- Lt. Ben Gannon: [referring to the possible future replacement of human pilots with artificially-intelligent aircraft] War's terrible. It's meant to be terrible, and if it stops being terrible, what's going to stop us?
- Lt. Ben Gannon: Look, we have things those computers can never have like instincts and feelings and moral judgment. You can call me old-fashioned, you can call it whatever you want but I just don't think that in war the action should ever be divorced from the consequences.
- Dr. Keith Orbit: Once you design something to learn, you can't put stipulations on *what* it learns! Learn this, but don't learn that? He could learn from Adolf Hitler, he could learn from Captain Kangaroo! It's all the same to him!
- Capt. George Cummings: [as Purcell turns around in shock over getting a fourth wingman in the squadron] What's the problem, Purcell? You look like you just been hit in the gut.
- Lt. Henry Purcell: Well, for one, Captain, we've been flying together for a long time, and it's good; but FOUR is an unlucky number.
- Capt. George Cummings: Unlucky?
- Lt. Henry Purcell: Yeah! It's not a prime number. See, prime numbers can only be divided by one or itself. THREE is a prime number. The Holy Trinity? The thesis and antithesis that come together to form the synthesis...
- Capt. George Cummings: Look! This is not a seminar on metaphysics, son. This is the U.S. Navy. Now we ship out Wednesday at oh five hundred. Dismissed.
- Lt. Henry Purcell: Okay. IF he'd let me finish I was gonna say Three's Company, Three Stooges, Three Musketeers, three-peat, three strikes you're out, "Three Times a Lady".
- Lt. Kara Wade: Three dimensions?
- Lt. Henry Purcell: Three Blind Mice.
- Lt. Ben Gannon: Menage a trois. Don't forget that one. Right?
- Lt. Ben Gannon: You know what i think?
- Lt. Henry Purcell, Lt. Kara Wade, Lt. Ben Gannon: Don't think drink!
- [EDI shows his flying capability]
- Lt. Henry Purcell: That's Hot.
- Lt. Ben Gannon: It's got no heart but it sure can fly, thats not bad for a Tinman.
- Lt. Henry Purcell: EDI, it's official you've got a callsign. UCAV "Tinman" EDI the first.
- EDI: [Regarding the immediate Rangoon bombing] Squadron carries truncheon implosion bombs.
- Lt. Aaron Shaftsbury: Negative, will not work. Central Prime says AGM truncheons cannot achieve necessary velocity for penetration.
- EDI: One to UCAV, three seven seconds to primary. Come on, explain.
- EDI: Diving dead vertical at 2070 knots will increase truncheon velocity. Bomb will successfully penetrate roof.
- Lt. Kara Wade: What's the blackout risk at vertical 2070?
- EDI: 73%.
- Capt. Dick Marshfield: Pull off, captain. It's not worth the risk.
- Capt. George Cummings: Operator to Talons, pull back. EDI will plant the truncheon.
- Capt. Dick Marshfield: Captain!
- Capt. George Cummings: This is what we built this machine for. There's no blood in those quantum veins. It can't blackout.
- Capt. George Cummings: Operator to Talons, repeat, EDI will plant the truncheon.
- Lt. Ben Gannon: Control, negative control, mission critical, One will prosecute.
- Lt. Henry Purcell: This is Three to One: I got your back playboy, but if you blackout, you're going to kill yourself and everyone down there.
- Lt. Ben Gannon: Negative, Three. I did not make it this far by being in the seventy third percentile. I like my odds.
- Capt. George Cummings: Talon One, your orders are to stand down. Do you read me Lieutenant?
- Lt. Ben Gannon: I seem to be having -
- [Pulls throttle back and plane increases altitude]
- Lt. Kara Wade: [Looking at Ben flying upward] Go baby go.
- EDI: [after Ben begins his vertical dive] One hundred knots to release velocity.
- EDI: Fifty knots to release velocity,
- Naval Controller: His BP is spiking, sir.
- EDI: Released velocity attained.
- Lt. Ben Gannon: Truncheon away!
- [Fires missile]
- Lt. Ben Gannon: Shit, man. I didn't want for this to happen. I tried for it not to happen; Navy's got rules about it not happening but it's like this force that's got hold of me.
- [pause]
- Lt. Ben Gannon: I love her.
- Tim: [referring to EDI] He a... downloads songs from the web.
- Lt. Ben Gannon: Yeah, how many?
- Tim: All of them.
- Lt. Ben Gannon: [laughs] Well you're in a pack of trouble with the record companies there, son.
- Capt. George Cummings: EDI is here to learn from you, so make sure these lessons are up to speed, alright.
- Lt. Ben Gannon: Well then let the schoolin begin.
- EDI: [Wing gets clipped by debris] Port fuel line ruptured. Fire bottle extended. My technology cannot fall under foreign control, so I cannot land.
- Lt. Ben Gannon: Well, then Tin Man, you're shit out of luck!
- Lt. Kara Wade: [as Wade, Gannon, and Purcell are running out to their jets] I'm out first, boys.
- Lt. Henry Purcell: I'm on that ass!
- Lt. Kara Wade: [Standing to the right side of the exit hatch to let Purcell and Gannon past her] After you, ladies.
- [Gannon strokes under her chin and she playfully snaps her jaw back at him]
- Lt. Henry Purcell: [as he is chasing EDI in the canyon] Look, I was the only one to defend you, but if you make me I will blast your areoelastic ass right out of the sky! Now lets stop flying around like this, this is crazy!
- EDI: [Gannon preparing to fire a missile] Talon 1, clarify your intentions.
- Lt. Ben Gannon: You gave me your word, I'm showing you mine.
- Lt. Ben Gannon: UCAV EDI, Extreme Deep Invader.
- Lt. Henry Purcell: Yeah I've been called that a few times.
- Lt. Ben Gannon: Look, we have things those computers can never have like instincts and feelings and moral judgement. You can call me old-fashioned, you can call it whatever you want but I just don't think that in war the action should ever be divorced from the consequences.
- Lt. Henry Purcell: [grabs the shoulder of an attractive Thai woman from behind her and introduces himself] Hey, how ya doin'? Henry Purcell. I'm from America. Look, I fly jets. You like to go fast?
- Lt. Ben Gannon: Captain Marshfield? EDI, did you just turn off Captain Marshfield?
- EDI: [brief pause] There was nothing left to say.