Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
Stephen Lang: Quaritch
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Quotes
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Quaritch : [to Neytiri] I owe you a death.
[Neytiri snarls at him]
Quaritch : You're not leaving are you, Jake? Knowin' I'm out there. Knowin' that I'll never stop. I'm coming for you. And when I do, I'll kill your whole family.
Jake Sully : Then let's get it done.
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Quaritch : Why so Blue?
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Quaritch : [to his recom squad] We are not in Kansas, anymore. We are going to Pandora. Now... I know you're all asking yourselves the same question. Why so blue?
[Everyone laughs]
Quaritch : For our sins in our past life we have been brought back in the form of our enemy. That gives us their size, their strength, the speed. And with our training, that's a pretty potent mix.
Recom Wainfleet : Do you have a mission yet?
Quaritch : Indeed we do. Our mission is to hunt down and kill the leader of the Navi insurgency. The one they call Toruk Makto. Jake Sully.
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Quaritch : [to Spider] Get on the ship, find a seat and keep outta the way.
[as Spider mans a machine gun turrent]
Quaritch : Whoa, hold on there hotshot. You listen up. There's a tracker built into that mask, we hit the ground and you take off, I'll have you back here in two minutes, and I will give you a whole school ass-whippin'. Understood?
[Reaffirmingly]
Quaritch : Understood?
Spider : [non-serious tone] Yes, sir.
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Quaritch : [after discovering he's been brought back as a recombinant Na'vi] Well... ain't this a bitch.
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Quaritch : [to his Recom squad] All right, listen up. Jake Sully has gone underground, don't matter wherever he is we'll find him and his batshit crazy wife too. To do so, we go Na'vi. Full tilt all the way. That means we eat Na'vi, we ride Na'vi, think Na'vi,
[in Na'vi language]
Quaritch : And that starts with speaking the language.
Spider : [chuckling; in Na'vi language] You call that speaking na'vi? You sound like a three-year-old.
Quaritch : Alright, smart guy. You just went from being our monkey mascot to our official interpreter.
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Quaritch : [in a video log from his time as a human] In case you haven't figured it out yet, you're Colonel Miles Quatrich. Only younger, taller, bluer... and not nearly as good-looking. In two years, I fly a mission against the Navi's stronghold. The powers that be thought it prudent that I do this backup just in case. And if you are watching it, well... It means that I did get my ticket punched. Hey, Parker... just what the hell am I supposed to say now?
Selfridge : Just remind him how this works. Here.
[Adjusts the video log screen for a better view and shows him a capsule]
Selfridge : So see this? This is all your memories and your personality. We're going to send this back to Earth... where you're growing in a lab as we speak. We're going to imprint you with it, and then..
Quaritch : [talking over] Hey, hey, hey. Am I doing this, or are you doing this?
Selfridge : [pats his back and walks off] Hurry it up. Hurry it up.
Quaritch : Anyway, the idea... Is to get the minds of the saltiest on world operators. Yeah, like Corporal Wainfleet over there...
[Wainfleet gets out of the pod in the video pod and strikes a pose and the recom Wainfleet while watching says Hoorah]
Quaritch : and you're humble narrator into recombinant bodies. You're a recom now, Colonel... loaded with my memories and my charm. What you won't remember is my death because it hasn't happened yet and it ain't gonna.
[Wainfleet and Z-Dog agree]
Quaritch : Well whatever happened, if you're any clone of mine, you'll be looking for some payback. And Jake Sully would be at the top of that list. Remember kid, a marine can't be defeated. Oh, you can kill us but we'll just regroup in hell. Semper fi.
[ends video log]
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Dr. Garvin : [after the mother Tulkun is killed] the only way to reach the glands is from below, drill up through the heart palate into the brain. These are highly intelligent beings. Probably smarter than us.
Scoresby : Not smarter than me.
Dr. Garvin : That is setting the bar very low.
Scoresby : Hey, I'm the one with the harpoon.
Dr. Garvin : Yeah.
Spider : How do you know... that they're smarter than us?
Dr. Garvin : They have more neurons, more pathways. Not only are they smarter, they're deeply emotional. More spiritual.
[shows Spider a 3d scan of the tulkuns brain]
Dr. Garvin : This region here corresponds with our emotional centers, but proportionally it's much larger. They have music, philosophy, mathematics, complex language. Okay. Here we go.
Scoresby : [as a yellow liquid is extracted from the tulkuns brain] Show me the money.
Quaritch : So that's what this is all about?
Dr. Garvin : That's it. Amrita.
Scoresby : [after the amrita is extracted into a vial he takes it out] Bad luck for the big guys. This stuff just happens to stop human aging. Like.. stops it. Ounce for ounce, the single most valuable substance known to man. This little vile here is worth like 80 million.
[pretends to throw it]
Scoresby : Think fast!
Dr. Garvin : Please don't. It's never funny.
Scoresby : Amrita is what's paying for everything here on Pandora now. Even your research, ain't that right, Dr. G?
Dr. Garvin : It's why I drink.
Spider : That's all you take? y-You just waste the rest?
Scoresby : Drop the bags. Let's sink her.
Quaritch : No, leave the bags I want them to know it was us.
Scoresby : I charge extra for being used as bait.
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Scoresby : I'm over it. I've got quotas to meet.
Quaritch : You want to hunt? Let's hunt?
Scoresby : What? Here? Not here. There's too many villages.
Dr. Garvin : No. No, no, no. Respectfully sir. You do not understand the kindred bonds between the Tulkun and the ocean Na'vi. It would be like murdering a member of their family.
Scoresby : If we start hunting here, the hostiles will come after us.
Quaritch : Exactly. One hostile in particular
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Quaritch : [going over a 3-D map] The target is pretty much this whole island group.
Scoresby : I've never been up there. You know those waters, Doc. What kind of indigenous we got?
Dr. Garvin : Uh, Metkayina mostly. Some Ta'unui, maybe 50 villages.
Quaritch : Uh, you are who?
Dr. Garvin : Oh, I'm.. Ian Garvin, marine biologist.
Quaritch : 50 villages, 100 villages, I don't care we'll search them all.
Scoresby : I hunt Tulkun. That's what I'm rigged for. That's all my guys do. I've got quotas to meet.
Quaritch : I'll be nice once, then I won't.
Scoresby : Well if you can't get out of it, get into it.
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Quaritch : [restraining a struggling] Spider Whoa, easy, tiger, easy.
[after Spider stops struggling]
Quaritch : We good? Kid, you got heart. The science pukes leaned on you pretty hard you gave them nothing. I respect that. I thought you might want this
[gives Spider his dog tags]
Quaritch : It's Colonel Miles Quatrich. Deceased. Killed in action.
[Spider tosses the dog tags away]
Quaritch : I'm not that man. But I do have his... memories. Enough to know that well he wasn't always the best father. But that is not an apology. I'm not your father. Technically, you and I, we're nothing to each other. But... I can help you. I can get you out of here. I'd never ask you to betray Jake Sully. I know you'd never do that. You're loyal, and I admire loyalty. Just ride along. Otherwise I got to give you back to the lab coats.
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Quaritch : [saluting] General Ardmore.
General Ardmore : Good to meet you, Colonel. Heard good things. But a lots changed since your last tour here. Walk with me. The new OP center is over here, that just came online. These swarm assemblers can put up a building in six days. We have done more here in a year than in the previous thirty years. We're not here to run a mine, Colonel. As on world commander, I have been charged with a greater mission. Earth is dying. Our task here is to tame this frontier. Nothing less than to make Pandora the new home for humanity. But before we can do that, we need to pacify the hostiles. Sully's raids are becoming bolder and more frequent. Strikes are well planned. He's got tight coordination between his ground and air assets. His forces are hitting our outline sites. Mines, pipelines, cutting off our supply chain.
Male Med-Tech : They hit a Mag-Lev two days ago.
Quaritch : Any intel on Sully's base of operations?
General Ardmore : Yeah. Bring up the mountains.
[3D map of mountains is shown]
General Ardmore : it's a cave system in the Hallelujah Mountains somewhere. But every time we send our forces up there, we take losses. Our hardware really stirs up the hornets nest. We only get ten minutes in enemy airspace and they are all over us. Colonel we believe your blue team will be perceived as indigenous and will not trigger the immune response.
Quaritch : And how might we test that hypothesis, General?
General Ardmore : The hard way.
Quaritch : [grinning] Outstanding
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Quaritch : [takes tranquilizer rifle from Wainfleet] I got this.
[as he aims to tranquilize an ikran so he can bond with it Spider starts chuckling; confused]
Quaritch : What?
Spider : Na'vi kids younger than me do this with their bare hands.
Quaritch : Jake Sully did it the hard way?
Spider : What do you think?
Recom Wainfleet : [as Quaritch hands him back the tranquilizer rifle] what do we do Colonel?
[Quaritch slowly and cautiously approaches an Ikran]
Spider : This is gonna be good.
Quaritch : [as he approaches an Ikran] It's you and me, cupcake.
[the Ikran roars at him to which he hisses back in retaliation; it bites at him he dodges and punches it in the face then dcks underneath it and then jumps on its back riding it like a horse as he struggles to bond with it]
Spider : Oh! Did I mention you're supposed to tie the mouth shut first?
Quaritch : Thanks a lot, kid!
[They continue the struggle and then both the Ikran and him fall over the cliff]
Recom Wainfleet : Move up! Move up! Can you see them?
[to Recom squad]
Recom Wainfleet : Alright, let's go Oscar Mike. Come on.
[to Spider]
Recom Wainfleet : Let's go. We're out of here.
Quaritch : [suddenly flies up now bonded with the Ikran; he raises his hand in triumph] WOHOOO! yes, that's right!
[the whole recom squad cheers for him]
Recom Wainfleet : Yeah, Colonel! Get some!
Quaritch : Who's up next?
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Quaritch : Jake, tell your friends to stand down. If you want your kids back, you come out alone. You know better than to test my resolve
[puts his firearm to Lo'aks head]
Quaritch : I took you under my wing, Jake. You betrayed me. You killed your own. Good men, good women. I will not hesitate to execute your kid.
