Scenes with Captain Nagata
6 scenes
Hopper
All right, so we can't see them and they can't see us, and we have no way to hit them from a safe distance.
Captain Nagata
There is a way.
Hopper
A way?
Captain Nagata
A way of seeing them without seeing them.
Hopper
You're going to reference Art of War, aren't you? What are we supposed to do, "fight the enemy where they aren't"? "Move like water"? Because I've read that thing about six times, and it makes no sense.
Captain Nagata
That book is Chinese.
Hopper
Still makes no sense.
Hopper
[readying two Barrett rifles]
Where'd you learn to shoot?
Nagata
I'm not sure how you say it in English. Natsu campu... "Summa campu"?
Hopper
...Summer camp?
Nagata
Champion, when I was twelve.
Hopper
Are you kidding me?
Hopper
[The USS John Paul Jones has been sunk in battle; aboard a lifeboat, LT Alex Hopper looks around at the isolated American and Japanese survivors who are all dejected.]
It doesn't end like this.
Captain Nagata
What do you want us to do, Hopper? We have no ships left.
Hopper
We have one. [looks at the USS Missouri as the boats enter Pearl Harbor] We've got a battleship.
Captain Nagata
Are you crazy? That's a museum.
Hopper
Not today.
Hopper
[As alien explosive pegs are fired]
Drop port anchor.
Hopper
[the pegs get closer]
Drop it NOW!
Nagata
[the anchor drops]
We are gonna die.
Hopper
We are gonna die. You're gonna die. I'm gonna die. We're all gonna die... Just not today.
OS Old Salt
[Anchor hits the bottom and the ship starts club-hauling to face the alien mothership full broadside, causing the pegs to make a near miss]
Let's drop some lead on those mother---
Hopper
FIRE!
[they start firing on the ship]
Nagata
[Hopper's unorthodox tactic works]
I can't believe that worked!
Hopper
Yeah, Art of War. "Fight the enemy where they aren't." After all these years, it finally just clicked.
Nagata
But that's not what it means.
Hopper
Really?
Nagata
Not even close.
Hopper
[It looks like the end for the Missouri and her crew. They are about to fire their last round at the communications array, cutting the aliens on land away from Planet G and thereby saving the world, at the cost of leaving them defenseless against the Shredder drones. Hopper turns to Captain Nagata, his former enemy]
It was an honor serving with you, Captain.
Captain Nagata
The honor was mine.
Hopper
[gets back on his walkie-talkie]
Fire.
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