Vincent Kapoor quotes from The Martian (2015)

Annie Montrose

What the hell is "Project Elrond?"

Vincent Kapoor

I had to make something up.

Annie Montrose

But "Elrond?"

Mitch Henderson

Because it's a secret meeting.

Annie Montrose

How do you know that; why does Elrond mean secret meeting?

Bruce Ng

The Council of Elrond. It's the... it's... it's... from The Lord of the Rings. It's the meeting where they decide to destroy the One Ring.

Teddy Sanders

If we are going to call something Project Elrond, I would like my code name to be Glorfindel.

Annie Montrose

Okay, I hate every one of you.

Mitch Henderson

He's not even got to the bad parts yet.

Vincent Kapoor

Well, let's get to the bad parts.

Bruce Ng

We need to remove the nose LR, the windows, and the whole of panel 19.

Vincent Kapoor

You want to take the front of the ship off?

Bruce Ng

Sure. The nose alone is 400 kilograms.

Vincent Kapoor

You want to send a man into space without the front of his ship?

Bruce Ng

Well, no. We are going to have him cover it with HAB canvas. The hull is mostly there to keep air in. Mars' atmosphere is so thin, you do not need a lot of streamlining. By the time the ship is going fast enough for air resistance to matter, it'll be high enough that there will be practically no air.

Vincent Kapoor

You want to send him into space under a tarp?

Bruce Ng

Yes. Can I go on?

Vincent Kapoor

NO!

Annie Montrose

But if something goes wrong?

Vincent Kapoor

Then we lose the crew.

Bruce Ng

So what, we either have a high chance of killing one person, or a low chance of killing six people. How do we make that decision?

Vincent Kapoor

We don't. [pointing to Teddy] He does.

Mitch Henderson

Yeah, bullshit. It should be Commander Lewis' call.

Teddy Sanders

We still have a chance to bring five astronauts home safe and sound. I'm not risking their lives.

Mitch Henderson

Let them make that decision.

Teddy Sanders

Mitch, we are going with option one.

Mitch Henderson

You goddamn coward.

Vincent Kapoor

How's he doing?

Uh... He asked us to call him Captain Blondebeard.