Red Dawn (1984)

Patrick Swayze: Jed

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• Col. Andy Tanner : [Describing the invasion on a crude diorama on the ground]  West Coast. East Coast. Down here is Mexico. First wave of the Soviet attack came in disguised as commercial charter flights the same way they did in Afghanistan back in December of 1979. Only these were crack Airborne paratroop outfits. Now, they took these mountain passes along here in the Rockies.

  Jed Eckert : So, that's what hit Calumet?

  Col. Andy Tanner : I guess so. They coordinated with selective nuke strikes and the missiles were a hell of a lot more accurate than we thought. They took out the silos here in the Dakotas, and key points of communication.

  Darryl Bates : Like what?

  Col. Andy Tanner : Oh, like Omaha, Washington DC, Kansas City.

  Darryl Bates : Gone?

  Col. Andy Tanner : Yeah. That's right. Infiltrators came up illegal from Mexico. Cubans mostly. They managed to infiltrate SAC bases in the Midwest, several down in Texas and wreaked a hell of a lot of havoc, I'm here to tell you. They opened up the door down here, and the whole Cuban and Nicaraguan and Latin American armies come walking right through, rolled right up here through the Great Plains.

  Robert : How far did they get?

  Col. Andy Tanner : Cheyenne, Wyoming... across to Kansas. We held them at the Rockies and the Mississippi River. Anyway, the Russians reinforced with 60 divisions. Sent three whole army groups across the Bering Strait into Alaska, cut the pipeline, came down across Canada to link up here in the middle, but we stopped their butt cold here. The lines have pretty much stabilized now.

  Robert : What about Europe?

  Col. Andy Tanner : I guess they figured twice in one century was enough. They're sitting this one out. All except England, and they won't last very long.

• Jed Eckert : How did you get shot down, Colonel?

  Col. Andy Tanner : It was five to one. I got four.

• Col. Andy Tanner : The Russians need to take us in one piece, and that's why they're here. That's why they won't use nukes anymore; and we won't either, not on our own soil. The whole damn thing's pretty conventional now. Who knows? Maybe next week will be swords.

  Darryl Bates : What started it?

  Col. Andy Tanner : I don't know. Two toughest kids on the block, I guess. Sooner or later, they're gonna fight.

  Jed Eckert : That simple, is it?

  Col. Andy Tanner : Or maybe somebody just forget what it was like.

  Jed Eckert : Well... who is on our side?

  Col. Andy Tanner : Six hundred million screaming Chinamen.

  Darryl Bates : Last I heard, there were a billion screaming Chinamen.

  Col. Andy Tanner : There were...

  [he throws whiskey on the campfire; it ignites violently, suggesting a nuclear explosion] 

• Jed Eckert : [the Wolverines discover that Daryl has been "bugged" by the Russo-Cubans]  Daryl... Where is it? Where is it?

  [Jed grabs Daryl, gets in Daryl's face and shouts] 

  Jed Eckert : GOD DAMN IT, WHERE'S THE BUG?

  Darryl Bates : They made me swallow it.

  Matt Eckert : Daryl, what have you done?

  Darryl Bates : [nearly in tears]  I went into town... and got caught.

  Jed Eckert : [shaking him and screeching with rage]  YOU WENT AND GOT CAUGHT? WHY?

  Darryl Bates : [His voice breaks]  You said we couldn't... I... I wanted to see my father. Talk to him...

  Robert : You told them where we were, didn't you? You told them!

  Darryl Bates : [sobbing]  No! My father turned me in. Oh God, they do things you can't imagine.

  Jed Eckert : [throws him down, growling with rage]  AAAAGGHHH! You SON OF A BITCH!

• Jed Eckert : [at the execution of Daryl Bates and Stepan Gorsky]  Do you want blindfolds?

  Stepan Gorsky : This violates the Geneva convention.

  Jed Eckert : I never heard of it!

  Stepan Gorsky : Dogface! I show you how Soviet dies!

  Robert : I've seen it before, pal.

  Danny : [who is tied up in the distance, with the horses]  This isn't happening! Jed, let him go! He was one of us!

  Jed Eckert : Shut up, Danny! Shut up!

  Robert : He told them where we were!

  Jed Eckert : He did. Now get your rifles.

  Matt Eckert : *No!*

  Jed Eckert : WHAT DID YOU SAY?

  Matt Eckert : *We're not doing it!*

  Stepan Gorsky : [to Daryl]  Boy, say at me you are friend, so I will not die alone.

  Matt Eckert : What's the difference, Jed?

  Robert : I'll do it.

  Matt Eckert : Shut up, Robert!

  [to Jed] 

  Matt Eckert : *Tell me what's the difference between us and them!*

  Jed Eckert : Because WE *LIVE* HERE!

  [kills Stepan; Robert kills Daryl] 

• Tom Eckert : Boys.

  Matt Eckert : Daddy. Dad.

  Tom Eckert : Don't talk. Don't say anything. Let me look at ya. I knew I was right. I knew it. You're alive. I was tough on both of you. I did things that made you, made you hate me sometimes. You understand now, don't you?

  Jed Eckert : What happened, Dad? Why are you here? What'd you do?

  Tom Eckert : It doesn't matter. One way or another, for one reason or another, we're all gone. It's all gone. Remember. Remember when you used to go in the park and play, and I used to put you two on the swings? Both of you were so damn little.

  Jed Eckert : I remember. I remember all of it.

  Tom Eckert : Well, I won't be there to pick you up when you fall now. Both of you have to take care of each other now.

  Matt Eckert : We'll never see you again, Dad.

  Tom Eckert : Yes, you will. I don't want to hear that, Maddy.

  Matt Eckert : What happened to mom, Dad? Where is she?

  Tom Eckert : She's not here. I don't know where they took her. You can't afford to be crying anymore now. I don't want either one of you to ever cry for me again. Don't ever do it. Not as long as you live.

  Robert : Where's my dad, Mr. Eckert? Is he here?

  Tom Eckert : I don't know, son. I don't know. You all get going. Get out before they find you.

  Jed Eckert : Dad, I love you.

  Tom Eckert : I know you do, son. I love you too.

  [Tom, Jed, and Robert leave] 

  Tom Eckert : Boys! Avenge Me! Avenge Me!

• Jed Eckert : [in the mountains]  Matt and I have been coming up to these mountains with our dad our whole lives. We can hunt, we can fish, we can stay up here a long, long time.

  Robert : How long, Jed?

  [fighters and bombers pass overhead] 

  Jed Eckert : [indicating the jets above them]  Until we don't hear *that* no more.

• [while giving guns to freed Americans] 

  Jed Eckert : C'mon! We're all going to die, die standing up!

• Mr. Mason : [the Wolverines arrive at the Mason house, where they will be joined by Toni and Erica]  We got us some outlaws here.

  Jed Eckert : Wow, a house.

  Mr. Mason : Go on and find a chair.

  Robert : Last time we were in a house was five weeks.

  Mr. Mason : You look it.

• Jed Eckert : One thing's for sure now... No one can ever go home again. Never.

• Matt Eckert : [after their flight from Calumet, Jed is fixing the radiator on his pickup-truck]  Did you get it?

  Jed Eckert : Yeah, I got it. Only thing is, we got one problem: we don't have any water.

  Matt Eckert : How about pissing in it?

  Jed Eckert : That's a good idea. Get up here.

  [laughs] 

  Danny : How do you know it'll work?

  Jed Eckert : How old are you, kid?

  Danny : Fifteen. And the name's Danny, not "kid."

  Jed Eckert : Well, when you grow up... then you'll know these things, Danny. Now get up here and piss in the radiator.

• Jed Eckert : [having killed Colonel Strelnikov, who has mortally wounded Jed and Matt]  You can rest now. Just hang on, Mattie. It's okay... Daddy'll be here soon. Come on, Mattie. I'll hold you as long as I can. You can lean on me, Mattie... I'm so tired...

  [He and Matt die in each other's arms] 

• Jed Eckert : My family would want me to stay alive. Your family would want you to stay alive. You think you're so smart, man, but you're just a bunch of scared kids.

  Danny : So what do you think *you* are?

  Jed Eckert : ...Alone, I guess.

  Matt Eckert : [comes and stands with him]  No, you're not.

• Jed Eckert : [after the deaths of Aardvark and Colonel Tanner]  It's kind of strange, isn't it? How the mountains pay us no attention at all. You laugh or you cry... The wind just keeps on blowing.

  Matt Eckert : You're getting pretty low on feelings, aren't you?

  Jed Eckert : I can't afford them.

  Matt Eckert : Even if that had been me instead of Aardvark?

• Tom Eckert : [at the Calumet Drive-in, which is now a Communist "re-education camp"]  Remember when you used to go in the park and play... and I used to put you on the swings... and both of you were... so damn little?

  Jed Eckert : I remember. I remember all of it.

  Tom Eckert : [to Jed and Matt]  I ain't gonna be around to pick you up when you fall now. Both of you gotta take care of each other now.

• Jed Eckert : Don't cry! Hold it back! Let it turn to something else. Just let it turn - to something else. Okay?

• Jed Eckert : [they are surveying a wintery landscape, as several tanks gather on both sides to shoot it out]  You got across *that*?

  Col. Andy Tanner : Just part of it. I hope our guys are still there.

  Jed Eckert : So this is the battlefield?

  Col. Andy Tanner : It's a real war, kid. It's here every day.

• Alicia : They're looking for you.

  Jed Eckert : Who?

  Alicia : The KGB.

  Jed Eckert : The Russians?

  Alicia : And the Cubans.

• Jed Eckert : It is World War III down there. People are bein' killed. Those could be Russians!

• Alicia : Okay, listen. I'm gonna tell you something I'm not supposed to talk about. Nobody is. But...

  Jed Eckert : But, what?

  Alicia : That they took a lot of people away. People that they thought were gonna make trouble for them. People that had guns or things they wanted. They just took them away!

  Jed Eckert : Where?

  Alicia : Re-education Camps. That's what they call it.

• Mr. Mason : We all figured you boys had headed for FA by now.

  Robert : What's FA?

  Mr. Mason : Free America. That's the safe zone.

  Jed Eckert : Well, where are we?

  Mr. Mason : Hell, you boys is in the occupied territory. You're 40 miles behind enemy lines. That's smack dab in the middle of World War III.