Polly Perkins [describing the robot invasion to her editor]
They've reached Sixth Avenue. They've reached Fifth Avenue. They're a hundred yards away. Oh, my God.
2nd most-quoted character in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004): in 25 of its 38 quotes
Most scenes with: Joseph Sullivan (17), Capt. Francesca Cook (4)
I shot the ground!
More lines from Polly Perkins
4 quotes Polly Perkins Polly Perkins It's only a movie, Mr Paley. I'll bring you some popcorn.
Polly Perkins [seeing a box labeled "dynamite"]
Oh, great... we're safe.
Polly Perkins [after she unlocks the door at Dr. Jennings' office]
It's open.
Scenes with Polly Perkins
20 scenes Polly Perkins Doctor, you said you knew who was next.
Dr. Jennings Yes, well... don't you see it? There is only one left.
Polly Perkins Who? Who is it, doctor?
Dr. Jennings Me! He's coming for me.
Polly Perkins Who? Who's coming?
Dr. Jennings Totenkopf... it's Totenkopf!
Editor Paley I don't like this business you're getting yourself into.
Polly Perkins I'll be just fine, Mr. Paley. You know what a careful girl I am.
Editor Paley I move my mouth, words come out, you don't hear.
Polly Perkins I'm late for a movie. [smiles]
Editor Paley I don't like it when you smile at me.
Polly Perkins You don't like my smile?
Editor Paley I don't like what's behind it! Listen, Polly, six scientists are missing, probably dead. Somebody out there means business. I don't want you in the middle of it.
Polly Perkins It's only a movie, Mr. Paley. I'll bring you some popcorn.
Editor Paley What's going on? They're calling for midtown to evacuate.
Polly Perkins Listen, Mr. Paley, I don't have time for this. I need you to dig up anything you can about a Dr. Walter Jennings, and someone named Totenkopf. An address, a phone number, anything you can. It's important.
Editor Paley Quick as you can. Polly, listen to me. I want you to get out of there. I want you to put the phone down, close your notepad and get the hell out of there.
Polly Perkins [about the robots]
Wait a minute. I can see something now coming into sight above the Palisades. They're crossing Sixth Avenue... Fifth Avenue... they're a hundred yards away...
Editor Paley Polly, Polly!
Polly Perkins Oh, my God.
Reconnaissance located an island three kilometers northeast of our current position. It is not, however, on any of our charts.
Polly Perkins That has to be him.
That has to be who? What have you gotten me into this time, Joseph?
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.
Thank you, Franky. We'll take it from here.
Polly Perkins She's some kind of girl.
Yes, I know. I'm taking us up.
Polly Perkins I got us here, didn't I?
It's a dead end. Some shortcut!
Polly Perkins That's not supposed to be there.
Polly Perkins It's been three years, Joe. You're not still mad at me, are you? Can't even remember what we were fighting about.
You sabotaged my plane.
Polly Perkins Right.
I spent six months in a Manchurian slave camp because of you. They were gonna cut off my fingers.
Polly Perkins Joe, for the last time, I didn't sabotage your damn airplane!
All so you could get a photograph of Tojo Hideki in his bathrobe, remember?
Polly Perkins 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.
Polly Perkins 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?
Polly...
Polly Perkins How long were you seeing her?
Look me in the eyes. I never fooled around on you. Never.
Polly Perkins I sabotaged you plane.
Three months.
[Joe and Polly are preparing to take off along with Franky. Polly looks annoyed with Joe]
What?
Polly Perkins 'Nanjing'?
[over the radio]
Keep your nose up, Joseph. You always were bad at the short takeoff.
Keep up, Franky. I don't wanna have to come back for you.
Polly Perkins I thought you takeoff was just fine.
Thank you, Polly.
Polly Perkins So you heard that, did you?
Polly Perkins 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?
I might.
Polly Perkins Like what?
I'll know when I see it!
Polly Perkins [Joe has marked Totenkopf's location on the map]
There's nothing there. Are you sure you did it right?
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]
Polly Perkins What's that point there?
That's where we run out of fuel.
Polly Perkins [Sky Captain and Polly take cover behind a box labeled "dynamite"]
Oh, great. We're safe.
Polly, this may be our last moment together. There's something I need to ask you.
Polly Perkins Yes, Joe?
Did you cut my fuel line?
Polly Perkins Damn it! I didn't sabotage your lousy airplane!
Fine.
Polly Perkins Our last moments on Earth and this is all you have to say?
Could we just die for once without all this bickering?
Polly Perkins We went underwater.
Dex rigged it up. Got the idea from one of his comic books.
Polly Perkins 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!
Look, Polly, it was your idea to tag along, not mine. If you can't take it, that's not my fault.
Polly Perkins Oh, I can't take it.
I can take anything you dish out.
It's a mobile airstrip. Dex has a hand in designing it. You can keep a secret, can't you, Polly?
Polly Perkins [raising her camera to photograph it]
Yeah, I can keep a secret. [looks at her camera] Two shots. [doesn't take a picture]
Polly Perkins [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.
You're right, I should've.
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.
Polly Perkins Totenkopf.
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!
[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.
Polly Perkins I missed you. Thanks for saving my life today.
Oh, you were nice down there.
Polly Perkins You missed me, too? How nice.
Polly Perkins [snaps a picture of Sky Captain flying overhead]
Joe.
[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...
Polly Perkins You don't have to say anything.
Lens cap.
Polly Perkins [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.
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.
He's got Dex.
[Franky is shocked]
Rescind order! You´ll never make it from the air. We have to find you another way.
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.
Polly Perkins What about those machines? How do we get past them?
Leave that to me. Alert the amphibious squadron!
