The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Denzel Washington: Ben Marco
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Quotes
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Senator Thomas Jordan : And you bring me rumors and conjecture.
Ben Marco : I started with nightmares. Rumors, conjectures, that's a giant leap forward.
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Ben Marco : [being brainwashed over the phone] Yes, senator?
Eleanor Shaw : Is this Captain Marco?
Ben Marco : Yep.
Eleanor Shaw : Captain Bennet Marco?
Ben Marco : Yes.
Eleanor Shaw : Bennet Ezikiel Marco?
Ben Marco : ...yes.
Eleanor Shaw : ...Listen.
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Al Melvin : I'm just! I'm just... I'm just a little stuck, Sir.
[pause]
Al Melvin : Because I remember, okay, Shaw...
[pause]
Al Melvin : Shaw, okay... Shaw saving us, right?
[another pause]
Al Melvin : But that doesn't make sense, because... that should've been you. Okay, if Shaw is in the Hummer...
[pause]
Al Melvin : The Toyota is here...
[breaks down to the floor and sobs]
Ben Marco : [Marco grabs him and holds him up to his feet] All right. Just get up, get up!
[pause]
Ben Marco : Listen, it's... That's over with. That's done. Okay? You gotta move on...
Al Melvin : [stutters] What I was hoping is that, you know, maybe...
Ben Marco : You need some money or something?
Al Melvin : No. No, Sir...
Ben Marco : Wait a minute...
Al Melvin : I don't need your money, man!
Ben Marco : All right. Well, it was great to see you...
[Melvin walks away]
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[last lines]
Noyle : [voiceover] Now, when you're rescued and returned with your patrol to command headquarters, what will be among the first of your duties that you'll undertake?
Ben Marco : I'll recommend Sergeant Shaw for the Medal of Honor, sir. He saved our lives. He terminated the enemy. Led us across the desert to safety.
Noyle : Excellent. And there were casualties?
Ben Marco : There's always casualties in war, sir.
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Raymond Shaw : Are we friends, Ben? I wanna believe we were friends.
Ben Marco : We are connected and that's something nobody can take from us. You coulda had me locked up, but you didn't. That's proof that there's something deep inside. There's a part that they can't get to. And it's deep inside of us. And that's where the truth is.
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Al Melvin : [disturbingly] I have these dreams, Sir.
Ben Marco : [puzzled] Dreams?
Al Melvin : [continues] Yes, Sir. Kuwait. It's you and me, Ingram and Baker and...
[pause]
Al Melvin : Raymond Shaw.
Ben Marco : Okay.
Al Melvin : See, I remember it happened...
[pause]
Al Melvin : Like you just said and then...
[pause]
Al Melvin : I don't...
Ben Marco : Well, we had it pretty rough over there, Melvin. That was a long time ago. Memories shift...
Al Melvin : [cutting Ben off] Do you have dreams, Sir?
Ben Marco : [smiles] Everybody has dreams, Corporal...
Al Melvin : [frustratingly] No, not these!
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Al Melvin : [trying to explain his dreams] I write it all down. You know, like, every night...
[he shows Marco a notebook with strange notes scribbled in it]
Al Melvin : Right when I wake up, I try to get it down. It doesn't always come together, you know? Not everything that I can remember...
Ben Marco : Maybe you should go to the V.A. Hospital. Talk to one of the doctors...
Al Melvin : [angrily throws his notebook on the floor] I've *BEEN* to doctors, man!
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Ben Marco : You said the army implants, they were for emergency medical data, right?
Delp : The ones they publicized were. There was a parallel project of all kinds of scary implantables. The Clinton watch dogs finally freaked out about it, closed down.
Ben Marco : Parallel project? How'd you know about that?
Delp : Manchurian Global funded me to make some of this scary shit. Heard of them? Imagine not just a corporation, Marco, but a goddamn geopolitical extension of policy for every President since Nixon.
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Ben Marco : This is rich people, Manchurian Global, funding bad science, to put a sleeper in the White House, and that's what's going on Rosie. That's what's going on.
Rosie : [holding gun on him] I want to believe you.
Ben Marco : Well, then believe me. Help me.
Rosie : Uh, uh, uh, uh.
Ben Marco : Shoot me then. Help me or shoot me, make a decision. Make a decision.
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[first lines]
Ben Marco : So why don't we just go directly right up in this route, straight in...
Laurent Tokar : Yes, I see the Captain enjoys the road less-traveled.
Ben Marco : No, the Captain enjoys not going down the highway, draggin' his ass so every Tom, Dick, Gaddafi can take a whack at it.
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Ben Marco : Somebody got into our heads with big steel-toe boots, cable cutters and a chainsaw and they went to town. Neurons got got got exposed and circuits got rewired. Our brain cells got obliterated, Raymond.
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Ben Marco : This isn't an election, this is a coup.