National Treasure (2004)

Jon Voight: Patrick Gates

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• Patrick Gates : [to Abigail and Riley]  And he dragged you two into this nonsense?

  Abigail Chase : Literally.

  Riley Poole : I volunteered.

• Patrick Gates : At least I had your mother, for however brief a time! At least I had you! What do you have?

  [looks at Riley] 

  Patrick Gates : Him?

• Ben Gates : I'm in a little trouble.

  Patrick Gates : Is she pregnant?

  Ben Gates : If she is would you leave the mother of your grandchild standing out in the cold?

  Patrick Gates : Come in.

  Abigail Chase : [to Riley]  I look pregnant?

  [He shakes his head] 

• Patrick Gates : What is that? Animal skin? How old is it?

  Ben Gates : About 200 years.

  Patrick Gates : Sure?

  Ben Gates : Pretty darn.

• Riley Poole : [examining the back of the Declaration]  So if it's in invisible ink, how do we see it?

  Patrick Gates : Throw it in the oven.

  Abigail Chase , Ben Gates : No!

  Riley Poole : Uh-uh.

• Patrick Gates : This room is real, Ben. And that means the treasure is real. We're in the company of some of the most brilliant minds in history because you found what they left behind for us to find, and understood the meaning of it. You did it, Ben, for all of us - your grandfather, and all of us. And I've never been so happy to be proven wrong.

• Ben Gates : Dad, where are the letters?

  Patrick Gates : I don't have them, son.

  Ben Gates : [pause]  What?

  Patrick Gates : I don't have them.

  Ben Gates : [Another pause]  Where are they?

  Patrick Gates : I donated them to the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.

  Ben Gates : Time to go.

• Patrick Gates : Cooperation only lasts as long as the status quo is unchanged. As soon as this guy gets to wherever this thing ends... he won't need you anymore, or... or any of us.

  Ben Gates : So we find a way to make sure the status quo changes in our favor.

  Patrick Gates : How?

  Ben Gates : I'm still working on it.

  Patrick Gates : Well, I guess I better work on it too, then.

• Ben Gates : Are you all right?

  Patrick Gates : What do you think? I'm a hostage.

• Patrick Gates : The status quo has changed, son.

• Sadusky : [interrogating him after his son and the others ran away]  And you have no idea where he went?

  Patrick Gates : Well wouldn't I have told you if I did?

  Sadusky : I don't know, would you?

• Ben Gates : [upset]  I just... really thought I was gonna find the treasure.

  Patrick Gates : Okay. Then we just keep looking for it.

  Abigail Chase : I'm in.

• Patrick Gates : I'm the family kook. I have a job, a house, health insurance...

• Patrick Gates : [having discovered the sacred document before him]  Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

  Ben Gates : I know.

  Patrick Gates : Oh, my God. What have you done? This is... this is the...

  Ben Gates : I know!

  Patrick Gates : This is the Declaration of Independence.

  Abigail Chase : Yes. And it's very delicate.

  Patrick Gates : You stole it?

  Ben Gates : Dad, I can explain, but I don't have time. It was necessary. And you saw the cipher.

  Patrick Gates : And that will lead to another clue, and that will lead to another clue! There is no treasure. I wasted 20 years of my life. And now you've destroyed yours. And you pulled me into all this.

  Ben Gates : Well, we can't have that.

• Patrick Gates : You disappoint me, Ben.

  Ben Gates : Well, maybe that's the real Gates-family legacy. Sons who disappoint their fathers.

• Patrick Gates : Don't you get it, Ben? I finally figured it out. The legend says that the treasure was buried to keep it from the British. But what really happened was the legend was invented, to keep the British occupied searching for buried treasure. The treasure is a myth.