Black Hawk Down (2001)

Tom Sizemore: McKnight

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Quotes 

• [after the briefing] 

  Matthews : What's the matter Danny? Something you don't like?

  McKnight : No Spectre gunships, daylight instead of night, late afternoon when they're all fucked up on Khat, only part of the city Aidid can mount a serious counter-attack on short notice...

  [chuckles] 

  McKnight : What's not to like?

  Harell : Life's imperfect.

  McKnight : Yeah, for you two, circling above it at five hundred feet it's imperfect. Down in the street, it's unforgiving.

• Pilla : Colonel, they're shooting at us! Colonel, they're shooting at us!

  McKnight : Well shoot back!

• McKnight : [over the radio]  How are things going? Things okay there, Struecker?

  Struecker : I don't wanna talk about it now, Colonel. I'm busy!

  [Pilla is shot and falls into the humvee] 

  Thomas : Sergeant Pilla's hit! Christ, he's fucked up!

  McKnight : Is anybody hit? Struecker, talk to me!

  Struecker : It's Sergeant Pilla!

  McKnight : What's his status? What's his status?

  "Hoot" : He's dead!

  Struecker : He's dead. Pilla's dead, sir.

  McKnight : C2, this is McKnight, we have a KIA: Dominick Pilla, over.

  Harell : Roger that.

  Struecker : Get on that fifty! Someone get on that fifty!

  "Hoot" : It's mine!

• McKnight : You, get up there and drive!

  Othic : But I'm shot Colonel!

  McKnight : Everybody's shot! We need the prisoners, let's go!

• McKnight : [over the radio]  Get us off this fucking street!

• Othic : [after Kowalewski had been killed by an RPG] 

  [to Mcknight] 

  Othic : There's a fucking rocket in him, sir!

  McKnight : Othic, cool off! Goddamn it! There's live ordnance, now get out!

  McKnight : [after pulling Kowalewski's body out of the humvee]  Son of a bitch!

  McKnight : [while helping to put Kowalewski into the back of the humvee]  Lift him up! Easy, easy!

• McKnight : [while the convoy is under heavy fire going through a raided street]  Motherfuckers! Motherfuckers!

• McKnight : Ok, we're going to have to turn 'em around and go back the way we came.

  Maddox : WHAT?

• [after McKnight orders Maddox to turn around and go back to Haldawig] 

  Maddox : Sir, they're going to get us fucking killed out there!

  McKnight : Just get it over with!

• [McKnight sees Schmid treating the injured Blackburn] 

  McKnight : What happened to him?

  Schmid : He fell, missed the rope.

  McKnight : How'd he do that?

  [Schmid shrugs with an odd smirk] 

• McKnight : [after the wounded are sent off]  Struecker, you lead humvee.

  Struecker : Hoo-ah!

• McKnight : Now, there will be some shooting. Bakara Market is the Wild West, but be careful what you shoot at because people do live there.