Stop! LAPD! Get out of the car!
Tuneman
Man, this is my car, I own this car, it's not stolen!
Tuneman
****! Man, you scratch this puppy, and you and me are gonna have words, you understand?
Jack Traven
Keanu Reeves · 35 quotes
Howard Payne
Dennis Hopper · 21 quotes
Annie Porter
Sandra Bullock · 14 quotes
Harry Temple
Jeff Daniels · 8 quotes
Mac
5 quotes
Norwood
Richard Lineback · 4 quotes
Sam
Hawthorne James · 4 quotes
Jaguar Owner
Glenn Plummer · 3 quotes
Captain McMahon
Joe Morton · 1 quote
Most scenes together: Jack Traven & Annie Porter (8), Jack Traven & Howard Payne (7), Jack Traven & Harry Temple (5)
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Page 4 of 5Tell me again, Harry. Why did I take this job?
Aw, come on. Thirty more years of this, you get a tiny pension and a cheap gold watch.
Cool.
Alright, gentlemen. What we have here are 13 passengers in an express elevator, below floor 30. Bomb's already taken out cables. Bomber wants $3 million, or he blows the emergency brakes.
What's our clock?
He gave one hour. [checking his watch] That leaves us 23 minutes exactly.
Briggs
Anything else that'll keep this elevator from falling?
Yeah, the basement.
The city would like to avoid that event, Officer Traven.
We can't just unload the passengers?
This is an express elevator, gentlemen. The only way in or out is through access panels. The bomber's also wired the hatch to trigger the bomb, which seats him in the crazy but not stupid section.
Sir, Harry volunteers to examine the device.
Fine. The two of you check it out.
The nearest access panel's on the 32nd floor in the lobby.
I want reports only. We're in a holding pattern. Worthy and Briggs, I want you to secure the base area. No one in or out. Everyone else, I want you to affirm building evac. MOVE!
Let's get these passengers off the bus.
We can't do it, sir.
There's no time for stunts, Traven. We gotta get these people out of harm's way.
I got orders! We move these people, he'll see. [points to the news choppers overhead] Remember— crazy, not stupid.
News Anchor
[on TV]
We are following the progress of what is turning out to be a harrowing and amazing story as a city bus, rigged to explode if it slows down, races around literally in circles at the Los Angeles Airport. The two dead are a female passenger and the driver of another bus, both blown up by the bomber. The other people in jeopardy are, of course the passengers held hostage at the whim of a madman.
"The whim of a madman"! [laughs] I like that.
What?
This freeway isn't finished.
What are you talking about?
The aerial unit caught it. About three miles ahead, there's a section missing.
Section missing? But it's on the map. It's finished on the goddamn map!
I guess they fell behind.
****! You're fired! Everybody's **** fired!
Officer Barnette
I don't get it.
A watch is a shitty timer. Why use it? What's he sayin'
Officer Barnette
Lots of people have watches, Harry.
This guy has no M.O. A bomber falls in love with one kind of bomb, and they're very monogamous. This guy uses C-4, dynamite, different trigger every time, and now he throws in this watch.
Officer Barnette
He's an encyclopedia of bombs. He knows every kind.
Yeah, and everything we do to dismantle it. [pause] Wait a minute. I want to look a the files for the last ten years.
Officer Barnette
We did the mugshots already, it's not gonna help.
No. I want to look at cops.
[on the phone, after blowing up an empty commuter bus, killing the bus driver Bob]
What do you think, Jack? You think you pick up all the bus driver's teeth, they'll give you another medal?
Jesus...
You think I wouldn't have been prepared? Two years I spent setting up that elevator job, two years I invested myself in it. You couldn't understand the kind of commitment that I have. You ruined a man's life's work and you think you can walk away? You got blinders on to the world! But I got your attention now, didn't I, Jack?
Why didn't you just come after me?
No, this is about me! This is about my money. This is about money due me! Which I will collect! $3.7 million! It's my nest egg, Jack. At my age, you have to think ahead.
[cuts him off]
Pop quiz, hotshot. There's a bomb on a bus. Once the bus goes 50 miles an hour, the bomb is armed. If it drops below 50, it blows up. What do you do? What do you do?
I'd want to know what bus it was.
You think I'm gonna to tell you that?
Yes.
[chuckles]
Aha, very good. There are rules, Jack, and I want you to get this right: No one goes off the bus. You try to take any passengers off the bus, I will detonate it. I want my money by 11AM.
Focus, Jack! Your concern is the bus. And don't try to call. The radio's down. Now, the number of the bus is 2525, it's running downtown from Venice. It's at the corner of Ocean Park & Main.
[Jack takes off for his car as sirens from approaching fire engines can be heard]
I think we have an understanding. But it looks on TV like you're trying to take those passengers off the bus.
Look, you gotta let me have one.
Now, we went over the rules.
As an act of faith. We have an injured man here. The driver's been shot.
Jack, now tell me you haven't been shooting the passengers. I thought it was customary for a police officer to, you know, shoot the bad guys. Huh?
This man has no time.
No one gets off!
It'll grease the wheels with the money men if you show a little charity. There's still gonna be plenty of us to kill.
Okay, son. You can try any unload the driver. You tell that wildcat behind the wheel not to slow down, though. Or he won't even get a chance to bleed to death. And Jack? Don't slip.
Very, very exciting, Jack. Some close calls, huh? But you've done all right for yourself.
What do you want?
I want money, Jack. I wish, uh, that I had some loftier purpose but, um, I'm afraid in the end it's just the money, Jack. I would like, uh, large non-sequential bills, in two clear plastic bags, unmarked. Can you remember all that?
What are you telling me for?
Because I want you to help me to get it before it gets too late. I hate negotiators, Jack. They talk to you like they're you're best friend, and they don't even know you. Why are they messing with me, huh? Do they think I'm doing this for fun?
Aren't you?
Oh, that's unfair, Jack. You don't know how I feel about this. You don't even know me.
I know you want a shitload of money you didn't earn.
Oh, I earned it. I spent my life earning it. I got a medal too, Jack. A medal and a pink slip and a "sorry about your hand".
You have to let me off.
Oh, no! That's not good.
You want me to help you? I need to talk to these people face-to-face. They think you're bullshit.
They don't think that.
Look, you want the money, I don't want anyone else to die. Let me get on the ground. Just me. That's not against the rules.
All right, I want you back real fast.
Fine.
Jack, nothing tricky now. You know that I'm on top of you. Do not attempt to grow a brain!
Security Guard
Hey, this area's restricted.
Oh, hi. Yeah, I know. They called me down here, some of this wiring got screwed up.
Security Guard
Nobody called it down to me. I'm going to have to see a work order.
Yeah. Just a second. [Payne reaches into his bag and holds up a piece of paper] There you are. [Payne pulls out a concealed knife and stabs the guard in the ear, killing him] Nothing personal.
We're at the airport.
Ortiz
Yeah, so?
I already seen the airport.
[After Helen's death]
I can't be here. I can't, you know... This is the wrong bus. I mean, for me to... I can't die here.
Ortiz
Hey, shut up, man. I got a wife.
Oh, you do?
Terry
Hey! So if you have a wife, and I don't, does that mean I'm expendable?
Ortiz
Hey, what are you talkin' about, man? The guy's just talking crazy. It gets on my nerves. Gets on everybody's nerves.
Oh, yeah? Well, I think I have the right to be a little bit upset...
Terry
What are you starin' at anyway?!
...after all that we've been through—
Ortiz
Why don't you just let everybody die in peace if that's gonna happen, huh?!
Terry
So you're a tough guy, huh?
I got a right to be upset.
Terry
You're really tough, huh, Gigantor?! Why don't we just step outside?!
Maybe. I might.
I hope not, 'cause you know, relationships that start under intense circumstances, they never last.
Oh yeah?
Yeah, I've done extensive study on this.
[Jack calls Harry in his office while he is trying to get on the bus and tells him the bomber's back. Mac enters Harry's office.]
We got a random demand from your dead terrorist. He's rigged a city bus. Where's Jack?