Sean Connery credited as playing...
John Patrick Mason
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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: 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.
- 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".
- [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.