Time Bomb (2008)

Jake Busey: Jason Philby

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Jason Philby : Jake, stop screwing around. You're gonna run the battery down and we're gonna be stuck here forever.

  Jake : Can we call a tow truck now?

  Jason Philby : Hey, have faith in your dad, alright? I can fix this thing.

  Jake : But that's what you said an hour ago.

  Jason Philby : Stop being such a pessimist.

  Jake : What's a pessimist?

  Jason Philby : A pessimist is... some one who... doesn't believe in anything.

• Jane : Don't play dumb with me.

  Jason Philby : Who's playing. You always used to say I was stupid.

• Jason Philby : We're broken down on the side of a road in Iraq. We're in a brand new shiny SUV. We might as well hang signs from our heads, saying shoot us, we're stupid Americans.

  Bob : Stupid *crusading* Americans, man.

  Jason Philby : Don't start with that shit.

  Bob : [mechanically reciting]  We're direct descendants of the Templars, here to reclaim the Holy Land in the name of the one true God, man.

• Jason Philby : I thought Buddhism was all about orange robes and shaved heads.

  Bob : It's the notion of the eternal return. It postulates the continuing cycle of birth, death, and re-birth of an individual, ad infinitum, until such time as that person achieves enlightenment and is release from earthly suffering.

  Jason Philby : So like deja vu all over again.

  Bob : Yeah. All of human history repeating itself over and over, in every detail, from the fall of Rome to this very conversation.

  Jason Philby : So we've been here before?

  Bob : Uh huh.

  Jason Philby : That *is* worse than diarrhea.

• Jason Philby : Don't let anyone tell you what to think, private.

• Jason Philby : You're crazy.

  Bob : Am I crazy, or has the world gone mad?

• Bob : You know how people say, everything happens for a reason?

  Jason Philby : Yeah, it drives me crazy.

  Bob : It's better than the alternative.

• [last lines] 

  Burgess : This is your lucky day. My superiors have just informed me that you're going to be formally charged.

  Jason Philby : So I'm free to go?

  Burgess : No. You'll be remanded to a state psychiatric institution for psychological testing.

  Jason Philby : On whose authority?

  Burgess : You don't need to know.