John Travolta credited as playing...
Vic Deakins
- Vic Deakins: I just realized something. I never actually killed anyone before. I mean, I dropped bombs on Baghdad, but, uh... never face to face.
- [pause]
- Vic Deakins: . I don't know what the big deal is. I really don't.
- Riley Hale: You're out of your mind.
- Vic Deakins: Yeah. Ain't it cool?
- Riley Hale: I'm serious, Deak, your mind has taken a walk off the map.
- Vic Deakins: Maybe. But I'm still gonna kick your ass.
- Vic Deakins: Well, I do appreciate the money that you and your associates have invested in the operation. But this IS an operation, it's a MILITARY operation. And YOU don't know DICK about that! Now *I* have been in the military for over 20 years. I planned and flew over 100 missions in the Gulf. I put these boys together because they are *motivated* and they are *highly trained* like me! This is what I do, Mr. Pritchett! And this is BATTLE! And battle is a highly *fluid* situation. You - You plan on your contingencies, and I have. You keep your initiative, and I will. But what you don't do is *share command*! It's NEVER a good IDEA!
- Pritchett: It's still my money.
- Vic Deakins: And if we succeed, you and your friends will get a ton of it.
- Pritchett: *If* we're successful?
- Vic Deakins: Look, Mr. Pritchett, I will deliver the weapons to the destination. But I can't depend and I can't guarantee that those assholes in Washington won't do something stupid like... not pay.
- Pritchett: What if they don't?
- Vic Deakins: Well, if they don't, the southwest will be a quiet neighbourhood for, uh, about ten thousand years.
- Vic Deakins: You know, Hale, I considered bringing you in on this. You know why I didn't?
- Riley Hale: 'Cause I would have said "no"?
- Vic Deakins: Nah, if you had said no, I'd have just killed you. I was afraid you were gonna say yes. 'Cause you don't have the balls to go through with something like this, we both know that.
- Riley Hale: There's no difference between you and a guy who shoots up a schoolyard. You've both got a-a head full of bad wiring.
- Vic Deakins: What was that?
- Riley Hale: You're fucked in the head, Deak.
- Vic Deakins: [Fires wildly at him] Hah.
- Riley Hale: I pissed him off.
- Vic Deakins: Hale. Pick up. Pick up!
- [wheedling]
- Vic Deakins: C'mon buddy, pick up the 'phone.
- Riley Hale: "Buddy," huh? Son of a bitch, you tried to kill me. The friendship is over.
- Vic Deakins: Well that doesn't mean I don't like you. Hell, I'm impressed.
- Vic Deakins: I say goddamn what a rush!
- [Deakins looks at the wreckage of the chopper]
- Vic Deakins: Whoo!
- Kelly: Son of a Bitch! Shockwave took down the damn chopper!
- Vic Deakins: That's EMP! Electro Magnetic Pulse! Nuclear blast sends it out for miles. Everything electrical *shuts down* including choppers and radios. Hell, we just shut down McMurran's field communications! That oughta put a *pretty little dent* in their response time, huh!
- Kelly: Deak, you da man!
- Vic Deakins: I'm da man.
- Vic Deakins: [while fighting with Hale] Alright, you're bleeding, aren't ya? Well, that's good. Let's see if we can get any more out of you.
- Kelly: [Deakins has just activated the nuke] Shut that sonuvabitch down, now! This ain't what I signed on for. I'm not ready to die, not for you.
- Vic Deakins: Everybody dies, Kelly. I'm as good a reason as any.
- Major Vic Deakins: Nah, flying doesn't mean what it used to mean to me.
- Capt. Riley Hale: Not the flying - carrying the nukes. I know you. You love having the power of God at your fingertips. You get off on it.
- Vic Deakins: It used to be that every fight went to a knockout. You know what it feels like to be knocked out? Your brain presses against your skull, and it feels like THIS.
- [presses his thumb into Hale's skull]
- Vic Deakins: You just saved me 3 million dollars. I owe you one.
- Terry Carmichael: Shoot yourself. We'll call it square.
- Vic Deakins: Attitude! Now where's my little buddy Hale? He left you alone, didn't he? Well that's his speed, 100% PUSSY.
- [Hale has a shotgun on Deakins, but Deakins is holding a remote for the bomb]
- Riley Hale: You lose.
- Vic Deakins: I've still got my finger on the trigger. That's the *remote* trigger. See if I push this button here
- [DETONATE]
- Vic Deakins: *You lose!* But if I push this button here,
- [CANCEL]
- Vic Deakins: the weapon is disarmed.
- Riley Hale: [cocks the shotgun] So why don't you disarm it then?
- Vic Deakins: I'm not in the mood.
- Pritchett: You assured me everything would go smoothly.
- Vic Deakins: Everything is going smoothly, I assure you.
- Vic Deakins: Mr. Pritchett, would you mind stepping outside?
- [Pushes Pritchett's corpse out of the Humvee]