Stargate: Continuum (2008 Video)
Beau Bridges: Mjr. Gen. Henry 'Hank' Landry
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Quotes
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Major General Hank Landry : I take it that in your timeline you're not a discredited whackjob living on the fringes of society?
Dr. Daniel Jackson : That really depends on who you ask.
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Interviewer : Samantha Carter?
Lt. Col. Samantha Carter : Yes.
Interviewer : It's common knowledge that 4 years ago, a computer failure forced the space shuttle Intrepid's main engines to shut down before it could reach a safe orbit or secondary landing site. When the auto pilot also failed mission commander, Samantha Carter, stayed behind to fly it while her crew bailed out of the escape hatch. The orbiter went down over the Atlantic and her body was never recovered.
Lt. Col. Samantha Carter : It wasn't me.
Interviewer : You just said you name...
[Sam cuts her off]
Interviewer : [Cam, Sam, and Daniel are being interogated, all talking at the same time]
Lt. Col. Samantha Carter : I was recruited into the Stargate program in my timeline not N.A.S.A...
Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell : Stargate Command is a branch of the United States Air Force, founded in 1990-something, I forget the exact year; for the purpose of exploration and just... it operates in secret from...
Dr. Daniel Jackson : ...actually, at was less an altered timeline than it was this kind of multiverse thing... but I know what your thinking. You're thinking I'm insane.
Lt. Col. Samantha Carter : And so we had the Stargate powered and it was capable of operating, but none of the random addresses.
Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell : A list, you, you want the whole list of every plant I've ever been to? Okay; Earth you never forget your first. Right!
Dr. Daniel Jackson : It was just a matter of finding which of the 39 symbols represented the point of origin.
Lt. Col. Samantha Carter : The symbols in a combination of seven...
Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell : Known as Kassa, it's kind of like space corn; but you know that is a story you are going to hear some day
Interviewer : You think this is funny?
Dr. Daniel Jackson : Everything I can think of I've told you. I mean seriously, who would make this shit up!
Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell : Because it is; funny! And you need to learn that things can be both funny and serious at the same time!
Lt. Col. Samantha Carter : I've listened. whereas I've been trying to tell you that Earth is in serious danger and you don't seem to give a rat's ass!
Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell : [annoyed] OK, fine! O'Neil wants nothing to do with us, what about Landry! No you see - I know him.
Dr. Daniel Jackson : [dryly] if you'd like to hear to answer to that question, why don't you go and play your tape back, I'm going to take a break.
[smiles quickly, then frowns and drinks coffee]
Lt. Col. Samantha Carter : Oh my God, for the umpteenth time - I want to talk to someone else!
Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell : I am agitated because this is not the way things are suposed to be!
Major General Hank Landry : [walks in] Unfortunately colonel, it's the way it is!
Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell : General, thank you for coming. you flew F-4's in Vietnam, you have a daughter named Caroline, you're wild about Fulvous whistling ducks...
Major General Hank Landry : Stop right there son, I believe you.
Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell : [dumbfounded] You do?
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Major General Hank Landry : My goodness, people, the arrogance of what you're asking us to help you do is mind-boggling!