Broken Arrow (1996)

John Travolta: Vic Deakins

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• Vic Deakins : Would you mind not shooting at the thermonuclear weapons?

• Vic Deakins : I just realized something. I never actually killed anyone before. I mean, I dropped bombs on Baghdad, but, uh... never face to face.

  [pause] 

  Vic Deakins : . I don't know what the big deal is. I really don't.

• Vic Deakins : Well, I do appreciate the money that you and your associates have invested in the operation. But this IS an operation, it's a MILITARY operation. And YOU don't know DICK about that! Now *I* have been in the military for over 20 years. I planned and flew over 100 missions in the Gulf. I put these boys together because they are *motivated* and they are *highly trained* like me! This is what I do, Mr. Pritchett! And this is BATTLE! And battle is a highly *fluid* situation. You - You plan on your contingencies, and I have. You keep your initiative, and I will. But what you don't do is *share command*! It's NEVER a good IDEA!

  Pritchett : It's still my money.

  Vic Deakins : And if we succeed, you and your friends will get a ton of it.

  Pritchett : *If* we're successful?

  Vic Deakins : Look, Mr. Pritchett, I will deliver the weapons to the destination. But I can't depend and I can't guarantee that those assholes in Washington won't do something stupid like... not pay.

  Pritchett : What if they don't?

  Vic Deakins : Well, if they don't, the southwest will be a quiet neighbourhood for, uh, about ten thousand years.

• Riley Hale : You're out of your mind.

  Vic Deakins : Yeah. Ain't it cool?

  Riley Hale : I'm serious, Deak, your mind has taken a walk off the map.

  Vic Deakins : Maybe. But I'm still gonna kick your ass.

• Vic Deakins : You know, Hale, I considered bringing you in on this. You know why I didn't?

  Riley Hale : 'Cause I would have said "no"?

  Vic Deakins : Nah, if you had said no, I'd have just killed you. I was afraid you were gonna say yes. 'Cause you don't have the balls to go through with something like this, we both know that.

• Vic Deakins : [while fighting with Hale]  Alright, you're bleeding, aren't ya? Well, that's good. Let's see if we can get any more out of you.

• Kelly : [Deakins has just activated the nuke]  Shut that sonuvabitch down, now! This ain't what I signed on for. I'm not ready to die, not for you.

  Vic Deakins : Everybody dies, Kelly. I'm as good a reason as any.

• Major Vic Deakins : Nah, flying doesn't mean what it used to mean to me.

  Capt. Riley Hale : Not the flying - carrying the nukes. I know you. You love having the power of God at your fingertips. You get off on it.

• Riley Hale : There's no difference between you and a guy who shoots up a schoolyard. You've both got a-a head full of bad wiring.

  Vic Deakins : What was that?

  Riley Hale : You're fucked in the head, Deak.

  Vic Deakins : [Fires wildly at him]  Hah.

  Riley Hale : I pissed him off.

• Vic Deakins : Hale. Pick up. Pick up!

  [wheedling] 

  Vic Deakins : C'mon buddy, pick up the 'phone.

  Riley Hale : "Buddy," huh? Son of a bitch, you tried to kill me. The friendship is over.

  Vic Deakins : Well that doesn't mean I don't like you. Hell, I'm impressed.

• Vic Deakins : It used to be that every fight went to a knockout. You know what it feels like to be knocked out? Your brain presses against your skull, and it feels like THIS.

  [presses his thumb into Hale's skull] 

• Vic Deakins : You just saved me 3 million dollars. I owe you one.

  Terry Carmichael : Shoot yourself. We'll call it square.

  Vic Deakins : Attitude! Now where's my little buddy Hale? He left you alone, didn't he? Well that's his speed, 100% PUSSY.

• Riley Hale : We were only sparring, buddy.

  Vic Deakins : Thinking like that is exactly why you lost.

• Vic Deakins : I say goddamn what a rush!

  [Deakins looks at the wreckage of the chopper] 

  Vic Deakins : Whoo!

  Kelly : Son of a Bitch! Shockwave took down the damn chopper!

  Vic Deakins : That's EMP! Electro Magnetic Pulse! Nuclear blast sends it out for miles. Everything electrical *shuts down* including choppers and radios. Hell, we just shut down McMurran's field communications! That oughta put a *pretty little dent* in their response time, huh!

  Kelly : Deak, you da man!

  Vic Deakins : I'm da man.

• [Hale has a shotgun on Deakins, but Deakins is holding a remote for the bomb] 

  Riley Hale : You lose.

  Vic Deakins : I've still got my finger on the trigger. That's the *remote* trigger. See if I push this button here

  [DETONATE] 

  Vic Deakins : *You lose!* But if I push this button here,

  [CANCEL] 

  Vic Deakins : the weapon is disarmed.

  Riley Hale : [cocks the shotgun]  So why don't you disarm it then?

  Vic Deakins : I'm not in the mood.

• Vic Deakins : How many times do I have to say it? Please don't shoot the nuclear WEAPONS!

• Pritchett : You assured me everything would go smoothly.

  Vic Deakins : Everything is going smoothly, I assure you.

• Vic Deakins : Care for a Coke or something?

• Vic Deakins : The clock is ticking.

• Vic Deakins : Mr. Pritchett, would you mind stepping outside?

  [Pushes Pritchett's corpse out of the Humvee] 

• Pritchett : Oh, God! Oh, God! How does that gunship fit into your grand strategy? You don't know what you're doing, do you? This is out of control! I must have been...!

  Vic Deakins : [Deakins crushes Pritchett's throat, by striking it with a Mag-lite. Pritchett falls back in his seat, choking to death]  Hush... hush!

• Vic Deakins : Smile boys we're about to retire!