The Water Horse (2007) - Quotes

Angus Questions Actions Regarding Empty Barrel

Angus MacMorrow: [discovers Lewis dumping the water from the barrel] No! No, no! No! What are you doing?! Why did you empty the barrel? Did you see anything fall out of it?

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Rumors of a Secret Mission

Jimmy's Mate 1: Hey, did you see all those jeeps and lorries going up and down that hill?

Jimmy's Mate 2: You're late, and that is very hush-hush.

Jimmy McGarry: Aye. It's a secret mission, that's what I hear. Top-secret.

Bartender: Oh, I'll say one thing, Jimmy. If it's a secret, you'd be the last person to tell about it.

Jimmy's Mate 1: That's cruel. That's very cruel.

Jimmy's Mate 2: Aye.

Lewis Mowbray: Evening.

Bartender: All right. What do you like?

Lewis Mowbray: Pint of McEwan's.

Jimmy McGarry: Looks like rain.

Lewis Mowbray: Yeah, it might.

Jimmy McGarry: You're not from the village. Would you be with the artillery?

Sgt. Wallace Strunk: [enters the pub with the men] Here we are, lads. Our home away from home. Did you hear the captain today? "We're on the front lines." Front line, my aunt. We're here cause his daddy got him put away from danger as the War Office could find.

Jimmy McGarry: You're the boys with the big gun up the loch.

Sgt. Wallace Strunk: Indeed, we are.

Jimmy McGarry: Would that thing sink a submarine?

Sgt. Wallace Strunk: With one shell. What are you having, lads?

Soldier: A pint of heavy.

Sgt. William Strunk: Yeah, I'll have a whiskey. What have you got there?

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Secrets and Sources in the Unknown Mission

Jock McGowan: What are they doing up on that hill?

Jimmy McGarry: It's a secret mission. They're after submarines.

Jock McGowan: Well, if it's secret, how do you know about it?

Jimmy McGarry: I have my ways, my contacts.

Jock McGowan: Aye. We'll make contact with them oars, pull us over some more fish.

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A Reminder of History Amidst Beauty

Captain Thomas Hamilton: Perfect.

Wormsley: Oh, it's an amazing view, sir.

Captain Thomas Hamilton: HMS Royal Oak was lost to a German U-boat in Scapa Flow, not a hundred miles from this spot, 833 sailors lost. We're not here for the scenery, Wormsley.

Wormsley: Yes, sir.

Captain Thomas Hamilton: Now, make no mistake, we are on the front line here. Now, I have studied the German advance. If they invade, they will come right through here. This is the deepest loch in Scotland. It's perfect for their troopships. But they will send submarines first for reconnaissance.

Wormsley: Won't the steel net stop them, sir?

Captain Thomas Hamilton: The submarine net will be down to permit passage by routine marine traffic and to let their subs in. And then we will raise the net... and we will destroy them.

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Unexpected Encounter with a Military Sergeant

Sgt. Wallace Strunk: [backs Churchill up] What's that? Churchill. That's enough, Churchill.

Angus MacMorrow: Who are you?

Sgt. Wallace Strunk: Sergeant Wallace Strunk, 12th Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery, first battery cook. Churchill, Regiment mascot. Unauthorized personnel.

Angus MacMorrow: I just wanted a wee snack.

Sgt. Wallace Strunk: [Angus shakes his head; turns to Churchill; turns to Angus] Provisions dispensed only by written orders in triplicate. Do you have the paperwork? Then, off you go. Who's Daddy's boy, then, eh? Good boy, good Churchill. You're still here?

Angus MacMorrow: I take out the rubbish.

Sgt. Wallace Strunk: On the double, then.

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A Surprise Gift of Oranges

Kirstie MacMorrow: [arrives on a bicycle; hands Anne an orange] Mummy! Look what I've got.

Anne MacMorrow: Where did you get that?

Kirstie MacMorrow: Every volunteer got four oranges today.

Anne MacMorrow: I haven't had an orange in Lord knows how long.

Kirstie MacMorrow: How was the shore? Did Angus have fun?

Anne MacMorrow: Angus, fun?

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Debate Over the Authenticity of a Monster

Female Tourist: What is that?

Male Tourist: It's the famous picture of the monster. But it's fake.

Female Tourist: How do you know it's fake? It looks real.

Older Angus MacMorrow: Oh, it's fake, all right.

Male Tourist: Of course it's fake, everyone knows that.

Older Angus MacMorrow: Wait, now, son. There's more to that photo than meets the eye.

Male Tourist: Oh, really?

Older Angus MacMorrow: Well, if you'd like to know the real truth...

Female Tourist: Yeah. I wanna know. Come on, it'll be fun. Come on.

Older Angus MacMorrow: Well, you have to go back to World War II. The Germans have captured the rest of Europe and were only 100 miles or so from these shores.

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Conflict Over a Mysterious Creature

Jimmy McGarry: No, it's a monster. A creature with horns, a devil!

Sgt. Wallace Strunk: [dancing with Gracie to jazz music in the kitchen] You're a fine woman, Gracie.

Gracie: Hush your wheesht, you daft dog!

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Identity and Reflection in The Water Horse

Older Angus MacMorrow: [revealing himself to the tourists] Angus MacMorrow is the name.

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A Boy's Desire for His Father's Return

Older Angus MacMorrow: Angus was just like every other wee boy. He wanted his daddy home again, but he also had another problem.

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Loss in a Small Scottish Village

Older Angus MacMorrow: We're a tiny village in the wilds of Scotland, but 20 men we lost.

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Understanding the Deeper Meaning of Memories

Older Angus MacMorrow: Wait now, son. There's more to that photo than meets the eye.

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A Promise of Silence

Kirstie MacMorrow: I never swear, Angus MacMorrow. I'll never speak a word.

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Concern Over Noise and Discovery

Kirstie MacMorrow: It was getting too loud. Somebody would've heard.

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A Call to Observe Something Amusing

Kirstie MacMorrow: Angus, come quickly. I've something funny to show you.

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The Legend of the Water Horse

Lewis Mowbray: [telling Angus a tale about the water horse] Aye, it was my Uncle Lachlan who first told me about them. Many years ago, there was a lost traveler, and he's weeping bitter tears, because he cannot find his way home. H-He'd given up hope. Then suddenly, who should appear at the bank of the loch to this traveler but a sea spirit. A water horse. Now, the traveler, no fool is he, knows that the water horse is a creature of magic, one that could grow 10 feet tall overnight. So the traveler, he feeds the water horse, strokes it, flatters it with compliments, and finally, the traveler says: "Incidentally, water horse, my dear friend, I'm wondering, if you've no other pressing engagements, could I trouble you to carry me across the loch on your back? Show me the way home?

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Discovery of the Water Horse

Lewis Mowbray: Well, it looks like a... Like a bloody water horse.

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Establishing Boundaries in the Workshop

Lewis Mowbray: Mrs. MacMorrow hired me to help her in the lodge. So this will be my workshop now. And I don't want you coming in and out of it, you understand?

Urgent Call for Action Amidst Communication Failure

Captain Thomas Hamilton: All the radios are down! We have to get to the net!

Golf Humor and Preparedness

Captain Thomas Hamilton: Do you know why I take two pairs of trousers onto the golf course, Mrs. MacMorrow? In case I get a hole in one.

Captain's Command to Wait and Listen

Captain Thomas Hamilton: DID I OR DID I NOT TELL YOU TO WAIT OVER THERE?!?!

Discipline for the Boy's Growth

Captain Thomas Hamilton: The boy needs discipline, Anne.

Strategic Plans for Submarine Operations

Captain Thomas Hamilton: The submarine net will be down to permit passage by routine marine traffic and to let their subs in. And then we will raise the net... and we will destroy them.

Doubt and Disbelief in the Extraordinary

Anne MacMorrow: [turns to Captain Hamilton; turns to Lewis] A sea monster? Are you telling me this has all been about a sea monster?! What is going on here?! Has anyone gone mad?! A sea monster?! There is no monster. There's just you with your bloody gun! And you, filling his head with tales of sea creatures and magic? There's no monster, and there's no magic.