WarGames (1983)
Duncan Wilmore: Major Lem
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Quotes
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McKittrick : General, the machine has locked us out. It's sending random numbers to the silos.
Pat Healy : Codes. To launch the missiles.
General Beringer : Just unplug the goddamn thing! Jesus Christ!
McKittrick : That won't work, General. It would interpret a shutdown as the destruction of NORAD. The computers in the silos would carry out their last instructions. They'd launch.
General Beringer : Can't we disarm the missiles?
Pat Healy : Over a thousand of them? There's no time. At this rate it will hit the launch codes in... 5.3 minutes.
General Beringer : [smiles sarcastically at McKittrick] Mr. McKittrick, after very careful consideration, sir, I've come to the conclusion that your new defense system sucks.
McKittrick : I don't have to take that, you pig-eyed sack of shit.
General Beringer : Oh, I was hoping for something a little better than that from you, sir. A man of your education.
Major Lem : [holding a telephone] General, it's the president.
McKittrick : What are you... what are you going to tell him?
General Beringer : I'm ordering our bombers back to fail-safe. We might have to go through this thing after all.
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Major Lem : [D.S.P. registers a massive launch from Soviet ICBM fields] We have a launch detection. We have a Soviet launch detection.
Colonel Joe Conley : BMEWS confirms a massive attack.
Major Lem : Missile Warning - no malfunction.
Radar Analyst Kirkland : Confidence is high. I repeat, confidence is high.
Airman Fields : Cobra Dane, is this an exercise?
Colonel Joe Conley : Negative, this is not an exercise.
Airman Fields : [to Beringer] General, D.S.P. is tracking three hundred inbound Soviet ICBMs.
General Beringer : [points at the C.C.P.D.S. screen] Tell me this is another one of your simulations, Mr. McKittrick.
McKittrick : It's not, Jack.
General Beringer : Alright. Flush the bombers, get the subs in launch mode. We are at DEFCON 1.
Major Lem : [buzzer sounds] DEFCON 1.
