The Incredible Hulk (2008)

William Hurt: General 'Thunderbolt' Ross

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• [last lines] 

  Gen. Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross : [in a bar]  Reload...

  [finishes his drink] 

  Gen. Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross : Reload...

  [someone enters the bar and walks toward Ross] 

  Tony Stark : The smell of stale beer... and defeat. You know, I hate to say "I told you so," but that Super-Soldier project *WAS* put on ice for a reason. I've always felt that hardware was much more reliable.

  Gen. Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross : Stark.

  Tony Stark : General.

  Gen. Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross : You always wear such nice suits.

  Tony Stark : Touché. I hear you have an unusual problem.

  Gen. Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross : You should talk!

  Tony Stark : You should listen. What if I told you we were putting a team together?

  Gen. Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross : Who's "we"?

  [Stark looks silently at Ross] 

• [During the fight between The Hulk and The Abomination] 

  Gen. Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross : [Referring to the machine gun on the helicopter]  Use that thing, soldier. Give him some help!

  Helicopter Soldier : Which one?

  Gen. Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross : Help the green one, dammit! Which one do you think? Cut the other one in half!

• Gen. Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross : [speaking to Blonsky in his hospital bed]  How are you feeling?

  Emil Blonsky : Pissed off, and ready for round three.

• Gen. Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross : You did the right thing, calling us. Leonard, I need to know where they're going. She'll be in incredible danger as long as she's with him.

  Leonard : From who? He protected her. You almost killed her.

  Gen. Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross : I give you my word, her safety is my main concern at this point.

  Leonard : You know, it's a point of professional pride for me that I can tell when somebody's lying. And you are.

  [pause] 

  Leonard : I don't know where he's going. I know she'll help him if she can.

  Gen. Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross : Then she's aiding a fugitive. And I can't help either one of them.

  [walks off] 

  Leonard : I used to wonder why she never talked about you. Now I know.

  Gen. Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross : [to himself]  Where does she meet these guys?

• Emil Blonsky : Forgive me, sir? Doesn't anybody want to talk about what went down in there? 'Cause... He didn't lose us. And he was not alone sir. We had him. And then something hit us... Something BIG hit us! It threw a forklift truck like it was a SOFTBALL! It was the most powerful thing I've ever seen.

  Gen. Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross : Well, it's gone.

  Emil Blonsky : Well, if Banner knows what it is, I'm gonna track him down, I'm gonna put my foot on his throat, and I'm gonna...

  Gen. Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross : That was Banner. IT was Banner.

  Emil Blonsky : You have to explain that statement, sir.

  Gen. Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross : No I don't. You've done a good job. Pack up and get our men on a plane. We're going home.

• Gen. Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross : You must realize that what I'm about to tell you is very sensitive, both to me and to the Army. You know that we have a Bio-Force Department, and that we had a bio-force enhancement research project developed during World War II...

  Emil Blonsky : A Super-Soldier.

  Gen. Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross : A simplification, but yes. We decided to dust it off, and give it another go, aiming to create the better soldier. Banner's work was very early-phase. It wasn't even weapons application, he thought he was working on radiation resistance. I would never have told him what it was really for, but he was so sure about what he was doing he tested it on himself. And something went very wrong... or it went very right.

• Gen. Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross : As far as I'm concerned, that man's whole body is property of the U.S. army.

• [Blonsky finds a photo of Betty in Banner's apartment] 

  Emil Blonsky : A girlfriend? She helps him, maybe?

  Gen. Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross : [confiscating the photo]  She is no longer a factor, we closed those doors to him a long time ago. He's alone. He wants to be alone.

• Major Kathleen 'Kat' Sparr : Sir, Blonsky...

  Gen. Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross : [expecting the worst]  Does anyone know if he has any next-of-kin or family?

  Major Kathleen 'Kat' Sparr : Ask him yourself...

  Emil Blonsky : [salutes Ross, in perfect health]  Sir!

• Emil Blonsky : [attacking Bruce]  Where is it? Show it to me!

  [the Hulk doesn't appear] 

  Gen. Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross : If you've taken it from me, I'm going to put you in a hole for the rest of your life.

• Gen. Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross : How old are you, Blonsky, forty-five?

  Emil Blonsky : Thirty-nine.

  Gen. Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross : That takes a toll, doesn't it?

  Emil Blonsky : Yes, it does.

  Gen. Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross : So get out of the trenches. You should be a Colonel by now, with your record.

  Emil Blonsky : No, sir, I'm a fighter, and I'll be one for as long as I can. Mind you, if I took what I had now, and put it in a body that I had ten years ago, that would be someone I wouldn't want to fight

  Gen. Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross : [thoughtfully]  I think I can arrange something like that...

• [Blonsky is antagonizing the Hulk] 

  Emil Blonsky : [haughtily; to the Hulk]  Well... Is that it?

  Gen. Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross : [through a walkie-talkie]  Blonsky, pull back now!

  [Blonsky bad-temperedly pulls the earpiece out of his ear and throws it away] 

  Emil Blonsky : Is that all you've got?

  The Incredible Hulk : [growls]  Grrr...

  [the Hulk kicks Blonsky like a soccerball; Blonsky slams into a tree and falls down to the ground, not moving]