Jamie Dornan credited as playing...
Patrick Quinlan
- Pat Quinlan: Not many Frenchmen like German tacticians. It only took them two weeks to take over your entire country.
- [first lines]
- Pat Quinlan: [narrating] I once heard a man say that, in Africa, the sun is like a furnace that either melts you or forges you.
- General McEntee: Carry out your orders, commandant. Hold your ground. Defend Jadotville.
- Pat Quinlan: With what? A firm tone?
- Rene Faulques: You are out numbered twenty to one. Your position is untenable.
- Pat Quinlan: Well, I see a lot of dead men lying around, but none of them are mine.
- John Gorman: I felt scared.
- Pat Quinlan: It's only natural.
- John Gorman: No, that's not it. I was scared. But then I liked it. The killing.
- Pat Quinlan: It's what you're trained to do.
- John Gorman: *You* didn't like it.
- Pat Quinlan: Each man reacts differently to killing another man. None of us have done this before. Talk to me in a few days.
- Pat Quinlan: [briefing new troops] Nobody has shot at you, tried to kill you before. You are war virgins.