Captain Ryan
We're on a different level here, Cooper. For that, I need men of action, not deeds.
Played by Liam Cunningham 
Dog Soldiers (2002) · 28 quotes
Dog Soldiers (2002) · 28 quotes
Of course, the real trick to survival lies not in running and hiding, but in removing your enemy's capacity to hunt you down.
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Wells
Right lads, ditch your 80s. From here on in the exercise is well and truly over. Anyone not carrying live rounds had better do so.
Ryan
It won't make any difference. They won't die.
Wells
[cocking his gun]
Yeah, well, this gives me better peace of mind, sir.
Ryan
You want peace of mind? Run for lives before they tear your legs from under you.
Wells
Will you just shut up, like a good gentleman? You are scaring my lads.
Cooper
What now?
Spoon
They shut down the generator!
Milburn
Why would they do that?
Megan
Because they can see in the dark.
Ryan
And you're afraid of it.
Cooper
Well, Ryan, you heard the score. Maybe one or two of us are gonna make it through this. I don't care much for our chances. D'ye like football?
Ryan
What, "they think it's all over" and all that crap? No, I don't.
Cooper
Well, Joe, you remember Joe? He liked football. ****in' lived for it.
Ryan
Is this relevant?
Cooper
He missed the most important match of his life for this bullshit exercise, and now he's dead along with two other mates I'd have readily given my right arm for. Too ****in' right it's "relevant"!
Ryan
Ever heard of Special Weapons Division? They're the men in white coats who train dolphins to stick mines on submarines, and cute furry animals to tear your head off at the neck. They saw an opportunity and called me in.
Cooper
To do what? Catch one of these things?
Ryan
And to bring it back. Alive, if possible.
Megan
Only "it" turned out to be "them".
Ryan
We underestimated enemy numbers.
Cooper
Underestimated? I'd have a serious word with your head scheds about the quality of their intelligence.
Ryan
It may have been their invitation, but it was my party. I planned it, executed it.
Cooper
And you loused it up.
Wells
We lost good men, Ryan. Yours and mine. I want to know... [slides a tracking chip Campbell found in the radio over to Ryan] ...where we fit in.
Ryan
The reality is, you're expendable. And I had approval to put you at risk.
Cooper
[puts his knife to Ryan's throat]
Get to the ****in' point, Ryan!
Ryan
I made a gap in enemy lines. You were good enough to spot it, and predictable enough to go for it. That was your bait. You were mine.
Cooper
[steps back and stabs the knife into the mantel]
You bastard.
Ryan
[sneering]
I had to choose somebody. I remembered you. Monkey see, monkey do.
Wells
[Wells punches Ryan to the floor]
They were my men!
Cooper
Get up, ya shit! You know what we can do! Give us a fightin' chance!
Ryan
[eyes going yellow, beginning to transform]
Live and learn, Cooper.
