Cliffhanger (1993)
John Lithgow: Eric Qualen
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Quotes
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Travers : Tucker and Walker! We're missing 3 bags.
Gabe Walker : What's in them?
Travers : None of your fucking business!
Eric Qualen : Suits, socks, 100 million dollars - the usual stuff.
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Eric Qualen : Kill a few people, they call you a murderer. Kill a million and you're a conqueror.
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[the jet is about to make an emergency landing after they screwed up]
Eric Qualen : Don't bother to buckle up - you may not want to survive this.
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Eric Qualen : [watching Kristel assemble the bomb] You'll make a good wife for someone one day.
Kristel : You should see me bake a cake.
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[During the theft of the money, Travers zip lines from one plane to another]
Eric Qualen : Why didn't you send the money first?
Travers : Somehow I didn't think you'd wait for me if I sent it first.
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Eric Qualen : Travers, have you lost your mind?
Travers : Have I lost it? Fuckin-A, I've lost it, Qualen! Pure fucking Section Eight!
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[over the radio]
Travers : It's Walker! The son of a bitch is still alive, Qualen.
Eric Qualen : No names, this is an open line.
Travers : I don't give a damn, ERIC QUALEN!
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Hal Tucker : [Kynette opens fire on the BASE Jumpers] You son of a bitch! You said you wouldn't kill him!
Eric Qualen : Sue me.
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Eric Qualen : [Travers and Delmar are mutinying against him] Of course without a pilot
[whips out a gun putting it to Kristel]
Eric Qualen : No one gets off this mountain
Kristel : [rather concerned] Eric... What are you doing?
Eric Qualen : Do you know what real love is, Kristel?
Kristel : No.
Eric Qualen : [whispers in her ear] Sacrifice...
[shoots her]
Eric Qualen : Now I'm the ONLY ONE who can fly us out of here
[drags a now dead Kristel out of said helicopter]
Eric Qualen : We're partners again. Now Take Your *TOY*
[angrily shoves monitor back to Travers]
Eric Qualen : And Find OUR *MONEY*
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Eric Qualen : Love is a killer, isn't it?
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Eric Qualen : Tucker and Walker, you resiliant bastards! You're still alive!
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Eric Qualen : [to Tucker after Gabe has apparently been swept off the mountain during an avalanche] Your friend just had the most expensive funeral in history...
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Eric Qualen : [Richard Travers having been shot repeatedly and frozen to death in the icy water]
[over the radio]
Eric Qualen : Travers Come In
[now irritably]
Eric Qualen : Travers... Come... In
Hal Tucker : [to Gabe as he pulls out a radio] Compliments Of Delmar
[gloatingly into the radio]
Hal Tucker : Too Late Qualen You Missed Him
[watches Travers rapidly carried away under the ice by strong currents face frozen in disbelief]
Hal Tucker : He *Decided* To Take A Swim To *Arizona*
Eric Qualen : [spits] TUCKER
Hal Tucker : [smugly] Ttthhhaaattt'ssss Rrriiiggghhhtttt
Eric Qualen : [coldly over the radio] Congratulations
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Eric Qualen : Give me the monitor
[Travers slides it to Qualen, he looks and shows Enter Frequency Code]
Eric Qualen : What's the code Travers
Travers : I told you Qualen, 50,000 possible key code combination in 15 second intervals
Eric Qualen : So what's the fucking code
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Kynette : [Matheson shoots one of their comrades]
[holding his fellow groaning cohort]
Kynette : Oh Man He's Hit Bad
[looks at Eric]
Kynette : What Do We Do?
Eric Qualen : [flippantly] Get Him To A Hospital
[exasperated]
Eric Qualen : FAST
[shoves said accomplice to be sucked out of the plane to his death far below]