Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

Jay Ellis: Lt. Reuben 'Payback' Fitch

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• 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!

• 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.

• Maverick : [On the bombing run]  Dagger attack!

  [Tomahawks launch from USS Leyte Gulf] 

  Naval Officer : Tomahawks airborne.

  Adm. Solomon 'Warlock' Bates : No turning back now.

  Maverick : Daggers, assume attack formation.

  [Planes line up in single file] 

  Maverick : [Approaching coastline]  Daggers set. Proceeding to target. Two minutes and thirty seconds in 3... 2... 1. Mark.

  Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : Two mark.

  Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace : Three mark.

  Payback : Four mark.

  Maverick : Going in.

• 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!

• Maverick : Dagger 1 up and ready on catapult 1.

  Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : Dagger spare standing by.

  Payback : Dagger 4 up and ready.

  Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace : Dagger 3 up and ready.

  Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : Dagger 2 up and ready.

  Air Control Officer : Report axis airborne, strike package ready, standing by for launch decision.

  Adm. Beau 'Cyclone' Simpson : Send them.