U-571 (2000)
Tom Guiry: Trigger
Quotes
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Seaman Anthony Mazzola : [reminiscing about a date] Anyway, I can see I'm not gettin' anywhere with her. So what I do is, I use my secret weapon. I tell her about the S-26. Does the trick right away.
Eddie : Now, you don't wanna be talkin' about that while we're underway!
Seaman Ted 'Trigger' Fitzgerald : Why, what happened to the S-26?
Seaman Charles 'Tank' Clemens : Yeah, what happened?
Seaman Anthony Mazzola : You guys don't know?
Seaman Ted 'Trigger' Fitzgerald , Seaman Charles 'Tank' Clemens : No.
Seaman Anthony Mazzola : [taking an egg from Eddie's tray] She was runnin' a test dive down off Norfolk. Shaft seal failed, and she sunk to 400 feet. Know how much water pressure there is that deep?
[Crushes the egg with one hand; Rabbit flinches]
Eddie : Mazzola, you wanna be the first one to eat powdered eggs on this cruise? Keep it up, man.
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Seaman Charles 'Tank' Clemens : Batteries are dead. Whatever juice was left, we used up when we maneuvered.
Lieutenant Andrew Tyler : What about the diesels?
Seaman Charles 'Tank' Clemens : Starboard's a wreck, we need a drydock to fix it-port side diesel's good news. Whoever the Krauts had wrenching on it didn't know a piston head from his sister's titty. I think I can fix it.
Lieutenant Andrew Tyler : Okay, Tank. Do what you can.
Seaman Charles 'Tank' Clemens : Yes, sir.
[leaves to fix the engines]
Lieutenant Andrew Tyler : Alright, listen up. We've decided on a course. We're heading for England, Land's End. It's the closest, besides Occupied France. Rabbit, how many torpedoes do we have?
Seaman Ronald 'Rabbit' Parker, Torpedoman : Just one. It's in the stern tube, which is busted-the high-pressure line's bleeding air from somewhere.
Seaman Ted 'Trigger' Fitzgerald : [raises his hand] Sir?
Lieutenant Andrew Tyler : Yeah, what is it, Trigger?
Seaman Ted 'Trigger' Fitzgerald : Can't we just use the radio? Fire off a mayday, wait for a rescue?
Lt. Hirsch : It's impossible. If we transmit, the Germans will direction-find our position to a grid with their missing two U-boats. If they even suspect we have the Enigma, they will change their entire coding system, and that would completely negate the purpose of our mission.