Harry Temple Quotes in Speed (1994)

Harry Temple: All right, pop quiz. Airport, gunman with one hostage. He's using her for cover; he's almost to a plane. You're a hundred feet away... Jack?

Jack: Shoot the hostage.

Jack: Tell me again Harry, why did I take this job?

Harry Temple: Oh come on, thirty more years of this, you get a tiny pension and a cheap gold watch.

Jack: Cool.

Harry Temple: You shot me, I can't believe it. They're giving you a medal for shooting me, you little prick!

Jack: Harry... you TOLD me to.

Harry Temple: What do you think?

Jack: You're the expert, I just work here.

Harry Temple: Looks pretty solid.

Jack: Anyone we know?

Harry Temple: I don't recognize the work, but he's pro.

[checks watch]

Harry Temple: Oh, he's cutting it close.

Jack: I don't like it.

Harry Temple: What's to like? Mac said we hold, so we hold.

[Jack begins looking around; Harry thinks]

Harry Temple: Alright, pop quiz. Airport, gunman with a hostage. He's using her for cover. He's almost to a plane. You're one hundred feet away.

[Jack doesn't respond]

Harry Temple: Jack?

Jack: Shoot the hostage.

Harry Temple: What?

Jack: Take her out of the equation. Go for the good wound and he can't get to the plane with her. Clear shot.

Harry Temple: You're deeply nuts, you know that? "Shoot the hostage."

[chuckles]

Jack: Harry, this is wrong. He's gonna blow it anyway.

Harry Temple: Why?

Jack: I don't know, gut feeling.

Harry Temple: Yeah, well, right now Mac outranks your gut. So we sit.

Jack: How much you think that elevator weights?

Harry Temple: Jack, come on!

Jack: Maybe we can do something about those hostages.

Harry Temple: We're not gonna shoot em right?

Jack: Was it good for you?

Harry Temple: It was great for me.

Jack: Elevator dropped.

Harry Temple: Oh, that's good to know.

[both sit down]

Jack: Is your watch slow?

Harry Temple: No, no, he jumped the gun. We had three minutes left.

Jack: Why's he do that? He's losing his three million.

Harry Temple: I don't know maybe he couldn't hold his wad long enough. It's a common problem among middle-aged men. So I'm told.

Jack: [gets up; realizing] He's here.

Harry Temple: He could have blown that thing from Pacoima!

Jack: No, he knew we were up to something. He's close by.

Harry Temple: He's not gonna corner himself in a building. We evacuated anyways.

[Jack looks disappointed]

Harry Temple: Alright. He'd wanna be here but he'd wanna stay mobile. Right?

[Jack nods]

Harry Temple: The elevators.

Jack: The passenger cars were stopped. They checked em out.

Harry Temple: What about the freight elevators?

Lt. Herb "Mac" McMahon: Alright gentlemen, what we have here is 13 passengers in a express elevator. Below floor 30. Bomber's already taken out cables, bomber wants $3 million or he blows the emergency brakes.

Harry Temple: What's our clock?

Norwood: He gave one hour. That leaves us twenty-three minutes exactly.

Swat Cop: Anything else that will keep this elevator from falling?

Jack: Yeah, the basement.

Lt. Herb "Mac" McMahon: The city would like to avoid that event, Officer Traven.

Harry Temple: We can't just unload the passengers?

Lt. Herb "Mac" McMahon: This is an express elevator gentlemen. The only way in or out is through access panels. Bomber's also wired the hatch to trigger the bomb, which seats him in the crazy-but-not-stupid section.

Jack: Sir, Harry volunteers to examine the device.

Harry Temple: Yeah, right.

Lt. Herb "Mac" McMahon: Fine. The two of you check it out.

Norwood: The nearest access panel is on the thirty-second floor in the lobby.

Lt. Herb "Mac" McMahon: I want reports only, we're in a holding patern. Worthy, Briggs, I want you to secure base area, no one in or out. Everyone else, I want you to confirm building evac. Move!

Jack: [to Harry] Looks like we're walking.