White House Down (2013)
Channing Tatum: Cale
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Quotes
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President Sawyer : I lost the rocket launcher.
Cale : You lost... How do you lose a rocket launcher?
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Cale : Can you not hit me in the head with a rocket when I'm trying to drive?
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Finnerty : There's a series of tunnels. JFK used them to sneak Marilyn Monroe in.
Cale : I thought that was a myth.
President Sawyer : It's true.
Cale : Donnie's gonna be pissed.
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Stenz : Your little bitch says you're gonna put me in jail!
[a few minutes later, Stenz has the upper hand]
Stenz : I'm gonna *carve my name into your chest*!
[a few minutes later, Cale has the upper hand]
Cale : No jail for you, you little bitch!
[Roars Stenz in the face like the Hulk]
Stenz : NO... NO... NO
[blows up Stenz with a belt of unpinned grenades]
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Cale : Special Agent Todd keeps making those sounds, I'm gonna start looking at him.
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Cale : I got three rounds. Tell me you got some weapons in the residence.
President Sawyer : No, we usually have two agents right there with machine guns. We got some knives in the kitchen.
Cale : What?
President Sawyer : They're big knives.
Cale : Great, then you can make me a sandwich.
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[Raphelson's treachery has been exposed]
Cale : You are a goddamn traitor, sir.
Raphelson : You dim little shit! I hired you out of pity and this is how you repay me? Now when the country finds out that your beloved President helped a maniac open the nuclear football, who do think they'll believe? Now you, you would be a *nobody* whereas *I* am the President of the United States.
President Sawyer : Oh no, you're not!
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Cale : You think you're tough, bitch?
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Cale : Do you know these men?
President Sawyer : That old son of a bitch that just killed everybody, his name is Martin Walker. He's also the head of my Secret Service.
Cale : Maybe you should have a conversation with him about how serious you take your protection detail.
President Sawyer : I didn't pick him.
Cale : Why is he doing this?
President Sawyer : I think it has something to do with his son, Kevin.
Cale : Why? What happened?
President Sawyer : He was a Marine, and he got killed last year in this covert action that I ordered.
Cale : Would he do all this for a personal vendetta? He said he wanted you alive.
President Sawyer : There's gotta be a bigger play. We gotta get out of this elevator shaft. I'm, uh...
Cale : Don't tell me you're claustrophobic.
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Cale : I literally just walked in the door. What did I do?
Melanie : You missed her talent show.
Cale : No, I didn't miss it. That's, like, next Thursday.
Melanie : No, it was last Thursday. It was on the school calendar.
Cale : What did she do?
Melanie : She was a flag twirler.
Cale : That's a talent?
Melanie : She practiced for, like, six weeks, John. She thought you were gonna be there.
Cale : All right, it would've been really nice to just have a little bit of a reminder.
Melanie : Come on, I'm not your secretary, John.
Cale : I'm not asking you to be my secretary. Look, I'm just... I'm trying. I'm trying really hard to be in her life.
Melanie : It's a little late for that, wouldn't you say?
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North Gate Guard : Good morning, sir.
Cale : Good morning. How are you?
North Gate Guard : Fine, thank you. Yourself?
Cale : Good.
North Gate Guard : Photo IDs, please. Thank you.
Emily : [watching the guards give the car a once-over] What are you guys looking for?
North Gate Guard : Explosives.
Emily : [whispering to John] This is awesome.
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Finnerty : This job requires a university degree. You dropped out of GW after our first semester there. You don't finish things.
Cale : Check the file, Carol. Two years in college night school. A certificate of graduation should be in there.
Finnerty : Great. Yeah, John, you barely maintained a "C" average.
Cale : Look, I'm sorry, I didn't have our little study sessions like we used to back in the day, did I?
Finnerty : Uh, evaluations from your senior officers: "Sergeant Cale frequently does not complete his field reports on time."
Cale : It has nothing to do with protecting someone.
Finnerty : Fine. "Sergeant Cale demonstrates a lack of respect for authority". "Sergeant Cale has raw potential, but seems determined not to realize it."
Cale : You can keep reading that. That is not me anymore. I've changed, and I'm not the kid you used to know in college, either. I've buttoned up every single thing that I have to to qualify for this job, and I have ten times more experience than any kid coming out of Ivy League schools, so...
Finnerty : It's not just about experience. I would need to depend on you every day.
Cale : What do you want me to do? I'll start at the... I'll start at the bottom. Just give me a chance.
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Donnie the Guide : Oil painting by Tom Freeman to commemorate the burning of the White House by the British in 1814.
Cale : Wait, the White House burned down?
Donnie the Guide : Yeah, yeah, in the War of 1812. Practically had to be rebuilt from the ground up. When I look at this painting, I get very emotional.
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Emily : I think I need avail myself of one of the 35 bathrooms in here.
Donnie the Guide : [amused laugh] There's a ladies' room downstairs.
Cale : Where? I'll take her.
Emily : I can go by myself, John. I'm not a child.
Cale : Hey, just don't touch anything, or-or wander off or talk to anybody that you shouldn't be talking to.
Emily : I make no promises.
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Cale : All right, look, we gotta get you to a phone. And you call SEAL Team Six, and they come in here and they'll shoot these assholes in the head.
President Sawyer : We keep a scrambled satphone in the residence.
Cale : Great. Where's that at?
[Sawyer points to an elevator door just above their heads]
Cale : Of course it is. You ever been rock climbing?
President Sawyer : What, we climbing this?
Cale : Unless you got a better idea, yeah.
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Jenna : John, have you heard what's happening? It-it's so not a good time.
Cale : Jenna, do not hang up on me. I'm with the president. We're in the White House.
Jenna : That's not funny, John.
Cale : No... does this sound like a joke to you? Yeah, he's...
President Sawyer : [taking the phone] Jenna, this is James Sawyer. For the past ten minutes, I've been getting shot at with this young man, so if you could connect me to whatever command and control structure we still have left, I would really appreciate it.
Jenna : Um...
President Sawyer : And let 'em know...
Jenna : Um... hold on.
President Sawyer : That the president... hello? Th-thank you.
Cale : She hung up?
President Sawyer : She, uh, put me on hold when I was thanking her.
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Cale : Okay, I'm gonna have to get that out.
President Sawyer : When did you become a doctor all of a sudden?
Cale : [handing over his flashlight] Hold that.
President Sawyer : Look, just talk to me. Get my mind off it. Talk to me about your daughter.
Cale : Emily? She's completely in love with you. She even tried to get me to vote for you.
President Sawyer : You didn't vote for me?
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President Sawyer : Your daughter's smart. You should listen to her.
Cale : She was, like, three when I enlisted. And to be honest with you, I was probably just running from my marriage. Right after I deployed, Emily was watching TV, and there was coverage on the troops in Afghanistan. She swears to me that she saw me. After that point, she became obsessed with politics. And that's when she first saw you. The man that was gonna bring Daddy home. And when I finally did come home, I realized that... I'm not her hero anymore. So I guess I just figured that I'd try to help protect the man that is.
President Sawyer : Well, if she saw you today, Cale, she'd be proud of you.
Cale : You know how when they're young and they come running up to you and they hug you with all their might, and they're shouting "Daddy," and all of a sudden, one day, that just stops?
President Sawyer : Yeah.
Cale : I'd give anything for that hug just one more time.
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Cale : So, what's it like being president?
President Sawyer : It's not like anything. Once you get into office, it's all about re-election, and what the other side can use against you.
Cale : Politics.
President Sawyer : You don't start out a politician, but you become one. Just once, though, I wanna do something that's presidential. Something along the lines of Lincoln, Washington, and Jefferson.
Cale : You wanna make history.
President Sawyer : No. Not history. I wanna make a difference. If your little daughter says that I'm her hero, then I gotta earn that.
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Cale : Are you okay?
President Sawyer : [showing his pocketwatch] Honest Abe. My wife got this for me. For the inauguration.
Cale : [laughing, seeing the bullet in the back] Are you kidding me? You got shot in the wa...
President Sawyer : What I'm telling you is that good old Abe took a second bullet for me.
Cale : [after a laugh, they shake hands] Thank you. Thank you for what you did for Emily.
President Sawyer : It's my sacrifice, right?
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Cale : [escaping from Stenz in Cadillac One] What the hell are you getting in the back for?
President Sawyer : [getting in the front] Sorry, force of habit.
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Finnerty : John, I want you to listen to me. Help is not coming.
Cale : Did you hear what I just said? I said they have the president.
Finnerty : John, they called an air strike on the White House. The Vice President is dead. You just need to get out of there.
Cale : No, no, no. They cannot do that. They still have hostages. They still have Emily.
Finnerty : I'm so, so sorry. I was wrong about you, but there's nothing you can do, John. If you stay, you're gonna die.
Finnerty : Carol, I need you to listen to me. My little girl is counting on me right now, and I am not gonna disappear on her. Okay? So you tell me how much time I have.
Finnerty : You only have eight minutes left to get them out.
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Finnerty : John, listen. This isn't over yet. Walker had no prior contact with any of the terrorists, but someone else did.
Cale : Wait, wait, wait. Hold on. I'm gonna put you on speaker. The president's with me.
Finnerty : This guy Stenz made multiple calls to a secure line in D.C., but we don't know who received them. The whole database was wiped thirty minutes ago.
Cale : Really? Did you check Walker's personal records? His-his computer, his e-mails?
Finnerty : You don't know Walker, John. He was a dinosaur. The man still used a pager.
Cale : Oh, shit. Listen. Carol, I got to check something out. We'll see you outside.
[to Sawyer, as he hangs up]
Cale : I don't believe it. I think I know how Walker got the codes, but I'm gonna need your help, sir.
