Miles Teller credited as playing...
Lt. Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw
- Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: [after destroying the plane that almost killed Maverick and Rooster] Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, this is your savior speaking. Please, fasten your seat belts, return the tray tables to their locked and upright positions and prepare for landing.
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: Hey, Hangman, you look good.
- Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: I am good, Rooster. I'm very good. I'll see you back on deck.
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: [closing his eyes after left engine sputters out] Please don't tell me we lost an engine.
- Maverick: Alright, I won't tell you that.
- Maverick: [At the beginning of a training mission] Good morning, aviators. This is your captain speaking. Welcome to Basic Fighter Maneuvers, As briefed, today's exercise is dog-fighting, guns only, no missiles. We do not go below the hard deck of 5,000 ft. Working as team you have to shoot me down or else...
- Payback: ...or else what, sir?
- Maverick: ...or else I shoot back. If I shoot either one of you down, you both lose.
- Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: This guy needs an ego check.
- Lt. Brigham 'Harvard' Lennox: We'll see to that!
- Payback: Sir, what say we put some skin in the game?
- Maverick: What do you have in mind?
- Payback: Whoever gets shot down first has to do 200 push-ups.
- Maverick: Guys, that's a lot of push-ups.
- Fanboy: Ah well, they don't call it an exercise for nothing, sir.
- Maverick: You got yourself a deal, gentlemen. Fight's on. Let's turn and burn!
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: Fanboy, you see him?
- Fanboy: Not beyond the radar up ahead. He must be somewhere behind us.
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: [Maverick got ready and from below them, swooshed past between their jets upwards] Damn it!
- Fanboy: What the hell?
- Payback: Oh shit!
- Maverick: Easy, Maverick. Let's try not to get fired on the first day.
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: Then it's a dog fight.
- Maverick: An F-14 against 5th-Gen fighters?
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: It's not the plane. It's the pilot.
- Maverick: Exactly!
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: Got yourself another kill.
- Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: That makes two.
- Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace: Mav has five. Makes him an ace.
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: There's more than one way to fly this mission.
- Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: You really don't get it. On this mission, a man flies like Maverick here, or a man does not come back. No offense intended.
- Lt. Robert 'Bob' Floyd: And somehow, you always manage.
- Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: Hey, I don't mean to criticize, you're conservative, that's all.
- Maverick: Lieutenant...
- Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: We're going into combat, son, on a level no living pilot's ever seen.
- [referring to Maverick]
- Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: Not even him. There's no time to be thinking about the past.
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: What's that supposed to mean?
- Maverick: Rooster...
- Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: I can't be the only one that knows that Maverick flew with his old man.
- Maverick: That's enough.
- Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: That Maverick was flying with his old man...
- Maverick: Lieutenant, that's enough.
- [the other pilots hold Rooster back from attacking Hangman]
- Maverick: That's enough!
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: You son of a bitch!
- Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: Hey, I'm cool, I'm cool. Hey.
- Maverick: That's enough.
- Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: He's not cut out for this mission.
- Maverick: That's enough.
- Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: You know it. You know I'm right.
- Maverick: You're all dismissed.
- [the pilots leave the room]
- Maverick: [Once airborne in F-14 Tomcat] Okay, Rooster, get us in touch with the boat.
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: Working on it. Radio's out, no radar, everything's dead back here, what do I do? Talk me through it.
- Maverick: Okay, first the radio. Throw the UHF-2 circuit breaker, try that.
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: There's 300 breakers back here, anything more specific?
- Maverick: I don't know, that was your dad's department.
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: I'll figure it out.
- [Looking below at 5 Gen fighters]
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: Mav, tally two, five o'clock low! What do we do?
- Maverick: Okay, listen. Just be cool. If they knew who we were, we'd be dead already.
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: [Watching fighters increase altitude] Well, here they come. What's your plan?
- Maverick: Just put your mask on. Remember, we're on the same team. Just waive and smile. Just waive and smile.
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: [Watching Fifth Gen fighter pilot's hand signals] What's that signal, what's he saying?
- Maverick: No idea. I have no idea what he's saying.
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: What about that one, any idea?
- Maverick: Nope, never seen that one either. Shit. His wingman is moving into weapons envelope. Alright, listen up. When I tell you, you grab those rigs above your head. That's the ejection handle.
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: Mav, can we outrun these guys?
- Maverick: Not their missiles and guns.
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: Then it's a dogfight.
- Maverick: An F-14 against 5th Gen fighters?
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: It's not the plane, it's the pilot. You'd go after them if I wasn't here.
- Maverick: But you are here.
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: C'mon, Mav. Don't think, just do.
- [Mav pulls right and the dogfight begins]
- Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace: Breaking the hard deck? Insubordination? Are you trying to get kicked out?
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: Don't worry about it.
- Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace: Look, I'm going on this mission, but if you get kicked out, you leave us flying with Hangman. Talk to me, what the hell was that?
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: He pulled my papers.
- Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace: What? Who?
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: Maverick. He pulled my application to Naval Academy. He set me back four years.
- Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace: Why would he do that?
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: [after looking at a hangar in the bombed enemy airfield] You've got to be shitting me! An F-14?
- Maverick: I shot down three Migs in one of those.
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: We don't even know if that bag of ass can fly.
- Maverick: Let's find out.
- [runs towards the hangar]
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: Mav! OK.
- Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: Say, Phoenix. How's about we tell everybody 'Bob' stands for something? Other than Robert, I mean.
- Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace: Don't take the bait, Bob. Wanna know why we call him Hangman?
- Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: All right. I got it. Baby On Board.
- [Maverick appears out of nowhere and flies by at full speed between Phoenix and Hangman's planes]
- Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: Shit!
- Maverick: Greetings, aviators. Fight's on!
- Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: Alright, Phoenix. Let's take this guy out!
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: [Listening to the radio] Watch your back, Phoenix!
- Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: Break right!
- Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace: Breaking right.
- [Hangman leaves Phoenix]
- Lt. Robert 'Bob' Floyd: Where's he going?
- Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace: That's why we call him Hangman. He'll always hang you out to dry.
- Maverick: Leaving your wingman. There's a strategy I haven't seen in a while.
- Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: He called you a man, Phoenix. You gonna take that?
- Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace: So long as he doesn't call you a man.
- [towards Bob]
- Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace: Talk to me, Bob, where's Maverick?
- Lt. Robert 'Bob' Floyd: Jesus, his nose is already coming around!
- Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace: Get him off me, Hangman!
- Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: For all you folks at home, this is how you bury a fossil!
- Maverick: Alright, Hangman. Time to teach you a lesson.
- [Maverick puts Phoenix and Bob on missile lock]
- Maverick: You're out, Phoenix.
- Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace: Son of a bitch!
- Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: Let's go, Mav, let's see what you got.
- Maverick: Come get me!
- Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: Evil be gone. Hangman's coming!
- [Hangman keeps up with Maverick]
- Maverick: Yeah, you're good. I'll give you that.
- [Maverick flies up to the sun, blinding Hangman, who is after him]
- Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: Shit! Phoenix, I can't see him. How close am I? Phoenix?
- Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace: I'm dead, dickhead!
- Lt. Robert 'Bob' Floyd: See you in the afterlife, Bagman.
- Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: Where is he? Where is he?
- [Maverick soars from behind Hangman and paints him killed]
- Maverick: That's a kill.
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: Why'd you pull my papers at the academy? Why didn't you just *stay out of my way*?
- Maverick: You weren't ready.
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: Ready for what? Huh? Ready to fly like you?
- Maverick: No, ready to forget the book. Trust your instincts! Don't think, just do. You think up there, you're dead. Believe me.
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: My dad believed in you. I'm not gonna make the same mistake.
- Maverick: Rooster! Bradley! Lieutenant Bradshaw!
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: Yes, sir?
- Maverick: Let's not do it like this.
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: Are you going to wash me out?
- Maverick: That'll be up to you, not me.
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: Am I dismissed?
- Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: Say, Rooster, mind if I ask you a personal question?
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: Would it matter if I did?
- Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: So, what's the story with you and Maverick? Seems like he's got you a little rattled.
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: It's none of your business. Now, where the hell is he?
- Maverick: Been here the whole time.
- [Maverick, flying under Rooster's plane, flips his plane upwards on his starboard side and ends up inverted over Rooster's plane]
- Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: Holy shit!
- Maverick: You see me now? Come on, let's get it over with.
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: [Maverick and Rooster begin to spiral downwards] Fight's on!
- Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: What is it with these two?
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: [seeing the Felon pull off Kvochur's bell] Holy shit. What the fuck was that?
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: [after Maverick shoves Rooster onto the ground] What the hell?
- Maverick: What are you doing here?
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: What am I doing here?
- Maverick: You think I took that missile so you could be down here with me? You should be back on the carrier by now!
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: I saved your life!
- Maverick: I saved your life! That's the whole point! What the hell were you even thinking?
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: You told me not to think!
- [Maverick stares blankly at Rooster, Rooster shrugs]
- Maverick: Well, it's good to see you.
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: It's good to see you, too.
- Maverick: [On the bombing run] Dagger attack!
- [Tomahawks launch from USS Leyte Gulf]
- Naval Officer: Tomahawks airborne.
- Adm. Solomon 'Warlock' Bates: No turning back now.
- Maverick: Daggers, assume attack formation.
- [Planes line up in single file]
- Maverick: [Approaching coastline] Daggers set. Proceeding to target. Two minutes and thirty seconds in 3... 2... 1. Mark.
- Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: Two mark.
- Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace: Three mark.
- Payback: Four mark.
- Maverick: Going in.