Matthews Quotes in The Stone Killer (1973)
Matthews Quotes:
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Matthews: [sees Lipper's corpse] What hit him?
Detective Lt. Lou Torrey: [unemotionally] A complete state of death.
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[after the briefing]
Matthews: What's the matter Danny? Something you don't like?
McKnight: No Spectre gunships, daylight instead of night, late afternoon when they're all fucked up on Khat, only part of the city Aidid can mount a serious counter-attack on short notice...
[chuckles]
McKnight: What's not to like?
Harell: Life's imperfect.
McKnight: Yeah, for you two, circling above it at five hundred feet it's imperfect. Down in the street, it's unforgiving.
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Busch: Three guys with RPGs! Coming up on your side! Now!
[Somalis fire the RPG, striking Super 6-1's tail rotor. 6-1 is now spinning out of control]
Cliff Wolcott: Stay with it!
Cliff Wolcott: [on radio] This is 6-1. I'm hit. I'm hit.
Matthews: Super 6-1 is hit. He is hit. Wolcott's bird is hit.
Cliff Wolcott: Hey Bull, you want to pull those PCLs offline or what?
Briley: Right, babe.
[6-1 is still spinning wildly]
Cliff Wolcott: 6-1 going down, 6-1 going down.
Matthews: Super 6-1 is going down. He is going down.
[Various radio chatter repeating "6-1 going down", showing the Rangers on the ground looking up in disbelief at the spiraling chopper]
Cliff Wolcott: Hold on!
[6-1's crew are bracing for impact]
Cliff Wolcott: [Chopper strikes a building] Ahhh!
[6-1 crashes, blades flying everywhere]
Harell: We've got a Black Hawk down, we've got a Black Hawk down.
Matthews: Super 6-1 is down. We've got a bird down in the city.
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[after Super 61 crashes]
Harell: We got a black hawk down, we got a black hawk down.
Matthews: Super 61 is down. We got a bird down in the city. Super 61 is on the deck now.
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Matthews: All units Irene. I say again, Irene.
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[last lines]
Matthews: Such fine coffee.
Murkil: Isn't it?
[we cut to a different scene]
Carol Dunlap: Oh, Albert!
-- Matthews
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