Jack Payne Quotes in Shooter (2007)

Michael Sandor: Gunnery Sergeant Bob Lee Swagger, USMC, Retired. He is the best there is.

Louis Dobbler: His last assignment went wrong. Put in unfriendly territory on a loan-out and left as expendable. Opposing force sent an attack helicopter and a hundred-man company. His best friend and spotter was killed. No official report.

Jack Payne: Ghost report says he inflicted 70 percent casualties; the rest fled.

Louis Dobbler: The Agency asset that left him there to die? Suddenly removed from the face of the earth two weeks after. They never laid it at Bob Lee's feet. He retired a week later.

Colonel Isaac Johnson: I guess Bob Lee didn't think he was expendable.

Jack Payne: You know what they say is the first thing that a man feels when he shoots a civilian?

Bob Lee Swagger: The recoil of the rifle?

Jack Payne: [snickers] Yeah.

Bob Lee Swagger: Very original.