Tell me what's the difference between us and them!!?
Jed Eckert
Because...we live here!
2nd most-quoted character in Red Dawn (1984): in 7 of its 17 quotes
Most scenes with: Robert (4), Matt Eckert (3), Col. Bella (2)
C'mon! We're all going to die, die standing up!
Scenes with Jed Eckert
6 scenes
Jed Eckert
[At an execution]
Do you want blindfolds?
Stepan Gorsky
This violates the Geneva convention!
Jed Eckert
I never heard of it!
Stepan Gorsky
Dogface! I show you how Soviet dies.
I've seen it before, pal.
Jed Eckert
[The Eckerts head to the mountains with some friends]
Matt and I have been coming up to these mountains with our dad our whole lives. We can hunt, we can fish, we can stay up here a long, long time.
How long, Jed?
Jed Eckert
[indicating the jets above them]
Until we don't hear that no more.
You the honcho, sport?
Jed
Who're you?
Andrew Tanner, Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Air Force.
Jed
How'd you get yourself shot down, Colonel?
Tanner
It was five to one. I got four.
Jed
[Jed smiles and shakes hands with Tanner]
I'm Jed.
How you doing, Jed?
Jed
Good as can be.
[Col. Tanner explains the war situation using the campfire as a representation of the US] [gestures to parts of the campfire]
West Coast, East Coast. Down here's Mexico. First wave of the attack came in disguised as commercial charter flights, same way they did in Afghanistan in '80. They were crack airborne outfits. They took these passes in the Rockies.
Jed
So that's what hit Calumet?
I guess so. They coordinated with selective nuke strikes, and the missiles were a hell of a lot more accurate than we thought; they took out the silos here in the Dakotas, key points of communication.
Darryl
Like what?
Oh, like Omaha, Washington, Kansas City.
Darryl
Gone?
Yeah. That's right.
Darryl
Jesus Christ.
Infiltrators, came up illegal; Cubans, mostly. They managed to infiltrate SAC bases in the Midwest, several down in Texas, wreaked a hell of a lot of havoc, I'm here to tell. They opened up the door, and the whole Cuban and Nicaraguan armies come walking right through, rolled right up here through the Great Plains.
How far'd they get?
Cheyenne, across to Kansas. We held 'em at the Rockies, and at the Mississippi. Anyway, the Russians reinforced with 60 divisions. Sent three whole army groups across the Bering Strait into Alaska, cut the pipeline, came across Canada, link up here in the middle but we stopped 'em but cold. Lines've pretty much stabilized now.
What about Europe?
Col. Andrew Tanner
I guess they figured twice in one century was enough. They're sitting this one out. All except England, and they won't last very long. The Russians need to take us in one piece, and that's why they're here now. That's why they won't use nukes anymore, and we won't either, not on our own soil. Whole damn thing's pretty conventional now. Who knows? Maybe next week will be swords.
Darryl
What started it?
Two toughest kids on the block, I guess. Sooner or later they gonna fight.
Jed
That simple?
Maybe somebody just forgot what it was like.
Jed
Well, who is on our side?
Tanner
Six hundred million screamin' ****.
Darryl
Well, last I heard, there were a billion screamin' ****.
Tanner
There were. [throws whiskey into fire, and it violently ignites for a moment, possibly signifying a Soviet nuclear strike on China]
Jed Eckert
[The gang prepares to kill a Soviet Spetsnaz commando and their friend, Daryl Bates, who was forced to swallow a homing device that led the Spetsnaz to them]
Do you want blindfolds?
Stepan Gorsky
This violates the Geneva Convention!
Eckert
I never heard of it!
Gorsky
Dogface! I show you how Soviet dies.
I've seen it before, pal.
Danny
This isn't happening! Jed, let him go! He was one of us!
Jed Eckert
Shut up, Danny! Shut up!
He told them where we were!
Jed Eckert
He did. Now get your rifles.
No!
Jed
WHAT DID YOU SAY?
We're not doing it!
Gorsky
[to Daryl]
Boy, say at me you are friend, so I will not die alone.
What's the difference, Jed?
I'll do it.
Shut up, Robert! [to Jed] Tell me what's the difference between us and them!
Jed
Because ... we live here! [kills Gorsky and when he hesitates with Daryl, Robert kills him]
