Joseph Sullivan
[repeated line]
Good boy, Dex.
Most-quoted character in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004): in 26 of its 38 quotes
Most scenes with: Polly Perkins (17), Capt. Francesca Cook (5), Dexter Dearborn (3)
This is Sky Captain, I'm on my way.
More lines from Joseph Sullivan
5 quotes
Joseph Sullivan
[to Dex]
Is it safe?
Joseph Sullivan
Naked... you can say it, Polly.
Joseph Sullivan
[to the Mysterious Woman]
Why won't you die?
Joseph Sullivan
[to the Mysterious Woman]
We meet again, my mysterious friend. How do you want to do this?
Scenes with Joseph Sullivan
20 scenes
Captain Francesca Cook
Joseph Sullivan, I was sure you'd be dead by bow.
Joseph Sullivan
It's good to see you too, Franky.
This had better be important or one of us is in trouble.
Joseph Sullivan
It's important.
What is that? [watching Polly trying to climb off the wing of the plane]
Joseph Sullivan
You be nice. Commander Cook, meet Polly Perkins.
Polly Perkins, I've heard so much about you. It's a pleasure to finally meet the competition. It's been a long time since Nanjing, hasn't it, Joseph?
Reconnaissance located an island three kilometers northeast of our current position. It is not, however, on any of our charts.
That has to be him.
That has to be who? What have you gotten me into this time, Joseph?
Joseph Sullivan
Nothing you can't handle, Franky. [Polly trips and slams her hand into some controls, causing sirens to go off] Polly, try not to touch anything.
You're all clear. Good luck, Joe.
Joseph Sullivan
Thank you, Franky. We'll take it from here.
She's some kind of girl.
Joseph Sullivan
Yes, I know. I'm taking us up.
Joseph Sullivan
[Polly's faulty directions nearly crashed them into a building]
Shortcut, heh!
I got us here, didn't I?
Joseph Sullivan
It's a dead end. Some shortcut!
That's not supposed to be there.
It's been three years, Joe. You're not still mad at me, are you? Can't even remember what we were fighting about.
Joseph Sullivan
You sabotaged my plane.
Right.
Joseph Sullivan
I spent six months in a Manchurian slave camp because of you. They were gonna cut off my fingers.
Joe, for the last time, I didn't sabotage your damn airplane!
Joseph Sullivan
All so you could get a photograph of Tojo Hideki in his bathrobe, remember?
You know, I'm starting to think that you've invented this whole sabotage nonsense to cover the fact that you were running around on me with your little mystery girl the whole time we were in Nanjing.
Joe, I wanna ask you something and I want you to tell me the truth. I don't care one way or the other, I swear. I just need to know. The girl in Nanjing was Franky wasn't it?
Joseph Sullivan
Polly...
How long were you seeing her?
Joseph Sullivan
Look me in the eyes. I never fooled around on you. Never.
I sabotaged you plane.
Joseph Sullivan
Three months.
Joseph Sullivan
[Joe and Polly are preparing to take off along with Franky. Polly looks annoyed with Joe]
What?
'Nanjing'?
Joseph Sullivan
[shouts]
I can't hear you, Polly! You'll have to speak up! [they took off]
[over the radio]
Keep your nose up, Joseph. You always were bad at the short takeoff.
Joseph Sullivan
Keep up, Franky. I don't wanna have to come back for you.
I thought you takeoff was just fine.
Joseph Sullivan
Thank you, Polly.
So you heard that, did you?
What are you doing? You honestly think you're gonna find something more important than every single creature on Earth being led by two by two inside a giant rocket ship?
Joseph Sullivan
I might.
Like what?
Joseph Sullivan
I'll know when I see it!
[Joe has marked Totenkopf's location on the map]
There's nothing there. Are you sure you did it right?
Joseph Sullivan
I'm sure. If the old man was right, that's where Totenkopf is now. Dead center in the middle of nowhere. [marks another spot on the map, just short of making it to the first spot]
What's that point there?
Joseph Sullivan
That's where we run out of fuel.
[Sky Captain and Polly take cover behind a box labeled "dynamite"]
Oh, great. We're safe.
Joseph Sullivan
Polly, this may be our last moment together. There's something I need to ask you.
Yes, Joe?
Joseph Sullivan
Did you cut my fuel line?
Damn it! I didn't sabotage your lousy airplane!
Joseph Sullivan
Fine.
Our last moments on Earth and this is all you have to say?
Joseph Sullivan
Could we just die for once without all this bickering?
We went underwater.
Joseph Sullivan
Dex rigged it up. Got the idea from one of his comic books.
You mean, you knew this the whole time, and you let me think we were gonna crash? I thought you were gonna die! You should have said something!
Joseph Sullivan
Look, Polly, it was your idea to tag along, not mine. If you can't take it, that's not my fault.
Oh, I can't take it.
Joseph Sullivan
I can take anything you dish out.
Joseph Sullivan
It's a mobile airstrip. Dex has a hand in designing it. You can keep a secret, can't you, Polly?
[raising her camera to photograph it]
Yeah, I can keep a secret. [looks at her camera] Two shots. [doesn't take a picture]
[Joe wouldn't let Polly go back to get her case of film in the cave that was about to explode]
You should've let me go back for my film.
Joseph Sullivan
You're right, I should've.
Joseph Sullivan
Come in, Dex.
Look, what ever you do don't shoot!
Joseph Sullivan
Er... Okay!
You shot it, didn't you?
Joseph Sullivan
Yes.
Joseph Sullivan
I thought you said this thing was big? Can I have it?
You find out where it came from and I'll buy you one for Christmas.
Dr. Totenkopf Who dares come before me? Who dares enter this place? What has begun cannot be stopped. The time for this world is over.
Totenkopf.
Joseph Sullivan
Hello, doctor. Why are you doing this?
Dr. Totenkopf I have been witness to a world consumed by hatred and bent on self-destruction, watched as we have taken what was to be a paradise. and failed in our responsibilities as its steward. I know now that the course of the human race has set for itself and cannot be changed. I am the last desperate chance for a doomed planet. Now, leave this place or die!
Joseph Sullivan
[Dexter unplugs the Tesla coils that previously electrocuted Dr. Kessler]
Is it safe?
Well, there's only one way to find out.
[Sky Captain and Polly cross the threshold together and are relieved to be unharmed]
I meant throw something.
Joseph Sullivan
[Polly laughs]
What?
I missed you. Thanks for saving my life today.
Joseph Sullivan
Oh, you were nice down there.
You missed me, too? How nice.
Joseph Sullivan
[flies over the sidewalk where Polly is standing]
Polly.
Joseph Sullivan
[last lines] [Polly turns and uses her last picture to snap a shot of Sky Captain instead of the pods falling to Earth]
Polly... you...
You don't have to say anything.
Joseph Sullivan
Lens cap.
[stares shocked as the screen fades to black for credits]
British Officer
Commander, we've lost power to the forward rotors. We're losing altitude.
All engines, reverse full. Get us out of here.
Joseph Sullivan
Francesca, you've got to get me on that island.
I'm not about to risk the lives of my men for one of your silly antics.
Joseph Sullivan
He's got Dex.
[Franky is shocked]
Rescind order! You´ll never make it from the air. We have to find you another way.
Joseph Sullivan
There's a tidal flow on the eastern face of the island.
It's too deep. We're not rated past 100 meters. But... this area here, there's an undersea inlet at the southern tip and it runs beneath the entire length of the island. That is your only way in. Everything else is sheer rock to the edge of the water.
What about those machines? How do we get past them?
Leave that to me. Alert the amphibious squadron!