The Core (2003)
Richard Jenkins: General Purcell
Photos
Quotes
-
Taz 'Rat' Finch : You want me to hack the planet? He wants me to hack the planet... Ok, *if* I decide to do this, I'll need an unlimited supply of Xena tapes and Hotpockets.
General Thomas Percell : Hotpockets?
Taz 'Rat' Finch : They help me concentrate.
Dr. Josh Keyes : Sounds fair.
-
Serge Leveque : Excuse me Dr. Brazzelton, when do you think the ship will be operational?
Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzelton : When I get my fabrication methods perfected, twelve... ten years. Ten years.
General Thomas Percell : What would it take to get it done in three months?
Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzelton : Fifty billion dollars, I...
[laughing]
General Thomas Percell : [deadpan] Will you take a cheque?
Dr. Josh Keyes : You should use a credit card. You get miles.
General Thomas Percell : Hmm.
-
Dr. Josh Keyes : I think we are in the wrong place here...
Serge Leveque : Yeah, we're in the wrong place...
General Thomas Percell : No. If you were in the wrong place, you'd have already been shot.
Serge Leveque : That's a hell of a greeting.
-
General Thomas Percell : How do we fix it?
Dr. Josh Keyes : We can't.
General Thomas Percell : Not in my vocabulary.
Dr. Josh Keyes : Then you might want to get one of those word-a-day calendars, General, because it's impossible. The core is the size of Mars. You're talking about jump-starting a planet. This is a superheated hyper-fluid of molten iron and nickel at 9,000 degrees Fahrenheit. And the deepest we've ever been is... 7 miles, with a two-inch drill bit.
General Thomas Percell : If we can go into space, we certainly...
Dr. Josh Keyes : Space is easy. It's empty. We're talking about millions of pounds of pressure per square inch. Even if we somehow came up with a brilliant plan to fix the core, we just can't get there.
-
Talma Stickley : [Percell gives the final order to fire DESTINI] Damn you.
General Thomas Percell : Damn me? Too late.
