Stealth (2005)

Josh Lucas: Lt. Ben Gannon

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• Lt. Ben Gannon : [referring to the possible future replacement of human pilots with artificially-intelligent aircraft]  War's terrible. It's meant to be terrible, and if it stops being terrible, what's going to stop us?

• Lt. Ben Gannon : Look, we have things those computers can never have like instincts and feelings and moral judgment. You can call me old-fashioned, you can call it whatever you want but I just don't think that in war the action should ever be divorced from the consequences.

• Capt. George Cummings : [as Purcell turns around in shock over getting a fourth wingman in the squadron]  What's the problem, Purcell? You look like you just been hit in the gut.

  Lt. Henry Purcell : Well, for one, Captain, we've been flying together for a long time, and it's good; but FOUR is an unlucky number.

  Capt. George Cummings : Unlucky?

  Lt. Henry Purcell : Yeah! It's not a prime number. See, prime numbers can only be divided by one or itself. THREE is a prime number. The Holy Trinity? The thesis and antithesis that come together to form the synthesis...

  Capt. George Cummings : Look! This is not a seminar on metaphysics, son. This is the U.S. Navy. Now we ship out Wednesday at oh five hundred. Dismissed.

  Lt. Henry Purcell : Okay. IF he'd let me finish I was gonna say Three's Company, Three Stooges, Three Musketeers, three-peat, three strikes you're out, "Three Times a Lady".

  Lt. Kara Wade : Three dimensions?

  Lt. Henry Purcell : Three Blind Mice.

  Lt. Ben Gannon : Menage a trois. Don't forget that one. Right?

• Lt. Ben Gannon : You know what i think?

  Lt. Henry Purcell , Lt. Kara Wade , Lt. Ben Gannon : Don't think drink!

• EDI : [Wing gets clipped by debris]  Port fuel line ruptured. Fire bottle extended. My technology cannot fall under foreign control, so I cannot land.

  Lt. Ben Gannon : Well, then Tin Man, you're shit out of luck!

• EDI : [Regarding the immediate Rangoon bombing]  Squadron carries truncheon implosion bombs.

  Lt. Aaron Shaftsbury : Negative, will not work. Central Prime says AGM truncheons cannot achieve necessary velocity for penetration.

  EDI : One to UCAV, three seven seconds to primary. Come on, explain.

  EDI : Diving dead vertical at 2070 knots will increase truncheon velocity. Bomb will successfully penetrate roof.

  Lt. Kara Wade : What's the blackout risk at vertical 2070?

  EDI : 73%.

  Capt. Dick Marshfield : Pull off, captain. It's not worth the risk.

  Capt. George Cummings : Operator to Talons, pull back. EDI will plant the truncheon.

  Capt. Dick Marshfield : Captain!

  Capt. George Cummings : This is what we built this machine for. There's no blood in those quantum veins. It can't blackout.

  Capt. George Cummings : Operator to Talons, repeat, EDI will plant the truncheon.

  Lt. Ben Gannon : Control, negative control, mission critical, One will prosecute.

  Lt. Henry Purcell : This is Three to One: I got your back playboy, but if you blackout, you're going to kill yourself and everyone down there.

  Lt. Ben Gannon : Negative, Three. I did not make it this far by being in the seventy third percentile. I like my odds.

  Capt. George Cummings : Talon One, your orders are to stand down. Do you read me Lieutenant?

  Lt. Ben Gannon : I seem to be having -

  [Pulls throttle back and plane increases altitude] 

  Lt. Kara Wade : [Looking at Ben flying upward]  Go baby go.

  EDI : [after Ben begins his vertical dive]  One hundred knots to release velocity.

  EDI : Fifty knots to release velocity,

  Naval Controller : His BP is spiking, sir.

  EDI : Released velocity attained.

  Lt. Ben Gannon : Truncheon away!

  [Fires missile] 

• Lt. Ben Gannon : Captain Marshfield? EDI, did you just turn off Captain Marshfield?

  EDI : [brief pause]  There was nothing left to say.

• Lt. Ben Gannon : Don't think, drink!

• Lt. Ben Gannon : Shit, man. I didn't want for this to happen. I tried for it not to happen; Navy's got rules about it not happening but it's like this force that's got hold of me.

  [pause] 

  Lt. Ben Gannon : I love her.

• Tim : [referring to EDI]  He a... downloads songs from the web.

  Lt. Ben Gannon : Yeah, how many?

  Tim : All of them.

  Lt. Ben Gannon : [laughs]  Well you're in a pack of trouble with the record companies there, son.

• EDI : [Gannon preparing to fire a missile]  Talon 1, clarify your intentions.

  Lt. Ben Gannon : You gave me your word, I'm showing you mine.

• Capt. George Cummings : EDI is here to learn from you, so make sure these lessons are up to speed, alright.

  Lt. Ben Gannon : Well then let the schoolin begin.

• Lt. Ben Gannon : UCAV EDI, Extreme Deep Invader.

  Lt. Henry Purcell : Yeah I've been called that a few times.

• [EDI shows his flying capability] 

  Lt. Henry Purcell : That's Hot.

  Lt. Ben Gannon : It's got no heart but it sure can fly, thats not bad for a Tinman.

  Lt. Henry Purcell : EDI, it's official you've got a callsign. UCAV "Tinman" EDI the first.

• Lt. Ben Gannon : Look, we have things those computers can never have like instincts and feelings and moral judgement. You can call me old-fashioned, you can call it whatever you want but I just don't think that in war the action should ever be divorced from the consequences.