Bob Hauk
[reading Plissken's file]
S.D. Plissken... American, Lieutenant: Special Forces Unit "Black Light". Two Purple Hearts, Leningrad and Siberia. Youngest man to be decorated by the President. Then you robbed the Federal Reserve Depository... life sentence, New York maximum security penitentiary. I'm about to kick your ass out of the world, war hero...
Snake Plissken
[calmly strikes a match against Hauk's desk to light his cigarette and in a bored tone of voice]
Who're you?
Bob Hauk
Hauk, Police Commissioner.
Snake Plissken
Bob Hauk...
Bob Hauk
Special Forces Unit "Texas Thunder"... we heard of you too, Plissken.
Bob Hauk
You go in, find the President, bring him out in 24 hours, and you're a free man.
Snake Plissken
24 hours, huh?
Bob Hauk
I'm making you an offer.
Snake Plissken
Bullshit!
Bob Hauk
Straight just like I said.
Snake Plissken
I'll think about it.
Bob Hauk
No time. Give me an answer.
Snake Plissken
Get a new president!
Bob Hauk
We're still at war, Plissken. We need him alive.
Snake Plissken
I don't give a **** about your war... or your president.
Bob Hauk
Is that your answer?
Snake Plissken
I'm thinking about it.
Bob Hauk
Think hard.
Snake Plissken
[pause]
Why me?
Bob Hauk
You flew the Gullfire over Leningrad. You know how to get in quiet. You're all I got.
Snake Plissken
[pause]
I guess I go in one way or the other... doesn't mean shit to me. All right... I'll do it. Give me the pardon paper.
Bob Hauk
When you come out.
Snake Plissken
Before.
Bob Hauk
I told you I wasn't a fool, Plissken.
Snake Plissken
Call me Snake.
Bob Hauk
In 22 hours, the Hartford Summit Meeting will be over. China and the Soviet Union will go back home. Now, the President was on his way to the summit when his plane went down. He has a briefcase attached to his wrist. The tape recording inside has to reach Hartford in 22 hours.
Snake Plissken
What's on it?
Bob Hauk
You know anything about nuclear fusion?
Snake Plissken
No.
Bob Hauk
The survival of the human race, Plissken. Something you don't give a shit about.
C Cronenberg
[approaches Snake with two injection guns]
I'm going to inject you. It will sting for a second.
Bob Hauk
[Cronenberg places both guns on the side of Snake's neck and injects him, producing a loud bang]
That's it, Plissken.
Snake Plissken
Tell me what?
Bob Hauk
That idea you had about turning the Gullfire around 180 degrees and flying off to Canada.
Snake Plissken
What did you do to me, asshole!?
Bob Hauk
My idea, Plissken. Something we've been fooling around with. Two microscopic capsules lodged in your arteries. They're already starting to dissolve. In 22 hours, the cores will completely dissolve. Inside the cores are a heat-sensing charge. Not a large explosion, about the size of a pinhead, just big enough to open up both of your arteries. I'd say you'd be dead in 10-15 seconds...
Snake Plissken
[chokes Hauk]
Take them out, now!
C Cronenberg
They're protected by the cores. Fifteen minutes before the last hour is up, we can neutralize the charge with X-rays.
Bob Hauk
[Pushes Snake away from Hauk]
We'll burn out the charges if you have the President.
Snake Plissken
What if I'm a little late?
Bob Hauk
No more Hartford Summit. And no more Snake Plissken.
Snake Plissken
When I get back, I'm going to kill you.
Bob Hauk
The Gullfire's waiting.
Snake Plissken
[radioing a pullout request]
All right, get your machine ready, I'm coming out.
Bob Hauk
18 hours left, Plissken!
Snake Plissken
Listen to me, Hauk. The President is dead, you got that? Somebody's had him for dinner!
Bob Hauk
Plissken, if you get back in that glider and fly back here without the tape or the President, I'll shoot you down myself! You try to climb out, I'll burn you off the wall! Do you understand that, Plissken?
Snake Plissken
[pause]
A little human compassion.
Bob Hauk
I'm not a fool, Plissken. [He puts his glasses on, leans forward; reading Plissken's file] S.D. Plissken... American, Lieutenant: Special Forces Unit "Black Light". Two Purple Hearts, Leningrad and Siberia. Youngest man to be decorated by the President. Then you robbed the Federal Reserve Depository... life sentence, New York maximum security penitentiary. [puts down the papers he has read; to Plissken, directly] I'm ready to kick your ass out of the world, war hero...
Snake Plissken
[calmly strikes a match against Hauk's desk to light his cigarette and in a bored tone of voice]
Who're you?
Bob Hauk
Hauk, [takes his glasses off and sets them down on his desk] Police Commissioner.
Snake Plissken
[thinking]
Bob Hauk...
Bob Hauk
Special Forces Unit "Texas Thunder"... we heard of you too, Plissken.
Snake Plissken
[annoyed]
Why are we talking?
Bob Hauk
I have a deal for you. [he opens a drawer on his desk and takes out a certificate] You'll receive full pardon for every criminal action you've committed in the United States. [lays the certificate on the desk; stiffly] There was an accident. About an hour ago, a small jet went down inside New York City. The President was on board.
Snake Plissken
[bored]
The President of what?
Bob Hauk
That's not funny, Plissken. You go in, find the President, bring him out in 24 hours, and you're a free man.
Snake Plissken
24 hours, huh?
Bob Hauk
I'm making you an offer.
Snake Plissken
Bullshit!
Bob Hauk
Straight, just like I said.
Snake Plissken
I'll think about it.
Bob Hauk
No time. Give me an answer.
Snake Plissken
[looks around the room]
Get a new president!
Bob Hauk
We're still at war, Plissken. We need him alive.
Snake Plissken
[directly to Hauk; seriously]
I don't give a **** about your war... or your president.
Bob Hauk
Is that your answer?
Snake Plissken
I'm thinking about it.
Bob Hauk
Think hard.
Snake Plissken
[pause, while he smokes]
Why me?
Bob Hauk
You flew the Gullfire over Leningrad. You know how to get in quiet. You're all I got.
Snake Plissken
[pause]
I guess I go in one way or the other... doesn't mean shit to me. All right... I'll do it. Give me the pardon paper.
Bob Hauk
When you come out.
Snake Plissken
Before.
Bob Hauk
I told you I wasn't a fool, Plissken.
Snake Plissken
Call me Snake.
Bob Hauk
[Snake walks off after hearing President Harker's lip service to the people who died rescuing him]
You're gonna kill me now, Snake?
Snake Plissken
I'm too tired. [pause] Maybe later.
Bob Hauk
I've got another deal for you. I want you to think it over while you're resting. I want to give you a job. We'd make one hell of a team, Snake!
Snake Plissken
[coldly glares at Hauk]
The name's Plissken! [leaves in disgust]
