John Cusack credited as playing...
Jackson Curtis
- Charlie Frost: You'd have to keep a thing like this under wraps. I mean, just think about it, okay? First, the stock market would go. Then the economy, boom! The dollar, boom! And then pandemonium in the streets. War, genocide, ba-ba-ba-ba, boom, boom, boom!
- Jackson Curtis: Bullshit. Nobody could keep that big a secret, Charlie. Somebody would blow the whistle.
- Charlie Frost: And every once in a while, some poor little sucker tries. Well, like these guys, boom, boom!
- [pulls down a screen of posted obituaries]
- Charlie Frost: Every one of these guys, dead, dead, dead.
- Jackson Curtis: [notices one of them] Whoa, whoa, whoa! That's Professor Meyers.
- Charlie Frost: He ran the Atlantis shuttle program. Why, did you know him?
- Jackson Curtis: Yeah, he helped me with research on my book.
- Charlie Frost: Well, that must have been before this "accident."
- Jackson Curtis: Meyers is dead?
- Charlie Frost: Oh, two months ago. He was one of my most avid listeners and he had it all figured out. Everything the government was doing, where and why... He even sent me a map.
- Jackson Curtis: A map for what Charlie? What's the map for?
- Charlie Frost: They're building spaceships, man.
- Jackson Curtis: Shit, man, I have to go because I gotta get back to Earth.
- Lilly Curtis: [inside Charlie's camper] That guy's crazy. Right, daddy?
- Jackson Curtis: No. I don't think so.
- [Yellowstone's caldera erupts. The giant ash cloud and fire is rushing behind them]
- Lilly Curtis: Daddy, it's following us.
- Jackson Curtis: Don't look at it! Get down on the ground. Get on the ground and hold on. Don't look back. Don't look back. Look at me. Do I look scared?
- Lilly Curtis: Uh-huh.
- Jackson Curtis: Hey, have a safe trip, you little bastards.
- Oleg: Now you're laughing, Curtis, but we have tickets to go on on a big ship. We will live and you will die.
- Jackson Curtis: [to pilot] Here. Take this. This is a very expensive watch. My editor gave it to me when he thought I was gonna be somebody.
- [They're about to drive out from the plane with the Bentley]
- Jackson Curtis: All right, let's go!
- Tamara: Wait! Where's Sasha?
- Gordon Silberman: Sasha's fine. We need to get out of here before he touches down.
- Tamara: No, no, no! We have to wait for him.
- Yuri Karpov: Go Jackson, go!
- Jackson Curtis: [Tries to start the car] It won't start!
- [Everyone panics]
- Yuri Karpov: Shut up, everbody!
- [Everyone stops screaming]
- Yuri Karpov: Engine... start!
- [Car starts]
- Sasha: Boss, I found us a plane.
- Yuri Karpov: Can you still fly that thing?
- Sasha: Sure, boss. But I need co-pilot.
- Lilly Curtis: Gordon's a pilot.
- Gordon Silberman: No, I'm not. I'm not.
- Jackson Curtis: Yes, he is. Great pilot. Let's go.
- Yuri Karpov: Good. Let's go!
- [both groups set out for the plane]
- Gordon Silberman: [just before going outdoors] Jackson, stop saying I'm a pilot.
- Kate Curtis: [as they escape Los Angeles in the plane] I don't understand. How did you know this was to happen?
- Jackson Curtis: It's not just California. It's the whole goddamned world that gone to shit. I met this guy at Yellowstone, this crazy guy, but he's been right about that's happened so far. And he says that the government is building these ships, spaceships, I don't know what, but something.
- Gordon Silberman: What, ships?
- Jackson Curtis: Yeah, places where we can be safe. He knows where they are. He's got a map.
- Kate Curtis: Jackson...
- Jackson Curtis: Kate, you gotta just trust me on this, okay?
- Gordon Silberman: Guys... look.
- [L.A. is sinking into the Pacific as they fly away]
- Kate Curtis: Do you think people change?
- Jackson Curtis: By "people," do you mean me?
- Kate Curtis: Yes. Do you think you've changed since we separated?
- Jackson Curtis: I certainly eat a lot more cereal now.
- Kate Curtis: [on the phone with Jackson] Hello?
- Jackson Curtis: [in the limo en route to Kate's house] Kate, stop what you're doing.
- Kate Curtis: Jackson?
- Jackson Curtis: Listen to me. I've rented a plane. Pack up the kids, I'm gonna be there in five minutes.
- Kate Curtis: What are you talking about? We're gonna do our regular Saturday. Noah has music at 2 and Lil has karate.
- Gordon Silberman: Not gonna expect him to remember.
- Jackson Curtis: Kate, California is going down! Pack up the kids now!
- Kate Curtis: They just got back. God, you sound like a cray person. The Governor just said we're fine.
- Jackson Curtis: The guy's an actor! He's reading a script! When they tell you not to panic...
- [makes a hard left]
- Jackson Curtis: that's when you run!
- Kate Curtis: Look, will you call me back when you calm down?
- [hangs up phone]
- Lilly Curtis: Mommy, why is Daddy so crazy?
- [Gordon looks at Kate]
- Kate Curtis: Finish your pancakes, Al Capone.
- [Outside the gates of the ark docks]
- Kate Curtis: You don't have to save us, but please, just take my kids!
- Tenzin: Why should I do that?
- Jackson Curtis: The same reason you let in your family.
- Kate Curtis: Does anybody got any money? We could bribe them.
- Gordon Silberman: I do, I do.
- Jackson Curtis: You got a billion euros?
- Kate Curtis: So, now that you have your map, where are we going?
- [Jackson holds a one-finger signal before unfolding the map with the ships to discover that it is located in "China"]
- Jackson Curtis: We're going to need a bigger plane.
- [looks back at the map]
- Jackson Curtis: We gotta get to the Santa Monica Airport!
- Gordon Silberman: Well, take the freeway! It'll be half the time!
- Jackson Curtis: [as the freeway collapses from the earthquake] Yeah, right!
- Jackson Curtis: Going to this place really special place that I know. Actually, it's a place where your Mom and I used to hang out a lot.
- Noah Curtis: I don't wanna know where you and Mom had sex. I'm not ready for that, Jackson.
- Jackson Curtis: Stop calling me that. It's creeping me out. What's wrong with "Dad"?
- Charlie Frost: Hey. Hey, guess what? They're selling seats.
- Jackson Curtis: Put me down for three.
- Charlie Frost: No, guys like you and me don't have a chance. You'd have to be Bill Gates or Rupert Murdoch or some Russian billionaire or something.
- Jackson Curtis: Hey, keep it down. My kids are sleeping.
- Charlie Frost: Get them out of Yellowstone. It's gonna get ugly up here.