North Sea Hijack Quotes

ffolkes: Timing underwater. Speed Underwater. That is what half our assignments are about. Harris! Are you listening to me?
Harris: Yes sir.
ffolkes: Then bloody well well look at me! Yesterday, ONE man completed the exercise precisely on time. ME! [Produces a hand grenade from his bag]
ffolkes: Today, you will ALL complete the exercise precisely on time...

Movie: North Sea Hijack
Fletcher: Work out what can be done if one of them is hijacked.
ffolkes: Don't the armed forces have some ideas in that department?
Fletcher: Undoubtedly. But an oil production platform isn't a building or an aeroplane. It's miles out to sea and you can't approach it without being seen or heard unless you come from below.
ffolkes: Only a man of superior intellect is likely to think of a satisfactory way of hijacking a platform or a rig.
Fletcher: Exactly.
ffolkes: Therefore, I must put myself in his position and devide a means of doing so. And having done that, I simply work out how to overpower myself!

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Lou Kramer: You'd better take that pussycat grin off your face or this guy's liable to carve it off.

Movie: North Sea Hijack
Lou Kramer: I am the temporary captain of this tub and you're going to be taking your orders from me for the time being. And the quicker you get that straight, the shorter that time is gonna be, so let's just play patty-cake together and get this over with. Remember, luck favours the man with the most limpet mines and I've got a bundle of them. Two stuck to the underside of the drilling rig Ruth, and four planted right under your ass on Jennifer.

Movie: North Sea Hijack