Spartan Quotes
The investigation into a kidnapping of the daughter of a high-ranking US government official.
Curtis' booklet: [Roger's Rangers booklet circa 1757] RULES OF WAR / 1. Don't forget nothing. / 2. Have your musket clean as a whistle, hatchet scoured, sixty rounds powder and ball, and be ready to march at a minute's warning. / 3. When you're on the march, act the way you would if you was sneaking up on a deer. See the enemy first. / 4. Tell the truth about what you see and what you do. There is an army depending on us for correct information. You can lie all you please when you tell other folks about the Rangers, but don't never lie to a Ranger or officer. / 5. Don't never take a chance you don't have to. / 6. When we're on the march we march single file, far enough apart so one shot can't go through two men. / 7. If we strike swamps, or soft ground, we spread out abreast, so it's hard to track us. / 8. When we march, we keep moving till dark, so as to give the enemy the least possible chance at us. / 9. When we camp, half the party stays awake while the other half sleeps / 10. If we take prisoners, we keep 'em separate till we have had time to examine them, so they can't cook up a story between 'em. / 11. Don't ever march home the same way. Take a different route so you won't be ambushed. / 12. No matter whether we travel in big parties or little ones, each party has to keep a scout 20 yards ahead, 20 yards on each flank and 20 yards rear so the main body can't be surprised and wiped out / 13. Every night you'll be told where to meet if surrounded by a superior force. / 14. Don't sit down to eat without posting sentries. / 15. Don't sleep beyond dawn. Dawn's when the French and Indians attack. / 16. Don't cross a river by a regular ford.
Laura Newton: Did my father send you?
Scott: That's right.
Laura Newton: Why? Why? He wants me dead.
Scott: He sent me.
Laura Newton: One man.
Scott: "One riot, one Ranger." You ever heard that?
Laura Newton: Leonidas, King of Sparta... when a neighboring state would plead for military aid, would send one man.
Scott: Well, there you go.
Laura Newton: You ever hear that?
Scott: No. I think we went to different schools.
Scott: That's right.
Laura Newton: Why? Why? He wants me dead.
Scott: He sent me.
Laura Newton: One man.
Scott: "One riot, one Ranger." You ever heard that?
Laura Newton: Leonidas, King of Sparta... when a neighboring state would plead for military aid, would send one man.
Scott: Well, there you go.
Laura Newton: You ever hear that?
Scott: No. I think we went to different schools.
Scott: It's okay, I'm with Secret Service.
Donny: Guess again. I'm Secret Service. And you'll follow my directions, or I'll shoot you dead.
Scott: Yes.
Donny: Step away from the door.
Scott: Yes. I have a message for her. I have something to tell her.
Donny: Take two steps to your left.
Scott: Yes. I have a message for Mrs. Newton.
Donny: I'm sure you do. Spread your arms, please, out to the sides. Open your hands.
Donny: Open the box.
Donny: I'm minutes from the bomb squad. If it's 'Happy Birthday,' let's do it now.
Donny: Guess again. I'm Secret Service. And you'll follow my directions, or I'll shoot you dead.
Scott: Yes.
Donny: Step away from the door.
Scott: Yes. I have a message for her. I have something to tell her.
Donny: Take two steps to your left.
Scott: Yes. I have a message for Mrs. Newton.
Donny: I'm sure you do. Spread your arms, please, out to the sides. Open your hands.
Donny: Open the box.
Donny: I'm minutes from the bomb squad. If it's 'Happy Birthday,' let's do it now.
Curtis: They sending you in?
Scott: We'll leave that to our betters.
Curtis: Why don't you ask them?
Scott: Why would I want to know? I ain't a planner, I ain't a thinker. I never wanted to be. You got to set your motherfucker to receive. Listen to me. They don't go through the door, we don't ask why. That's not a cost, it's benefit. Because we get to travel light. They tell me where to go. Tell me what to do when I get there.
Scott: We'll leave that to our betters.
Curtis: Why don't you ask them?
Scott: Why would I want to know? I ain't a planner, I ain't a thinker. I never wanted to be. You got to set your motherfucker to receive. Listen to me. They don't go through the door, we don't ask why. That's not a cost, it's benefit. Because we get to travel light. They tell me where to go. Tell me what to do when I get there.
Scott: There was a king, and he had a daughter, and she was abducted. The king, he swore to protect her, but while he was indulging himself shamefully, she was abducted. Now, the king's advisors, they knew that if she came home, she would reveal the king's shame to the country. So they told the king that she was dead.
Curtis: I saw the sign.
[draws the Picasso symbol on the hood of a car]
Curtis: Sir.
Scott: You saw the sign? You were up for a week. You coulda seen Jack Ruby. You don't know what you saw your first time out.
Curtis: Sir, I know what I saw.
Scott: You didn't see no sign baby, 'cause she wasn't there. The hardest thing, y'know what it is? It isn't going in the door, it's coming out. You ever come down offa drugs? The most powerful drug in the world is adrenaline. I told you everything I know. Stand down.
[draws the Picasso symbol on the hood of a car]
Curtis: Sir.
Scott: You saw the sign? You were up for a week. You coulda seen Jack Ruby. You don't know what you saw your first time out.
Curtis: Sir, I know what I saw.
Scott: You didn't see no sign baby, 'cause she wasn't there. The hardest thing, y'know what it is? It isn't going in the door, it's coming out. You ever come down offa drugs? The most powerful drug in the world is adrenaline. I told you everything I know. Stand down.
Avi: There are some people in this house...
Scott: Avi...
Avi: That if you were go, while you were there, if you said hello to them for me, it would cut your price.
Scott: Avi, what do you think I am?
Avi: I don't know what you are. You ain't a planner. You're a shooter. I don't know what you're doing here, and I think you've gone off the reservation.
Scott: Avi...
Avi: That if you were go, while you were there, if you said hello to them for me, it would cut your price.
Scott: Avi, what do you think I am?
Avi: I don't know what you are. You ain't a planner. You're a shooter. I don't know what you're doing here, and I think you've gone off the reservation.
