SFC William James quotes from The Hurt Locker (2008)

SGT J.T. Sanborn

Are you within 100 meters of the IED?

Hell I don't know Sanborn, I'll tell you when I’m on top of it.

What were you doing out there?

Visiting a whorehouse.

Okay. If I let you back in, will you tell me where it is exactly?

SGT J.T. Sanborn

I'm not ready to die, James.

Well, you're not going to die out here, bro.

SGT J.T. Sanborn

Another two inches? Shrapnel zings by; slices my throat. I'll bleed out like a pig in the sand; nobody'll give a shit. I mean my parents? They'll care, but they don't count, man. Who else? I don't even have a son.

Well, you're gonna have plenty of time for that, amigo.

SGT J.T. Sanborn

No, man. I'm done. I want a son. I want a little boy, Will. I mean, how do you do it, you know? Take the risk?

I don't know. I guess I don't think about it.

SGT J.T. Sanborn

But you realize every time you suit up, every time we go out, it's life or death. You roll the dice, and you deal with it. You recognize that don't you?

Yeah... Yeah, I do. But I don't know why. [sighs] I don't know, J.T. You know why I'm that way?

SGT J.T. Sanborn

No, I don't.

Contractor Team Leader

We have a flat tire. Can you help us?

Sure, yeah. Do you have spares?

Contractor Team Leader

We have spares, but we've used up our wrench.

How do you use up a wrench?

Contractor Team Leader

Well, uh, see the guy over there, with the red thing on his head? Well he threw it at someone.

Contractor Team Leader

This is the wrench man.

Hello wrench man.

SGT J.T. Sanborn

You know you can shoot people out here... You don't have to throw a wrench.

**** off!

COL Reed

You the guy in the flaming car, Sergeant James?

Afternoon, sir. Uh, yes, sir.

COL Reed

Well, that's just hot shit. You're a wild man, you know that?

Uh, yes, sir.

COL Reed

He's a wild man. You know that? I want to shake your hand.

Thank you, sir.

COL Reed

Yeah. How many bombs have you disarmed?

Uh, I'm not quite sure.

COL Reed

Sergeant?

Yes, sir.

COL Reed

I asked you a question.

Eight hundred seventy-three, sir.

COL Reed

Eight hundred! And seventy-three. Eight hundred! And seventy-three. That's just hot shit. Eight hundred and seventy-three.

Counting today, sir, yes.

COL Reed

That's gotta be a record. What's the best way to... go about disarming one of these things?

The way you don't die, sir.

COL Reed

That's a good one. That's spoken like a wild man. That's good.

SGT J.T. Sanborn

So you're a Ranger, huh?

Yeah.

SGT J.T. Sanborn

I spent seven years in intelligence before coming to EOD. We ran missions through the worst shitholes you can imagine. So, I'm pretty sure I can figure out a redneck piece of trailer trash like you.

Looks like you're on the track. See you out there, man.