Miracle Mile (1988)

Robert DoQui: Fred the Cook

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• Harry Washello : I know how this sounds, but I answered the phone out there and the guy on the other end he was very, very frantic. He thought I was his dad fro a minute, I think he just had the wrong area code.

  Fred the Cook : Yeah, so what?

  Harry Washello : So he was calling from a missile silo! He said that they were locked in, 50 minutes and counting, to shoot off their nuclear wad. We would be getting it back in an hour and 10. I mean he meant that we're at war! Nuclear war!

• Fred the Cook : Landa, you said we had to strike FIRST if it ever came down to it, remember you told me that? Do you remember?

  Landa : I remember, Fred.

  Fred the Cook : Preemptive first strike!

  Mike : Shit!

  Waitress : They have to evacuate us first, don't they?

  Mike : You tell me where to! When was the last time they told you what to do incase. There's no plan!

• Fred the Cook : [Fred fires gun into the air and points it in Harry's face]  HEY! I'M VERY SERIOUS ABOUT THIS SHIT NOW YOU TELL ME NOW, YOU'RE JOKIN' HUH?

  Harry Washello : ...Come on, man.

  Harlan : Leave him alone Freddie he's just drunk.

  Fred the Cook : SHUT THE FUCK UP, SHUT UP!

  Fred the Cook : [to Harry]  If you are, you tell me now.

  Harry Washello : Why the hell would I make up this story, huh?... Look, if you want me to say so, I will, but...

  Fred the Cook : But what?

  Landa : Fred, Fred - put the gun away!

  Fred the Cook : BUT WHAT!

  Harry Washello : ...It's true.

• Fred the Cook : [frantically fleeing the diner]  I KNEW they'd do some stupid shit like this one day, I knew it, but they ain't gonna catch me with my pants down. I'm going up to the San Gabriel mountains...