Crusade (1999)

Gary Cole: Capt. Matthew Gideon

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• Gideon : I thought you said you never hold a grudge.

  Galen : Well, I don't. I have no surviving enemies... at all.

• Gideon : Just so we're clear: once we go, this is my command. I'll do whatever's necessary. If that means turning the entire galaxy upside down and shaking its pockets to see what falls out, that's what I'll do. I'm not subtle, I'm not pretty, and I'll piss off a helluva lot of people along the way, but I'll get the job done.

• Elizabeth Lochley : Is there anything you can tell me?

  Gideon : Never eat anything bigger than your head. Never shoot pool at a place called Pap's. Never eat food at a place called Mom's. The mission is classified, Captain.

• Captain Matthew Gideon : I can see every detail of the Earth's surface as clearly as we're seeing it now. But after my father died, I tried to remember his face, but it always slipped away from me. Why is that I wonder.

  John Matheson : Maybe it's because we can't decide which face to remember: the face of our father when we were children, the face of our father the first left home, the face of our father the last time we saw him. They all blur together we lose the details. But Earth is constant. Earth is forever.

  Captain Matthew Gideon : You're too young to be having thoughts this old Lieutenant.

• Gideon : [to Matheson]  It's easier not to want forgiveness, or to expect it. We just keep trying to fix the mistake so we don't have to ask. But you end up trying so hard to atone for one set of mistakes, ...you overcompensate and make new ones, and then you can never break out of the cycle. You just keep going round and round, no way out, nowhere to go.

  [cut to scene of Galen travelling aimlessly in the shuttlecar] 

• Galen : Who are you?

  Gideon : Captain Matthew Gideon.

  Galen : What do you want?

  Gideon : To find a cure for the Drakh plague before it wipes out all life on Earth.

  Galen : Where are you going?

  Gideon : Anywhere I have to.

  Galen : Who do you serve, and who do you trust?

  [silence] 

  Galen : Who do you serve, and who do you trust?

  Gideon : I don't know.

  Galen : Then I will go with you.

• Gideon : Why me? There are others just as qualified.

  Senator McQuate : During your time captaining an Explorer-class vessel you've come across more new alien lifeforms than anyone else in the Fleet. There are half a dozen captains riding Explorer ships; the rest are either too old or too cautious. You're a dangerous man when you want to be, Captain, and right now we need a dangerous man.

• Gideon : Refresh me, Lieutenant. How did we get into the middle of this again?

  John Matheson : I believe it was an act of mercy, sir.

  Gideon : Remind me never to do that again.

  John Matheson : Aye, sir. No good deed goes unpunished.

  Gideon : I'll have that embroidered on a sampler when we have time.

• Dureena Nafeel : Look, I don't like having to trust anyone because I'm always disappointed. But just once I'd like to know that I could actually trust someone, that for at least one person everything wasn't about money or power.

  Captain Matthew Gideon : That's a benefit?

  Dureena Nafeel : For me it could be.

• Captain Matthew Gideon : What if you're wrong, Galen?

  Galen : Well, that hardly seems likely, now does it?

• Captain Matthew Gideon : Personal Journal: Captain Matthew Gideon continuing. It's now three days since our visitors arrived on behalf of Earth Gov's Political affairs office. There's apparently some concern with how our work here is being perceived back home. They've been assigned to "help" us. Before their tour is finished, I may have to *kill* them. Assuming Lieutenant Mattheson doesn't beat me to it.

• Senator Jacob Redway : Didn't your daddy ever teach you not to contradict your elders?

  Gideon : No, sir.

  Senator Jacob Redway : Hmm, well, I see part of the problem here.

• Captain Matthew Gideon : [Galen has led Excaliber on a wild goose chase]  Now will you tell me what's going on?

  Galen : Her name was Isabelle and she was the best of us. Every technomage knows the fourteen words to make someone fall in love with you forever. But she only needed one.

  Captain Matthew Gideon : What word?

  Galen : "Hello."

• Elizabeth Lochley : Do you know what you are?

  Gideon : Ruggedly handsome?

  Elizabeth Lochley : A control freak!

  Gideon : Can't I be both?

• Captain Matthew Gideon : You cheated!

  Elizabeth Lochley : Absolutely.

  Captain Matthew Gideon : I like that!

• Gideon : [Excalibur encounters life forms in Hyper space. The life forms attach themselves to the ship. Gideon looks at Galen.]  No, it's not. It's mating with us!

  Galen : Well, it's not exactly the first contact situation that I'd envisioned...

• Gideon : Galen, I didn't ask you how you screwed me, I asked you "why."

  Galen : There's that question again.

• Galen : Then when the time comes I will help you keep your promise Matthew, as you have helped me keep mine. Perhaps then we can both forgive ourselves our common crime.

  Gideon : What crime is that Galen?

  Galen : Being alive.

• Elizabeth Lochley : Do you believe that there is a supreme being?

  Captain Matthew Gideon : Aside from John Sheridan?

  Elizabeth Lochley : Yes! Aside from the wisest, bravest, sexiest man in the galaxy. Apart from him.

• Captain Matthew Gideon : Married? You're telling me that some guy actually managed to land you? Got you to lower your defenses enough to commit and then he let you get away? Huh? God, he must be the biggest loser on the galaxy.

  Elizabeth Lochley : Ah. Major loser. They don't come any bigger.

  Captain Matthew Gideon : Loser have a name?

  Elizabeth Lochley : John Sheridan.