Rudi Gunn:
[Dirk wants Al to pull a "Panama"] What's a Panama?
Al Giordino:
It's a Navy thing.
Rudi Gunn:
I didn't know you were in Panama.
Al Giordino:
We weren't in Panama, we were in Nicaragua.
Rudi Gunn:
So why do you call it a Panama?
Al Giordino:
Because we thought we were in Panama!
Al Giordino:
[after going outside and being shot at] Next time, *you* go!
Dirk Pitt:
What the hell took you so long?
Al Giordino:
What? I stopped for coffee.
Dirk Pitt:
Get a receipt?
Al Giordino:
Yeah, I got a receipt, and I got you one, too!
Dirk Pitt:
You're the best, Al!
Al Giordino:
You know what? I'll even get you the money from Sandecker!
[two of Zatib's gunboats have just intercepted the NUMA team]
Dirk Pitt:
I'm sorry, I don't speak English.
Gunboat Officer:
You are speaking English right now.
Dirk Pitt:
No, I only know how to say, "I don't speak English" in English.
Dirk Pitt:
Hey, Al. Do remember that time when we were in Morocco?
Al Giordino:
Ya, when you made me ride that damn camel, that bit my ass.
Dirk Pitt:
Yeah, that's the time.
Al Giordino:
[pauses, confused] Why?
Rudi Gunn:
[answers the phone] Uh... Hello, Admiral, you still there? I shot a guy with a flare gun.
Admiral James Sandecker:
[on the phone] What? You shot a guy with a flare gun? Who?
[no answer]
Admiral James Sandecker:
[sees Rudi on a couch] Rudi?
Rudi Gunn:
[sits up] Admiral, I have news about your boat. Boom.
[makes a hand gesture that implies blowing up]
Al Giordino:
Man, the Admiral's gonna be mad when he hears you lost his satellite phone.
Dirk Pitt:
Not as mad as when Rudi tells him it was attached to the boat.
Al Giordino:
Hi! How are ya?
Admiral James Sandecker:
36
[after his boat has been shot up]
ffa
[over the phone]
Admiral James Sandecker:
Don't you hurt my boat.
Rudi Gunn:
[after they pulled a Panama] So that's how it worked the first time?
Dirk Pitt:
Well, it didn't really work the first time.
Admiral James Sandecker:
[after being ignored on the phone] They're ignoring me. I can't believe they are ignoring me.
[turns around to see that no one is listening to him on his ship]
Admiral James Sandecker:
Everyone's ignoring me.
Admiral James Sandecker:
You've got 72 hours, and not a nanosecond more.
Dirk Pitt:
[after they come across a wrecked plane in the middle of the Sahara] I'll bet you a hundred there's a tool kit in there.
Al Giordino:
[looking at the tattered remnants of the plane] I don't wanna rain on your crazy parade, buddy, but I don't think we can fix this thing.
Al Giordino:
I am so tired of being shot at!
Rudi Gunn:
But I was hoping to meet a girl on the Australian trip!
Al Giordino:
No, African war zone; ship of death!
Dirk Pitt, Al Giordino:
[at the same time] There's no way that should've worked!
Dirk Pitt:
What do you do if you're about to be exposed as the biggest polluter in modern history?
Al Giordino:
I don't know, run for president?
Yves Massarde:
Your death would look pretty bad in the papers.
Eva Rojas:
So does the word "plague".
[on the phone, after they pulled a Panama]
Admiral James Sandecker:
He pulled a Panama!
Dirk Pitt:
[after they have pushed the bed of a pick-up truck out, that they are handcuffed too and each other] Well, that's a new one.
Al Giordino:
[looking at the chains that are still attached] Yeah. We're home free now.
Al Giordino:
[points at Dirks coin clue] Hey, you know my dad collected ancient coins, from Rome, China, Siam, Persia... somehow they all ended up in a shoe box in New Jersey.
Dirk Pitt:
Meaning?
Al Giordino:
Coins travel, Dirk. I mean, even if that poor guy was still alive, it could have been nothing.
Dirk Pitt:
Yeah, but the coin traveled from somewhere Al. Unless it hitched a ride on a dolphin, I'm gonna guess it's jumping off point was a little closer to where we're sitting.
General Zateb Kazim:
Don't worry. It's Africa. Nobody cares about Africa.
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Al Giordino
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:
Hey, you know how it is when you see someone that you haven't seen since high school, and they got some dead-end job, and they're married to some woman that hates them, they got, like, three kids who think he's a joke? Wasn't there some point where he stood back and said, "Bob, don't take that job! Bob, don't marry that harpy!" You know?
Dirk Pitt:
Your point?
Al Giordino:
Well, we're in the desert, looking for the source of a river pollutant, using as our map a cave drawing of a Civil War gunship, which is also in the desert. So I was just wondering when we're gonna have to sit down and re-evaluate our decision-making paradigm?
Dirk Pitt:
[coming up on the fortress seen in the cave painting] I don't know - it seems to be working so far.
Dirk Pitt:
Al, did you bring the explosives from Massardes?
Al Giordino:
Couldn't find them...
Dirk Pitt:
Al...
Al Giordino:
I didn't have time...
Dirk Pitt:
Al!
Al Giordino:
[yells] Of course I brought the explosives!
Dirk Pitt:
He is going to blow it up.
Al Giordino:
That isn't very subtle.
[Al, Dirk and Rudi are being chased in the Admiral's boat]
Al Giordino:
What do you think, Dirk?
Dirk Pitt:
Uh... I think we need to pull a Panama!
Al Giordino:
A Panama? A *Panama*?
Admiral James Sandecker:
[on the phone] A Panama? No! No Panama!
Dirk Pitt:
We need to find that bomb.
Al Giordino:
No. I'll find the bomb. You get the girl.
Dirk Pitt:
...Deal!
Al Giordino:
[in Kazim's stolen car, being chased by a chopper] It's Kazim! Hey, maybe he wants his car back?
Admiral James Sandecker:
[tracking Dirk and Al] Where would they go? Where are they headed?
Carl:
Well, based on their behavior so far... I have no idea.
Dirk Pitt:
[on a phone] Admiral?
Admiral James Sandecker:
Dirk! Oh, thank God! Where the *hell* are you?
Dirk Pitt:
Well, that's a damn good question, sir...
Dirk Pitt:
We could use some serious muscle out here.
Admiral James Sandecker:
Well, you're not gonna get it. I'm getting the D.C. two-step, big time!
Admiral James Sandecker:
I can't ask you boys to do this alone.
Dirk Pitt:
That's the great part about it, sir. You know you never have to.
Dirk Pitt:
[to Eva] You, me, and the bay at Monterey
[last lines]
Dirk Pitt:
There's something I wanted to say to you that I never got a chance to.
Eva Rojas:
What's that?
Dirk Pitt:
You DO throw like a girl! Hey! You do!
Dirk Pitt:
[to Eva as Al, Dirk and Eva are being pursued in Kazim's car] I hope you don't throw like a girl!
Eva Rojas:
You're late. I was told an 8:00 departure.
Dirk Pitt:
What?
Al Giordino:
I never said 8.
Dirk Pitt:
I said 9.
Eva Rojas:
Well, it's after 10.
Dirk Pitt:
Well who said 8?
Al Giordino:
Hey, you ever been after marlins, doctor?
Dirk Pitt:
Oh, no, not the marlin story again, Al.
Al Giordino:
Seven hundred and thirty-three pounds. Five and a half hours in the fighting chair.
Dirk Pitt:
I thought it was 600 pounds.
Al Giordino:
Hey! What did you catch that day? I can't remember anything at all.
Dirk Pitt:
I'll meet you at the boat.
[Slaps Al in the arm then leaves the bar]
Al Giordino:
[acts like Dirk is still there] Ow. No, I got the check. Don't worry about it. I'm serious. I know, I get it all the time. Sit down, I'll get the check. L'addition.
Yves Massarde:
I understand you believe there is some sort of plague coming out of Mali.
Dr. Frank Hopper:
We don't like to say "plague".
Yves Massarde:
What do you think it is, then?
Eva Rojas:
A plague.
Al Giordino:
Hey Dirk! Where are we headed?
Dirk Pitt:
Hell if I know... but we're making great time!
[first lines]
Sailor Who Drops Gold:
Sorry, captain.
Pilot, Ironclad:
It's all right son, just keep moving. That's the future in your hands.
[first title card]
Title card:
Richmond, Virginia 1865 / The end of the Civil War
Title card:
The last ironclad ship to run the Union blockade