The Rock
Alcatraz. Only one man has ever broken out. Now five million lives depend on two men breaking in.
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When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch missiles loaded with deadly chemical weapons into San Francisco, only a young FBI chemical weapons expert and notorious Federal prisoner have the skills to penetrate the impregnable island fortress and take him down.
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CARLA: Don't stop... do no stop.
GOODSPEED: Shit, shit, shit what time is it. Hello. I'll be downstairs in ten minutes.
GOODSPEED: Stick with Carla.
CARLA: Okay. How 'bout Carla Goodspeed? Six years, Bill. We've lived together six years.
GOODSPEED: Could we change the subject?
CARLA: That record company.in Nashville wants to hear my demo tape.
GOODSPEED: Hey! Now there's some good news.
CARLA: You think I'm too... ethnic for country music?
GOODSPEED: Carla Pestalozzi? No. Definitely not. You could have posed for the Mona= Lisa. Sophia Loren looks Swedish next to you.
GOODSPEED: Not really.
CARLA: You know how I feel about what you do.
GOODSPEED: Had a close one.
CARLA: You want to talk about it?
GOODSPEED: Just come and get me, sir. I'm tired.
SANCHEZ: Name your vacation spot, Goodspeed. The Bureau'll pay for it.
GOODSPEED: He's got a gun, sir.
SANCHEZ: What do you have, a FUCKING WATER PISTOL? Get him back!
GOODSPEED: He says he's leaving the island sir.
SANCHEZ: Don't let him do that.
GOODSPEED: It's me sir.
SANCHEZ: What is happening? Where's Mason?
SANCHEZ: Spit it out.
GOODSPEED: MY girlfriend's pregnant.
GOODSPEED: Thank you.
SANCHEZ: You're not wimping out on us, Goodspeed.
GOODSPEED: I join the F.B.I. I ask for fieldwork. They say, "Bill, you're too fucking= smart for field work." Every year I put in for a transfer and every year I= sit in that goddamn lab like the fucking Maytag repairman in the= commercial. Then the call finally comes, and it's a whole fuckin, city at= stake? Oh Jesus...
SANCHEZ: Maybe. Not really.
GOODSPEED: Archbishop of Canterbury. Imprisoned and executed by Henry the Second ...
SANCHEZ: No.
GOODSPEED: Ancient Greece. Alchimadus was imprisoned by his king.
MASON: St. Michael's Church, Fort Walton, Kansas. Front pew. Right leg. = Hollow.
GOODSPEED: What's that? Mason?
GOODSPEED: God's speed.
MASON: Yes. To wish someone a prosperous jouey.
GOODSPEED: Mason, uhm, John, I have something to tell you. You know that pardon= contract you signed?
MASON: Womack ripped it up, right?
GOODSPEED: You knew? All this time?
MASON: I'm not a fool, Billy.
GOODSPEED: All I know is that whatever you did, you don't deserve to go back.
GOODSPEED: Partners?
MASON: Partners.
MASON: Surprise, surprise.
GOODSPEED: I'm not a field agent, all right? So cut me a break.
MASON: An F.B.I. Man asking me for a break. How droll.
MASON: You referring to your intellect, Goodspeed? Or another portion of your= anatomy ....
GOODSPEED: The cell, Mason.
GOODSPEED: Mason. Mason?
MASON: It's about time.
GOODSPEED: Wait.
MASON: Find the rockets. If they're guarded, kill the men guarding them.
GOODSPEED: What are you doing?
MASON: Now they only have three rockets left.
GOODSPEED: I'll go.
MASON: Wrong.
GOODSPEED: What, vou?
MASON: I'm not the chemical weapons expert.
MASON: Limp dick?
GOODSPEED: It's all I could think of.
GOODSPEED: I.don't get it. You're going to help me?
MASON: No. I'm going to give you dancing lessons. What the fuck do you think?
GOODSPEED: Don't shoot me. Mason was actually slinging it over his shoulder...
MASON: For christ's sake. Mason trudges down the tu=3Del. Goodspeed follows him.
GOODSPEED: Wait. Where're you going?
GOODSPEED: Motor oil?
MASON: For cottonmouth. Goodspeed and the S.E.A.L.s exchange looks.
MASON: John Mason. ' Don't be shocked. I don't have much time. Please listen carefully ....
GOODSPEED: Where is he sir? RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME. What's he doing? HE'S ON THE= PHONE. I DON'T FUCKING KNOW, HIS STOCKBROKER! Oh shit. Gotta go.
GOODSPEED: I don't understand....
MASON: During the time I cooperate, will I be outside? Outside a jail?
GOODSPEED: Well yes I suppose ...
MASON: You suppose?
GOODSPEED: Yes. You'll be outside.
MASON: What do you do for the F.B.I., Goodspeed.
GOODSPEED: I'm a field agent.
MASON: Tell me what you really do.