Cliffhanger (1993)

John Lithgow: Eric Qualen

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• Travers : Tucker and Walker! We're missing 3 bags.

  Gabe Walker : What's in them?

  Travers : None of your fucking business!

  Eric Qualen : Suits, socks, 100 million dollars - the usual stuff.

• [the jet is about to make an emergency landing after they screwed up] 

  Eric Qualen : Don't bother to buckle up - you may not want to survive this.

• Eric Qualen : [watching Kristel assemble the bomb]  You'll make a good wife for someone one day.

  Kristel : You should see me bake a cake.

• Eric Qualen : Kill a few people, they call you a murderer. Kill a million and you're a conqueror.

• Qualen : I must say, you're a real piece of work.

  Gabe : I must say, you're a real piece of shit.

• [During the theft of the money, Travers zip lines from one plane to another] 

  Eric Qualen : Why didn't you send the money first?

  Travers : Somehow I didn't think you'd wait for me if I sent it first.

• Eric Qualen : Travers, have you lost your mind?

  Travers : Have I lost it? Fuckin-A, I've lost it, Qualen! Pure fucking Section Eight!

• Travers : Get off my back, Qualen!

  Qualen : Off? I haven't even got on it... yet.

• [over the radio] 

  Travers : It's Walker! The son of a bitch is still alive, Qualen.

  Eric Qualen : No names, this is an open line.

  Travers : I don't give a damn, ERIC QUALEN!

• Hal Tucker : [Kynette opens fire on the BASE Jumpers]  You son of a bitch! You said you wouldn't kill him!

  Eric Qualen : Sue me.

• Qualen : You want to kill me, don't you, Tucker? Well, get a number and get in line.

  Qualen : [reminding him of killing two of the treasury agents mid flight]  You Crossed Over Richard Travers... You Can't Cross Back

• Eric Qualen : [Travers and Delmar are mutinying against him]  Of course without a pilot

  [whips out a gun putting it to Kristel] 

  Eric Qualen : No one gets off this mountain

  Kristel : [rather concerned]  Eric... What are you doing?

  Eric Qualen : Do you know what real love is, Kristel?

  Kristel : No.

  Eric Qualen : [whispers in her ear]  Sacrifice...

  [shoots her] 

  Eric Qualen : Now I'm the ONLY ONE who can fly us out of here

  [drags a now dead Kristel out of said helicopter] 

  Eric Qualen : We're partners again. Now Take Your *TOY*

  [angrily shoves monitor back to Travers] 

  Eric Qualen : And Find OUR *MONEY*

• Eric Qualen : Love is a killer, isn't it?

• Eric Qualen : Tucker and Walker, you resiliant bastards! You're still alive!

• Eric Qualen : [to Tucker after Gabe has apparently been swept off the mountain during an avalanche]  Your friend just had the most expensive funeral in history...

• Eric Qualen : [Richard Travers having been shot repeatedly and frozen to death in the icy water] 

  [over the radio] 

  Eric Qualen : Travers Come In

  [now irritably] 

  Eric Qualen : Travers... Come... In

  Hal Tucker : [to Gabe as he pulls out a radio]  Compliments Of Delmar

  [gloatingly into the radio] 

  Hal Tucker : Too Late Qualen You Missed Him

  [watches Travers rapidly carried away under the ice by strong currents face frozen in disbelief] 

  Hal Tucker : He *Decided* To Take A Swim To *Arizona*

  Eric Qualen : [spits]  TUCKER

  Hal Tucker : [smugly]  Ttthhhaaattt'ssss Rrriiiggghhhtttt

  Eric Qualen : [coldly over the radio]  Congratulations

• Eric Qualen : Give me the monitor

  [Travers slides it to Qualen, he looks and shows Enter Frequency Code] 

  Eric Qualen : What's the code Travers

  Travers : I told you Qualen, 50,000 possible key code combination in 15 second intervals

  Eric Qualen : So what's the fucking code

• Kynette : [Matheson shoots one of their comrades] 

  [holding his fellow groaning cohort] 

  Kynette : Oh Man He's Hit Bad

  [looks at Eric] 

  Kynette : What Do We Do?

  Eric Qualen : [flippantly]  Get Him To A Hospital

  [exasperated] 

  Eric Qualen : FAST

  [shoves said accomplice to be sucked out of the plane to his death far below]