Colonel Max Wilkins Quotes in Broken Arrow (1996)

Kelly: [faking moans into the radio] Chief Rhodes is dead! They're all dead!

Colonel Max Wilkins: What the hell happened? What the hell happened?

Kelly: [Deakins rubs his shaver into the microphone] It's the nuke! It's open! It's wide open!

Colonel Max Wilkins: Kelly, come in! What happened?

Kelly: [Deakins rubs his shaver into the microphone again] Oh God...

[fake coughs]

Kelly: What am I gonna do?

[Deakins pulls the plug on Kelly's headphones]

[after the nuke is detonated in the mine]

Giles Prentice: Colonel Wilkins, sir? Uh, shouldn't we be evacuating?

Colonel Max Wilkins: [covers his phone] We're fine, it was underground.

[into phone]

Colonel Max Wilkins: Colonel Wilkins to General Creeley...

Giles Prentice: Are you sure? I mean, how do you know that?

Colonel Max Wilkins: [covers the phone again] Because if it had been a surface detonation, we'd have felt a different kind of ground tremor. We'd also be burned, blind, and dying.