Lt. Hiram Coffey: Sniff something? Did ya, rat boy?
[after Cab 3 has landed in the water] Lindsey Brigman: Hang on, gentleman. Touchdown. Crowd goes wild.
[about the rig] Lindsey Brigman: I got over four years invested in this project. Virgil: Yeah, you only had three years invested in me. Lindsey Brigman: Well you have to have priorities.
[after hearing they get three times diver's pay to check out the nuclear sub] Catfish De Vries: Hell, for triple time, I'd eat Beany! Jammer Willis: Set me on fire and put me out with horse piss.
[showing the nuclear warhead to Bud on video] Alan "Hippy" Carnes: Heeeeeeeeeeeeeere's M.I.R.V.!
[first lines] USS Montana Captain: Sixty knots? No way, Barnes. The Reds don't have anything that fast.
[last lines] Lindsey Brigman: Hi, Brigman. Virgil: Hi, Mrs. Brigman.
Ensign Monk: Bud, give me a reading from your liquid oxygen gauge. Virgil: [typing] 5 minuts worth Lindsey Brigman: [shocked] What? Alan "Hippy" Carnes: It took him *thirty* minutes just to get down there! Lindsey Brigman: Bud! Do you hear me? You dr...
Virgil: [over the phone] Brigman here. Yeah, Kirkhill, what's going on? Yeah, I'm calm. I'm a calm person. Is there some reason I shouldn't be calm? [long pause, then... ] Virgil: [furious] WHAT?
Lindsey Brigman: [as the Pseudopod approaches] Bud! Bud! Get up! [Bud sits up, stares at the pseudopod] Virgil: [throwing a pillow at Cat] Hey, Cat. Cat! Catfish De Vries: [half-awake] Hey, lemme alone. [sees the pseudopod, jerks awake and grabs a fl...
Lindsey Brigman: The bad news is we got eight hours in this can blowin' down... And the worse news is, it's gonna take us three weeks to decompress later.
Catfish De Vries: It's a bottomless pit, baby. Two-and-a-half miles straight down.
Virgil: [about Lindsey] She didn't leave me. She just left me behind.
Lindsey Brigman: I saw these things. I touched one of them. And... It wasn't some clunky steel can... like we would build. It glided. It was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. Oh, God, I wish you'd been there. It was a machine. It was a machine...
Lt. Coffey: Let's get something straight. You people are under my authority. Catfish De Vries: Look, partner, we don't work for you. We don't take orders from you. And we don't much like you. Virgil: Hey, Cat. Cat. Catfish De Vries: Yeah? Virgil: Why...
Lindsey Brigman: [to Hippy] I know, but we could get lucky, right? So we should go for it.
Lindsey Brigman: [the pseudopod mimics Lindsey] It's trying to communicate. [the pseudopod changes to Bud's face] Lisa "One Night" Standing: It's Bud! Lindsey Brigman: [laughing delightedly] It's wonderful! Virgil: [grinning] It's me!
Lt. Coffey: We have no way of warning the surface. And you know what that means? It means, whatever happens, is up to us.
