Wonder Woman (TV Series)

The Bermuda Triangle Crisis (1977)

Charles Cioffi: Raymond Manta

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• Manta : The triangle's mine. Though I traded on it's reputation and added a few tricks of my own. I need a base of operations.

  Diana Prince : You and everyone else who ever wanted to rule the world.

  Manta : Rule the world?

  Diana Prince : Yes.

  Manta : The world is perfect for my needs just as it is. I couldn't improve it. Countries talk of international goodwill and then conspire against each other. Me, I'm just a simple profiteer. I go to one country and I say, "Look! Your neighbor's got a gun!" and I sell him a cannon. And then I go to the first country...

  Diana Prince : ...And you say "Your neighbors have a cannon!" and you sell them a bomb.

  Diana Prince : Yes! Isn't it glorious? And then after they blow each other half out of existence, I sell them food, for famine always follows war, and medicine, for disease always follows famine. War, pestilence, famine, and disease. Oh, the world is perfect just as it is, I wouldn't change a hair. I love it.

  Steve Trevor, Jr. : You're a madman.

  Manta : Thank you. All great men are called something like that.

• Manta : Intruders. But welcome intruders. I.A.D.C. Inter Amateur Defence Command.

• Manta : The I.A.D.C. is the greatest single obstacle to my continuing success. Now, I know a great deal about your agency, as you can tell. But, there's nothing like first-hand information.

  Diana Prince : You're talking about betraying our country.

  Manta : Your people are playing cops and robbers with me! Might be profitable to find out where the cops are, huh? Profitable for, for us both.

  Steve Trevor, Jr. : Manta, there's a lady present or I would tell you precisely what you can do with your proposition.

  Diana Prince : Let me tell him.

• Manta : We'll take a little sail off to an island where we can watch the big "BOOM!" And in case I encounter resistance along the way, you will do very nicely for a hostage. Thank you very much.

  Steve Trevor, Jr. : I'm not going anywhere!

  Manta : Oh, yes, you are. Because as long as you're alive, you think you'll have a chance to overpower me and save that girl. But dead, you can do nothing.

  [gestures] 

  Manta : After you.

• Diana Prince : And after the Navy, there'll be another force, and another. America will never bow down to you.

  Manta : Get them out of here!