Tommy Lee Jones credited as playing...
Hank Deerfield
- Hank Deerfield: Do you know what it means when a flag flies upside down?
- School Janitor: No...?
- Hank Deerfield: Its an international distress signal...
- School Janitor: No shit?
- Hank Deerfield: No Shit! It means we're in a whole lot of trouble so come save our asses 'cause we ain't got a prayer in hell of saving it ourselves.
- School Janitor: It says alot...
- Hank Deerfield: Yes, it does...
- Hank Deerfield: That's how you fight monsters. You lure them in close to you, you look them in the eye, you smack them down.
- David Sanders: You fight a lot of monsters?
- Hank Deerfield: Yeah.
- David Sanders: You win?
- Hank Deerfield: If I didn't I'd have been crushed, right?
- Det. Emily Sanders: I was wondering if you knew if your son had any enemies.
- Hank Deerfield: You mean other than the thousands of Iraqis and foreign fighters that have been trying to kill him till a couple of weeks ago?
- Private Robert Ortiez: Wouldn't it be funny if the devil looked just like you?
- Hank Deerfield: Why don't you come over here! I'll show you what the devil looks like!
- Evie: Mustard or mayonnaise?
- [Hank looks up and is taken aback to see that the waitress is topless]
- Hank Deerfield: Um... no thank you, ma'am.
- Evie: Woman stands topless in front of you, "ma'am" could be taken as an insult.
- Corporal Steve Penning: We seemed to always pull sentry duty together. Freezing our asses off. He tried to convince me of the craziest things.
- Hank Deerfield: Try to get you to wear pantyhose?
- Corporal Steve Penning: Did he tell you?
- Hank Deerfield: No, I told *him*. Cuts the cold like nothing else.
- Corporal Steve Penning: So he wasn't lying.
- Hank Deerfield: You just don't want to get shot wearing a pair of those things. You'll never live it down.
- [last lines]
- Hank Deerfield: [runs up flag upside down]
- School Janitor: Just like that?
- Hank Deerfield: Just like that.
- School Janitor: It looks really old.
- Hank Deerfield: It's been well used.
- School Janitor: And I shouldn't take it down at night?
- Hank Deerfield: No. You leave it just like that.
- School Janitor: That's a lot easier.
- Hank Deerfield: Hm.
- Hank Deerfield: I'll call you when I get there tomorrow.
- Joan Deerfield: It's a two-day drive.
- Hank Deerfield: For some people.
- Hank Deerfield: You got a minute? I need to apologize to you.
- Private Robert Ortiez: You got some real serious issues, man.
- Hank Deerfield: Yeah, that's true.
- Private Robert Ortiez: I got an honorable discharge, if you can believe it.
- Hank Deerfield: It's the Army, I can believe anything.
- Captain Jim Osher: Sir. I regret to inform you that a body was found last night. Upon investigation we believe it to be the remains of your son, Specialist Michael Deerfield.
- Hank Deerfield: Right. You're going to need me to identify the body.
- Captain Jim Osher: No sir. We... They determined identity in other ways. I believe partial fingerprints.
- Hank Deerfield: What do you mean partial? What happened to him?
- Captain Jim Osher: I'm not at liberty to say, sir. Someone from the base will...
- Hank Deerfield: [cutting Captain Jim Osher off] I want to see his body now!
- Det. Emily Sanders: David wants a slingshot now.
- Hank Deerfield: Hmm.
- Det. Emily Sanders: I guess it could be worse; it could have been a BB gun.