- [Icelan and Braddock are discussing Murphy]
- Icelan: He checks his sanity with a wrist watch!
- Jack Braddock: What do you check yours with, a dipstick?
- Jack Braddock: But there's a bright side to this, and a moral. I think morals are good for you, I love morals, and the moral of this story is: If you're walkin' on eggs, don't hop.
- [Braddock and Murphy have watched Blue Thunder perform a selective firepower demonstration]
- Icelan: [33:08] Well, look at that, all the red dummies are blown to hell.
- Frank Murphy: And a few white ones!
- Fletcher: One civilian dead for every ten terrorists. That's an acceptable ratio.
- Frank Murphy: [Leaning closer to Braddock] Unless you're one of the civilians!
- Jack Braddock: You think I don't know about that silly twit up in Encino, for Chrissakes? I had twenty years in this outfit, when your idea of a good time was sittin' in front of the TV tube, watchin' Bugs Bunny and gnawing on your Fudgsicle!
- Frank Murphy: [35:48] Finally made Colonel, eh?
- Col. F.E. Cochrane: If you're a nice guy, nice things happen to you.
- Frank Murphy: I'll try to remember that!
- Jack Braddock: [after Lymangood interrupts him chewing out Murphy] You're supposed to be stupid, son. Don't abuse the privilege.
- Frank Murphy: That's Cochrane, F.E., US Army.
- Lymangood: Cochrane, F.E. What's the "F.E." stand for?
- Frank Murphy: "Fuck Everybody."
- Sgt. Short: This ship is equipped with a forward-mounted, twenty-millimeter electric cannon. Its six barrels are capable of firing four thousand rounds of ammunition per minute. And that, gentlemen, is one hell of a shit-storm in anybody's language!
- Jack Braddock: Who are you fooling with that phony radio bullshit? Jesus Christ, Frank, that went out three days after Marconi invented the fucking thing!
- Frank Murphy: What's the sensitivity of those mikes?
- Sgt. Short: You can hear a mouse fart at 2000 ft!
- [Murphy walks out to the pad]
- Jack Braddock: Well Murph, feeling any pressure?
- Frank Murphy: Yeah. About 15 pounds per square inch at sea level.
- Jack Braddock: [to Murphy] You know what they'll do with this? They'll burn you... me... your idiotic friend here... and my whole damn division. And I don't want my division burnt!
- Jack Braddock: [26:16] I've been trying to get you all night. Why don't you answer your fucking beeper?
- Frank Murphy: I just wanna tell you, Jack, that the next time I'm suspended, so is my fucking beeper!
- Jack Braddock: Feel better?
- Frank Murphy: Yeah. A little.
- Jack Braddock: Well then get your ass on down here. We just came up with a hot mince pie under each arm.
- Lymangood: [voice on the cockpit voice recorder] I found out what JAFO is. "Just Another Fucking Observer", huh?
- [Murphy and Lymangood are flying a formation exercise with Cochrane]
- Col. F.E. Cochrane: Come on, Keep it tight!
- Lymangood: Christ! Any closer and we start eating blades!
- Frank Murphy: [mimicking Cochrane's British accent] We're following his leader!
- [Murphy is looking over Blue Thunder's cockpit after the demonstration]
- Col. F.E. Cochrane: Could have used this in 'Nam.
- Frank Murphy: Could have used something.
- [Murphy and Lymangood are on patrol]
- Lymangood: All those people. What do you suppose they're all doing down there?
- Frank Murphy: Well, according to the latest statistics, about 1 million, 775 thousand of them are... getting it on!
- Lymangood: That many, eh!
- Frank Murphy: The rest are waiting for 'Laverne and Shirley'!
- [after the demonstration, Murphy and Braddock walk over to meet Blue Thunder's pilot]
- Frank Murphy: [recognizes Cochrane as the pilot]
- [35:27]
- Frank Murphy: Well, what do you know!
- Jack Braddock: Friend of yours?
- Frank Murphy: [smiling ruefully] An old war buddy. Bastard tried to have me court-martialed once.
- Lymangood: Big Brother: on or off?
- Frank Murphy: What's Big Brother?
- Lymangood: The cabin mike. It records everything we say.
- Frank Murphy: I think we can lose that.
- Mobile Operator: Los Angeles Mobile?
- Frank Murphy: Mobile, listen get me KBLA TV!
- Mobile Operator: That number is listed in your directory sir.
- Frank Murphy: Don't give me any static lady. This is a police emergency. Get me KBLA TV right now.
- Frank Murphy: Lymangood, Lymangood. What brings you to Air Support?
- Lymangood: Oh, I don't know, I just... I just put in for Observer. I kind of like the idea of it. no guns, no kicking in doors - quiet!
- Frank Murphy: [Glancing upwards with a pleading look] Oh, yeah!
- Lymangood: Sir, what was that business with the watch? Back in the ready room, with the watch?
- Frank Murphy: It's sort of a test.
- Col. F.E. Cochrane: [35:10] Oh, beautiful, was it? God DAMN it! I had another stoppage! I nearly killed the lot of you on that second pass. You can tell Ordnance for me that if it happens again I'll have their balls for breakfast.
- [Murphy moves away from Cochrane]
- Icelan: I didn't realize you two were acquainted.
- Col. F.E. Cochrane: Only too well, I'm afraid. I'd have had that bastard up on charges if he hadn't caught some shrapnel!
- Kress: If it was me, I'd ground him.
- Jack Braddock: He'll be all right.
- Kress: Personally, I wouldn't fly with him for a bull that pissed Jack Daniels.
- Jack Braddock: Is that right?
- Icelan: [chasing after Braddock during a row about Murphy] He's finished! And if there's so much as a scratch on the aircraft, so are you!
- Lymangood: Hey, I've got a black guy in a beanie down there! Looks like he's selling dope out of a van!
- Frank Murphy: Is that a red beanie?
- Lymangood: Yeah, that's him!
- Frank Murphy: He's our's - undercover buy program.
- Lymangood: Oh, right, right right right, yeah!
- Frank Murphy: You *were* at the briefing?
- Lymangood: Yes, Sir, Sir! I guess I just forgot, Sir!
- Frank Murphy: [laughs] You're going to fit right in!
- Lymangood: [after the liquor store robber shoots at them and the bullet pierces the chopper] Jesus! Christ!
- Frank Murphy: Welcome to air support.
- Col. F.E. Cochrane: [about Frank Murphy] We can surgically remove him from the air like a tumor.
- Col. F.E. Cochrane: Now, we're not talking about a tumor!
- Mario Machado: [last lines]
- Mario Machado: [voice-over] The $5 million prototype was totally destroyed when Officer Frank Murphy, his gasoline supply exhausted, set the helicopter down on the tracks in front of a southbound freight train. That was the end of the helicopter, but not the end of this story. On the strength of the tape that Murphy delivered to this reporter, the mayor's reopened investigation of Councilwoman Diana McNeely's death, which might also be connected with the death of Officer Richard Lymangood. Half a dozen local police officers and several officials of the State and Justice Departments have been detained for questioning. Coming up, weather - and a preview of a bullet train soon to be seen in the Southland. Maybe.
- Lymangood: [on cockpit voice recorder] Hey, boss, how's it going? Listen - I got the tape. But I can't take it home, it doesn't feel safe to take it home, so I think I'm gonna take it to, well, there's this drive-in that I go to at Riverside and Victory, on the corner there and they've got a dumpster in the back behind the concession stand, and I'm pretty sure they don't empty it until Monday, I think, so that's where I'm gonna stash the tape, okay? This is getting kinda fun, huh? Cops and robbers for real. Well, good luck if you should decide to accept this mission. This is Lymangood. Oh yeah, and I forgot to tell you, I found out what JAFO is: "Just Another Fucking Observer", huh?