WarGames (1983)
Joe Dorsey: Conley
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Quotes
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McKittrick : [McKittrick approaches Falken's group on stairs] I don't know what you think you can do here, Stephen.
Stephen Falken : [suddenly noticing] John! Good to see you. I see the wife still picks your ties.
McKittrick : What is- What has this kid been telling you?
Stephen Falken : [looking at screens] How far's he gone?
McKittrick : Well the President about ready to order a counterstrike. That's what we're recommending he do.
Stephen Falken : It's a bluff, John, call it off.
McKittrick : No, it's not a bluff. It's real.
Stephen Falken : [raising his voice from stairs] Hello, General Beringer! Stephen Falken!
General Beringer : [standing] Mr. Falken you picked a hell of a day for a visit!
Stephen Falken : Uh, uh, General, what you see on these screens up here is a fantasy; a computer-enhanced hallucination. Those blips are not real missiles. They're phantoms.
McKittrick : [McKittrick approaches Beringer] Jack, there's nothing to indicate a simulation at all. Everything is working perfectly!
Stephen Falken : But does it make any sense?
General Beringer : Does what make any sense?
Stephen Falken : [points to the screens] That!
General Beringer : Look, I don't have time for a conversation right now.
Stephen Falken : [Falken speaks as he approaches] General, are you prepared to destroy the enemy?
General Beringer : You betcha!
Stephen Falken : Do you think they know that?
General Beringer : I believe we've made that clear enough.
Stephen Falken : [face to face] Then don't! Tell the President to ride out the attack.
Colonel Joe Conley : Sir, they need a decision.
Stephen Falken : General, do you really believe that the enemy would attack without provocation, using so many missiles, bombers, and subs so that we would have no choice but to totally annihilate them?
Female Airman First Class : [on loudspeaker] One minute and thirty seconds to impact.
Stephen Falken : General, you are listening to a machine! Do the world a favor and don't act like one.
Female Airman First Class : [on loudspeaker] One minute and twenty seconds to impact.
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Colonel Joe Conley : This is Crystal Palace. Are you still on?
[no response]
Colonel Joe Conley : This is Crystal Palace. Are you still on? Is anyone there?
Colonel Chase : That's affirmative, sir.
Airman Dougherty : Yeah, we're here! Jesus H. Christ! We're still here!
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Major Lem : [D.S.P. registers a massive launch from Soviet ICBM fields] We have a launch detection. We have a Soviet launch detection.
Colonel Joe Conley : BMEWS confirms a massive attack.
Major Lem : Missile Warning - no malfunction.
Radar Analyst Kirkland : Confidence is high. I repeat, confidence is high.
Airman Fields : Cobra Dane, is this an exercise?
Colonel Joe Conley : Negative, this is not an exercise.
Airman Fields : [to Beringer] General, D.S.P. is tracking three hundred inbound Soviet ICBMs.
General Beringer : [points at the C.C.P.D.S. screen] Tell me this is another one of your simulations, Mr. McKittrick.
McKittrick : It's not, Jack.
General Beringer : Alright. Flush the bombers, get the subs in launch mode. We are at DEFCON 1.
Major Lem : [buzzer sounds] DEFCON 1.
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Radar Analyst Kirkland : Inbounds presently MIRV-ing. We now have approximately twenty-four possible targets in track.
Colonel Joe Conley : Sir, new time to impact: eight minutes.
Major Dawes : [hands Beringer a telephone] Sir, SAC is launching the bombers. General Powers is on the line.
General Beringer : [into the telephone] Beringer.
[pause]
General Beringer : Goddamn it! We didn't get a launch detection from our satellite!
[pause]
General Beringer : No, no. Radar picked 'em up already out of the atmosphere. That's the first we heard of it.
[Beringer gives phone back to his aide, Major Dawes]
General Beringer : [to Colonel Conley] Get the ICBMs in the bullpen warmed up and ready to fly.
General Beringer : [to Major Dawes] Get me the President on the horn.
