Thomas Devoe Quotes in The Peacemaker (1997)

Thomas Devoe: Doctor, you can run your charts and your theories all you want. In the field, this is how it works: the good guys, that's us, we chase the bad guys. And they don't wear black hats. They are, however, all alike: they demand power, and respect, and they're willing to pay top dollar to get it. And that is our highly motivated buyer.

Julia Kelly: What about other motivations?

Thomas Devoe: Not important to me.

Julia Kelly: Whether it's important to you or not, there are people out there who don't care about money, who don't give a damn about respect. People who believe the killing of innocent men and women is justified. For them it is about rage, frustration, hatred... they feel pain and they're determined to share it with the world.

Thomas Devoe: Okay, that does me no good. Now let's deal with the facts at hand. 23 hours ago, General Alexander Kodoroff stole ten nuclear warheads.

Julia Kelly: He's just a delivery boy. I'm not afraid of the man who wants ten nuclear weapons, Colonel. I'm terrified of the man who only wants one.

Julia Kelly: So do you think he set us up?

Thomas Devoe: Who?

Julia Kelly: Your friend.

Thomas Devoe: No.

Julia Kelly: How can you be so sure?

Thomas Devoe: Because he's my friend.

Thomas Devoe: [approaching enemy truck in a helo] All right, gentlemen - whatever you do, do not shoot any civilians, do you understand?

[minutes later, pointing to a couple of gunmen on the bridge below]

Thomas Devoe: Those fuckers you can shoot!

Thomas Devoe: I don't know about these guys, but General Aleksandr Kodoroff doesn't ride around on a nuclear transportation train. It's like Ivana Trump on the subway.

Julia Kelly: [Devoe wants to take a team into Russia while they know where the bombs are] The Russians say they are handling it.

Thomas Devoe: The Russians couldn't find snow in the middle of fucking winter. Look, it's this simple. When that satellite is out of range, those nukes are gone.

[pause]

Thomas Devoe: It's only jet fuel.

Thomas Devoe: I'd like to know something. You moved from Lawrence Livermore to the White House. So, first you build the bombs to blow up the entire world, and now you want to save it. Make up your mind: which is it going to be?

Julia Kelly: Well, I believe this week we're saving it.

Julia Kelly: Would you call Langley? We're still waiting on a psych profile on Kodorov.

Thomas Devoe: He's an asshole. Save you the trip.

Julia Kelly: Thanks, I'll settle for the official version.

Thomas Devoe: OK, officially - he's an asshole!

Thomas Devoe: I'm not gonna shoot you unless I have to. And if I have to I'll feel really bad about it. Now sit down!

Thomas Devoe: It doesn't make sense. You don't... you don't kill a Dimitri Vertikoff. There are certain rules - killing him isn't useful.

Julia Kelly: Is it ever?

Julia Kelly: [Julia Kelly is trying to disarm a nuclear bomb with less than a minute left while Tom Devoe is standing next to her] Devoe, get out of here.

Thomas Devoe: [laughs] Okay, I'll be in the truck.

[Losungsswort]

Julia Kelly: I need the password... What's the password?

Thomas Devoe: Hang on...

[rips duct tape and ask Hans]

Thomas Devoe: Password

Hans, German Backpacker: NO

Thomas Devoe: [to Julia] All right... Hang on...

[puts silencer on his gun and puts it on Hans left elbow]

Thomas Devoe: All right, Hans, we'll do it your way... How's the backhand? Password

Hans, German Backpacker: Hasselhoff

Thomas Devoe: [to Julia] Hasselhoff

Julia Kelly: Hasselhoff - how do you spell Hasselhoff?