Col. F.E. Cochrane: You threatening me, Murphy?
Frank Murphy: No, I'm telling you. Back off.
Frank Murphy: Catch ya later.
Frank Murphy: That's Cochrane, F.E., US Army.
Lymangood: Cochrane, F.E. What's the "F.E." stand for?
Frank Murphy: "Fuck Everybody."
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.
Lymangood: You mind if I ask you what you're doing.
Frank Murphy: No... I don't mind at all.
Frank Murphy: Stop calling me Sir - you sound like David Copperfield.
Frank Murphy: Uh-oh... uh-oh. You'd better hold your nose. We're in deep shit.
Jack Braddock: 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.
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: 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.
Lymangood: This sucker will do everything but cook your breakfast.
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.
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.
Frank Murphy: Grab your ankles and kiss your ass goodbye Jafo. We're going down.
Chosen answer: Murphy has been deemed a threat to the public at large by the authorities, having "snapped" and stolen an armed helicopter. Cochrane is using that determination as cover to finally kill Murphy, whom he's long despised. Killing Murphy on the ground would be harder to get away with. He would not be responsible for paying for the helicopter anymore than the Air Force or the other police helicopter crews would be had they sucessfully knocked Blue Thunder down.
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