Quotes
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Gary Noesner : They're surrendering. We're gonna work out the details of the surrender while David writes down his interpretation of the seven seals. Then they'll come out.
Mitch Decker : How long's that gonna take?
Gary Noesner : They're guessing a week.
Mitch Decker : Tell 'em to take a few extra days. Maybe he can knock out his memoirs while he's at it.
Gary Noesner : Look, I just got off the phone with the man, okay? He told me "I never intended to die in here." Those are his words, okay? But... Koresh's biggest fear is being silenced before he can share his message with the world. If we let him write it, he will come out peacefully.
Mitch Decker : It's just another stall tactic.
[more to Prince]
Mitch Decker : You're not taking this seriously, are you?
Gary Noesner : Mitch, we're been here six weeks. What's one more?
Mitch Decker : I know how long we've been here.
Gary Noesner : One more.
Tony Prince : All right, Gary, start working out the details of surrender, and let's see if it happens. I can buy you one week.
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Tony Prince : Honestly, it's been four days. How real do you think this Koresh manuscript is?
Gary Noesner : I-I think it's real.
Tony Prince : Have you seen any of it yet?
Gary Noesner : No, they haven't sent anything out.
Tony Prince : Has anyone in there seen it?
Gary Noesner : Nobody's seen it, but he's working on it day and night, apparently.
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Janet Reno : You're telling me you've exhausted every other possible option?
Tony Prince : Negotiations have reached an impasse, Madam Attorney General.
Janet Reno : You're asking me to sign off on an assault that would put children in danger.
Mitch Decker : I wouldn't call it an assault. Once we insert tear gas into the compound, they'll come right out.
Janet Reno : I thought you said they all had gas masks in there.
Mitch Decker : Nobody makes a gas mask that'll fit children.
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Mitch Decker : Once those mothers see those kids' eyes watering like that, game over.
Janet Reno : Wouldn't that hurt them?
Tony Prince : We believe it's the best option available.
Mitch Decker : Our intelligence shows they continue to abuse those children while we wait.
Janet Reno : There's no other way to end this?
Tony Prince : I'm afraid it's the only way.
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Gary Noesner : There are barrels of CS gas out there.
Tony Prince : This thing needs to be brought to a logical conclusion.
Gary Noesner : CS gas is banned by the Geneva Convention. It would be a war crime to use CS gas on a... a terrorist. And you think it's a logical conclusion to use it on American women and children?
Tony Prince : You've had almost two months to work this out. And you failed.
Gary Noesner : What do you mean I failed? We have a deal for surrender!
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Steve Schneider : The last time he sent out a message, he was embarrassed, and you saw how that turned out. Why not give him the time that he needs so that he can get it right?
Gary Noesner : We don't have time anymore. Get me the pages now, Steve. I am trying to help you people, but you make it so god damn hard. Do you have any idea what is...
Steve Schneider : [the line suddenly cuts off] Hello?
Gary Noesner : Steve?
[turning around, he sees Prince has disconnected the call]
Tony Prince : You've gotten a little too close to this one. I'm sending you home.
Gary Noesner : Uh-uh. I'm not leaving.
Mitch Decker : Gary... please don't make me have my guys do it.
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Dick DeGuerin : My name is Dick DeGuering. David Koresh's lawyer.
Jack Zimmerman : Jack Zimmerman. Steve Schneider's lawyer.
Dick DeGuerin : We'd like to speak with our clients.
Ron Engelman : Ron Engelman, KGBS.
Tony Prince : You can't be serious. You expect me to, what, just let you walk up there and knock on the front door?
Dick DeGuerin : We filed a writ of habeas corpus.
Tony Prince : Well, that only applies hen someone's in custody.
Jack Zimmerman : Well, if they're not in custody, we'll arrange transportation so they can leave.
Tony Prince : They haven't even asked for a lawyer.
Dick DeGuerin : Yes, they have.
[he gestures towards the compound; hanging from a window is a banner reading "We Want DeGuerin and Zimmerman"]
Dick DeGuerin : They're asking for their lawyers in front of the whole world. Now... what do you think's gonna happen to you when this whole case is dismissed because you refused them the right to counsel?
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Gary Noesner : Don't do it, Tony. Don't go in there with gas.
Tony Prince : This isn't your fight any longer, Gary.
