Is that normal? Mason: What, the feet thing? Goodspeed: Yeah, the feet thing. Goodspeed: You've been around a lot of corpses. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen! Goodspeed: Carla was the prom queen. Mason: Your best? Losers always whine about their best. Mason: Are you sure you're ready for this? Goodspeed: I'll do my best. Though it's less of a problem these days. Goodspeed: You enjoying this? Mason: Well, it's certainly more enjoyable than my average day: Reading philosophy, avoiding gang rape in the washroom.
Anderson: Shep? LT Shepherd: An incursion underwater to re-take an impregnable fortress held by an elite team of US Marines in possession of 81 hostages and 15 guided rockets armed with VX poison gas. Mason: Will you shake on it? Ĭommander Anderson: Have you ever been in a combat situation? Goodspeed: Define combat, sir. Why should I trust you now? Womack: You've got my word. Mason: But you could have given my life back years ago. John Mason: So what do you have in store for me, Womack, when this is over? FBI Director James Womack: You'll get your life back, Mason. Carla: Stanley, "at the time"? You said it seven-and-a-half seconds ago! Goodspeed: Well. Carla: You didn't really mean what you said about bringing a child into this world.being an act of cruelty, did you? Goodspeed: I meant it at the time. You know, and I know, it doesn't stand a chance. You've got 40 hours, till noon day after tomorrow to arrange transfer of the money. Hummel: You alert the media, I launch the gas. Hummel: It's a slush fund where the Pentagon keeps proceeds from illegal arms sales- Kramer: Jesus, Frank! This is classified information. Womack: This is FBI Director Womack, General. Do I make myself clear? FBI Director James Womack: Except for the Red Sea Trading Company. The rest of the funds, I will disperse at my discretion. From these funds, reparations of $1 million will be paid to each of the 83 Marines' families. You will transfer 100 million dollars from the Grand Cayman Red Sea Trading Company account to an account I designate. These men died for their country and they weren't even given a goddamn military burial. Twenty of them were left to rot outside Baghdad after the conflict ended. Sinclair's mouth, he's wasting my time! Kramer: Ah you want to continue, Frank? Hummel: Remember Operation Desert Storm? Those surgical hits made by our smart bombs, covered so well on CNN? It was my men on the ground that made those hits possible by lasing the targets. My men were responsible for over 200 enemy kills. By your ninth birthday, I was running black ops into China. Sinclair, you've probably got no fucking idea what I'm talking about. Hummel: How old are you, Chief of Staff Sinclair? Sinclair: I'm 33- Hummel: Well, Mr. Sinclair: White House Chief of Staff Hayden Sinclair, General. White House Chief of Staff Hayden Sinclair: Southern China? We never admitted we sent troops into China.
Forty-seven in northern Laos and southern China. Eighty-three Force Reconnaissance Marines have died under my various commands.
Got a lot of very, very worried people here, Frank. BG Francis Hummel: Hi, Al, how you doin'? Kramer: I don't know, Frank. General Al Kramer: Frank, it's Al Kramer. Sinclair, General Hummel is a man of honor. Sinclair: Yeah, well, now we can add kidnapping and extortion to his list of accolades. General Al Kramer: Well, I think "legend" might be a better description, Mr. In time so shall we.ĭialogue Chief of Staff Hayden Sinclair: Three tours in Vietnam, Panama, Grenada, Desert Storm, three Purple Hearts, two Silver Stars and the Congressional Medal of– Jesus. Couple of hundred years ago, a few guys named Washington, Jefferson, and Adams were branded traitors by the British - and now they're called patriots.
The gravest capital crime, punishable by death. You know I tried everything, and I still don't have their attention. Something I couldn't do while you were here.