Wild Joe Quotes in Balto (1995)

Wild Joe: I don't get it. How could Balto hope to find Steele and his team? They were off the trail.

Jenna: Well... he's tracking them.

Morse: That mutt? Tracking a championship team in a blizzard?

[laughs; a couple others join in]

Jenna: [Steele comes in] Balto?

Jenna: Steele!

Wild Joe: You're back!

Morse: We'd given you up!

Doc: Where are the others?

Steele: [bows his head] One by one they fell. Frozen, barely alive. I pulled four onto the sled and three more on my back. I walked and I walked, but it was too late. They were...

[the other dogs gasp]

Doc: What about the medicine?

Steele: I went on, dragging the medicine alone. Suddenly that wolfdog appeared. Balto demanded I let *him* take the medicine.

[turns to Jenna]

Steele: You know he just wanted so much to be a hero in your eyes.

[turns towrd the other dogs]

Steele: He grabbed the crate, but he couldn't handle it. He didn't see the patch of ice... and the cliff.

[pulls out Jenna's bandanna]

Steele: He didn't have a chance.

[shakes his head, clucking softly]

Jenna: [gasps] My bandanna!

Steele: [gets closer to Jenna] He made me promise to take care of you, Jenna.

Jenna: You're lying.

[louder]

Jenna: Steele's lying. Balto's alive. And he's coming home.

[runs out the door]

Steele: [closes his eyes and nods yes] She... just needs a little time.

Doc: [after listening to the telegraph office dog barking] It's terrible, my friends, just terrible. Steele and his team are lost.

Sled dog #1: When?

Sled dog #2: What happened?

Sled dog #3: What do you mean, lost?

Doc: They've missed their second checkpoint. They're off the trail.

[the other dogs lower their heads, saddened by the news]

Wild Joe: Can't they send another team?

Doc: It's too dangerous.

Chester: But... what about the little ones?

Doc: The medicine won't be here in time. We're going to lose them.

Balto: [silently; looking into the building] Rosy.