Contact (1997)
Tucker Smallwood: Mission Director
Quotes
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Mission Director : [Machine systems integration test: Unusual vibrations are occurring] David, we're not seeing anything abnormal down here.
David Drumlin : No good! Hold the sequence. I'm gonna take a direct reading.
Mission Director : What the hell's he talking about?
Technician : Can anyone say "grandstanding"?
2nd Technician : He sure knows *he's* on TV.
Communications : [heavy Texas accent] Back home, that's what we call a "overcooked ham".
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Dynamics : 100% target velocity.
Electrical : Steve, picking up tremendous E.M.I. levels around the machine. All field measurements are pegged off-scale high.
Dynamics : Steve, we're approaching our abort limits.
[Mission director reaches for the abort switch]
Ellie Arroway : Okay to go!
[Mission director unlocks abort control and prepares to push the button]
Dr. Kent Clark : I hear her! I hear her. Barely, but, but she's there.
Ellie Arroway : [weakly] Okay to go...
Dr. Kent Clark : She says she's okay to go.
Dynamics : Steve, we're real close.
Mission Director : Electrical, what's your reading on the core?
Electrical : [puzzled] The internal environment looks normal. Inside the core, the... weather's beautiful.
[Mission director re-locks abort control]
Ellie Arroway : [softly] I'm okay to go... okay to go... I'm okay to go...
Mission Director : Initiate drop sequence on my mark. Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three two...
Ellie Arroway : I'm okay to go...
[pod drops into machine]
Ellie Arroway : OH GOD!