Black Hawk Down (2001)

Sam Shepard: Garrison

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Quotes 

• Garrison : Good luck, boys. Be careful. Nobody gets left behind.

  Grimes : [looks at Eversmann's face] 

  Grimes : What's wrong?

  Eversmann : Nothing. He's just never done that before.

  Grimes : Oh, fuck!

• [the spy shows the right building] 

  Garrison : Is he sure this time?

  Harell : He sounds scared shitless.

  Garrison : Good. That's always a good sign.

• Atto : You shouldn't have come here. This is a civil war. This is our war, not yours.

  General Garrison : 300,000 dead and counting. That's not a war Mr. Atto. That's genocide.

• [after Wolcott's bird goes down] 

  Garrison : We just lost the initiative.

• General Garrison : If we don't hold down this city we are gonna have 100 caskets to fill by morning.

• General Garrison : This is Garrison. Now I want to be sure y'all understand what your asking for, so say it out loud and clear.

  Shughart : We're asking to go in and set-up a perimeter until ground support arrives.

• General Garrison : Danny, you understand me? No one gets left behind!

• Garrison : How far is Chalk Four from the crash site?

  Harell : Six blocks, sir.

  Garrison : They need to haul ass.

• General Garrison : This isn't Iraq, you know. Much more complicated than that.

• Garrison : You know, the last one of these guys shot himself in the head playing Russian-Roulette in a bar.

• Harell : Now he's saying the target building's actually a couple blocks down but if he's seen outside it he'll be shot.

  Garrison : I'll fucking shoot him myself a couple blocks down. Tell him I want his skinny ass parked in front of the damn building, he's not getting paid til he does exactly that.

• Atto : You put up reward signs. Twenty-five thousand dollars! What is this? Gunfight at the K.O. Corral?

  Garrison : [laughs]  It's the *O.K.* Corral.