Capt. Frank Larson: Out of the 39 000 men and women that make up the United States Coast Guard there are only 280 rescue swimmers. This is because we are the Coast Guard's elite. We are the best of the best. When storms shut down entire ports, we go out. When hurricanes ground the United States Navy, we go out. And when the holy Lord himself reaches down from heaven and destroys his good work with winds that rip houses off the ground, We. Go. Out.
Ben Randall: [Later in private, quoting him:] "When God rips houses off the ground?"
Capt. Frank Larson: I was rollin'.

Pilot Mitchell: We're low on fuel. The rulebook says we cut our losses. What do you think, Ben?
Ben Randall: When we go home, they die.

[Ben has just rescued Jake and they are being hoisted up to the helicopter]
Jake Fischer: I thought you were going fishing!
Ben Randall: What do you call this?
[the cable starts to fray and Ben makes a snap decision - to unhook himself and fall so Jake will get up safely]
Jake Fischer: What are you doing? Don't even think about it!
Ben Randall: It’s not gonna hold us both.

Emily Thomas: Hey, Mags, can I have a beer?
Jake Fischer: Well, well. So you are gonna have a drink with me.
Emily Thomas: No, I'm having a drink near you. Entirely different thing.
Jake Fischer: You're a real little lightening-rod, aren't you? What's your name?
Emily Thomas: Daisy Buchanan.
Jake Fischer: You're lying, Daisy Buchanan.
Emily Thomas: There is that possibility.
Jake Fischer: No, that was a sure-fire lie.
Emily Thomas: So I take it you've read 'The Great Gatsby'. Where's my money?
Jake Fischer: It's not on me, but it is close, if a very safe place. Now, I've drawn a map with a complex set of clues. Each one is more fiendishly clever then the last -
[Emily reaches into his pocket and pulls out the money]
Jake Fischer: ...That works too.
Emily Thomas: [grabs the map] This is just a picture of your pants.
Jake Fischer: Yeah, but it's a *bad* picture, which is what makes it so fiendishly clever.

Emily Thomas: What do you have, an art gallery over here? What is this "2"?
[looking number two tattooed on Jake's shoulder]
Jake Fischer: It's so the guy behind me knows what place he's coming in.
(In reality it his team members number)

Emily Thomas: How does Jake Fischer become a guy who wants to jump out of helicopters?
Jake Fischer: I killed a couple guys and had to get out of Dodge.
Emily Thomas: You're lying.
Jake Fischer: There is that possibility.
Emily Thomas: The truth?
Jake Fischer: My bull riding career was going down the drain.

Jake Fischer: You do *not* want to hear about my day.
Emily Thomas: Yeah, I do.
Jake Fischer: Man, this guy Randall, you know, it doesn't matter what I do. It's just not good enough.
Emily Thomas: Maybe he's just trying to push you to be better. We teachers do that to the ones we believe in.
Jake Fischer: No, it's personal with me. He's knows that I'm better then he was. I mean, today I broke every one of his records. I owned them all.
Maggie McGlone: Not all of them. There's one record you won't break.
[takes a picture off the wall]
Maggie McGlone: This is 'The Aegis'. Medical ship. Caught on fire. It was a nightmare; people burning in their beds. And Ben Randall got every one of those people out of there, except for this one guy. And right when the ship started to go down, he reaches down and grabs this guy. He's hanging from the cable with this man's life in his hands, and the winch jams. It's twenty minutes to the base. The man's screaming, but Ben looks him dead in the eye, and do you know what he said? He said "I won't let go."
Emily Thomas: What happened?
Maggie McGlone: Dislocated his shoulder, tore every tendon in his hand, but he didn't let go. Twenty minutes, just fingertips. You break that record, and you give me a call.
Jake Fischer: ...My day was alright.

Jake Fischer: [voice-over] The Coast Guard conducted the largest search and rescue missions for a single man in its history, but the body of Senior Chief Ben Randall was never found. What makes a legend? Is it what someone did while they were alive? Or how they're remembered after they're gone? Some people actually believe Senior Chief made the swim to the Aleutian Islands, that he's standing on a distant beach somewhere with a fishing pole in his hand. But I found my answer a couple of weeks later.
[Jake pulls a victim into the helicopter]
Drowning Victim: Where is he?
Jake Fischer: Huh? There's nobody else out there, man.
Drowning Victim: No, he was there! He was with me the whole time! He said he would hold on till help arrived. He never let go!
Jake Fischer: [voice-over] There is a legend of a man who lives beneath the sea. He is a fisher of men, a last hope for all those who've been left behind. He is know as the Guardian.



Gosh this is just such a good movie. If I could've found the transcript I would have just posted the link and let you guys all read it. It's really great. SO I hope you enjoy this and Ashton Kutcher's acting. Kevin Costner too.

It's great.