- John Mason: [while on the stairs leading to the prison morgue] Are you sure you're ready for this?
- 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?
- Stanley Goodspeed: [cocks his gun] Yeah.
- [after Mason has killed a Marine, the corpse's foot twitches]
- Stanley Goodspeed: [while in the prison morgue] You've been around a lot of corpses. Is that normal?
- 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?
- Stanley Goodspeed: [while in the tunnels underneath Alcatraz] You enjoying this?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- John Mason: [in the interrogation room] I want a suite, a shower, a shave, the feel of a suit.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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]
- 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!
- Agent Paxton: [in the interrogation room] Mr. Mason, I'm Special Agent-in-Charge Ernest Paxton.
- 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.
- 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]
- Stanley Goodspeed: [Goodspeed hears noise from Mason's door opening] Mason?
- [to Goodspeed's surprise, his own door suddenly opens]
- John Mason: Trade secrets, my son.
- 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.
- 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!
- 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.
- 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?
- John Mason: [in the interrogation room] Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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!
- 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.
- 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.
- Stanley Goodspeed: Mason, you all right?
- John Mason: [hanging upside down] Yes. Perfectly okay, you fucking idiot.
- [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.
- 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.
- 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...
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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".
- 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.
- Agent Paxton: [smiles] Poor bastard.
- [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.
- [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.
- 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!
- 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.
- [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.
- 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!
- 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?
- FBI Director Womack: Great job, Goodspeed.
- Agent Paxton: [sarcastically, jokingly] Why don't you throw in a trip to Tahiti while you're at it?
- 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.
- John Mason: [to Hummel] I have a unique knowledge of this prison facility. I was formerly a guest here.
- 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.
- 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.
- Chief of Staff Hayden Sinclair: Oh.
- 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?
- Cable car conductor: [as cable car careens down street] We're gonna crash! Save yourselves! Oh, my baby!
- 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.