Dr. Josh Keyes Why don't you use a credit card and get air miles?
Played by Aaron Eckhart 
The Core (2003) · 28 quotes
The Core (2003) · 28 quotes
2nd most-quoted character in The Core (2003): in 8 of its 28 quotes
Most scenes with: Dr. Conrad Zimsky (2)
Go ahead and throw up, I know I did...
More lines from Dr. Josh Keyes
3 quotes Dr. Josh Keyes Dr. Josh Keyes Then we hotwire the nuclear bombs. [pause] As one does.
Dr. Josh Keyes In a year, everyone on Earth is dead.
Scenes with Dr. Josh Keyes
4 scenes
Serge Leveque Excuse me Dr. Brazzelton, when do you think the ship will be operational?
Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzelton: When I get my fabrication methods perfected, twelve... ten years. Ten years.
General Thomas Percell
What would it take to get it done in three months?
Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzelton: $50 billion, I... [laughing]
General Thomas Percell
[deadpan]
Will you take a cheque?
Dr. Josh Keyes You should use a credit card. You get miles.
General Thomas Percell
Hmm.
M.A.D. Mutually Assured Destruction. A perfect acronym if ever there was one.
Josh Beautiful.
Beck
Hey guys, we're closing in on the inner core.
Josh The nukes are ready. The timers are on.
Beck
Great. Let's start dropping them.
No. The bombs are not built for these pressures. That's why they were in that pod. If you send them out now, out of that casing, they'll be crushed instantly.
Beck
And I assume we have a plan D.
Josh Plan D is Virgil's compartiments. We put a nuke in each section of Virgil and then eject the individual sections. They should stay intact long enough for the nuke to go off. [Braz sighs]
Josh What?
The Virgil is not designed to eject undamaged compartments. [shows them an animation] Okay, these are the ejection mechanisms holding each compartment in place. They're all connected by one master hydraulic gear, kind of like keys on a keyring. What we have to do, we have to unlock the piston. That will release the compartments so the bombs can be jettisoned.
Where's the master gear?
In the crawl space we used to get out earlier.
Look, I had this ship built in three damn months; I didn't think I'd deliberately be sabotaging her, I'm sorry!
Josh So one of us has to go in there.
Correct.
Beck
Into the crawl space, that has core fluid at over 9000 degrees?
Yes.
Josh Can you flush it with liquid nitrogen?
We don't have enough of it at this point.
9,000 degrees. And our suits are built to withstand...?
Half that, probably.
Right, half that.
Josh So what you're saying is, whoever goes into that crawl space, is not coming back.
Beck
You know what makes me really, really angry? Bob, Serge, Braz, Zimsky. No one's every going to know what they did or why they died.
Josh Unless, it all got out somehow.
Beck
That's unthinkable.
Josh Yeah. [they smile at each other]
