Denzel Washington en el papel de...
Ben Marco
- [last lines]
- Noyle: [voiceover] Now, when you're rescued and returned with your patrol to command headquarters, what will be among the first of your duties that you'll undertake?
- Ben Marco: I'll recommend Sergeant Shaw for the Medal of Honor, sir. He saved our lives. He terminated the enemy. Led us across the desert to safety.
- Noyle: Excellent. And there were casualties?
- Ben Marco: There's always casualties in war, sir.
- Senator Thomas Jordan: And you bring me rumors and conjecture.
- Ben Marco: I started with nightmares. Rumors, conjectures, that's a giant leap forward.
- Raymond Shaw: Are we friends, Ben? I wanna believe we were friends.
- Ben Marco: We are connected and that's something nobody can take from us. You coulda had me locked up, but you didn't. That's proof that there's something deep inside. There's a part that they can't get to. And it's deep inside of us. And that's where the truth is.
- Ben Marco: [being brainwashed over the phone] Yes, senator?
- Eleanor Shaw: Is this Captain Marco?
- Ben Marco: Yep.
- Eleanor Shaw: Captain Bennet Marco?
- Ben Marco: Yes.
- Eleanor Shaw: Bennet Ezikiel Marco?
- Ben Marco: ...yes.
- Eleanor Shaw: ...Listen.
- Al Melvin: I'm just! I'm just... I'm just a little stuck, Sir.
- [pause]
- Al Melvin: Because I remember, okay, Shaw...
- [pause]
- Al Melvin: Shaw, okay... Shaw saving us, right?
- [another pause]
- Al Melvin: But that doesn't make sense, because... that should've been you. Okay, if Shaw is in the Hummer...
- [pause]
- Al Melvin: The Toyota is here...
- [breaks down to the floor and sobs]
- Ben Marco: [Marco grabs him and holds him up to his feet] All right. Just get up, get up!
- [pause]
- Ben Marco: Listen, it's... That's over with. That's done. Okay? You gotta move on...
- Al Melvin: [stutters] What I was hoping is that, you know, maybe...
- Ben Marco: You need some money or something?
- Al Melvin: No. No, Sir...
- Ben Marco: Wait a minute...
- Al Melvin: I don't need your money, man!
- Ben Marco: All right. Well, it was great to see you...
- [Melvin walks away]
- Al Melvin: [disturbingly] I have these dreams, Sir.
- Ben Marco: [puzzled] Dreams?
- Al Melvin: [continues] Yes, Sir. Kuwait. It's you and me, Ingram and Baker and...
- [pause]
- Al Melvin: Raymond Shaw.
- Ben Marco: Okay.
- Al Melvin: See, I remember it happened...
- [pause]
- Al Melvin: Like you just said and then...
- [pause]
- Al Melvin: I don't...
- Ben Marco: Well, we had it pretty rough over there, Melvin. That was a long time ago. Memories shift...
- Al Melvin: [cutting Ben off] Do you have dreams, Sir?
- Ben Marco: [smiles] Everybody has dreams, Corporal...
- Al Melvin: [frustratingly] No, not these!
- Al Melvin: [trying to explain his dreams] I write it all down. You know, like, every night...
- [he shows Marco a notebook with strange notes scribbled in it]
- Al Melvin: Right when I wake up, I try to get it down. It doesn't always come together, you know? Not everything that I can remember...
- Ben Marco: Maybe you should go to the V.A. Hospital. Talk to one of the doctors...
- Al Melvin: [angrily throws his notebook on the floor] I've *BEEN* to doctors, man!
- Ben Marco: Somebody got into our heads with big steel-toe boots, cable cutters and a chainsaw and they went to town. Neurons got got got exposed and circuits got rewired. Our brain cells got obliterated, Raymond.
- Ben Marco: You said the army implants, they were for emergency medical data, right?
- Delp: The ones they publicized were. There was a parallel project of all kinds of scary implantables. The Clinton watch dogs finally freaked out about it, closed down.
- Ben Marco: Parallel project? How'd you know about that?
- Delp: Manchurian Global funded me to make some of this scary shit. Heard of them? Imagine not just a corporation, Marco, but a goddamn geopolitical extension of policy for every President since Nixon.
- [first lines]
- Ben Marco: So why don't we just go directly right up in this route, straight in...
- Laurent Tokar: Yes, I see the Captain enjoys the road less-traveled.
- Ben Marco: No, the Captain enjoys not going down the highway, draggin' his ass so every Tom, Dick, Gaddafi can take a whack at it.
- Ben Marco: This is rich people, Manchurian Global, funding bad science, to put a sleeper in the White House, and that's what's going on Rosie. That's what's going on.
- Rosie: [holding gun on him] I want to believe you.
- Ben Marco: Well, then believe me. Help me.
- Rosie: Uh, uh, uh, uh.
- Ben Marco: Shoot me then. Help me or shoot me, make a decision. Make a decision.