Waco (TV Mini Series)

Visions and Omens (2018)

Shea Whigham: Mitch Decker

Quotes 

• Mitch Decker : Couldn't get him to engage?

  Gary Noesner : Your guy killed his wife.

  Mitch Decker : What?

  Gary Noesner : Your sniper. He missed Weaver and shot his wife. Doesn't help our cause much.

• Mitch Decker : We can't afford to drag this out much longer, Gary. We're in a compromised position here.

  Gary Noesner : I'm aware of the position we're in, Mitch. But sometimes the best strategy is just wait regardless of the circumstance.

  Mitch Decker : That's your plan? Just wait?

  Bo Gritz : [getting out of an SUV and fighting off an FBI agent]  Get your hands off me, boy.

  Gary Noesner : Nope.

  Bo Gritz : Where the hell's Noesner?

  Gary Noesner : That's my plan.

• Mitch Decker : Mitch Decker, FBI Hostage Rescue Team. What do we have here?

  Barry Skinner : Cabin's 250 yards up the hill. Highly fortified. Inside is Randy Weaver, his wife Vicky, their three daughters, and another adult male, Kevin Harris.

  Mitch Decker : What do we know about Weaver?

  Barry Skinner : Former Green Beret, turned white separatist and anti-government. Guy's highly trained in explosives.

  Mitch Decker : Have you made contact?

  Barry Skinner : Negative. They don't have a phone.

  Mitch Decker : Why haven't you blocked off these roads?

  Barry Skinner : We have a perimeter. There's no way the Weavers can make it that far.

  Mitch Decker : I'm less worried about them getting out than those who want to get in. We're in the middle of an Aryan Nation stronghold here. They band together, decide they don't want us in their woods, they got enough firepower to turn this thing into a modern-day Alamo.

  Barry Skinner : [turning to another agent]  I need the road sealed off for one mile out.

  Mitch Decker : [to another HRT agent]  Make sure all the barricades say "ATF" on 'em. I don't want anyone thinking we made this mess.

• Mitch Decker : What if we brought the APCs from the north side to insert the gas into the cabin? Would that at least push him out?

  Gary Noesner : A little premature for an assault, isn't it?

  Mitch Decker : He's dug in, Gary. He ain't coming out.

  Gary Noesner : Guys, can you give us a minute?

  [the other agents leave] 

  Gary Noesner : Thanks. Mitch, I know he's dug in. But his son's already dead, and there's three more kids in there. Now, do you really want to engage in close combat with more children?

  Mitch Decker : What do you propose we do?

  Gary Noesner : Give me a chance. Let me talk to him. It's what I'm here for, isn't it?

• Gary Noesner : [Mitch gets on the elevator with a bottle of wine in hand]  Birthday?

  Mitch Decker : No. Justice Department just upped my budget another 10 million bucks.

  Gary Noesner : [dryly sarcastic]  Congratulations.

  Mitch Decker : Thanks.