Jeff Daniels credited as playing...
Teddy Sanders
- Annie Montrose: What the hell is 'Project Elrond'?
- Vincent Kapoor: I had to make something up.
- Annie Montrose: But 'Elrond'?
- Mitch Henderson: Because it's a secret meeting.
- Annie Montrose: How do you know that, and why does Elrond mean secret meeting?
- Bruce Ng: The Council of Elrond. It's the... it's from The Lord of the Rings. It's the meeting where they decide to destroy the One Ring.
- Teddy Sanders: If we're going to call something Project Elrond, I would like my code name to be 'Glorfindel'.
- Annie Montrose: [pause] I hate every one of you.
- Teddy Sanders: [From Extended Version] I just had to explain to the President of the United States what a beaurocratic felcher is.
- Mitch Henderson: I made the mistake of typing it into Google. Don't.
- Mitch Henderson: The truth is that Mark's right. The longer we wait, the worse it's going to get. We need to tell the crew.
- Teddy Sanders: You're saying this now while Vincent is in Pasadena, so he can't argue the other side.
- Mitch Henderson: I shouldn't have to answer to Vincent or anyone else. It's time, Teddy.
- Annie Montrose: But if something goes wrong?
- Vincent Kapoor: Then we lose the crew.
- Bruce Ng: So what, we either have a high chance of killing one person, or a low chance of killing six people. How do we make that decision?
- Vincent Kapoor: We don't.
- [pointing to Teddy]
- Vincent Kapoor: He does.
- Mitch Henderson: Yeah, bullshit. It should be Commander Lewis' call.
- Teddy Sanders: We still have a chance to bring five astronauts home safe and sound. I'm not risking their lives.
- Mitch Henderson: Let them make that decision.
- Teddy Sanders: Mitch, we are going with option one.
- Mitch Henderson: You god damn coward.
- Teddy Sanders: We need to use the Taiyang Shen.
- Vincent Kapoor: Uh huh
- Annie Montrose: What am I missing? Why is that important?
- Vincent Kapoor: Beause we can only do one.
- Teddy Sanders: Send Watney enough food to last until Ares IV, or send Hermes back to get him right now.
- Vincent Kapoor: Both plans require the use of the Taiyang Shen. So we have to choose.
- Mitch Henderson: Whoever gave them the maneuver only passed along information. Crew made the decision on their own.
- Teddy Sanders: You may have killed them, Mitch.
- Teddy Sanders: We're fighting the same war. Every time something goes wrong, the world forgets why we fly. I'm trying to keep us airborne. It's bigger than one person.
- Mitch Henderson: No. It's not.
- Teddy Sanders: When this is over I'll expect your resignation.
- Mitch Henderson: I understand.
- Teddy Sanders: Bring our astronauts home.
- Rich Purnell: [explaining his rescue plan to NASA, grabs a stapler] Ok. Let's pretend that this stapler is the Hermes and you, you are... I'm sorry what's your name again?
- Teddy Sanders: Teddy. I'm the Director of NASA.
- Rich Purnell: Cool. Teddy, you're Earth.