Bravo Two Zero (1999 TV Movie)

Sean Bean: Andy McNab

Quotes 

• Andy McNab : Every soldier hopes for a major war in his lifetime. This one was mine.

• Dinger : Why did you join the Army?

  Andy McNab : To keep out of trouble.

  Dinger : So your thought if you joined up they'd be no more trouble?

  Andy McNab : Best thing I ever did. Never been in trouble since.

  Dinger : What the bloody hell do you call this?

• Andy McNab : [Narrating]  Of course you're afraid - anyone who says they're not are either lying or need to see a shrink. You want to make the biggest hole possible to hide in - you'd get your spoon out and start digging if that would help. But then the training takes over... you psych yourself up, check all your pouches are closed, your pockets don't open and your magazines are on tight.

  Andy McNab : [Narrating]  For the next hour we fought a running battle with the jundies

  [British military slang for Arab enemy soldiers] 

  Andy McNab : as they pursued us across the plain.

  Andy McNab : [Narrating]  The Bergens were binned - we couldn't move quickly enough with them. Our belt kits carried what we couldn't do without - water and ammo. We could hear contacts in the distance. Whoever they were firing at, it wasn't us.

• Andy McNab : [in custody]  I wasn't afraid. I was depressed.

• Andy McNab : [Narrating]  Andy: We fought the raggi's for the best part of the day. We binned our bergens. Couldn't move quick enough with them. We heard contacts far on in the distance. But they weren't shooting at us.

• Dinger : Did you know that Saddam Hussein is an anagram of 'He's a sad nudist?'

  Andy McNab : Where did the 'M' go?

  Dinger : I swapped it for a 'T'.

  Andy McNab : You can't do that.

  Dinger : Well I just did.

  Andy McNab : That's not right.

• Andy McNab : [speaking in narration, while demonstrating his foreskin]  I pulled as hard as I could, which was difficult, due to the cold.

• Andy McNab : If the Iraqis didn't kill us, the weather was going to.

• Prison Governor : Once again, what is your name?

  Andy McNab : McNab.

  Prison Governor : Your rank?

  Andy McNab : Sargent.

  Prison Governor : And your unit?

  Andy McNab : Under the Geneva Convention, I'm afraid I cannot answer that question.

  Prison Governor : [into his ear]  Fool! We are not in Geneva.

• Andy McNab : The psychiatrists turned up to check us for signs of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Turned out they were more strung-out than we were.

• [last lines] 

  Andy McNab : We're soldiers. It's my profession and I'm proud of it. Nobody said you had to be crap at it. As for the men who tortured us, they had a job to do as well. It's just that some of them enjoyed it a but too much. If I met any of them in the street tomorrow, and thought I could get away with it, I'd slot them.

  Title Card : A patrol of eight went out. Only five returned.

• Andy McNab : [Narrating]  You've got to move forward and take the fight to them. It's the last thing they're expecting. You're dead anyway, so anything you do is a bonus.