Independence Day: Resurgence 2016 quotes

David Levinson

I've had years to get us ready. We never had a chance.

President Whitmore

We didn't last time, either. We always knew they were coming back. But look how far we've come. In the last 20 years, this planet has been unified in a way that's unprecedented in human history. That's sacred. That's worth fighting for. We convinced an entire generation that this is a battle we could win. And they believed us. We can't let them down. It wasn't luck last time. It was our resolve. We all have to fight till our last breath. And that is going to lead us to victory.

What are you idiots doing?

The world's going to an end.

Even worse, we lost the gold. So we thought we drink a little!

US government is on the line. They say the aliens are drilling to the Earth's core and they are looking for a ship in the area to monitor their progress. We're the only ones left.

Tell them we'll do it - for a hundred million dollars. [the gang laughs]

Yeah, hold on a second. He's drunk. [to Team Leader] They say it's a deal.
[Team Leader goes quiet and everybody gets to work knowing the deal is agreed upon]

President Thomas Whitmore

It's good to see you flying again. Your place is in the air.

You should have let me do this. You saved the world once, Dad.

President Whitmore

I'm not saving the world, Patty. I'm saving you. [feels his head as the Harvester mothership starts closing its underbelly aperture]

Tom, what's going on?

President Whitmore

She's in my head.

Mr President, you got incoming fighters on your six.

President Whitmore

Can you get me to the target, Lt. Whitmore?

Yes, sir. Follow me.

It crashed into Van de Graaff crater. We are not picking up any signs of life.

US President Elizabeth Lanford

Let's hope to God we did the right thing.

David Levinson

Madam President, we need to send a team up to investigate the wreckage. We need to know who we just shot down.

There's no sign of life and the threat has been neutralized. [to Lanford] We can send a team up, but David needs to be in DC.

Levinson

No, oh. Can we not make this political. I need to get up there and get answers.

Lanford

David, you can lead a team up there, but after the celebration.

Why are they screaming?

They're not screaming. They're celebrating.

David Levinson

Why are you here?

When I intercepted their distress call, I knew they would come to exterminate you. I came to evacuate as many of you as possible. But you attacked me with the same weapons that they used on us.

Levinson

They attacked you?

Correct. [shows hologram of a Harvester ship and a planet] A harvester ship conquered our planet and extracted it's molten core. They used them to refuel their ships and grow their technology. They've done this to countless civilizations. We fought them for thousands of years. But they destroyed all of our ships. I, am the sole survivor.

I am so sorry to hear that. Do you have a plan?

My system holds the key to superior technology. And there is a hidden planet where I teach refugees from other fallen worlds how to build weapons that will defeat them once and for all.

That's why they're afraid of you. You're the only ones who threaten their existence.

Correct. But now that I'm activated, the queen will detect my signature and hunt me down.

It's too late. She's already on her way.

Thomas Whitmore

Yeah. She's coming.

Levinson

And what would happen if, if we're able to kill her?

No one has ever killed a harvester queen.

Okun

That's encouraging.

But as a hive, her fighters will fall and her ship will leave your planet, recalled by other harvester queens. But it's too late now. You must terminate me or she will get the coordinates to the refugee planet. And that will be the end.

Former President Thomas Whitmore

On behalf the people of Earth, happy Fourth of July. [activates bomb]

Dr. Brakish Okun

We are gonna kick some serious alien ass.

US President Elizabeth Lanford

The countless lives that we lost in the war of '96 did not perish in vain. They inspired us to rise from the ashes as one people of one world. For 20 years the world has seen no armed conflict. Nations have put their petty differences aside. United, we rebuild our families, our cities, and our lives. The fusion of human and alien technology not only enable us to defy gravity and travel with unimaginable speed, it also made our planet finally safe again.

David Levinson

That's... definitely bigger than the last one.