Philadelphia Experiment II (1993) - Quotes

A Journey Through Time Unfolds

Taglines: They cut a hole through time.

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A Father's Assurance in Uncertain Times

David Herdeg: Hello, kid.

Benjamin Herdeg: [embraces his father] I love you, dad. It's all going to get better now, right?

David: Ok.

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A Son's Identity is Denied

Dr William Mailer: [Friedrich is taken aback at being called a dad] Father, I am Willie.

Friedrich Mahler: Yes?

William: I am your son.

Friedrich: I have no son.

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Tempting Fate with Time Travel

David Herdeg: He's obsessed. You said that yourself. He's obsessed with me. He's obsessed with time. Now, what if we could turn that around, use it against him, tempt him?

Dr James Longstreet: What are you saying?

Herdeg: We could use the machine.. Send me back to 43- Stop the plane from ever taking off.

Longstreet: No, no. I told you, never again. What's done is done. We can't change it.

Herdeg: You don't understand.

Longstreet: We cannot continue to tamper this way.

Herdeg: There's a different world, Longstreet, with a different history. I was just there yesterday. It's better than it is here, much better. It's not perfect, it's got its problems, but not like this. It's a nightmare here because here was not meant to be. It never should've happened.

Longstreet: But it's been this way for 50 years.

Herdeg: No. No, it's been this way for one day. I swear. It's true. Don't you see? We won the war!

Longstreet: [surprised at the remark] We? We won the war?

Herdeg: Yeah.

Longstreet: [takes a drag of his cigarette] There's a cemetery in old DC, where they let us put out markers for the victims of the Phoenix... Stretches for miles. This country was buried there... Six feet under.

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The Mystery of the Phoenix's Disappearance

Dr James Longstreet: Until 43, May 4th. I disappeared your ship, and you never came back. There were stories you'd gone forward in time. Twenty-four hours later, it didn't matter.

David Herdeg: Go on.

Longstreet: [shows David a picture of a Luftwaffe pilot and officials posing before an F-117 in Luftwaffe markings] Fifth of May, the Phoenix flew. Dropped her bombs on Washington DC. Fifteen million people gone. Took me 20 years to figure it out-- Why the Phoenix never flew again, where it came from, and what happened to the damn thing. Then one of our operatives found this.

Herdeg: My god, it's a stealth. Nuclear-armed.

Longstreet: Then it all fell together. The doubts I had about you and the damn Philadelphia Experiment became nightmares. We did cut a hole in time. The same way we sent you forward from 43, that plane got sucked back there, landed in the heart of Nazi Germany. It's my fault... All of it. A foolish young man's pride opened Pandora's box. All this... everything you see here came out of it.

Herdeg: [points to a man in picture] This man. Who is he?

Longstreet: Friedrich Mahler. Took credit for the plane. Claimed he built it. Was a hero when the Phoenix struck. Turned scapegoat when he couldn't build a replacement. See, he didn't know the plane's real power. How could he? It was lost in the blast from its own bombs. Mahler killed himself in 65, utterly disgraced. But like all good Aryans, he brought forth a son who's become obsessed with the Phoenix, obsessed with time. He studied everything we did in 43- The ship, you, all of it. He's reopened the Philadelphia Experiment. Convinced he can go back 50 years, warn his father, and change the Phoenix's flight path so it survives the blast.

Herdeg: You mean he's rebuilt it? Your machine?

Longstreet: He's close. He's developing a plasma that simulates your DNA so he too, can survive the vortex.

Celebrating Fifty Years of Peace and Unity

Propaganda Announcer: 50 Golden years of peace. 50 Golden years since the spirit of our nation rose from the dark ashes of history. And the fiery dawn of the new world order shone out across the fruited plain. Men and women working together to harvest the precious bounty of our promised land. Gathering the ripened fruit of their labors like playful children, safe under their watchful Father's eye as he spans the endless skyway and guards the ribbons of highway. Citizens working with courage, determination, and dedication To maintain our righteous strength. 1993... 50 Golden years... Marching together for peace.

Struggling with Uncertainty and Confusion

David Herdeg: [talking to doctor] Feelings... I don't know. Everything's... Everything's normal. Then, out of nowhere, suddenly they're tearing at me. I don't know if it's the past or the future, heaven or hell.