lt. Shephard
An incursion underwater to re-take an impregnable fortress held by an elite team of U.S. Marines, in possession of eighty-one hostages and fifteen guided rockets loaded with V.X. poison gas.
Stanley Goodspeed
Oh. In that case, no sir. Excuse me...
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FBI Director Womack
Just clippers, no scissors.
Paul the Hotel Barber
No scissors, you've got to be kidding me, no scissors. I mean, did they tell Picasso "no brush"?
FBI Director Womack
With scissors, this man could kill you.
John Mason
I can't cut off anyone's balls with a trimmer, now can I? Why don't we do this outside? Get some sun.
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Stanley Goodspeed
[upon entering the interrogation room]
Hi, I'm an agent with the federal... FBI... Well, my, I'm Stanley Goodspeed.
John Mason
But of course you are.
Agent Paxton
Well, at least he got his name right.
Stanley Goodspeed
Of course I am.
John Mason
And you have an emergency.
Stanley Goodspeed
Right.
John Mason
And you need my help.
Stanley Goodspeed
Exactly right.
John Mason
Coffee.
Stanley Goodspeed
No, I'm fine, thank you.
John Mason
Offer me coffee.
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[reading Hummel's file]
Chief of Staff Hayden Sinclair
Three tours in Vietnam, Panama, Grenada, Desert Storm; three Purple Hearts, two Silver Stars and the Congressional Medal of - Jesus. This man is a hero.
General Al Kramer
Well, I think "legend" might be a better description, Mr. Sinclair.
Chief of Staff Hayden Sinclair
Well, now we can add kidnapping and extortion to his list of accolades.
General Al Kramer
Mr. Sinclair, General Hummel is a man of honor.
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Stanley Goodspeed
[while in a cell on Alcatraz]
Why didn't you just tell them where the microfilm was and create a solution?
John Mason
The moment they had the microfilm, they'd suicide me. Some solution.
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Stanley Goodspeed
Oh, just some terrorists decided to send a little care package. Box of goodies. Which had to be neutralized before blowing up the office...
[plucks a harsh note on his guitar]
Stanley Goodspeed
So I took the rest of the day off. Glass of wine, little guitar... Just relax.
Carla
Wow.
Stanley Goodspeed
I mean it, honey, the world is being Fed-exed to hell in a hand cart. I really believe anyone thinking even thinking of bringing a child into the world is coldly considering an act of cruelty.
[pause, Carla stares at Stanley]
Stanley Goodspeed
I know, I'm rambling, I'm complaining, I'm sorry. What's your news, baby?
Carla
I'm pregnant.
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[John and Jade's conversation is interrupted by police cars converging on the Palace of Fine Arts, Jade backs away from John]
Jade Angelou
Is this about you? You broke out of prison again, didn't you?
[John gropes for a response]
Jade Angelou
Why did you come to me?
Stanley Goodspeed
[appears, showing his badge]
FBI, ma'am. Your father's working with us. He's helping us to resolve a dangerous situation.
Jade Angelou
He is?
Stanley Goodspeed
Yes, ma'am. Well, gee whiz, John, I guess we'd better get going, don't you?
John Mason
Whatever you say, Stanley.
[He clasps hands with Jade, then leaves with Stanley]
John Mason
Thank you for that. You could have handled it differently.
Stanley Goodspeed
What do you say we cut the chit-chat, a-hole? You almost got me killed twice! And my jaw hurts like hell.
John Mason
...Good.
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Kid On Motorcycle
Hey man, you just fucked up your Ferrari.
Stanley Goodspeed
It's not mine.
[steals bike]
Stanley Goodspeed
And neither is this.
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Stanley Goodspeed
Mason, you all right?
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John Mason
I'm sure all this will make a great bed time story to tell your kid.
Stanley Goodspeed
You're insane, Mason. The kid'll have nightmares. I'll spend all my money on shrinks.
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Hotel Barber
Oh, who did this to you? This is just not right. In fact, it's nasty...
John Mason
It's a "grunge thing".
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Agent Paxton
Congratulations, Dr. Goodspeed. You did it.
Dr. Stanley Goodspeed
Thank you, sir.
Agent Paxton
You know, for a while there, I didn't think you were going to make it. Well done, son. So where's Mason?
Dr. Stanley Goodspeed
Vaporized. Blown out to sea.
Agent Paxton
Blown out to sea, huh?
Dr. Stanley Goodspeed
Yeah.
[They share a knowing glance]
FBI Director Womack
[appears]
Goodspeed, where's Mason? Where's his body? I want to see that son of a bitch.
Agent Paxton
Vaporized, sir. Excuse me, gentlemen.
[leaves]
FBI Director Womack
What? Vaporized? A body can... vaporize?
Dr. Stanley Goodspeed
Oh, yeah! Absolutely, sir.
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Major Tom Baxter
We're asking them. We're asking them for a new deadline.
General Hummel
Put the phone down.
Major Tom Baxter
The men are falling apart!
General Hummel
The men are Marines!
Major Tom Baxter
Are they?
[Hummel is silent]
Major Tom Baxter
I want to talk to General Kramer.
General Hummel
You've been asked by an old friend.
Major Tom Baxter
Put him on the phone right now.
General Hummel
You're being ordered by a superior officer.
Major Tom Baxter
This is Major Baxter...!
General Hummel
[draws]
Now you're being given your last chance by a man with a gun. Put the phone down.
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Stanley Goodspeed
[while in a cell on Alcatraz]
"I'd take pleasure in guttin' you, boy. I'd take pleasure in guttin' you... boy." What is wrong with these people, huh? Mason? Don't you think there's a lot of, uh, a lot of anger flowing around this island? Kind of a pubescent volatility? Don't you think? A lotta angst, a lot of "I'm sixteen, I'm angry at my father" syndrome? I mean grow up! We're stuck on an island with a bunch of violence-for-pleasure-seeking psycophatic marines, SHAME-ON-THEM!
[clears throat]
Stanley Goodspeed
Anyway, I only got one chem round, and there's two left... Mason?
John Mason
Yes, I'm here. I was just thinking how wonderful it was when the inmates weren't allowed to talk in here.
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General Hummel
You made a terrible mistake, and more of our brothers have died in vain. Damn you for forcing me into this position.
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General Hummel
Hey, girls? You havin' a good time?
Little Girl
Yeah.
General Hummel
Will you do something for me? It's really - It's really important. I need you to tell your teacher that you need to get back on the boat and go home right now.
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Captain Darrow
Sergeant Crisp, secure the General. I'm relieving you of command, sir.
[pause]
Captain Darrow
SERGEANT.
[Sergeant Crisp pulls out his pistol and reaches for General Hummel's gun holster]
Sergeant Crisp
I'll have that sidearm, sir.
[General Hummel pulls out his pistol from behind his back and points it at Sergeant Crisp]
General Hummel
You mean this sidearm?
[Captains Frye and Darrow pull out their pistols and point them at General Hummel]
Captain Frye
Major Baxter, you're either with us or against us.
Major Tom Baxter
It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve with you, General.
[Pulls out his pistol and points it General Hummel]
Major Tom Baxter
But like he said, it's over.
[Shoots Captain Darrow]
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General Hummel
The men of marine force recon are selected to carry out illegal operations throughout the world. When they don't come home, their families are told fairy tales about what happened to them... and denied compensation. Well, I have choked on these lies my entire career. Well here and now the lies stop!
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[about killing]
Stanley Goodspeed
How do you... do it?
John Mason
I was trained by the best. British intelligence. But in retrospect I would rather have been a poet. Or a farmer.
Stanley Goodspeed
Okay.
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Stanley Goodspeed
I love pressure. I eat it for breakfast.
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Stanley Goodspeed
[sarcastically to Mason]
You know, I like history too, and maybe when this is all over you and I can stop by the souvenir shop together but right now I just... I just wanna find some rockets!
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John Mason
In my day, we did it all with a snorkel and a pair of flippers.
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General Hummel
I'm not about to kill 80,000 innocent people! Do you think I'm out of my fucking mind? We bluffed, they called it. The mission is over.
Captain Frye
Who said anything about bluffing, General?
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Captain Frye
[to Hummel]
Me and my boys are cocked, locked and ready to rock.
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Major Tom Baxter
I thought you weren't ready to kill.
General Hummel
I'm warmin' up.
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John Mason
[to Stanley]
When all this is over, you'll go back home driving Carla and your baby insane in your beige Volvo. And I'll be dead, or back in prison which is the same thing.
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Captain Frye
I'm gonna choke my million bucks out of you! You're gonna die-!
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[Hummel visits his wife's grave before setting his plan into action]
General Hummel
I miss you so much.
[long pause]
General Hummel
There's something I've gotta do, Barb. Something I couldn't do while you were here. I tried. You know I tried everything, and I still don't have their attention. Let's hope this elevates their thinking. But whatever happens...
[he takes Congressional Medal of Honor out of his pocket]
General Hummel
...please don't think less of me.
[he sets the Medal on top of the headstone, leans over and kisses it, and then walks away]
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FBI Director Womack
Great job, Goodspeed.
FBI Agent
Okay, I'll deliver this to the Attorney General...
FBI Director Womack
[Interrupts and takes the contract from Hunt]
Ah, no. You'll give that to me, there's a car waiting outside for you, thank you.
[He rips up the contract]
Stanley Goodspeed
That's a signed federal document, sir. Isn't that illegal?
FBI Director Womack
You're not acquainted with the full facts, Goodspeed.
Stanley Goodspeed
With all due respect, sir, I'd like clarification. I gave that man my word.
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John Mason
[to Hummel]
I have a unique knowledge of this prison facility. I was formerly a guest here.
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Cable car conductor
[as cable car careens down street]
We're gonna crash! Save yourselves! Oh, my baby!
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General Hummel
Ladies and gentlemen, you're being detained against your will, and for that I apologize. It is not our intention in any way to harm you, you will not be detained one minute longer than is necessary for us to complete our mission.
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[first lines]
General Hummel
Congressman Weaver and esteemed members of the Special Armed Services Committee, I come before you to protest a grave injustice... It has to stop.
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General Hummel
I guess you haven't completely taken care of the rat problem, Captain.
Captain Hendrix
No, sir.
General Hummel
Well, there are two dead men here who strongly suggest that you go finish the job.
Captain Hendrix
Yes, sir.
[realizing he's being given an order]
Captain Hendrix
YES, SIR!
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John Mason
Well Stanley, this is where we go our separate ways. I'm sure you know the anthromology of your name, Goodspeed.
Stanley Goodspeed
Yea. Godspeed, to wish someone a prosperous journey. Why?
John Mason
Well, if you fancy a journey, I recommend Fort Walton, Kansas.
Stanley Goodspeed
I was thinking Maui.
John Mason
No. Forget Maui!
Stanley Goodspeed
St. Michael's Church, Fort Walton, Kansas, front pew, right leg, hollow... is this what I think it is? Mason?
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General Al Kramer
Wait a minute. What is the potential casualty rate for a single rocket armed with VX poison gas, General Peterson?
General Peterson
Sixty or seventy...
Chief of Staff Hayden Sinclair
Well, that's-that's not so bad.
General Peterson
...thousand. Seventy *thousand* dead.
General Peterson
One teaspoon of this hits the floor, it's lethal up to... a hundred feet. One teaspoon of this shit detonated in the atmosphere... will kill every living organism in an eight-block radius. Get the point?
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Captain Frye
You changed the coordinates, didn't you, General?
General Hummel
That's affirmative, Captain.
Sergeant Crisp
So now they think we're gutless, the feds? They think we won't actually do it?
Captain Frye
They're going to come at us with everything they got. Air and sea. They're going to bomb our ass back to the Stone Age.
Major Tom Baxter
They don't know we missed on purpose.
Captain Frye
Great. We're not gutless, we're incompetent.
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Stanley Goodspeed
[while in the prisoner transport van]
Hi, darling, it's me. Listen, do not come, I repeat, do not come to San Francisco.
Carla
[Answers the phone]
Stanley, no.
Stanley Goodspeed
Carla...
Carla
Like hell I'm not comin'!
[Hangs up]
Stanley Goodspeed
Wait, Carla...
[tries to dial again]
John Mason
Who's Carla, and why don't you want her to come to San Francisco?
Stanley Goodspeed
You're on a need-to-know basis... and you do'nt need to know.
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Paul (hotel barber)
[slightly camp]
No, stylist.
Agent Paxton
Whatever.
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Agent Paxton
[talking privately, after the Navy Seals were killed by Hummel and his Marines]
Now you tell me I'm on a need-to-know basis. And I'm telling you right now, I need to who the fuck John Mason is, right now sir!
Womack
You want to know? Okay. 1962: J. Edgar Hoover is the head of the FBI, some say the country. It's no secret that he kept secret files on prominent Americans and Europeans. De Gaulle, British members of Parliament, even the Prime Minister. I mean, this guy had dirt on everybody in the world.
Agent Paxton
Yeah, I know all of the cloak and dagger stories. Where does Mason fit in?
Womack
Mason was the British operative who stole the files, but our Bureau agents caught him at the Canadian border. Of course, the British claimed that they never heard of him. So we held him without trial until he gave up the microfilm. But he never did.
Agent Paxton
Well, I'm surprised Hoover didn't use his daughter as leverage.
Womack
Hoover was dead in '72, she wasn't born yet. Today... it's a different Bureau.
Agent Paxton
So, you held this guy without trial his whole life. No wonder he's pissed.
Womack
This man knows our most intimate secrets from the last half century! The alien landing at Roswell, the truth behind the J.F.K. assassination. Mason's angry, he's lethal, he's a trained killer... and he is the only hope that we have got.
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Commander Anderson
Thank you very fucking much Mr. Mason, you've led us into a room with no exit.
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Jade Angelou
Yes, she was. But I don't think that we should romanticize what happened between you and her. Meeting in a bar after a Led Zeppelin concert, ya know? And I was the result.
John Mason
Well, I'd like to think it would have led somewhere if only...
Jade Angelou
If only what? Six federal marshals hadn't kicked down her door and dragged you back to prison?
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Cable car conductor
Damn it! This sucks! Where's that son-of-a-bitch now? I'm gonna hunt him down! That motherfucker ain't safe nowhere!
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Stanley Goodspeed
You mean I'm going out there, under the water?
Womack
Well earlier today you wanted a gun. Now you're getting a gun and a wet suit.
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Chief Justice
[Talking privately, referring too releasing Mason to aid in the rescue of the hostages]
This is for the sake of national security.
FBI Director Womack
No! Its the sake of national security that got us here in the first place thirty three years ago. I knew some day this would come back to bite us. Forget it! He does not exist.
Chief Justice
[referring to Mason]
he does exist! We just choose to forget him for thirty years. We locked him up and threw away the key.
FBI Director Womack
A lot of god damn good it did us. He broke out of two maximum security prisons. And if he hits the streets...
Chief Justice
He's not going to hit the streets, Jim. Thirty years ago he was a highly trained SAS operative. He is my age now, for Christ sake! I have to get up three times a night to take a piss.
FBI Director Womack
We can't risk letting him out. He's a professional escape artist. He has no identity in the United States.
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Stanley Goodspeed
How'd you do it?
John Mason
Nurtured the hope that there was hope. That one day I'd breathe free air. Perhaps meet my daughter. Modest hopes, but they kept a man alive.
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Stanley Goodspeed
Mason, the second you don't respect this, it kills you.
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Stanley Goodspeed
Glass or plastic, glass or plastic?
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Stanley Goodspeed
[yelling to Mason]
You're not leaving! There's a madman in there with his hand on a... ON A BUTTON!
John Mason
Shh!
[to himself]
John Mason
Some sniper's gonna get his ass.
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John Mason
[to his daughter while walking in the Palace of Fine Arts]
You know... you're almost the only evidence that I exist.
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Stanley Goodspeed
I'm unarmed sir. I am unarmed, sir.
Womack
Where's your issue?
Stanley Goodspeed
I left it in my...
[clears throat]
Stanley Goodspeed
sock drawer.
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Carla
No, you don't.
Stanley Goodspeed
Yes, I do. They know I'm home.
Carla
[annoyed]
Stanley, how can they possibly know you're home?
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General Hummel
We'll be branded as traitors, the gravest capital crime, punishable by death. A couple hundred years ago, a few guys named Washington, Jefferson and Adams were branded as traitors by the British, and now they're called patriots. In time, so shall we. God willing, in less than 48 hours, we will evacuate this island in gunships under cover of hostages and VX gas warheads. Your destination: a non-extradition treaty country. You will each be paid a fee of one million dollars for services rendered. But you can never again set foot on your native soil. Can you live with that?
Captain Darrow
Captain Darrow, Captain Hendrix, Sergeant Crisp, Captain Frye: [unison] YES, SIR!
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John Mason
[as they are escaping]
Hummel won't do it, he's a soldier not a murderer. I read it in his eyes.
Stanley Goodspeed
You read it in his eyes? I'm sorry, but that's not a chance I can afford to take!
John Mason
Okay, then talk louder.
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[Goodspeed's Beatles album arrives at the office]
Stanley Goodspeed
Yes! She's here, bring it to me now, thank you Phil!
Isherwood
What's that? And why did you have it sent here?
Stanley Goodspeed
Carla wouldn't approve. She thinks it's dumb to spend $600 on an LP.
Isherwood
Carla's right. Why didn't you just spend $13 on a CD, man?
Stanley Goodspeed
Well, first of all, it's because I'm a Beatlemaniac. And second, these sound better.
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Agent Paxton
What's status?
Stanley Goodspeed
Status... is, they're dead. They're dead! It's just me and Mason, now he says he's leaving.
Agent Paxton
That is unacceptable, do you hear me? Unacceptable!
Stanley Goodspeed
Well, there's a problem sir, he's got a gun!
Agent Paxton
What do you have, a fuckin' water pistol?
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Jade Angelou
So they let you out?
John Mason
Yeah.
Jade Angelou
That's good. What did you do?
John Mason
Jade, I don't have a great deal of time here, but I'll be coming back and uh maybe we can...
Jade Angelou
What? We can what?
John Mason
You know, you're almost the only evidence that I exist.
Jade Angelou
But I don't know you.
John Mason
That's what I want to change eh. I've rehearsed this speech a thousand times on the chance that we would meet. Here we are and I'm lost.
Jade Angelou
Well I don't know how I'm supposed to be feeling either.
John Mason
Jade, I'm not an evil man. If you can believe that, then its a start.
Jade Angelou
Okay...
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Stanley Goodspeed
You're shooting too close to the rocket! Him, but not the rocket!
John Mason
Any other news, professor?
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FBI Director Womack
[showing Mason his arm in a sling]
Cocksucker! If I had my way, you would be shipped back to Wolfburg and held in leg irons for the rest of your natural fucking life! You wrecked half the city!
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Bob (park ranger)
[while in a cell on Alcatraz]
I'm not allowed to carry a gun!
Female Tourist
Oh you're not allowed to carry a gun? I got a goddamned gun! If I'd'a known this was gonna happen, I'd'a brought my mother-fuckin' gun! Help!
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Stanley Goodspeed
[to Mason]
All right, I'll do it myself. I've had three weeks weapons training, I'll kick the... out of a platoon full of marines. No problem.
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Womack
[being pulled up to the hotel balcony]
Watch it, you fuckhead! You're gonna pull my arm out!
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Commander Anderson
A night time air-drop incursion is out, due to the full moon. Likewise a frontal seaside attack. If we're compromised and shots are fired, Hummel might launch. Our only alternative is an attack from within the prison. We'll penetrate the island through the tunnels under the prison buildings undetected and emerge in its center. That way we can jump the Marines from behind, and, if we're lucky, take the rocket positions without a shot fired.
General Al Kramer
Have you studied the architectural plans?
Commander Anderson
They're useless. Alcatraz has been ripped up and rebuilt for years. Underneath is a maze of shit.
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Stanley Goodspeed
Okay, I've got some bad news, and some really bad news. The bad news is, is that the gas is corrosive and its eating our suits...
Isherwood
It's all over my hand, man!
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General Hummel
This isn't about terrorism, it's about justice. It's about reminding you people of something you find politically convenient to forget.
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Captain Frye
1, 2, 3! Eat that!
[tosses grenades at Mason]
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Bob
[Hummel and two marines walk up behind him]
What's the matter fellas... something with the tour?
General Hummel
Tour's over, Bob!
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Stanley Goodspeed
You shoot me, I drop this, we're both dead!
Captain Darrow
[points his gun away]
Come on, come on, don't be scared, I won't hurt you! Come on...
Stanley Goodspeed
You know how this shit works?
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FBI Director Womack
What did Hummel mean by your "countermeasure," General?
General Al Kramer
Standard poison is countered by napalm. It burns it up, consumes it upon impact. Now the problem with VX poison gas is that it's designed specifically to withstand napalm, which is where thermite plasma comes in. General Peterson?
General Peterson
Thermite plasma incendiary systems can burn hot enough to consume VX, but they're still in the test phase, it's not operational. Hummel knows this. We are dealing with one smart son of a bitch.
General Al Kramer
What's it going to take to equip a flight of F-18s with thermite plasma within the next thirty-six hours?
General Peterson
An act of God.
General Al Kramer
Excuse me?
General Peterson
...All right, we can try. But I strongly urge you to consider this as a secondary initiative.
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Commander Anderson
Thanks a Lot, Mason --- you've led us into a room with no exit.
Lt. Shephard
[sarcastically]
Any ideas, Dillinger?
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Womack
Damn it, you're on a need-to-know basis, and you don't need to know.
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Stanley Goodspeed
I have to go to San Francisco
Carla
No you don't, no you do not have to go San Francisco are you kidding me right now? You have to stay here and talk to me about things, I am catholic do you realize that? I am pregnant and unmarried this causes a serious problem for me
Stanley Goodspeed
I love you, I will marry you I just didn't plan on this that's all, come to San Francisco with me
Carla
Really?
Stanley Goodspeed
I'm sure it's just a training exercise, we'll check into the hotel order some champagne...
Carla
And finish what we started
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Stanley Goodspeed
How, in the name of Zeus' butthole, did you get out of your cell?
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John Mason
[in the interrogation room]
You must see a certain pattern emerging here... Alexander Solzhenitsyn...
Agent Paxton
Yeah, I heard of him. Didn't he play hockey for the fucking Red Wings?
John Mason
That's the chap.
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Bob
Ladies and gentlemen, I, Ranger Bob, cordially invite you to become inmates of Alcatraz, temporarily of course.
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Captain Darrow
Maybe now they'll pay up.
Captain Hendrix
Maybe now they won't, captain.
Captain Darrow
Then maybe we need to execute a few hostages.
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