Major Tom Baxter Quotes in The Rock (1996)

Captain Darrow: Excuse me, general... but what about the fucking money?

General Hummel: There is no fucking money. The mission's over.

Captain Frye: Bullshit it's over!

Major Tom Baxter: You're talking to a General, soldier! Maintain discipline.

Captain Darrow: I'm not a soldier, Major. The day we took hostages, we became mercenaries. And mercenaries get paid. I want my FUCKING money!

Captain Darrow: Sergeant Crisp, secure the General. I'm relieving you of command, sir.

[pause]

Captain Darrow: SERGEANT.

[Sergeant Crisp pulls out his pistol and reaches for General Hummel's gun holster]

Sergeant Crisp: I'll have that sidearm, sir.

[General Hummel pulls out his pistol from behind his back and points it at Sergeant Crisp]

General Hummel: You mean this sidearm?

[Captains Frye and Darrow pull out their pistols and point them at General Hummel]

Captain Frye: Major Baxter, you're either with us or against us.

Major Tom Baxter: It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve with you, General.

[Pulls out his pistol and points it General Hummel]

Major Tom Baxter: But like he said, it's over.

[Shoots Captain Darrow]

Major Tom Baxter: We're asking them. We're asking them for a new deadline.

General Hummel: Put the phone down.

Major Tom Baxter: The men are falling apart!

General Hummel: The men are Marines!

Major Tom Baxter: Are they?

[Hummel is silent]

Major Tom Baxter: I want to talk to General Kramer.

General Hummel: You've been asked by an old friend.

Major Tom Baxter: Put him on the phone right now.

General Hummel: You're being ordered by a superior officer.

Major Tom Baxter: This is Major Baxter...!

General Hummel: [draws] Now you're being given your last chance by a man with a gun. Put the phone down.

Major Tom Baxter: I thought you weren't ready to kill.

General Hummel: I'm warmin' up.

Captain Frye: You changed the coordinates, didn't you, General?

General Hummel: That's affirmative, Captain.

Sergeant Crisp: So now they think we're gutless, the feds? They think we won't actually do it?

Captain Frye: They're going to come at us with everything they got. Air and sea. They're going to bomb our ass back to the Stone Age.

Major Tom Baxter: They don't know we missed on purpose.

Captain Frye: Great. We're not gutless, we're incompetent.