Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : Please don't tell me we lost an engine.

Maverick : Alright, I won't tell you that.

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : Talk to me, dad.

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : [after destroying the plane that almost killed Maverick and Rooster] Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, this is your savior speaking. Please, fasten your seat belts, return the tray tables to their locked and upright positions and prepare for landing.

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : Hey, Hangman, you look good.

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : I am good, Rooster. I'm very good. I'll see you back on deck.

Maverick : Thank you for saving my life.

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : It's what my dad would've done.

Maverick : [At the beginning of a training mission] Good morning, aviators. This is your captain speaking. Welcome to Basic Fighter Maneuvers, As briefed, today's exercise is dog-fighting, guns only, no missiles. We do not go below the hard deck of 5,000 ft. Working as team you have to shoot me down or else...

Payback : ...or else what, sir?

Maverick : ...or else I shoot back. If I shoot either one of you down, you both lose.

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : This guy needs an ego check.

Lt. Brigham 'Harvard' Lennox : We'll see to that!

Payback : Sir, what say we put some skin in the game?

Maverick : What do you have in mind?

Payback : Whoever gets shot down first has to do 200 push-ups.

Maverick : Guys, that's a lot of push-ups.

Fanboy : Ah well, they don't call it an exercise for nothing, sir.

Maverick : You got yourself a deal, gentlemen. Fight's on. Let's turn and burn!

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : Fanboy, you see him?

Fanboy : Not beyond the radar up ahead. He must be somewhere behind us.

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : [Maverick got ready and from below them, swooshed past between their jets upwards] Damn it!

Fanboy : What the hell?

Payback : Oh shit!

Maverick : Easy, Maverick. Let's try not to get fired on the first day.

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : Come on, Mav, do some of that pilot shit!

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : Then it's a dog fight.

Maverick : An F-14 against 5th-Gen fighters?

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : It's not the plane. It's the pilot.

Maverick : Exactly!

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : Got yourself another kill.

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : That makes two.

Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace : Mav has five. Makes him an ace.

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : There's more than one way to fly this mission.

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : You really don't get it. On this mission, a man flies like Maverick here, or a man does not come back. No offense intended.

Lt. Robert 'Bob' Floyd : And somehow, you always manage.

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : Hey, I don't mean to criticize, you're conservative, that's all.

Maverick : Lieutenant...

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : We're going into combat, son, on a level no living pilot's ever seen.

[referring to Maverick]

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : Not even him. There's no time to be thinking about the past.

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : What's that supposed to mean?

Maverick : Rooster...

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : I can't be the only one that knows that Maverick flew with his old man.

Maverick : That's enough.

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : That Maverick was flying with his old man...

Maverick : Lieutenant, that's enough.

[the other pilots hold Rooster back from attacking Hangman]

Maverick : That's enough!

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : You son of a bitch!

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : Hey, I'm cool, I'm cool. Hey.

Maverick : That's enough.

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : He's not cut out for this mission.

Maverick : That's enough.

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : You know it. You know I'm right.

Maverick : You're all dismissed.

[the pilots leave the room]

Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace : Breaking the hard deck? Insubordination? Are you trying to get kicked out?

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : Don't worry about it.

Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace : Look, I'm going on this mission, but if you get kicked out, you leave us flying with Hangman. Talk to me, what the hell was that?

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : He pulled my papers.

Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace : What? Who?

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : Maverick. He pulled my application to Naval Academy. He set me back four years.

Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace : Why would he do that?

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : [after looking at a hangar in the bombed enemy airfield] You've got to be shitting me! An F-14?

Maverick : I shot down three Migs in one of those.

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : We don't even know if that bag of ass can fly.

Maverick : Let's find out.

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : [Maverick runs to the hangar and Rooster follows him] Mav! OK.

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : Say, Phoenix. How's about we tell everybody 'Bob' stands for something? Other than Robert, I mean.

Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace : Don't take the bait, Bob. Wanna know why we call him Hangman?

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : All right. I got it. Baby On Board.

[Maverick appears out of nowhere and flies by at full speed between Phoenix and Hangman's planes]

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : Shit!

Maverick : Greetings, aviators. Fight's on!

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : Alright, Phoenix. Let's take this guy out!

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : [Listening to the radio] Watch your back, Phoenix!

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : Break right!

Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace : Breaking right.

[Hangman leaves Phoenix]

Lt. Robert 'Bob' Floyd : Where's he going?

Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace : That's why we call him Hangman. He'll always hang you out to dry.

Maverick : Leaving your wingman. There's a strategy I haven't seen in a while.

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : He called you a man, Phoenix. You gonna take that?

Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace : So long as he doesn't call you a man.

[towards Bob]

Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace : Talk to me, Bob, where's Maverick?

Lt. Robert 'Bob' Floyd : Jesus, his nose is already coming around!

Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace : Get him off me, Hangman!

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : For all you folks at home, this is how you bury a fossil!

Maverick : Alright, Hangman. Time to teach you a lesson.

[Maverick puts Phoenix and Bob on missile lock]

Maverick : You're out, Phoenix.

Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace : Son of a bitch!

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : Let's go, Mav, let's see what you got.

Maverick : Come get me!

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : Evil be gone. Hangman's coming!

[Hangman keeps up with Maverick]

Maverick : Yeah, you're good. I'll give you that.

[Maverick flies up to the sun, blinding Hangman, who is after him]

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : Shit! Phoenix, I can't see him. How close am I? Phoenix?

Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace : I'm dead, dickhead!

Lt. Robert 'Bob' Floyd : See you in the afterlife, Bagman.

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : Where is he? Where is he?

[Maverick soars from behind Hangman and paints him killed]

Maverick : That's a kill.

Maverick : [Once airborne in F-14 Tomcat] Okay, Rooster, get us in touch with the boat.

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : Working on it. Radio's out, no radar, everything's dead back here, what do I do? Talk me through it.

Maverick : Okay, first the radio. Throw the UHF-2 circuit breaker, try that.

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : There's 300 breakers back here, anything more specific?

Maverick : I don't know, that was your dad's department.

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : I'll figure it out.

[Looking below at 5 Gen fighters]

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : Mav, tally two, five o'clock low! What do we do?

Maverick : Okay, listen. Just be cool. If they knew who we were, we'd be dead already.

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : [Watching fighters increase altitude] Well, here they come. What's your plan?

Maverick : Just put your mask on. Remember, we're on the same team. Just waive and smile. Just waive and smile.

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : [Watching Fifth Gen fighter pilot's hand signals] What's that signal, what's he saying?

Maverick : No idea. I have no idea what he's saying.

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : What about that one, any idea?

Maverick : Nope, never seen that one either. Shit. His wingman is moving into weapons envelope. Alright, listen up. When I tell you, you grab those rigs above your head. That's the ejection handle.

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : Mav, can we outrun these guys?

Maverick : Not their missiles and guns.

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : Then it's a dogfight.

Maverick : An F-14 against 5th Gen fighters?

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : It's not the plane, it's the pilot. You'd go after them if I wasn't here.

Maverick : But you are here.

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : C'mon, Mav. Don't think, just do.

[Mav pulls right and the dogfight begins]

Maverick : Rooster! Bradley! Lieutenant Bradshaw!

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : Yes, sir?

Maverick : Let's not do it like this.

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : Are you going to wash me out?

Maverick : That'll be up to you, not me.

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : Am I dismissed?

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : Why'd you pull my papers at the academy? Why didn't you just *stay out of my way*?

Maverick : You weren't ready.

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : Ready for what? Huh? Ready to fly like you?

Maverick : No, ready to forget the book. Trust your instincts! Don't think, just do. You think up there, you're dead. Believe me.

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : My dad believed in you. I'm not gonna make the same mistake.

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : [after Maverick shoves Rooster onto the ground] What the hell?

Maverick : What are you doing here?

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : What am I doing here?

Maverick : You think I took that missile so you could be down here with me? You should be back on the carrier by now!

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : I saved your life!

Maverick : I saved your life! That's the whole point! What the hell were you even thinking?

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : You told me not to think!

[Maverick stares blankly at Rooster, Rooster shrugs]

Maverick : Well, it's good to see you.

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : It's good to see you, too.

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : [seeing the Felon pull off Kvochur's bell] Holy shit. What the fuck was that?

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : Say, Rooster, mind if I ask you a personal question?

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : Would it matter if I did?

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : So, what's the story with you and Maverick? Seems like he's got you a little rattled.

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : It's none of your business. Now, where the hell is he?

Maverick : Been here the whole time.

[Maverick, flying under Rooster's plane, flips his plane upwards on his starboard side and ends up inverted over Rooster's plane]

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : Holy shit!

Maverick : You see me now? Come on, let's get it over with.

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : [Maverick and Rooster begin to spiral downwards] Fight's on!

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : What is it with these two?

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : Why are the wings coming out, Mav?

Maverick : [On the bombing run] Dagger attack!

[Tomahawks launch from USS Leyte Gulf]

Naval Officer : Tomahawks airborne.

Adm. Solomon 'Warlock' Bates : No turning back now.

Maverick : Daggers, assume attack formation.

[Planes line up in single file]

Maverick : [Approaching coastline] Daggers set. Proceeding to target. Two minutes and thirty seconds in 3... 2... 1. Mark.

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : Two mark.

Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace : Three mark.

Payback : Four mark.

Maverick : Going in.

[repeated line]

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : It's not the plane, it's the pilot.

Maverick : How low you want to go, Rooster?

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : I can go as low as you, sir! And that's saying something.

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : Hangman, the only place you'll lead anyone is an early grave.

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : [singing] You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain, Too much love drives a man insane, You broke my will but what a thrill

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw , Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin , Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace , Lt. Javy 'Coyote' Machado , Payback , Fanboy , Lt. Brigham 'Harvard' Lennox , Lt. Logan 'Yale' Lee , Lt. Neil 'Omaha' Vikander , Lt. Billy 'Fritz' Avalone : Goodness gracious, Great Balls of Fire!

Maverick : What's past is past. For both of us.

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : You'd like to believe that, wouldn't you?

Maverick : Rooster just saved your life, fellas. But it's gonna cost him.

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : Not this time, old man.

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : The stress limit of the F-18's airframe is 7.5.

Maverick : That's the accepted limit. To survive this mission, you'll pull beyond that, even if it means bending your airframe. You'll be pulling so hard, you'll weigh close to 2,000 pounds, your skull crushing your spine. Your lungs imploding like an elephant's sitting on your chest, fighting with everything you have just to keep from blacking out. And this is where you'll be at your most vulnerable. This - is coffin corner.

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : Both runways are cratered. How we gonna get this museum piece in the air? Why are the wings coming out, Mav? Mav, this is a taxiway, not a runway. This is a very *short* taxiway, Mav.

Maverick : Just hang on.

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : Holy shit!

Maverick : Dagger 1 up and ready on catapult 1.

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin : Dagger spare standing by.

Payback : Dagger 4 up and ready.

Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace : Dagger 3 up and ready.

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw : Dagger 2 up and ready.

Air Control Officer : Report axis airborne, strike package ready, standing by for launch decision.

Adm. Beau 'Cyclone' Simpson : Send them.