Pacific Rim Quotes

[first lines]
Raleigh Becket: [narrating] When I was a kid, whenever I'd feel small or lonely, I'd look up at the stars. Wondered if there was life up there. Turns out I was looking in the wrong direction. When alien life entered our world, it was from deep beneath the Pacific Ocean. A fissure between two tectonic plates. A portal between dimensions. The Breach. I was

fifteen when the first Kaiju made land in San Francisco.
[pause]
Raleigh Becket: By the time tanks, jets and missiles took it down, six days and 35 miles later, three cities were destroyed. Tens of thousands of lives were lost. We mourned our dead, memorialized the attack, and moved on. And then, only six months later, the second attack hit Manila.
Newscaster:

[on TV] The acid factor of the Kaiju blood creates a toxic phenomenon known as Kaiju Blue
Raleigh Becket: Then the third one hit Cabo. And then the fourth. And then we learned this was not gonna stop. This was just the beginning. We needed a new weapon. The world came together, pooling it's resources and throwing aside old rivalries for the sake of the greater good. To

fight monsters, we created monsters of our own. The Jaeger program was born.

Stacker Pentecost: One: don't you ever touch me again. Two: don't you ever touch me again. Now, you have no idea who the hell I am, or where I've come from, and I'm not about to tell you my whole life story. All I need to be to you and everybody on this dome is a fixed point. The last man standing. I do not need your sympathy or your admiration. All I need is your compliance and

your fighting skills. And if I can't get that, then you can go back to the wall that I found you crawling on. Do I make myself clear?
[Raleigh nods. Stacker turns his head away and gestures to his ear. Beckett grimaces, leans closer, and speaks]
Raleigh Becket: Yes, sir.
Stacker Pentecost: Good.

[Newt enters Hannibal Chau's secret lab, where workers are busy dissecting and examining Kaiju body parts. He is astonished by the amount of kaiju parts in perfect condition]
Dr. Newton Geiszler: Oh, my God! Oh, my God, this place is heaven! That's a - that's a lymph gland from a Category 2! And, and, and what you working on here? Is this a cuticle? In mint condition? Is

that a Kaiju skin parasite? I - I've never seen them alive before. They - they usually *die* as soon as the Kaiju falls! I thought you *couldn't* keep them alive!
Hannibal Chau: You can if you soak them in ammonia.
[Newt turns around and sees Hannibal. Hannibal approaches him]
Hannibal Chau: What do you want?
Dr. Newton

Geiszler: I'm looking for Hannibal Chau. I was told he was here.
Hannibal Chau: [stops] Who wants to know?
Dr. Newton Geiszler: I really can't say.
[Hannibal pulls his golden balisong and sticks the tip up Newt's right nostril]
Dr. Newton Geiszler: Ahh! Ahh! Stacker Pentecost sent me!
[Hannibal pulls

balisong off Newt's nostril]
Dr. Newton Geiszler: Ahh! Ahh! Oh, that's great! That's real great! So I take it you're - you're Hannibal Chau, right?
Hannibal Chau: You like the name? I took it from, uh, my favorite historical character and my second-favorite Szechuan restaurant in Brooklyn. Now tell me what you want, before I gut ya like a pig and

feed you to the skin louse!

[Gottlieb rushes in while the Gipsy Danger is going through its inaugural trial run]
Gottlieb: Marshal! Marshal! I need to talk to you.
Stacker Pentecost: [dismissively] Not now, Mr. Gottlieb. I'm sure you can appreciate how important this moment is to me.
Gottlieb: Newton created a neural bridge from garbage and drifted with

a Kaiju!

Stacker Pentecost: Mr. Becket, this is Mako Mori. One of our brightest. Also in charge of the Mark 3 restoration program. She personally handpicked your co-pilot candidates.
Mako Mori: [speaks Japanese to Pentecost] I imagined him differently.
Raleigh Becket: Hey.
[speaks Japanese]
Raleigh Becket:

Better or worse?
Mako Mori: [speaks Japanese] I apologize, Mr. Becket. I've heard a lot about you.

Raleigh Becket: [notices Dr. Geiszler's tattoo] Who is that, Yamarashi?
Dr. Newton Geiszler: Oh, this little Kaiju? Yeah, you got a good eye.
Raleigh Becket: My brother and I took him down in 2017.
Dr. Newton Geiszler: You know, he's one of the biggest Category 3s ever. He was 2,500 pounds of awesome.

[Raleigh gives him a cold look]
Dr. Newton Geiszler: Or awful. You know, whatever you wanna call it.
Gottlieb: Please excuse him. He's a Kaiju groupie. He loves them.
Dr. Newton Geiszler: Shut up, Hermann, I don't love them, okay? I study them. And unlike most people, I wanna see one live and up close one day.

Raleigh Becket: Trust me, you don't want to.

Hannibal Chau: His lungs weren't fully formed. Umbilical cord tied around his neck. No way he could survive outside the womb for more than a minute. One look, that's all I needed. I knew he wouldn't make it.
[Hannibal throws his golden balisong into the baby Kaiju's head and pulls it out]
Hannibal Chau: Ugly bastard. Anyway, I woulda...
[the

baby Kaiju rises and eats him before finally dying]