Jay Ellis credited as playing...
Lt. Reuben 'Payback' Fitch
- Maverick: [At the beginning of a training mission] Good morning, aviators. This is your captain speaking. Welcome to Basic Fighter Maneuvers, As briefed, today's exercise is dog-fighting, guns only, no missiles. We do not go below the hard deck of 5,000 ft. Working as team you have to shoot me down or else...
- Payback: ...or else what, sir?
- Maverick: ...or else I shoot back. If I shoot either one of you down, you both lose.
- Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: This guy needs an ego check.
- Lt. Brigham 'Harvard' Lennox: We'll see to that!
- Payback: Sir, what say we put some skin in the game?
- Maverick: What do you have in mind?
- Payback: Whoever gets shot down first has to do 200 push-ups.
- Maverick: Guys, that's a lot of push-ups.
- Fanboy: Ah well, they don't call it an exercise for nothing, sir.
- Maverick: You got yourself a deal, gentlemen. Fight's on. Let's turn and burn!
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: Fanboy, you see him?
- Fanboy: Not beyond the radar up ahead. He must be somewhere behind us.
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: [Maverick got ready and from below them, swooshed past between their jets upwards] Damn it!
- Fanboy: What the hell?
- Payback: Oh shit!
- Maverick: Easy, Maverick. Let's try not to get fired on the first day.
- Adm. Beau 'Cyclone' Simpson: [while Cyclone is giving the pilots new instructions on the mission, the screen shows a plane is about to run the course] Who the hell is that?
- Maverick: Maverick to Range Control. Entering Point Alpha, confirm Green Range.
- Mission Controller: Maverick, Range Control. Green Range is confirmed. I don't see an event scheduled for you, sir.
- Maverick: Well, I'm going anyway.
- Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace: Nice.
- Maverick: Set the time to target, 2 minutes 15 seconds.
- Payback: 2:15? That's impossible!
- Maverick: File attack point, Maverick's inbound.
- [Maverick runs the course and gets to the target]
- Maverick: Bomb's away!
- Lt. Robert 'Bob' Floyd: [after Maverick ran the training course in 2:14.84 and destroyed the target] Bullseye, holy shit!
- Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: Damn!
- Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace: Fellas, this here is Bagman.
- Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: Hangman.
- Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace: Whatever. You're looking at the only naval aviator in active duty with a confirmed air to air kill.
- Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: Stop.
- Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace: Mind you, the other guy was in a museum piece from the Korean War.
- Lt. Javy 'Coyote' Machado: Cold War.
- Payback: Different wars, same century.
- Fanboy: Not this one.
- Lt. Javy 'Coyote' Machado: Who are your friends?
- Payback: Payback.
- Fanboy: Fanboy.
- Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace: Hey, Coyote.
- Lt. Javy 'Coyote' Machado: Hey.
- Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace: Who's he?
- Lt. Javy 'Coyote' Machado: Who's who?
- [Phoenix nods towards Bob]
- Lt. Javy 'Coyote' Machado: When did you get in?
- Lt. Robert 'Bob' Floyd: Oh, I- I've been here the whole time.
- Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: Well, the man's a stealth pilot.
- Lt. Javy 'Coyote' Machado: Literally.
- Lt. Robert 'Bob' Floyd: Weapons Systems Officer, actually.
- Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: With no sense of humour.
- Maverick: [On the bombing run] Dagger attack!
- [Tomahawks launch from USS Leyte Gulf]
- Naval Officer: Tomahawks airborne.
- Adm. Solomon 'Warlock' Bates: No turning back now.
- Maverick: Daggers, assume attack formation.
- [Planes line up in single file]
- Maverick: [Approaching coastline] Daggers set. Proceeding to target. Two minutes and thirty seconds in 3... 2... 1. Mark.
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: Two mark.
- Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace: Three mark.
- Payback: Four mark.
- Maverick: Going in.
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: [singing] You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain, Too much love drives a man insane, You broke my will but what a thrill
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw, Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin, Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace, Lt. Javy 'Coyote' Machado, Payback, Fanboy, Lt. Brigham 'Harvard' Lennox, Lt. Logan 'Yale' Lee, Lt. Neil 'Omaha' Vikander, Lt. Billy 'Fritz' Avalone: Goodness gracious, Great Balls of Fire!
- Maverick: Dagger 1 up and ready on catapult 1.
- Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: Dagger spare standing by.
- Payback: Dagger 4 up and ready.
- Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace: Dagger 3 up and ready.
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: Dagger 2 up and ready.
- Air Control Officer: Report axis airborne, strike package ready, standing by for launch decision.
- Adm. Beau 'Cyclone' Simpson: Send them.
- Maverick: [shows off thick manual] The F-18 NATOPS. Contains everything they want you to know about your aircraft. I'm assuming you know the book inside and out.
- Payback: Damn right!
- Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: Damn straight.
- Maverick: [tosses the manual into the trash] So does your enemy.
- Wo-1. Bernie 'Hondo' Coleman: [under his breath] And we're off...
- Maverick: But what the enemy doesn't know is your limits. I intend to find them. Test them. Push beyond. Today we'll start with what you only think you know. And you show me what you're made of.