Gerard Butler credited as playing...
Mike Banning
- Mike Banning: [Explaining the cause of his insomnia] Goes with the job, I guess.
- Neurologist: What kind of work do you do ?
- Mike Banning: Computer sales. I travel a lot.
- Mike Banning: I know who did this to us. He's gonna try and finish the job. You are not safe here, sir.
- Secret Service Director David Gentry: No, no. This is the safest place for you, sir. This place is on total lockdown.
- Mike Banning: Then how the fuck did I get here, Gentry?
- Secret Service Director David Gentry: You know all of our protocols, and now you're in cuffs!
- Mike Banning: Sir, sir. I served with this man. I know what he's capable of.
- Secret Service Director David Gentry: We don't even know if this guy exists.
- Mike Banning: He wants you dead.
- Secret Service Director David Gentry: All we have is Mike's word!
- Mike Banning: He will find a way in here like I did.
- Secret Service Director David Gentry: Eighteen agents are dead! You're still alive!
- Mike Banning: We are sitting ducks.
- President Trumbull: All right! Uncuff him.
- Secret Service Director David Gentry: Sir, we still don't know whose side Mike is really on.
- President Trumbull: Yes, we do. He's on my side. He's the reason I'm still alive.
- Mike Banning: [from the trailer] People are gonna fall but not you sir
- Mike Banning: [to a dying Bruno] I told you to train like it was fucking real
- Mike Banning: [evading an assault in a hidden tunnel] Why did I think coming here was a good idea? I knew you had time to kill, but Jesus!
- Clay Banning: Just keep low, and don't bitch.
- Secret Service Director David Gentry: Have you completely lost your mind?
- Mike Banning: You have a true condition red here, David. You need to get me to the president. Why the fuck would I give myself up? This is a real fucking threat!
- Mike Banning: You almost blew me up, damn it!
- Clay Banning: I didn't tell you to run down there.
- Mike Banning: Oh, shit. Well, I hope you got more fun and games, 'cause we're about to be overrun!
- Clay Banning: Go pull on that wire.
- Mike Banning: What wire?
- Clay Banning: In the fucking leaves! Where else?
- Mike Banning: Fuck!
- Clay Banning: Go get it!
- [Mike finds the wire]
- Clay Banning: Go!
- Mike Banning: [as he pulls it, it triggers a row of explosions] Really?
- Clay Banning: You're welcome.
- Mike Banning: All right, you stay here. I'm gonna go and draw them out.
- Clay Banning: No, no, I wouldn't.
- Mike Banning: Why?
- Clay Banning: Old bull, young bull.
- [as he clicks a detonator, an explosion rocks nearby]
- Mike Banning: What the fuck?
- Clay Banning: [hearing a news report of Trumbull's recovery] What's wrong? I thought you'd be thrilled.
- Mike Banning: No, I am. But Wade's not gonna quit 'til he's dead.
- Clay Banning: Well, you can call in and warn 'em.
- Mike Banning: Do you remember the part they think I'm working with the Russians? Besides, I don't know who else is in on it. No. I need to get to the president himself.
- Clay Banning: Yeah. Then your own guys shoot you.
- Mike Banning: Well, probably.
- Mike Banning: Hey, you got any aspirin? Something stronger?
- Clay Banning: I don't do medications.
- Mike Banning: Of course you don't.
- Clay Banning: And by the looks of it, you shouldn't, either.
- Mike Banning: Got fresh mags in both. Hand me your nine.
- Secret Service Director David Gentry: You sure this is gonna work?
- Mike Banning: Has to. It's our only chance. Just gotta hold 'em off long enough until our people get here. Hopefully soon. Sir. I'll be back before you know it.
- President Trumbull: Mike. Stay alive.
- Bruno: What the fuck, asshole? He just kicked me down the fucking stairs.
- Mike Banning: Well, don't stand on the fucking stairs.
- Clay Banning: How the fuck did you find me?
- Mike Banning: I run security for the president. How do you think? You've been here the last five years. North Carolina before that. Alaska before that.
- Clay Banning: You see, that's Big Brother for you.
- Mike Banning: No, actually, it was just me wondering if you were still alive.
- Clay Banning: Did you do it?
- Mike Banning: You'd like it if I did, wouldn't you... dad?
- [mid-credits scene]
- Clay Banning: You know, that's a good thing you got off those pills and you got your physical done. But you got a whole lot of shit going on upstairs. You know, the stuff we've been through, it sits up there in the top of your head like it's gonna explode. If you don't deal with it, it'll eat you up.
- Mike Banning: Seriously, dad? You're telling me that I have to take care of my upstairs?
- Clay Banning: Yup.
- Mike Banning: You're, like, one level off of the Unabomber. But, tell you what, you wanna help me get my shit together?
- Clay Banning: Yeah.
- Mike Banning: So, how about you come with me? We get un-fucked together.
- Clay Banning: Where are we going?
- Mike Banning: This place my doctor's sending me to. It's supposed to re-balance your brain.
- Clay Banning: Oh, shit.
- Mike Banning: I don't think I'm gonna take the director's job if they offer it. God, I'm not ready to ride a desk yet.
- Wade Jennings: I saw it in your eyes the moment I mentioned it. Hell, I wouldn't, either. We're lions. And that ain't never gonna change.
- Mike Banning: Tell you what, though. I'll put in a good word for you when they pick the new director.
- Wade Jennings: Only if it's convenient.
- President Trumbull: I hear there's something you want to tell me.
- Mike Banning: Yes, sir. I know you're busy, so I-I'll get right to it. Before the attack, I-I... I should've been more honest about some of the things that I was dealing with. The concussions, the... pills. I let you down, sir.
- President Trumbull: You're damn right. Why did you think you couldn't come to me with this, after all we've been through?
- Mike Banning: I don't know, sir. You know how I feel about the job, and I... I didn't want anyone to take that away from me. But that is no excuse. You know, someone said to me once... it's better sometimes knowing when to quit instead of lying to yourself and hurting the ones you care about the most. I'm not gonna let that happen again. I'm here to offer my resignation, sir.
- Agent Thompson: Maybe you can explain why I found your DNA in the van. Skin cells, hair. Right there on the launch controls.
- Mike Banning: What?
- Agent Thompson: Or residue from the same explosives used in the event in your garage. Mike, tell me about the encrypted folder we found on the Dark Web.
- Mike Banning: Encrypted folder?
- Agent Thompson: The encrypted folder that contained the classified map and your Secret Service itinerary for the lake trip. Only you had that, Mike. How did that happen?
- Militia Man #1: Holy shit. We got us America's Most Wanted here, Tim. Bet there's a big ol' bounty on your ass. Tim, you stay on him. I'm gonna call it in. If he moves, shoot him.
- Militia Man #2: Shit, he moves a muscle, I'll light his ass up.
- Mike Banning: [getting the advantage] You were saying?
- Militia Man #1: Shoot him, Tim. Shoot him!
- Militia Man #2: [throwing his gun down] Shit.
- Militia Man #1: What the hell you doing?
- Militia Man #2: I ain't dying for this shit, Bobby.
- Militia Man #1: God damn it.
- Mike Banning: Your mountain militia needs help.
- Trucker: [cocking a pistol] You'd best drop that gun, boy.
- Mike Banning: Fuck.
- Secret Service Director David Gentry: Just a few more of these pressers and I'm done with this circus.
- Mike Banning: Ah, you know you'll miss it, sir. You have no life.
- Secret Service Director David Gentry: Says the man who could be taking my place.
- Leah Banning: Mike said you grew up in England?
- Wade Jennings: Uh, yeah, I did. Yeah, my father was an expat. I, uh... I never really felt I belonged anywhere. But when I moved to the States after school, I-I joined the Army.
- Leah Banning: And how long did you guys serve together?
- Mike Banning: Uh, I got into Third Batt right after you. So, what, about three, four years?
- Wade Jennings: That sounds about right. Yeah.
- Leah Banning: Mike never tells me stories about his Army days.
- Wade Jennings: Yeah, well, most of us don't. It's just our way, I guess. But, uh, hey, if you... if you wanna hear a story...
- Mike Banning: No.
- Leah Banning: Yeah.
- Mike Banning: No, she doesn't wanna hear a story. You know, whatever he's gonna say is... is definitely inappropriate.