Slim Pickens credited as playing...
Tex
- Frank Mazzetti: [looking at the cargo of plutonium] There's enough here to start a war!
- Captain Stefan Svevo: [appearing with his men behind a stack of crates] Well that's a slight exaggeration. I'm sorry about this Captain. I had hoped that we would never meet again.
- Harold Meredith: Who is that? What's he want?
- Celeste Whitman: It's your basic guard variety terroist. I think he wants to kill us.
- Captain Stefan Svevo: Well however accurate the second part of your statement may be, please don't confuse me with some politically... impotent bomb thrower. The truth is I came aboard this ship with a purer motive than Captain Turner: to recover a piece of property which was *already* mine.
- Captain Mike Turner: You can take *whatever* you want from this ship. I'm welcome to it, but these people have come a long way, and all they want right now is get the hell out of here alive!
- Dewey 'Tex' Hopkins: As one man says this to another...
- [Svevo's men point their guns at Tex]
- Dewey 'Tex' Hopkins: Now hold on just hear me out son.
- [They lower their rifles slightly]
- Dewey 'Tex' Hopkins: Tell you what, I'll, I'll write a check for the whole shabbang here. If you just lay down your little rifles, we'll all haul ass out of here together. What do you say?
- Captain Stefan Svevo: Take a look at that open crate behind me Captain. I sincerly doubt that your friend over there reimburse me for *that*.
- Captain Mike Turner: OK. Open it. Let's see.
- Captain Stefan Svevo: You open that barrel Captain and we all die. And I have every reasonable hope of wanting to watch the sunset tonight.
- Frank Mazzetti: [annoyed] This crap you're dishing out here, you trying to tell us you've got some kind of doomsday machine in there or something?
- Captain Stefan Svevo: With the information commonly available today, any enterprising... science student could build a nuclear device.
- Dewey 'Tex' Hopkins: Uranium?
- Captain Stefan Svevo: [proudly] Plutonium. And as the American Govenment is painfully aware, this isn't the first shipment to go astray.
- Dewey 'Tex' Hopkins: Ah, son? Now listen to me. If I was to tell you that I've got certain connections at the Peenee Gon...
- Captain Stefan Svevo: Then I would have to tell you that my connection are more powerful than yours. I never intended to harm anyone Captain. But as you must realize... I can't let you go now.
- [another explosion occurs]
- Dewey 'Tex' Hopkins: Frank, so help me, you keep runnin' off at the head, you ain't gettin' one dang sip of this wine.
- Frank Mazzetti: Hey, Tex, take that wine and shove it sideways!
- Dewey 'Tex' Hopkins: Well, as one man of substance to another, let's go right to the mat. I mean, let's not pussyfoot around.
- Nurse Gina Rowe: [about the exit the Poseidon through an underwater side door] None of us are experienced divers Captain.
- Captain Mike Turner: It's our only way out. I'm going to turn you all into frogmen. No one has a choice.
- [puts down 2 scuba tanks]
- Captain Mike Turner: There should be 2 more Wilbur. I counted 4.
- Wilbur Hubbard: One's empty. The one I'm getting is half full.
- Dewey 'Tex' Hopkins: Who's going in the scuba?
- Captain Mike Turner: Everyone.
- Celeste Whitman: Last time I went to school, 3 didn't go into 8.
- Larry Simpson: What you say?
- Celeste Whitman: 3 doesn't go into 8.
- Wilbur Hubbard: With him, it's possible.
- [meaning Mike]
- Captain Mike Turner: You mean Jack Custo never taught buddy breathing?
- Celeste Whitman: What's buddy...?
- Captain Mike Turner: That's more than one diver on a single tank. Wilbur and I have done it before so we'll use the least air.