Sully (2016)

Aaron Eckhart: Jeff Skiles

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• [last lines] 

  Elizabeth Davis : [At the NTSB investigation proceedings]  First Officer Skiles, is there anything you'd like to add? Anything... you would have done differently if you... had to do it again?

  Jeff Skiles : Yes. I would've done it in July.

• Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger : [Looks at the co-pilot 10 seconds before forced water landing and asks:]  Any ideas?

  Jeff Skiles : Actually, not...

• Jeff Skiles : [after they've all been brought ashore]  I've never been so glad to be in New York.

• Jeff Skiles : What did you think?

  Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger : Hearing the CVR just now?

  Jeff Skiles : Let me tell you what I think.

  Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger : I'm just so damn proud.

  Jeff Skiles : And you, you were right there, through all that distraction. With so much at stake.

  Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger : We did this together. We were a team.

  Jeff Skiles : Thanks, Sully.

  Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger : We did our job.

  Jeff Skiles : We did our job.

• Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger : [New York late at night and both men can't sleep so they decide to go for a walk. It's cold outside and both are bundled up]  It's all so unreal. I guess I'm just having a little trouble separating reality from whatever the hell this is.

  Jeff Skiles : This is two men freezing their asses off.

  [They both laugh] 

  Jeff Skiles : Sully

  [pause] 

  Jeff Skiles : don't worry. You did a great thing and it's going to be remembered for a very long time.

  Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger : Funny thing is, I've delivered a million passengers over 40 years in the air and in the end I'll be judged on 208 seconds.

  Jeff Skiles : Come on. Tomorrow's going to be a good day. Computer SIMS will prove you were right and we can all put our wings back on.

  Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger : Do you want to run?

  [Both men go jogging on down the street] 

• Jeff Skiles : I'm hoping six months from now we'll just be laughing about how we got to meet David Letterman.

  Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger : We're going on David Letterman?

  Jeff Skiles : Yeah, right after the next NTSB interview. I'm guessing David's going to be slightly funnier.

• Elizabeth Davis : [NTSB Hearing Room. Sully and Skiles are transfixed by the video of the engine that almost got them killed]  I'd like to add something on a personal note. I can say with confidence, that after speaking with the rest of the flight crew, with bird experts and airplane engineers, after running all the scenarios and talking to each of the players... there is an X in this result. It's you, Captain Sullenberger. Take you out of the equation and the math just fails.

  Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger : I disagree.

  [the room hushes. Waiting for Sully to finally unleash. Instead...] 

  Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger : It wasn't just me. It was all of us. Jeff, Donna, Sheila, Doreen. The passengers, the rescue workers. Air traffic control. The ferry boat crews and the scuba cops. We did it. We survived.

  Elizabeth Davis : First Officer Skiles, is there anything you'd like to add? Anything you would have done differently, if you had to do it all again?

  Jeff Skiles : Yes.

  [beat] 

  Jeff Skiles : I would have done it in July.

  [surprises the room] 

  Jeff Skiles : .