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Control and Consequences in High-Stakes Scenario
Cyrus the Virus
Say there was a disturbance, but you've got it under control. Say it, or I will kill you.
[holding the pilot at gunpoint]
Pilot
Without me, you got nobody to fly the plane.
Cyrus
I never think that far ahead.
Lessons from Fathers in Unlikely Circumstances
Cyrus the Virus
Thanks, Poe. You've proven to be a most useful mammal.
Cameron Poe
Many hands make light work." My daddy taught me that.
Cyrus
You know what my daddy taught me?
Poe
What's that?
Cyrus
Nothin'.
Poe
Self-educated man.
Establishing Rules for an Interrogation
Cyrus
Good, now here are the rules, I'm going to ask a question and then you will ask a question.
Larkin
Okay... What's your question?
Cyrus
In Carson City, your boys were onto us; how?
Malloy
One of the guards-
[Larkin cuts him off]
Larkin
One of the guards faked a heart attack and we had to remove his restraints, okay?
Cyrus
Alright, now what's your question?
Larkin
Where are you going with my plane, Cyrus?
Cyrus
We're going to Disneyland.
Larkin
You're lying, Cyrus.
Cyrus
So are you, Vince. Ohh... nothing makes me sadder than the agent lost his bladder in the... aaaiirrrplane.
[mocks him by singsong; Larkin throws the headset he's using]
Enforcing Rules on the Aircraft
Guard Falzon
Well, welcome aboard. My, my; as I look around I see a lot of celebrities among us. I see eleven Current Affairs, two ] and a genuine ] interviewee, but I gotta tell you gentlemen, none of this impresses me. Because we have rules on this aircraft and they're going to be enforced. It's a lot like kindergarten. You'll keep your hands to yourself, keep the decibel level down and, if any of you should feel the need to scream, spit, or bite, you get the treatment.
[[w:Hard Copy|Hard Copies; [w:Geraldo Rivera|Geraldo; gestures at Diamond Dog]
Inmate
Fuck you, pig.
[spits at Falzon's feet]
Guard Falzon
Gag and bag this Nazi muffin. You see, this kind of thing puts me in a foul mood. These rules will be enforced because I can't have trouble. If any of you so much as pass gas in my general direction, upsetting my delicate nasal passages, your testicles will become my personal property. That's pretty clear. Good.
[to another guard; strikes inmate before guards gag him and place a mesh bag over his head]
Cyrus Explains the Boneyard and Plane
Cyrus
Considering my audience, I'm gonna make this very quick and very simple. This is the boneyard. This is the hangar. This is our plane.
[points with a stick]
Viking
What's that?
[points at a rock]
Cyrus
That's a rock.
Viking
Okay.
[looks embarrassed]
Cyrus
The convoy will enter the boneyard here. Initially, we take out the first car , then we take out the last, creating a trap... an air-tight cage filled with lots and lots of dead people. Nathan, get everybody in position, yeah? And bring me those propane tanks!
[flicks off forward Coke can; hits can; cons mobilize]
Recognizing a Notorious Criminal on a Flight
Johnny "Johnny 23" Baca
Shit, that's Garland Greene, man.
Cameron Poe
The Marietta Mangler.
Mike "Baby O" O'Dell
That skinny little man butchered thirty-some people up and down the eastern seaboard. They say the way he killed those people makes the ] look like ]!
[[w:Charles Manson|Manson Family; [The Partridge Family]
Poe
Well...he's on the right flight.
The Nature of Criminal Motivation
Garland Greene
Two went down. One came up.
Poe
Wasn't my fault.
Garland
Well, you don't have to tell me. Most murders are crimes of necessity rather than desire. But the great ones... ], ], ]... they did it because it excited them.
[[Jeffrey Dahmer|Dahmer; [John Wayne Gacy|Gacy; [w:Ted Bundy|Bundy]
Poe
Don't you... I got nothing in common with them — with you! Don't you talk to me! They were insane!
Garland
Now you're talking semantics. What if I told you insane was working a 50-hour week for 50 years, at the end of which they tell you to piss off. Ending up in some retirement village, hoping to die rather than suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time. Wouldn't you consider that to be insane?
Poe
Murdering 30 people, semantics or not, is insane.
Garland
One girl, I drove through three states wearing her head as a hat.
[smiles]
Poe
It's my daughter's birthday, so please feel free not to share everything with me.
The Pain of Misplaced Happiness
Garland Greene
He's a font of misplaced rage. Name your cliche: Mother held him too much or not enough, last picked at kickball, late night sneaky uncle, whatever. Now, he gets so angry, moments of levity actually cause him pain, gives him headaches. Happiness, for that gentleman, hurts.
[His first spoken words in the movie; regarding Billy Bedlam]
Profile of a Criminal Mastermind
U.S. Marshal Vince Larkin
This one's done it all. Kidnapping, robbery, murder, extortion. His name is Cyrus Grissom, AKA "Cyrus the Virus." Thirty-nine years old, 25 of them spent in our institutions. But he's bettered himself inside. Earned two degrees, including his juris doctorate. He's also killed 11 fellow inmates, incited three riots, and escaped twice. Likes to brag that he's killed more men than cancer. Cyrus is a poster child for the criminally insane. He's a true product of the system.
[on Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom]
Deadly Offenders Take to the Skies
Taglines
They were deadly on the ground. Now they have wings.
Chaos on the Plane of Criminals
Cameron Poe
They somehow managed to get every freak and creep in the universe on this one plane, and then somehow managed to let them take it over, and then they somehow managed to stick us right smack in the middle.
Irony in a Plane Crash Context
Garland Greene
Define irony: a bunch of idiots dancing on a plane to a song made famous by a band that died in a plane crash.
[as the convicts dance to "Sweet Home Alabama"]