Colonel Hickock Quotes in American Ninja (1985)

Colonel Hickock: Rinaldo, what do we know about him?

Rinaldo: [Reading from a file] Birth name, unknown. Parents, unknown. Next of kin, unknown...

Colonel Hickock: Give me that!

[Grabs the papers]

Colonel Hickock: Workers found him in the jungle where they were building a road. Brought back to the States with total amnesia. Ah, there it is. I knew it. Sent to reform school at age 16 for almost killing a man. A few months ago got in trouble again. Judge gave him a choice; enlist or go to jail.

Black Star ninja: Who is he?

Colonel Hickock: He's a new recruit, he just got here yesterday. I don't even know his name!

Black Star ninja: He possess great skills.

Jackson: Have you ever heard of ninjutsu sir?

Colonel Hickock: What's that?

Jackson: The secret art of assassination.

Colonel Hickock: Yeah of course I have!

Jackson: Well according to witnesses testimony and evidence, this massacre was the work of ninjas.