Tied for 2nd most-quoted character in Battleship (2012): in 6 of its 22 quotes
Scenes with Old Salt
6 scenes
CW CPO Walter Lynch
[Aboard the USS Missouri]
This ship is 70 years old. It's totally outdated. The firing control systems are all analog. The engines haven't been started in a decade, which would be fine, but they're steam, which I have no idea how to fire up. And even if I had a user manual and six weeks to go through it all, we still don't have enough crew to fire it up. [Turns to LT Hopper] I don't know what you're thinking, sir.
OS Old Salt
[The camera pans back to show more than ten 'old salts', former crewmen of the USS Missouri from various wars, standing watch over the ship. They approach the survivors from the USS John Paul Jones.] [Shaking hands with LT Hopper]
Is everyone all right?
LA LT Alex Hopper
Yes, sir, we're okay...You men have already given so much to your country, and no one has a right to ask any more, but I'm asking.
OS Old Salt
What do you need, son?
LA LT Alex Hopper
I need to borrow your boat.
OS Old Salt
[Ordy heads to the control room where an old salt is manning the controls]
Son.
O Ordy
[Ordy stands there, uncertain. The Old Salt looks back at him]
Sir?
OS Old Salt
What the hell, you gonna stand there, staring at me? Get your goddamn eye on that spotter!
O Ordy
[quickly doing as told]
Eye on spotter, sir.
R Raikes
[Raikes heads to the gunnery control room, where two veterans are getting to work] [looking around]
Whoa...
OS Old Salt
Been working on a destroyer, haven't you?
OS Old Salt
Are you ready to play with the big boys?
R Raikes
[Excited]
Oh, yes, sir.
OS Old Salt
Come on. We need the help.
OS Old Salt
[Engine room. A veteran lights a wick as Lynch watches]
Best cover your ears. [Sticks the wick in the engine. Flips two levers as the engine roars to life] Purrs like a kitten!
[As alien explosive pegs are fired]
Drop port anchor.
[the pegs get closer]
Drop it NOW!
[the anchor drops]
We are gonna die.
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---
FIRE!
[they start firing on the ship]
CW CPO Walter Lynch
[The Missouri is rocked by enemy fire] [to a nearby old salt]
You alright?
OS Old Salt
They ain't gonna sink this battleship. No way.
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