- President Sawyer: Martin, as the President of the United States, this comes with the full weight, power and authority of my office. Fuck you.
- Cale: Can you not hit me in the head with a rocket when I'm trying to drive?
- Walker: You just killed the Secretary of Defense.
- Stenz: Well, he wasn't doing a very good job.
- Finnerty: There's a series of tunnels. JFK used them to sneak Marilyn Monroe in.
- Cale: I thought that was a myth.
- President Sawyer: It's true.
- Cale: Donnie's gonna be pissed.
- Cale: Special Agent Todd keeps making those sounds, I'm gonna start looking at him.
- Tyler: [answering phone] Hello?
- Finnerty: Hello, this is Special Agent Carol Finnerty. To whom am I speaking?
- Tyler: That sounds official. Please hold, your call is very important to us.
- [hold music]
- Agent Kellerman: [after seeing the president carrying a rocket launcher] This is something you don't see every day.
- Cale: I got three rounds. Tell me you got some weapons in the residence.
- President Sawyer: No, we usually have two agents right there with machine guns. We got some knives in the kitchen.
- Cale: What?
- President Sawyer: They're big knives.
- Cale: Great, then you can make me a sandwich.
- Raphelson: You can't do this! I am still the President of the United States!
- President Sawyer: Then consider this a coup d'état!
- President Sawyer: [to Gen. Caufield] Get this trash off my lawn!
- Raphelson: [as he is being dragged off] You won't get away with this. I have friends, powerful friends!
- President Sawyer: And I'll make sure every single one of them joins you in prison!
- Raphelson: [rants] You son of a bitch! You're not FIT to hold this office! You sold out this country by making a deal with the goddamn Arabs!
- Cale: I thought you would want this.
- Emily: These are White House passes.
- Cale: Your dad here has a job interview with the Secret Service.
- Emily: That's really cool, John.
- Cale: You're just gonna stick with John?
- Emily: Yeah.
- Cale: Okay.
- Donnie the Guide: [clubs terrorist to death with clock] Stop... hurting... my... White House! German mantle clock. Empire style.
- [throws clock away]
- Stenz: Your little bitch says you're gonna put me in jail!
- [a few minutes later, Stenz has the upper hand]
- Stenz: I'm gonna *carve my name into your chest*!
- [a few minutes later, Cale has the upper hand]
- Cale: No jail for you, you little bitch!
- [Roars Stenz in the face like the Hulk]
- Stenz: NO... NO... NO
- [blows up Stenz with a belt of unpinned grenades]
- [Raphelson's treachery has been exposed]
- Cale: You are a goddamn traitor, sir.
- Raphelson: You dim little shit! I hired you out of pity and this is how you repay me? Now when the country finds out that your beloved President helped a maniac open the nuclear football, who do think they'll believe? Now you, you would be a *nobody* whereas *I* am the President of the United States.
- President Sawyer: Oh no, you're not!
- Cale: Is my credit score on there?
- Finnerty: Yes, and you should be ashamed of yourself.
- Cale: It's a recession, okay?
- Raphelson: Carol, we have to end this. We have to. What if the next missile that he launches is aimed at Chicago or New York? We're talking about millions of lives.
- Finnerty: Your first act as president is going to be bombing the White House?
- Raphelson: Believe me. I know, I know. But our country is stronger than one house.
- General Caulfield: Stenz used to do black ops work for us off the books, but when the new Sawyer administration came in, the Secretary of Defense shut down the operation and disavowed all its assets. Stenz was captured and ended up spending several months in a Taliban-controlled prison.
- Finnerty: No wonder he's pissed.
- Cale: You think you're tough, bitch?
- Walker: Cake?
- Stenz: No, I don't want cake! I'm diabetic!
- Walker: [as Stenz deserts him to battle Cale] Where are you going?
- Stenz: I'm going to end/finish this!
- Walker: [snaps]
- Walker: Don't make this personal!
- Stenz: [snaps back] DON'T TELL ME NOT TO TAKE/MAKE THIS PERSONAL! You're gonna blow up half the world... FOR YOUR OWN GOD DAMN KID!
- Walker: You think I put my country through this for MONEY?
- [seething as he shoots dead a cohort who mutinies against him]
- Walker: I hate mercenaries!
- Finnerty: John Cale, why do you want to be in the Secret Service?
- Cale: I can't think of a more important job than protecting the President.
- Raphelson: Quiet night?
- Cale: We're under attack by squirrels, sir. They are organized and they have the numbers.
- Raphelson: Little stinkers trying to get into the bird feeder again?
- Cale: I need a pass for my daughter.
- Jenna: John...
- Cale: Look, no, no, you don't understand. Okay? Look, she's a freak for all this kind of stuff, so if I get her in, I'm, like, Dad of the Year. All right? And I will owe you so much more than just a candlelight dinner.
- Donnie the Guide: Now, not too many people realize this, but the White House is actually three buildings: there's the East Wing, where you guys came in, there's the West Wing, which houses the Oval and Executive Offices of the president, and we're about to enter the residence, which is the big, famous building in the middle that got blown up in "Independence Day".
- Midwestern Woman: What's in there?
- Donnie the Guide: Well, that's the president's home theater. Membership has its privileges.
- Stenz: Welcome to the White House, Mr. Tyler.
- Tyler: I love what you've done with the place. The, uh, bullet holes really add to the décor.
- General Caulfield: Sir, I not sure using heavy artillery is a wise...
- President Sawyer: I DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT WHAT YOU THINK IS WISE... YOU GET THAT TANK... YOU PUT A HOLE IN THE GOD-DAMN FENCE RIGHT NOW
- Finnerty: Hi, I'm Carol Finnerty.
- Cale: Hi. John.
- [recognizing each other]
- Cale: Carol?
- Finnerty: Cale.
- Cale: Oh, my god. Carol Wilkes.
- Finnerty: Um... actually, I'm Carol Finnerty now.
- Cale: You're Deputy Special Agent Finnerty?
- Finnerty: Oh, you're Jenna's favor.
- Walker: As, uh, many of you are well aware, this is my last week here, so I wanna make this clear to everybody: if there are any congratulatory cakes or any of that nonsense...
- [on cue, a cake is wheeled in, and the agents break out into "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow"]
- Walker: ...I will be compelled to use deadly force. I hate you. I hate you all.
- Tyler: This is my Graceland!
- President Sawyer: [flying over the Lincoln Memorial] Did you know that Abraham Lincoln was the first U.S. president who was in favor of women having the vote? As a matter of fact, he wrote a paper on suffrage while he was still in the Illinois legislature.
- Finnerty: Yes, I did know that, because you tell me every time we do this.
- Donnie the Guide: Oil painting by Tom Freeman to commemorate the burning of the White House by the British in 1814.
- Cale: Wait, the White House burned down?
- Donnie the Guide: Yeah, yeah, in the War of 1812. Practically had to be rebuilt from the ground up. When I look at this painting, I get very emotional.
- Emily: I think I need avail myself of one of the 35 bathrooms in here.
- Donnie the Guide: [amused laugh] There's a ladies' room downstairs.
- Cale: Where? I'll take her.
- Emily: I can go by myself, John. I'm not a child.
- Cale: Hey, just don't touch anything, or-or wander off or talk to anybody that you shouldn't be talking to.
- Emily: I make no promises.
- Cale: Do you know these men?
- President Sawyer: That old son of a bitch that just killed everybody, his name is Martin Walker. He's also the head of my Secret Service.
- Cale: Maybe you should have a conversation with him about how serious you take your protection detail.
- President Sawyer: I didn't pick him.
- Cale: Why is he doing this?
- President Sawyer: I think it has something to do with his son, Kevin.
- Cale: Why? What happened?
- President Sawyer: He was a Marine, and he got killed last year in this covert action that I ordered.
- Cale: Would he do all this for a personal vendetta? He said he wanted you alive.
- President Sawyer: There's gotta be a bigger play. We gotta get out of this elevator shaft. I'm, uh...
- Cale: Don't tell me you're claustrophobic.
- President Sawyer: Your daughter's smart. You should listen to her.
- Cale: She was, like, three when I enlisted. And to be honest with you, I was probably just running from my marriage. Right after I deployed, Emily was watching TV, and there was coverage on the troops in Afghanistan. She swears to me that she saw me. After that point, she became obsessed with politics. And that's when she first saw you. The man that was gonna bring Daddy home. And when I finally did come home, I realized that... I'm not her hero anymore. So I guess I just figured that I'd try to help protect the man that is.
- President Sawyer: Well, if she saw you today, Cale, she'd be proud of you.
- Cale: You know how when they're young and they come running up to you and they hug you with all their might, and they're shouting "Daddy," and all of a sudden, one day, that just stops?
- President Sawyer: Yeah.
- Cale: I'd give anything for that hug just one more time.
- Cale: So, what's it like being president?
- President Sawyer: It's not like anything. Once you get into office, it's all about re-election, and what the other side can use against you.
- Cale: Politics.
- President Sawyer: You don't start out a politician, but you become one. Just once, though, I wanna do something that's presidential. Something along the lines of Lincoln, Washington, and Jefferson.
- Cale: You wanna make history.
- President Sawyer: No. Not history. I wanna make a difference. If your little daughter says that I'm her hero, then I gotta earn that.
- Cale: Are you okay?
- President Sawyer: [showing his pocketwatch] Honest Abe. My wife got this for me. For the inauguration.
- Cale: [laughing, seeing the bullet in the back] Are you kidding me? You got shot in the wa...
- President Sawyer: What I'm telling you is that good old Abe took a second bullet for me.
- Cale: [after a laugh, they shake hands] Thank you. Thank you for what you did for Emily.
- President Sawyer: It's my sacrifice, right?
- Cale: Jenna. Did you get me in?
- Jenna: What do I get if I did?
- Cale: What do you want?
- Jenna: Uh, dinner. Candlelight. And a promise that you will try to get to second base.
- Cale: Done.
- Cale: I literally just walked in the door. What did I do?
- Melanie: You missed her talent show.
- Cale: No, I didn't miss it. That's, like, next Thursday.
- Melanie: No, it was last Thursday. It was on the school calendar.
- Cale: What did she do?
- Melanie: She was a flag twirler.
- Cale: That's a talent?
- Melanie: She practiced for, like, six weeks, John. She thought you were gonna be there.
- Cale: All right, it would've been really nice to just have a little bit of a reminder.
- Melanie: Come on, I'm not your secretary, John.
- Cale: I'm not asking you to be my secretary. Look, I'm just... I'm trying. I'm trying really hard to be in her life.
- Melanie: It's a little late for that, wouldn't you say?
- Finnerty: This job requires a university degree. You dropped out of GW after our first semester there. You don't finish things.
- Cale: Check the file, Carol. Two years in college night school. A certificate of graduation should be in there.
- Finnerty: Great. Yeah, John, you barely maintained a "C" average.
- Cale: Look, I'm sorry, I didn't have our little study sessions like we used to back in the day, did I?
- Finnerty: Uh, evaluations from your senior officers: "Sergeant Cale frequently does not complete his field reports on time."
- Cale: It has nothing to do with protecting someone.
- Finnerty: Fine. "Sergeant Cale demonstrates a lack of respect for authority". "Sergeant Cale has raw potential, but seems determined not to realize it."
- Cale: You can keep reading that. That is not me anymore. I've changed, and I'm not the kid you used to know in college, either. I've buttoned up every single thing that I have to to qualify for this job, and I have ten times more experience than any kid coming out of Ivy League schools, so...
- Finnerty: It's not just about experience. I would need to depend on you every day.
- Cale: What do you want me to do? I'll start at the... I'll start at the bottom. Just give me a chance.
- Walker: Good morning. Light day at the White House today. Eagle will remain on the eighteen acres. He has phone calls to the congressional leadership. First Lady is back tonight?
- Agent Hope: Empress is wheels down at 1845. Uh, they're supposed to have a private dinner at the residence, but you know how they are.
- Walker: So we should have an advance on Obelisk, Marcel's, the usual.
- Agent Todd: What if she wants sushi?
- Finnerty: [entering] No, no, she's off sushi. Remember she had that thing on the Japan trip?
- Walker: Carol, how are you still awake?
- Finnerty: Caffeine and patriotism, sir.
- Cale: All right, look, we gotta get you to a phone. And you call SEAL Team Six, and they come in here and they'll shoot these assholes in the head.
- President Sawyer: We keep a scrambled satphone in the residence.
- Cale: Great. Where's that at?
- [Sawyer points to an elevator door just above their heads]
- Cale: Of course it is. You ever been rock climbing?
- President Sawyer: What, we climbing this?
- Cale: Unless you got a better idea, yeah.
- Vice President Hammond: [after hearing Walker's threat to kill Sawyer] Jesus. The head of his own detail.
- General Caulfield: At least we know how they got in so easily. The question is can we be sure he's the only Secret Service member who's been compromised?
- Finnerty: Oh, go to hell.
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