Philadelphia Experiment II Quotes

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Dr William Mailer Father, I am Willie.

Friedrich Mahler Yes?

William I am your son.

Friedrich I have no son.

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 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 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.

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 We? We won the war?

Herdeg Yeah.

Longstreet 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.

Taglines They cut a hole through time.

David Herdeg 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.

David Herdeg Hello, kid.

Benjamin Herdeg I love you, dad. It's all going to get better now, right?

David Ok.