Memorable Quotes from C. Thomas Howell
3 quotesConflict Over Rules and Blindfolds
Jed Eckert
Do you want blindfolds?
Stepan Gorsky
This violates the ]!
[[w:Geneva Conventions|Geneva Convention]
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
Boy, say at me you are friend, so I will not die alone.
[to Daryl]
Matt
What's the difference, Jed?
Robert
I'll do it.
Matt
Shut up, Robert! Tell me what's the difference between us and them!
[to Jed]
Jed
Because ... we live here!
[kills Gorsky and when he hesitates with Daryl, Robert kills him]
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Reflections on Time in the Mountains
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
Until we don't hear that no more.
[indicating the jets above them]
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Strategic Military Attack Unfolds in Conversation
Col. Tanner
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.
[gestures to parts of the campfire]
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
There were.
[throws whiskey into fire, and it violently ignites for a moment, possibly signifying a Soviet nuclear strike on China]
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