Private Pilot Abilene Quotes in Southland Tales (2006)

Private Pilot Abilene: This is the way the World ends. This is the way the World ends. This is the way the World ends. Not with a whimper, but with a bang.

Private Pilot Abilene: Look. Green, you dream. Blue, in an hour you feel new. And you can forget all about mellow yellow and ancient orange, 'cause, hey, I'm giving you blood red. Do you bleed? I said, do you bleed?

Martin Kefauver: Yeah, yeah, dog.

Private Pilot Abilene: Then you take the blood train. You talk to God without even - without even seeing Him. You hear His voice, and you see His disciples. They appear like... like angels under a sea of black umbrellas. Angels who can see through time.

[injects himself with Fluid Karma and gasps; hands hypodermic injector to Martin Kefauver]

Martin Kefauver: Thanks, dog.

Private Pilot Abilene: Proposition 69. To Krysta that number had one meaning, and one meaning only. To everyone else it was a proposition on the ballot to restrict the powers of the oppressive institution known as USIDent.

Private Pilot Abilene: Revelation 21: And God wiped away the tears from his eyes, so the new Messiah could see out to the new Jerusalem. His name was Officer Roland Taverner, of Hermosa Beach, California. My best friend. He is a pimp. And pimps don't commit suicide.

[first lines]

Private Pilot Abilene: [narration] In the aftermath of nuclear attacks in Texas, America found itself on the brink of anarchy.

[overlapping news reports]

Private Pilot Abilene: World War III had begun.

Private Pilot Abilene: The accelerated conflict in the Middle East placed significant restrictions on American access to oil. Alternative fuel sources became a lucrative commodity. Americans were transfixed by the terrorist's threat, and were willing to prevent another attack by any means necessary. Military checkpoints were erected at each State line. Interstate travel visas were required of each citizen. Dissenting liberal extremest cells began to emerge, the most vocal of which were the neo-Marxists. The 2008 presidential election was to be decided by the electoral votes of just one State, as the Republicans raced to secure California for the first time since 1988. On June 27, 2008, Boxer Santaros, a famous actor with ties to the Republican Party, vanished without a trace. Three days later he was discovered in the Nevada desert with his memory erased. The government knew he had crossed the bordered back into California. but the circumstances of his return to the Southland remained a mystery.

USI Dent Reporter: Actor-turned-soldier Pilot Abilene was critically wounded during in battle in Iraq yesterday by shrapnel for a grenade thrown by a soldier in his own unit.

Private Pilot Abilene: Darkness fell upon the city. Neo-Marxist cells began to converge upon downtown.