The Hunger Games: Mockingjay- Part 1 (2014) quotes

View Quote Beetee: I've made you some surprises. Maybe you wanna try one out. If you're gonna be a part of Katniss propos team, you may as well look the part. [Gale aims his archery bow at a target igniting it and Beetee says to Katniss] And this one, is for you. [Hands her an archery bow] Plutarch wanted you to have a weapon for the sake of the propos but... I couldn't just make you a fashion accessory.
Katniss: It's beautiful.
Beetee: And look here. Regular. Incendiary. Explosive arrows. All color-coded. And tell Finnick I've got a trident for him when he's ready. Might just cheer him... Cheer him up. [Katniss aims her bow at a target] Let's not fire the red ones in here.

View Quote Boggs: This has gotta be fast. In and out. Move out.
Paylor: You're alive then. We weren't sure.
Boggs: Katniss, Commander Paylor, District 8. Katniss has been recovering, but she insisted on coming out, and seein' some of your wounded.
Paylor: Well, we've got plenty of those. [Entering hospital] We have a mass grave a few blocks west, but, I can't spare the manpower to move them yet. Hospital's past that curtain. Any hope you can give them, it's worth it. The Capitol's done everything they can to break us.
Boggs: Aren't you worried about having all your wounded in one place?
Paylor: I think it's better than leaving them to die.
Boggs: That's not what I meant.
Paylor: Well, that's my only other option. If you can come up with another, I'm all ears. It's right through here.
Katniss: Don't film me in there. I can't help them.
Cressida: Just let them see your face.
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Woman 1: Katniss Everdeen? What are you doing here?
Katniss: I came to see you.
Woman 2: What about the baby?
Katniss: I lost it.
Man: Are you fighting, Katniss? You here to fight with us?
Katniss: I am. I will. [Man does Mockingjay salute with the rest of the fighters joining in]
Cressida: [Pollux, who's filming] Tighter. Tighter, tighter.

View Quote Boggs: [Katniss wakes up after Peeta attacked her trying to strangle her and she tries to take off her neck support guard] No, Katniss. No, you're swollen. Don't touch. No, no, no. Calm down. Calm down. You're okay. [To nurse] Tell her she's awake. [To Katniss'] Don't try to talk. Peeta's okay. I promise. I just had to get him off you. Don't try to talk. Peeta's okay. I promise. I just had to get him off you.
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Plutarch: It's called hijacking.
Haymitch: We don't know how long the Capitol's been doing this to Peeta.
Beetee: It's fear conditioning. Enhanced with tracker jacker venom. You were stung your first Games. Remember? The venom puts the subject in a dissociative state. And they torture him. With shocks and beatings, and strip down his identity. And then all of that suffering and fear is redirected. Associated with other memories or a person.
Primrose: They can change his memories of Katniss?
Beetee: To make her seem life-threatening.
Haymitch: They turned him into a weapon, Katniss. To kill you.
Primrose: But you can reverse it?
Beetee: The fear is the most difficult thing to overcome. We're hardwired to remember fear best. It's new terrain.
Plutarch: But we've put together a team. I'm optimistic.

View Quote Boggs: [To Katniss in the cafeteria] Katniss, you're wanted in Command.
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Peeta: Tonight, we've received reports of derailed trains, of granaries on fire, and of a savage attack on the hydroelectric dam in District 5.
Katniss: What have they done to you?
Peeta: I'm begging for restraint and decency.
Beetee: [Working in his space] We interrupt your regularly scheduled horse manure to bring you... [Intercepts broadcast signal to divert to rebel footage of Katniss singing on view of hometown destruction]
President Coin: That's it. That's our footage.
Plutarch: Beetee's in.
Peeta: Katniss?
President Coin: He sees it. He sees our propo.
Peeta: Katniss, are you there?
Katniss: Peeta.
Peeta: Katniss?
Caesar: Peeta, please continue. You were telling us about these savage attacks.
Peeta: Yeah. The attack on the dam was a callous and inhuman act of destruction... Think about it. How will this end? What will be left? No one can survive this. No one is safe now. Not here in the Capitol. Not in any of the districts. They're coming, Katniss. They're gonna kill everyone. And in District 13 you'll be dead by morning. [Peeta is grabbed and signal cuts out]
Haymitch: He's warning us. That was a warning.
Boggs: Yes, it was.
Katniss: We have to get him out before they kill him.
President Coin: Is there anything in the air?
Subordinate: Nothing on Doppler, ma'am.
President Coin: He was in the mansion. He could have overheard something.
Plutarch: Possibly.
President Coin: It's time for an air raid drill.
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PA announcer: This is a code red alert. Please, remain calm and begin evacuation protocol.
Katniss: [Running in empty cafeteria] Prim! Prim!
PA announcer: Proceed to your nearest stairwell and descend to level 40. Blast doors will be sealed in six minutes. This is a code red alert... Proceed in an orderly fashion to your nearest stairwell and descend to level 40.
Subordinate: Madam President, three Capitol squadrons just entered our airspace.
President Coin: How much time do we have?
Subordinate: They're a few seconds from range.
President Coin: Prepare to scramble the fleet.
Subordinate: Copy that.
President Coin: Open up short-range air defense. Arm long-range missiles for counter-attack.
PA announcer: Continue to the Supply Station and claim one pack for each member of your compartment. Please keep all personal items within your assigned area. Be courteous to your fellow citizens. This is a code red alert. All citizens should be inside the bunker. Blast doors will close in two minutes.
Katniss: Mom! Where's Prim?
Katniss' mother: I thought she went to find you. She must still be on the stairs.
Katniss: There's no one on the stairs. [Realizes] She went back for the cat.
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Subordinate 1: They hit the far edge of the Northwest quadrant. Penetrated 40 feet. Missed the living quarters. Only minor damage to corridors 2 and 3.
President Coin: Is there any radiation?
Subordinate 1: None detected.
Subordinate 2: Doppler shows a fourth wave approaching.
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Katniss: You went back for the cat? What were you thinking?
Primrose: I wasn't gonna leave him behind. I couldn't live with myself.
Katniss: I know, Prim. Let's go.
Subordinate 3: Damage to the aquifer in the Northwest quadrant. We lost a transport corridor.
President Coin: There's nothing else in the Northwest.
Subordinate 2: Our surface-to-air launchers just took a direct hit in sector 3.
President Coin: Because we revealed ourselves.
Subordinate 2: They saw us firing there. Stand down. Don't launch the fleet.
Subordinate 1: Another 12 Capitol bombers approaching sector 3 in attack formation.
President Coin: Hold fire on their approach. What'd they hit?
Subordinate 1: Bedrock. But there's debris in the ventilation shaft.
President Coin: They're not targeting our fleet.
Plutarch: Or our Special Weaponry.
Boggs: They don't know what we have or where we have it.
President Coin: Can you confirm that everyone's safely in the bunker?
Boggs: Already done.
President Coin: Conceal all remaining anti-aircraft guns. Seal launching pads and ventilation corridors. We are gonna wait this out. This is what we're built for.
Plutarch: They'll seal us in here like a tomb.
President Coin: The Capitol's working off some outdated information. I'd rather not update it for them.
Plutarch: Madam President, I know it's not my place... It's not.
President Coin: You're a welcome guest, but you're out of your depth down here. Reduce oxygen to 14% to conserve it.
Subordinate: Copy that.
President Coin: Take a deep breath, Mr. Heavensbee. It's gonna be a long night.

View Quote Cressida: So I wanna start with you in front of the Justice Building, okay? Bang. First shot. Katniss, tell us what happened here.
Gale: We were all standing right here watching the Games when you fired that arrow. The screens just went dark. Nobody had any idea what happened. Peacekeepers forced us back into our homes. For maybe an hour, the town was just dead quiet. Little past 9:00, we heard their trucks pulling out. All of them. Every single Peacekeeper. And I knew what that meant. Me and a couple of guys from the mines, we started pulling people from their houses and tried to get 'em to the fence line but a lotta people were scared of the forest. So they headed up onto the road. Make a break for it that way.
Cressida: [To Pollux] Stay with Gale.
Gale: 915 of us made it to the fence. Then we watched as... bombers circled back towards the road. They firebombed them as they ran away. 915 outta 10,000. I should've grabbed people. I should've dragged 'em with me. Some of the kids I could've carried.
Cressida: You saved so many people, Gale. Without you, there would be no District 12. Not even the memory of it.
Gale: This is where you kissed me.
Katniss: I didn't think you remembered that.
Gale: I'd have to be dead to forget that. Maybe not even then. I knew you'd do that.
Katniss: How? I didn't.
Gale: 'Cause I'm in pain. That's the only way that I can get your attention. Don't worry, Katniss. It'll pass.

View Quote Cressida: [Leading film crew of bomb crater] Okay, Finnick?
Finnick: Yeah.
Cressida: Go in the centre there. Those rocks. Castor, to the left. Pollux, you're with me. So we'll go straight to camera. Okay?
Finnick: Yeah.
Cressida: Okay. Take your time. Just remember to keep talking and don't stop.
Finnick: This is Finnick Odair. Winner of the 65th Hunger Games. And I'm coming to you from District 13, alive and well. We've survived an assault from the Capitol. But I'm not here to give you recent news.
Katniss: [In command centre] Why is Finnick doing a propo?
Haymitch: It's a lot more than that.
President Coin: Beetee's commandeered the system.
Beetee: Now that they're down to generator power there's a more limited range of frequencies available to them. And I'm filling them all up with Finnick.
Plutarch: Not many will see it, but whoever does will think it's another propo.
Beetee: What they don't know is this broadcast is jamming their entire system with noise. Early defense warning, internal communications, everything. As long as the broadcast goes through, our team should be able to get in and out undetected.
Finnick: The truth. Not the myths about a life of luxury. Not the lie about glory for your homeland. You can survive the arena. The moment you leave, you're a slave. President Snow used to sell me. Or my body, at least. I wasn't the only one. If a Victor is considered desirable, the President gives them as a reward or allows people to buy them. If you refuse, he kills someone you love. To make themselves feel better, my patrons would make presents of money or jewelry. But I found a much more valuable form of payment. Secrets. See, I know all the depravity, the deceit and the cruelty of the Capitol's pampered elite. But the biggest secrets are about our good President, Coriolanus Snow. Such a young man when he rose to power. Such a clever one to keep it. How, you may ask, did he do it? One word. He stopped every mutiny before it even started. There are so many mysterious deaths to adversaries. Even to allies who were threats. Snow would drink from the same cup, to deflect suspicion. But antidotes don't always work, which is why he wears roses that reek of perfume. Help cover the scent of blood from sores in his mouth that will never heal. But he can't hide the scent of who he really is. He kills without mercy. He rules with deception and fear. His weapon of choice is the only thing suited to such a man. Poison. The perfect weapon for a snake.
Subordinate: I'm losing them. Powering back up. Ma'am, the Capitol air defense system is rebooting. It's coming back online.
Beetee: Must be diverting power from another source. And filtering transmissions.
Subordinate: Another 60 seconds and we'll be cut off. Madam President, should we call back the hovercraft?
Katniss: Broadcast me. If Snow’s watching this, maybe he’ll let the signal in if he sees me. Put me on the air so he can see me.
Plutarch: Yes. Yes.
President Coin: Put her on.
Haymitch: Can we do this? Can we still get in?
Beetee: Yes, for the moment he line’s open. He will only see you.
Haymitch: Okay, Katniss, go.
Katniss: President Snow? President Snow, it’s Katniss.
President Coin: There’s no guarantee he’s even watching.
Katniss: President Snow?
Plutarch: I know, but he might be.
Katniss: President Snow, I need to speak with you. Are you there? President Snow, it’s Katniss. Can you hear me? I need to speak with you. President Snow, it’s Katniss. *President Snow, are you there? Can you hear me? President Snow.
[The display flashes to static, then Snow appears on-screen]
President Snow: Miss Everdeen. What an honor. I don’t imagine you’re calling to thank me for the roses.
Katniss: I never asked for this. I never asked to be in the Games. I never asked to be the Mockingjay. I just wanted to save my sister and keep Peeta alive. Please, just let him go and I will stop being The Mockingjay, I will disappear. You will never have to see me ever again.
President Snow: Miss Everdeen. You couldn’t run from this, any more than you could have run from the Games.
Katniss: Please. You’ve won. You’ve already beaten me. Release Peeta and take me instead.
President Snow: We’re long past the opportunity for noble sacrifice.
Katniss: Then tell me what to do. I’ve always kept my promises, haven’t I?
President Snow: You said you didn’t want a war, and that’s just what’s happened. I told you what a fragile thing peace was. And still, like a child, you took pleasure in breaking it. I know what you are. I know you can’t see past your narrowest concerns. But please, Miss Everdeen, I doubt you know what honesty is anymore.
Katniss: You asked me to convince you that I was in love with Peeta. Haven’t I at least done that?
President Snow: Miss Everdeen, it is the things we love most that destroy us. I want you to remember that I said that. Don’t you think I know your friends are in the Tribute Center? [To someone off-screen] Cut them off.
Beetee: Boggs, come in.
Katniss: What happened?
Beetee: Boggs, come in. Do you read me?
Katniss: He knows that they're in there. It's a trap.
Haymitch: Katniss, hold it.
Katniss: We have to get a hold of them. We have to tell them to get out. He knows.
Plutarch: There's no signal. We can't contact them.
Katniss: No. Haymitch, he knew the whole time. He was taunting me. No, Haymitch. They're in there.
Haymitch: No, we don't know that.
Katniss: [Repeatedly] Did I lose them both tonight?! [Haymitch hugs and shushes her] No! No! [Sobs]

View Quote Effie: [In response to Haymitch after the rebel leaders watch a propaganda clip of Katniss] When she volunteered her sister at the Reaping.
Haymitch: Excellent example. [Wiping off information of a electronic touch screen] Okay. I hope that wasn't important. Okay. "Volunteer for sister". [Writing a note] Good. What else?
Effie: When she sang that song for little Rue.
Haymitch: Oh, yeah. Who didn't get choked up at that? You know, I like you better, Effie, without all that makeup.
Effie: Well, I like you better sober.
Haymitch: When she chose Rue as an ally as well.
Effie: Yes.
Haymitch: Now, what do all of these have in common?
Gale: No one told what to do.
Beetee: Unscripted, yes. So maybe we should just leave her alone.
Boggs: And wash her face. She's still a girl. You made her look 35.
Plutarch: The opportunities for spontaneity are obviously lacking underground. So what you're suggesting is we toss her into combat?
President Alma: I can't sanction putting an untrained civilian in battle just for effect. This is not the Capitol.
Haymitch: That is exactly what I'm suggesting. Put her in the field.
President Alma: No, we can't protect her.
Haymitch: It has to come from her. That's what people respond to. You want a symbol for the revolution? She cannot be coached into it. Trust me, I know. Maybe there's someplace less dangerous.
Beetee: District 8. They reported heavy bombing last month. There are no military targets left.
President Alma: We can't guarantee her safety.
Katniss: You'll never be able to guarantee my safety. I wanna go.
President Alma: And if you're killed?
Katniss: Make sure you get it on camera. [Plutarch scoffs]

View Quote Finnick: You don't like hearing a fight song at a funeral? The more people on our side, the closer we are to Peeta and Annie.
Katniss: Yeah.

View Quote Gale: I got good news.
Katniss: What?
Gale: Coin agreed to let us hunt above ground.
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Katniss: [Aiming her bow at an elk] He's not even afraid of us.
Gale: It's 'cause they've never been hunted before.
Katniss: It's almost not fair.

View Quote Gale: Your mom's gonna be proud of you when she sees the footage. Will this play in the districts?
Cressida: It'll be tattooed on their eyes.
Boggs: There's a problem.
Gale: What kinda problem?
Boggs: Incoming bombers from the north. We need to find cover now.
Paylor: There's a bunker in there.
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Boggs: [Katniss and Gale are observing incoming bomber planes from a wall hole] Gale, back away from the wall!
Katniss: You okay?
Boggs: [A smokestack is falling towards Katniss and Gale] Move!
Gale: They're going after something to the south.
Katniss: That's towards the hospital.
Katniss: They're circling back around. Come on! [Planes drop bombs] That's the hospital. They're targeting the hospital. [Planes come over Katniss and Gale who implode one with one crashing into the other then crashing into a smokestack which falls into the hospital]
Cressida: Katniss? Katniss, can you tell everyone what you're seeing right now? Katniss, what do you wanna say?

View Quote Gale: [Heading into elevator] They want us back. They asked us to head for Command.
Katniss: All right. I gotta drop these off. [They enter room with TV on]
Caesar: [On TV] She was arguably our favorite Tribute. And I think that's what we all find most astonishing, is that this girl was adored in the Capitol. And I think for you, Peeta, it must be particularly painful.
Peeta: I wish I could give this rose to you, Katniss.
Katniss: He's changed so much already. What are they doing to him?
Caesar: A sweet gesture for a girl who has inspired such violence. You must love her very much to be able to forgive her.
Katniss: He's shaking.
Caesar: I don't think that I could. Unless, of course, Peeta, you think that perhaps she's being forced into saying things that she doesn't even understand.
Peeta: Yeah, that's exactly what I think.
Katniss: Even his voice is different.
Peeta: I think they're using her to whip up the rebels. I doubt she even knows what's happening. And what's really at stake.
Caesar: Now, Peeta, I doubt that the rebels will ever let her see this. But if they do, what would you say to her? To Katniss Everdeen, the once sweet Katniss Everdeen. What would you say to her?
Peeta: I would... I would tell her to think for herself. Yes. Don't be a fool, Katniss. I know you never wanted the rebellion. The things that you did in the Games were never intended to start all of this. The rebels have made you into something that you're not. Something that could destroy all of us. So if you have any power or any say in what they do or how they use you, please, please, urge them to stop this war before it's too late. And ask yourself, can you trust the people you're working with? Do you know what they really want?
Gale: [to Katniss] We need to respond.
Caesar: Thank you, Peeta Mellark, for these revelations about the real Mockingjay.
Katniss: [to Gale] Did you see what he looks like?
Gale: I saw a coward.
Katniss: You don't have any idea what he's going through.
Gale: I don't care. I would never say what he just said. Not if they tortured me. Not with a gun to my head.
Katniss: That is the same Peeta that defended you at the whipping post.
Gale: No, it's not. Now he's only defending himself. Coin's called a meeting. We need to respond.
Katniss: When did "we" become you and Coin?
Gale: Everyone has a choice. How can he sit there in the Capitol and defend the people who destroyed his home and murdered his family?
Katniss: He doesn't know. How could he? Nobody's seen what the Capitol did to 12. I have to show them.

View Quote Gale: [To Katniss in District 13 workers cafeteria ] You should try to eat something.
[Caesar and Peeta comes on the television screen in the District 13 workers cafeteria]
Caesar: Hello. Good evening. And a big welcome to all in Panem. I'm Caesar Flickerman. And whoever you are, whatever it is you're doing, if you're working, put down your work. If you're having dinner, stop having dinner. Because you are going to want to witness this tonight. There has been rampant speculation about what really happened in the Quarter Quell. And here to shed a little light on the subject for us is a very special guest. Please welcome Mr. Peeta Mellark. Peeta, a lot of people feel as though they are in the dark.
Peeta: Yeah, I know how they feel.
Caesar: Now, so set the stage for us. Talk us through what really happened on that final and controversial night.
Peeta: Well, first off, you have to understand that when you're in the Games, you only get one wish. It's very costly.
Katniss: You're alive.
Caesar: It costs your life.
Peeta: I think it costs more than your life.
Caesar: How do you mean? What's more than your life?
Peeta: I mean to murder innocent people, that costs everything that you are.
Caesar: Yes.
Peeta: So you hold on to that one wish. And that night my wish was to save Katniss.
Caesar: Yes.
Peeta: I should've just run off with her earlier in the day like she'd wanted.
Caesar: But you didn't. Why? Were you caught up in Beetee's plan?
Peeta: No, I was caught up trying to play allies. And then they separated us and... that's when I lost her. And then the lightning hit... and the whole force field around the arena just blew out.
Caesar: Yes, but, Peeta, Katniss is the one who blew it out.
Peeta: No.
Caesar: You saw the footage.
Peeta: No, she didn't know what she was doing. Neither of us knew there was a bigger plan going on. We had no idea.
Caesar: You had no idea?
Peeta: No.
Caesar: All right. Well, Peeta, there are many who find this suspicious to say the least. It seems as though she was part of a rebel plan.
Peeta: Do you think it was part of her plan to be almost killed by Johanna? Or part of the plan to be paralyzed by lightning? No, we were not part of any rebel plan. We had no idea what was going on.
Caesar: All right. I believe you, Peeta Mellark.
Peeta: Thank you. Yeah.
Caesar: And I was going to ask you to speak about the unrest, but I think you might be too upset.
Peeta: No, I can.
Caesar: Are you sure?
Peeta: Yeah, absolutely.
Caesar: Thank you.
Peeta: Yeah. I want everyone who's watching to stop and to think about what a civil war could mean. [13 workers become outraged] We almost went extinct once before. And now our numbers are even fewer.
13 worker: He's one of them!
Peeta: Is this really what we wanna do?
13 worker: He's a traitor!
Peeta: Kill ourselves off? Killing is not the answer.
13 worker: I can't believe he's doing this.
Peeta: Everyone needs to lay down their weapons immediately.
13 worker: Traitor! He's not one of us! This is treason!
Caesar: Are you calling for a ceasefire?
Peeta: Yeah. I am.
13 worker: You're a puppet! Hang him!
Peeta: I want everyone to stop the senseless violence. This is not the path to change.
13 worker: Traitor!
Peeta: It's not the path to justice.

View Quote General: Sir, some cameras were damaged in the bombings, but we confirmed it's her.
President Snow: Zoom in.
General: She was visiting a makeshift hospital. We're not sure if she's still there. We can scramble hovercraft from the border of 11. We may be able to target her.
President Snow: Kill the wounded.
Egeria: Sir...
President Snow: You wrote that speech yourself, Egeria. Any association with the Mockingjay symbol is forbidden. Everyone inside that hospital has committed treason. Show them what it costs to be friends with Katniss Everdeen.

View Quote Haymitch: So this is the end? I suppose you're just gonna hide down here forever?
Katniss: I can't be The Mockingjay.
Haymitch: Not The Mockingjay. Just Katniss. You know, you're the only real friend I have down here. I don't suppose they gave you any kind of medication?
Katniss: You're unbelievable.
Haymitch: Okay, but I meant what I said. Look, the reason I'm here is to let you know they're rescuing Peeta.
Katniss: What?
Haymitch: The dam went down in District 5, took out most of the power to the Capitol. Knocked out their signal defense. Beetee's inside their system now, wreaking all kinds of havoc. A window is open to us.
Katniss: How much longer?
Haymitch: I don't know. I guess until the Capitol can get the power back on.
Katniss: And President Coin?
Haymitch: You know, I can never fully support that woman in light of the... prohibition they have going on around this place, but... Plutarch got word that Peeta and the others are in the Tribute Centre. And with the power out, Coin sees this as an opportunity. She knows that Peeta is the Capitol's weapon. The same way you're ours. And as opposed to having you two pointing at each other, she's going to get him.
Katniss: I have to go help.
Haymitch: Hey, hey, whoa, kiddo. Wait. Come on. What, are you just gonna jump out of the vent and go storm the Capitol? Besides, it's already under way. Six soldiers went in. Volunteer only. And guess who was the first brave soul to sign up.
Katniss: Gale.

View Quote Haymitch: They're back.
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Katniss: Gale! Are you okay? What? What is it?
Gale: I don't get it. Every gun was back online and on us and we flew right past them. They let us go. He's in there. The gas we used on the guards knocked him out, too, but it's wearing off now. You should be there when he wakes up.