Jack Hall I think we're on the verge of a major climate shift!
Most-quoted character in The Day After Tomorrow (2004): in 17 of its 58 quotes
Most scenes with: Terry Rapson (5), Jason (2), Janet (2)
I think we've hit a critical desalinization point.
More lines from Jack Hall
4 quotes Jack Hall Jack Hall When this storm is over, we'll be in a new Ice Age.
Jack Hall I will come for you, do you understand me? I will come for you!
Jack Hall [in deleted scene, when asked by Jason Evans what will happen to humanity]
Well, mankind survived the last Ice Age. We are certainly capable of surviving this one. The only question is, will we learn from our mistakes? I sure as hell would like a chance to learn from mine.
Scenes with Jack Hall
12 scenes Jack Hall What I do know, is that if we do not act soon, it is our children and our grandchildren who will have to pay the price.
And who's going to pay the price of the Kyoto accord? It would cost the world's economy hundreds of billions of dollars.
Jack Hall With all due respect, Mr. Vice President, the cost of doing nothing could be even higher. Our climate is fragile. At the rate we're burning fossil fuels and polluting the environment, the ice caps will soon disappear.
Professor, uh, Hall, our economy is every bit as fragile as the environment. Perhaps you should keep that in mind before making sensationalist claims.
Jack Hall Well, the last chunk of ice that broke off was about the size of the state of Rhode Island. Some people might call that pretty sensational.
Lucy Hall
Can you take him to the airport in the morning?
Jack Hall Sam's getting on a plane?
Lucy Hall
He joined the scholastic decathlon team. They're competing in New York.
Jack Hall Sam joined a team?
Lucy Hall
[Quietly]
Yeah, I think there's a girl involved.
[Sam groans.]
Jack Hall My seventeen-year-old kid knows more science than him
Perhaps, but your seventeen-year-old kid does not control our budget. It doesn't matter if he hates you.
Jack Hall [On Sam failing calculus]
I'm not angry. I'm disappointed.
Do you wanna hear my side of it?
Jack Hall Sam, how can there be two sides?
Hey, look, I got every question right on the final and the only reason why Mr. Spengler failed me was because I didn't write out the solutions.
Jack Why not?
I do them in my head.
Jack Hall Did you tell him that?
I did. He didn't believe me. He said that if he can't do them in his head then I must be cheating.
Jack Hall Well, that's ridiculous! How can he fail you for being smarter than he is?
That's what I said.
Jack Hall You did? [Smirks] How'd he take it?
He flunked me, remember?
We found something extraordinary... extraordinary and disturbing, that is. You recall what you said in New Delhi about how polar melting might disrupt the North Atlantic Current?
Jack Hall Yes.
Well... I think it's happening.
There are no forecast models remotely capable of plotting this scenario -- except yours.
Jack Hall My model is a reconstruction of a prehistoric climate shift. It's not a forecast model.
It's the closest thing we have. Nothing like this has ever happened before.
Jack Hall At least not in the last 10,000 years.
Jack, we got the results.
Jack Hall Six to eight months? That can't be.
That time scale isn't in months -- it's in weeks.
[Over the phone]
What I'm about to tell you is supposed to be confidential. Several hours ago, three helicopters went down over Scotland. They crashed because the fuel in their lines froze.
Jack Hall At what temperature does...
[Interrupting]
Negative one hundred and fifty degrees Fahrenheit. I mean, we had to look it up!
Jack Hall Professor, It's time you got out of there.
I'm afraid that time has come and gone, my friend.
Jack Hall [Pause]
What can we do?
Save as many as you can.
President Blake What exactly are you proposing, professor?
Jack Hall [He draws a line from the middle of California across the US to the Virginias]
Evacuate everyone south of that line.
President Blake What about the people in the north?
Jack Hall I'm afraid it's too late for them. If they go outside, the storm will kill them.
What do you think is gonna happen to us?
Jack Hall What do you mean?
I mean us? Civilization? Everybody?
Jack Hall Mankind survived the last Ice Age. We're certainly capable of surviving this one. All it depends on is whether or not we're able to learn from our mistakes.
[Over the phone]
What I'm about to tell you is supposed to be confidential. Several hours ago, three helicopters went down over Scotland. They crashed because the fuel in their lines froze.
Jack Hall At what temperature does-
-150° Fahrenheit. I mean, we had to look it up! The temperature dropped phenomenally fast! On the ground, people froze before they could get out of their cars!
Hall Can you get me a satellite picture of Scotland two hours ago?
Yeah.
We've got mountains of data, but nowhere near enough computer power to analyze it. Can you help us?
Hall Send us what you've got, we'll do our best.
Thanks, Jack. Bye for now. [hangs up]
This is Scotland at the time the temperature dropped.
Hall [they see the image, which only displays hurricane-shaped cloud cover.]
This thing looks just like a hurricane.
Only hurricanes don't form over land.
