Stacker Pentecost Haven't you heard, Mr. Beckett? The world is coming to an end. Where would you rather die? Here, or in a Jaeger?
Played by Idris Elba 
Pacific Rim (2013) · 67 quotes
Pacific Rim (2013) · 67 quotes
Most-quoted character in Pacific Rim (2013): in 24 of its 67 quotes
Most scenes with: Raleigh Becket (6), Tendo Choi (4), Herc Hansen (3)
Crimson Typhoon, China. One of the greatest. Assembled in Changzhou. Full titanium core, no alloys. Fifty diesel engines per muscle strand. Deadly, precise fighter. She's piloted by the Wei Tang brothers. Triplets. Local lads. They've successfully defended Hong Kong port seven times. They use the Thundercloud formation.
More lines from Stacker Pentecost
14 quotes Stacker Pentecost Stacker Pentecost [To Hermann Gottlieb]
YOU! SHUT UP! [To Newton Geiszler] You. Keep talking.
Stacker Pentecost That Kajiu is still alive!
Stacker Pentecost Do not let my calm demeanor fool you, RANGER! Now is not a good moment for your insubordination! Mako is too inexperienced to reign in her memories during combat.
Stacker Pentecost This conversation is over.
Stacker Pentecost One: don't you ever touch me again. Two: don't you ever touch me again.
Stacker Pentecost Now, you have no idea who the hell I am or where I've come from, and I'm not about to tell you my whole life story. All I need to be to you and everybody on this dome is a fixed point. The last man standing. I do not need your sympathy or your admiration; all I need is your compliance and your fighting skills. And if I can't get that, then you can go back to the wall that I found you crawling on.
Stacker Pentecost Today. Today... at the edge of our hope, at the end of our time, we have chosen not only to believe in ourselves, but in each other. Today there is not a man nor woman in here that shall stand alone. Not today. Today we face the monsters that are at our door, and bring the fight to them. Today, we are canceling the apocalypse!
Stacker Pentecost Mako! You can finish this! I'll always be there for you! You can always find me in the drift!
Stacker Pentecost (At Hong Kong Shatterdome)
Things have changed. We're not an army anymore, Mr. Becket. We're the resistance. Welcome to the Shatterdome.
Stacker Pentecost War clock. We reset it after every Kaiju attack. Keeps everyone focused. The frequency of attacks is accelerating.
Stacker Pentecost A week, if we're lucky. My experts believe there'll be a Kaiju attack... ...even before that. This complex used to lodge... ...30 Jaegers in five bays just like this one. Now we only have four Jaegers left.
Stacker Pentecost Very effective. That tank, last of the T-90s. Chemo Alpha. First generation Mark 1. The heaviest and oldest Jaeger in the service. But make no mistake, Mr. Becket, it's a brutal war machine. And those two: Sasha and Aleksis Kaidanovsky.
Stacker Pentecost On their watch it stayed unbreached for six years. Six years.
Scenes with Stacker Pentecost
9 scenes
Good morning, Becket boys!
Tendo, what's happenin', my man?
How did that date with Alison go last night, Mr. Choi?
[we see Tendo in the control room as he talks to the brothers]
Oh, she loved me. Her boyfriend, not so much.
You're gonna get your ass kicked.
Stacker Pentecost [at that moment, their commanding officer, Pentecost comes up behind Tendo]
Ready to drop, Mr. Choi?
Ready to drop, sir. Marshall Pentecost on deck. Securing Conn Pod getting ready to drop.
Ready to go.
American UN Representative The Kaiju are learning our defenses. They're adapting, evolving. We're losing Jaeger's faster than we can build them. Lima. Seattle. Vladivostok. Category 4 Kaiju's are now coming through the breach. I think that you can see, Marshall, this is no longer a sound strategy. The frequency of the attacks has increased. The Jaeger's are not the most viable line of defense anymore.
Stacker Pentecost I am aware. Those are my ranger that die every time a Jaeger falls, which is why I'm asking you for one last chance...
British UN Representative Excuse me, Marshall. Excuse me!
Stacker Pentecost One final score with everything that we've got.
British UN Representative Excuse me! The Jaeger program is dead, Marshall. On the other hand, the coastal wall program is a promising option.
American UN Representative The world appreciates all that you and your men have done, but it's over. We will authorize you to take all remaining Jaegers to the last battle station in Hong Kong. We're prepared to fund you for the next eight months while the coastal wall is completed. After that, you will receive no further support.
Canadian UN Representative You have our answer, Marshall.
Suits and ties and flashing smiles. That's all they are, Stacker.
Stacker Pentecost We don't need them.
[Gottlieb rushes in while the Gipsy Danger is going through its inaugural trial run]
Marshal! Marshal! I need to talk to you.
Stacker Pentecost [dismissively]
Not now, Mr. Gottlieb, I'm sure you can appreciate how important this moment is to me--
Newton created a neural bridge from garbage and drifted with a Kaiju!
Stacker Pentecost Took me a while to find you. Anchorage. Sheldon Point. Nome–
Yeah, a man in my position travels with the wall, chasing shifts to make a living. [sits down next to the structure] What do you want?
Stacker Pentecost I've spent the last six months activating everything I can get my hands on. There's an old Jaeger, a Mark 3. You may know it. It needs a pilot.
I'm guessing I wasn't your first choice.
Stacker Pentecost You are my first choice. All the other Mark 3 pilots are dead.
[stands up and steps towards Stacker]
Look– I can't have anyone else in my head again. I'm done. I was still connected to my brother when he died. I can't go through that again, man. I'm sorry. [starts to walk away]
Stacker Pentecost Haven't you heard, Mr. Becket? [Raleigh stops walking and turns around] The world is coming to an end. So where would you rather die? Here, or in a Jaeger?
[Raleigh stares at Stacker, knowing he has no choice but to go with him to the Shatterdome.]
Stacker Pentecost [after the match]
Enough! I've seen what I need to see.
Stacker Pentecost That's not going to work.
Why not?
Stacker Pentecost Because I said so, Mr. Becket. I've already made my decision. Report to the Shatterdome in 2 hours and find out who your co-pilot will be.
[everyone leaves the room]
[Raleigh and Mako are waiting outside Stacker's office.] [from inside the office]
She can't control her Drift, and he went out of phase first!
Stacker Pentecost [from inside the office]
We all know what happened.
[from inside the office]
We can't afford mistakes. The Kaiju keep evolving, they keep kicking our asses! He's a has-been, she's a rookie. I don't want them protecting my bomb run, sir. [opens the door and walks out]
Stacker Pentecost [from inside the office]
You need to watch your tone, Mr. Hansen.
[to Raleigh and Mako]
You two are a goddamn disgrace! You're gonna get us all killed, and here's the thing, Raleigh. I want to come back from this mission, 'cause I quite like my life. So why don't you– [flicks Raleigh in the chest] –just do us all a favor and disappear? It's the only thing you're good at.
[angrily]
Stop! Now! [Raleigh raises his hand to stop her from arguing further with Chuck]
Yeah, that's right. You just hold back your little girlfriend. One of your bitches needs a leash.
[Consumed by far more rage, violence, and aggressiveness than before, Raleigh punches Chuck twice. Chuck punches him back. The two engage in a fistfight, until Raleigh punches Chuck, causing him to spit out blood.]
Apologize to her.
[Raleigh and Chuck keep fighting, until Raleigh throws Chuck against the pipes on the wall, causing Chuck to scream in pain and glare at Raleigh.]
I said, apologize to her.
[Chuck attacks Raleigh again, but Raleigh overpowers him and twists his arm.] [comes out]
Hey, hey! Enough! What's going on? On your feet, both of you!
Stacker Pentecost [Raleigh and Chuck stand up as Stacker comes out.] [to Raleigh and Mako]
Becket, Mori, into my office.
[grabs his son]
Hey! This is over! You're a ranger for Christ's sake! Why don't you start acting like one?
[Chuck shoves his father off and turns and walks off. Herc turns to look at Stacker.]
They're adapting. This isn't a defense mechanism, it's a weapon!
Stacker Pentecost Get me Striker.
Nothing, sir. The Mark 5's digital's fried. It'll take me two hours to reroute the auxliary. All the Jaegers, they're digital!
[approaches Stacker along with Mako]
Not all of them, marshal. [Stacker turns to him and Mako] Gipsy's analog. Nuclear.
[Stacker stares at his daughter and Raleigh, knowing he has no choice but to send them out in Gipsy Danger to face Leatherback and Otachi.]
[Everyone in the Shatterdome are celebrating Raleigh and Mako's victory.] [approaches Raleigh and Mako]
Raleigh! [shakes Mako's hand] My kid'd never admit it– but he's grateful. [holds out his hand] We both are. [Raleigh takes his hand]
Stacker Pentecost [Raleigh looks to Chuck, who nods to him.] [comes out of his office]
Mr. Becket! Miss Mori! [strides towards his daughter and Raleigh] In all of my years fighting– I've never seen anything like that. Well done. Proud of you. Proud of us all. But– as harsh as it sounds– [approaches everyone else] –there is no time to celebrate. We lost two crews. No time to grieve. Reset that clock!
Stacker Pentecost [Mako notices blood dripping from her father's nose, prompting her to wipe her own nose.] [touches the blood on his nose, prompting him to pull out a cloth and use it to wipe his nose]
Reset the clock. [walks away]
[Raleigh and Mako exchange looks of concern.]
[Stacker is finishing washing his face when Raleigh enters.]
How sick are you? And why didn't you tell me?
Stacker Pentecost Uh– what's to tell? [takes a cloth and uses it to wipe his hands] You know, them Mark 1s, we scraped them bad boys together in 14 months. Last thing we were thinking about was radiation shielding. [uses the cloth to wipe his face, then throws it away] I ran nearly a dozen missions. I stayed under the medical radar for a while, but– [takes a folded shirt] –the last time I jockeyed was in Tokyo. I finished the fight solo, but for three hours, I burned. They warned me if I ever stepped foot into a Jaeger again, the toll would be too much. You and I are the only two that ever ran solo combat. That's why I brought you here.
Stacker Pentecost [Raleigh and Stacker hear a computer beeping. Stacker gets a call from Tendo.]
What is it?
Sir, it's happening. I just got two signatures with unprecedented dilation, 40-meter strikes.
Stacker Pentecost What category?
Checking the ratios, Category 4.
Stacker Pentecost Where they headed?
That's the thing, they're not heading anywhere. They're hovering just above the Breach. It's– It's like they're protecting it or something.
Stacker Pentecost Alright, Gipsy, Striker on deck.
Sir, Herc cannot ride. His arm–
Stacker Pentecost You heard me. [heads out]
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