Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : [after destroying the plane that almost killed Maverick and Rooster] Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, this is your savior speaking. Please, fasten your seat belts, return the tray tables to their locked and upright positions and prepare for landing.

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : Hey, Hangman, you look good.

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : I am good, Rooster. I'm very good. I'll see you back on deck.

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!

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : Got yourself another kill.

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : That makes two.

Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace : Mav has five. Makes him an ace.

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : There's more than one way to fly this mission.

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : You really don't get it. On this mission, a man flies like Maverick here, or a man does not come back. No offense intended.

Lt. Robert 'Bob' Floyd : And somehow, you always manage.

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : Hey, I don't mean to criticize, you're conservative, that's all.

Maverick : Lieutenant...

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : We're going into combat, son, on a level no living pilot's ever seen.

[referring to Maverick]

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : Not even him. There's no time to be thinking about the past.

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : What's that supposed to mean?

Maverick : Rooster...

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : I can't be the only one that knows that Maverick flew with his old man.

Maverick : That's enough.

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : That Maverick was flying with his old man...

Maverick : Lieutenant, that's enough.

[the other pilots hold Rooster back from attacking Hangman]

Maverick : That's enough!

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : You son of a bitch!

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : Hey, I'm cool, I'm cool. Hey.

Maverick : That's enough.

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : He's not cut out for this mission.

Maverick : That's enough.

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : You know it. You know I'm right.

Maverick : You're all dismissed.

[the pilots leave the room]

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : Say, Phoenix. How's about we tell everybody 'Bob' stands for something? Other than Robert, I mean.

Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace : Don't take the bait, Bob. Wanna know why we call him Hangman?

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : All right. I got it. Baby On Board.

[Maverick appears out of nowhere and flies by at full speed between Phoenix and Hangman's planes]

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : Shit!

Maverick : Greetings, aviators. Fight's on!

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : Alright, Phoenix. Let's take this guy out!

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : [Listening to the radio] Watch your back, Phoenix!

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : Break right!

Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace : Breaking right.

[Hangman leaves Phoenix]

Lt. Robert 'Bob' Floyd : Where's he going?

Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace : That's why we call him Hangman. He'll always hang you out to dry.

Maverick : Leaving your wingman. There's a strategy I haven't seen in a while.

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : He called you a man, Phoenix. You gonna take that?

Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace : So long as he doesn't call you a man.

[towards Bob]

Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace : Talk to me, Bob, where's Maverick?

Lt. Robert 'Bob' Floyd : Jesus, his nose is already coming around!

Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace : Get him off me, Hangman!

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : For all you folks at home, this is how you bury a fossil!

Maverick : Alright, Hangman. Time to teach you a lesson.

[Maverick puts Phoenix and Bob on missile lock]

Maverick : You're out, Phoenix.

Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace : Son of a bitch!

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : Let's go, Mav, let's see what you got.

Maverick : Come get me!

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : Evil be gone. Hangman's coming!

[Hangman keeps up with Maverick]

Maverick : Yeah, you're good. I'll give you that.

[Maverick flies up to the sun, blinding Hangman, who is after him]

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : Shit! Phoenix, I can't see him. How close am I? Phoenix?

Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace : I'm dead, dickhead!

Lt. Robert 'Bob' Floyd : See you in the afterlife, Bagman.

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : Where is he? Where is he?

[Maverick soars from behind Hangman and paints him killed]

Maverick : That's a kill.

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.

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : [Looking at a picture of Maverick's Top Gun class] Yo, Coyote, take a look at this.

Lt. Javy 'Coyote' Machado : [Looks at Maverick in the picture] The man, the legend. There he is.

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : No, no, no, next to him. That look familiar to you?

Lt. Javy 'Coyote' Machado : What have we here?

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : [Referring to Goose] Bradshaw. As I live and breathe.

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : Say, Rooster, mind if I ask you a personal question?

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : Would it matter if I did?

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : So, what's the story with you and Maverick? Seems like he's got you a little rattled.

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : It's none of your business. Now, where the hell is he?

Maverick : Been here the whole time.

[Maverick, flying under Rooster's plane, flips his plane upwards on his starboard side and ends up inverted over Rooster's plane]

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : Holy shit!

Maverick : You see me now? Come on, let's get it over with.

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : [Maverick and Rooster begin to spiral downwards] Fight's on!

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : What is it with these two?

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : [after Maverick is thrown out of Penny's bar] Thanks for the beers, come back anytime!

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : I flew as fast as I could. Kind of like my ass depended on it.

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!