The Siege of Firebase Gloria (1988)

Margaret Gerard: Flanagan

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Quotes 

• [DiNardo is beating and torturing a wounded Viet Cong prisoner] 

  Captain Flanagan : What the hell are you doing? Leave him alone!

  DiNardo : Look lady, this is called "extracting infromation". Do you understand that?

  Captain Flanagan : So we torture prisoners now, do we?

  DiNardo : You're goddamn right! This ain't Nebraska, lady.

  Captain Flanagan : Well you don't do it in my hospital!

  DiNardo : Oh no?

  [continues hitting the wounded prisoner] 

  DiNardo : Chot lai! Talk to me!

  Captain Flanagan : What kind of animal are you?

  DiNardo : Animal? Lady, do you have any idea what Charlie would do if he came in here? He would rape you and your nurses until you're all dead! But you know what? They'd have to kill me first. Animal? I'm no animal.

• Captain Flanagan : Alright Mr. Commanding Officer, where's the medevac? I've got eight people that are gonna die within the hour, we're running out of morphine, and where are the supplies I ordered?

  Hafner : Now you listen to me Flanagan and you listen good! The communications bunker is history! We are on our own. There will be no re-supply. So you tighten up and make do with what you've got. You're a captain? Be a goddamn captain!