Operation Dumbo Drop (1995)

Danny Glover: Capt. Sam Cahill

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Quotes 

• Capt. Sam Cahill : What if the NVA isn't the first to come along here? What if it's a bunch of school children walking home? Did you ever think about that? No! Why? Because guys like you don't think things through!

  [pokes Doyle in the forehead] 

  Capt. T.C. Doyle : Me? What about you? You've got six people and an elephant risking their lives so that you can go home with a clear conscience. You're afraid that when you're standing up on that rooftop with your brother in Fort Lauderdale, looking back over your sparkling military career, you're not gonna like what you see! So you want to do one good thing before you go, which is great! But your one good thing isn't pulling a kid out of a burning building, or diving on a grenade, it's THIS! And because it's THIS, it involves us! But you didn't think about that, did you? NO! Why? Because guys like you don't think things through!

  [slaps Cahill on the head] 

• [on Goddard] 

  Capt. Sam Cahill : He gave us the best intelligence on the V.C.'s location that we ever got.

  Goddard : Well, what can I say? I love America.

  [He motions to a framed photo of Lyndon Johnson on his dashboard. Cahill picks it up and flips it over, showing a photo of Ho Chi Minh] 

  Capt. Sam Cahill : He gave the V.C. their best intelligence on our location, too.

  [Cahill laughs] 

  Goddard : What can I say? I love everybody.

• [Goddard is singing along to a record of Mozart's "The Magic Flute" - badly] 

  Capt. Sam Cahill : Is it my ears, or has your singing actually gotten worse?

  Goddard : Must be your ears, it was already as bad as it could be!

• Capt. T.C. Doyle : Poole, where are you going?

  David Poole : Saigon!

  Capt. T.C. Doyle : Get back here!

  Capt. Sam Cahill : Poole, do you want me to call General Richardson?

  David Poole : [turns around]  Yeah, Cahill! Yeah, I do! Call General Richardson!I'll get him on the phone for you right now! Because I am sick and tired...

  [He fumbles with his radio set, then just drops it] 

  David Poole : That's it! I've had it! I was on a plane that almost crashed, I came this close to being killed by an angry mob, and now look at my uniform! It's covered in elephant crap! So you really think I give a damn whether or not you call General Richardson, and tell him I slept with his wife, huh?

• Capt. T.C. Doyle : [about the water buffalo tranquilizer]  Well, how are we gonna get her to swallow one of these?

  David Poole : Well, she's not supposed to... swallow it.

  Capt. T.C. Doyle : Oh, no...

  Capt. Sam Cahill : [laughs and pushes the pillbox into Poole's hands]  Well, Dr. David Poole...

  David Poole : Oh, no. No, no, no, no. I said I would help you guys out, but putting my hand up an elephant's ass was never part of the deal.

  Capt. Sam Cahill : On three.

  Capt. T.C. Doyle : [whispering]  Oh, no... please, please, please...

  [louder] 

  Capt. T.C. Doyle : What do you got?

  Capt. Sam Cahill : Evens.

  Capt. T.C. Doyle : Okay.

  [They shoot for it, and Doyle loses. Poole smirks and hands him the pillbox] 

• Capt. Sam Cahill : Y B'ham doesn't stare off into space because he's a wise old soul. He's as blind as a bat!

  Y B'ham : Ibham not blind! Ibham can...

  [Chaill holds a knife to his neck] 

  Y B'ham : Ibham is blind.

• [the team stops in a village, and one of the villagers asks Poole what they need] 

  David Poole : [in Vietnamese]  I need to get to Saigon. These men have kidnapped me.

  Capt. Sam Cahill : Poole, I speak the language.

  David Poole : [laughs nervously]  It was a joke.

  Capt. Sam Cahill : Any more joking... I'll call you-know-who.

• Goddard : Would anyone like some wine?

  David Poole , Harvey (H.A.) Ashford : Yeah!

  Capt. T.C. Doyle : Wine? No! What is this, the opening of an art gallery? The Green Beret motto is "Live Free or Die!" not "Eat, Drink and Be Merry!"

  Capt. Sam Cahill : [as Goddard uncorks a jug]  Yeah, now it is!

  Capt. T.C. Doyle : [skyward]  What did I do? What did I do?

• [preparing to jump out of the cargo plane] 

  Capt. Sam Cahill : Stand by...!

  Harvey (H.A.) Ashford : Ready?

  Sp5 Lawrence Farley : Yeah.

  Harvey (H.A.) Ashford : Okay.

  Capt. Sam Cahill : Go, go, go!

  David Poole : Uh, I can't go, guys, I left something back inside...

  [Harvey and Farley exchange a look...] 

  David Poole : I'm an office guy, man, I work in an office...

  [they grab him and all three tumble out of the plane together] 

  David Poole : ... *behind a desk!*