C. Thomas HowellQuotes

Jed Eckert: Do you want blindfolds?

Stepan Gorsky: [[w:Geneva Conventions|Geneva Convention] This violates the ]!

Eckert: I never heard of it!

Gorsky: Dogface! I show you how Soviet dies.

Robert: I've seen it before, pal.

Danny: This isn't happening! Jed, let him go! He was one of us!

Jed Eckert: Shut up, Danny! Shut up!

Robert: He told them where we were!

Jed Eckert: He did. Now get your rifles.

Matt Eckert: No!

Jed: WHAT DID YOU SAY?

Matt: We're not doing it!

Gorsky: [to Daryl] Boy, say at me you are friend, so I will not die alone.

Matt: What's the difference, Jed?

Robert: I'll do it.

Matt: [to Jed] Shut up, Robert! Tell me what's the difference between us and them!

Jed: [kills Gorsky and when he hesitates with Daryl, Robert kills him] Because ... we live here!

Col. Tanner: [gestures to parts of the campfire] West Coast, East Coast. Down here's Mexico. First wave of the attack came in disguised as commercial charter flights, same way they did in Afghanistan in 80. They were crack airborne outfits. They took these passes in the Rockies.

Jed: So that's what hit Calumet?

Col. Tanner: I guess so. They coordinated with selective nuke strikes, and the missiles were a hell of a lot more accurate than we thought; they took out the silos here in the Dakotas, key points of communication.

Darryl: Like what?

Col. Tanner: Oh, like Omaha, Washington, Kansas City.

Darryl: Gone?

Col. Tanner: Yeah. That's right.

Darryl: Jesus Christ.

Col. Tanner: Infiltrators, came up illegal; Cubans, mostly. They managed to infiltrate SAC bases in the Midwest, several down in Texas, wreaked a hell of a lot of havoc, I'm here to tell. They opened up the door, and the whole Cuban and Nicaraguan armies come walking right through, rolled right up here through the Great Plains.

Robert: How far'd they get?

Col. Tanner: Cheyenne, across to Kansas. We held em at the Rockies, and at the Mississippi. Anyway, the Russians reinforced with 60 divisions. Sent three whole army groups across the Bering Strait into Alaska, cut the pipeline, came across Canada, link up here in the middle but we stopped em but cold. Lines've pretty much stabilized now.

Matt Eckert: What about Europe?

Col. Andrew Tanner: I guess they figured twice in one century was enough. They're sitting this one out. All except England, and they won't last very long. The Russians need to take us in one piece, and that's why they're here now. That's why they won't use nukes anymore, and we won't either, not on our own soil. Whole damn thing's pretty conventional now. Who knows? Maybe next week will be swords.

Darryl: What started it?

Col. Tanner: Two toughest kids on the block, I guess. Sooner or later they gonna fight.

Jed: That simple?

Col. Tanner: Maybe somebody just forgot what it was like.

Jed: Well, who is on our side?

Tanner: Six hundred million screamin Chinamen.

Darryl: Well, last I heard, there were a billion screamin Chinamen.

Tanner: [throws whiskey into fire, and it violently ignites for a moment, possibly signifying a Soviet nuclear strike on China] There were.

Jed Eckert: Matt and I have been coming up to these mountains with our dad our whole lives. We can hunt, we can fish, we can stay up here a long, long time.

Robert: How long, Jed?

Jed Eckert: [indicating the jets above them] Until we don't hear that no more.