Executive Decision (1996)

Kurt Russell: David Grant

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• [after the Navy pilots have gotten their Morse Code message] 

  David Grant : Jesus, they got it!

  Baker : [astounded]  They got it?

  David Grant : They got it!

  Baker : I take back every rust-pickin', squid-hatin' thing I've ever said about swabbies!

• David Grant : Colonel, grab my hand!

  [Travis reaches his hand but falls back down] 

  David Grant : Colonel, we're not gonna make it!

  Lt. Colonel Austin Travis : *You* are!

  [Travis shuts himself in and is sucked out of the plane to his death] 

• [after ploughing through lots of light aircraft and runway lights and overshooting the runway on landing the 747] 

  David Grant : These things almost land themselves, don't they?

• David Grant : If you don't believe me, what are you doing up here?

  Lt. Colonel Austin Travis : Well... who the hell else is gonna do it? You?

• David Grant : It's over.

  Nagi Hassan : Over? It's not over.

  [Grant holds up the detonator] 

  David Grant : It's over.

  Nagi Hassan : Who are you?

  David Grant : No one.

  Nagi Hassan : You're very clever, but you're too late. You've solved nothing.

  [fires his gun into the cockpit] 

• [Rat is attempting to take command of the mission] 

  David Grant : Look, I'm not telling you how to do your job, but if that DZ5 is on board, there's gonna be a bomb attached to it, and you goddamn well better find it!

• [on the ground, after Cahill helped defuse the bomb] 

  David Grant : Cahill, I don't know how you did it, but you did it.

  Cahill : [shakes his head]  No... you did it.

  [hands him the straw from his mouth] 

  David Grant : What's this?

  Cahill : That's a memento for ya. Listen, I'll tell you all about it another time, but right now, I need a drink. A *big* drink.

• David Grant : Can you hook up a probe so that I can see into the main cabin on this monitor?

  Baker : No, we can't transmit between the probe and the monitor.

  David Grant : Would a video camera work?

  Baker : Yeah.

  David Grant : You got one?

  Baker : No.

• [as Jean shows a seat number to the hidden camera] 

  David Grant , Baker : 2, 1, K... 21K!