Confetti Check A-OK
Setting: Col. Straker attends a meeting of a special committee formed by the United Nations to try and persuade them to provide the funds to set up SHADO.
Straker: If I might point out, sir, we're confronted with alien space craft, possibly from another solar system.
Duvall (French delegate): Maybe the General [Henderson] and Colonel Straker have been reading too much science fiction.
Straker: The Earth is faced with a power threat from an extra-terrestrial source. We've moved into an age when science fiction has become fact. We need to defend ourselves.
Straker [As he is getting his papers together to leave]: Monsieur Duvall, I understand you have three daughters.
Duvall: Yes?
Straker: I pray that you never find yourself looking down at one of their mutilated bodies. I hope that the next UFO incident is not in your home town!
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Setting: Freeman and Straker inspect the building of SHADO HQ.
Straker: Let's take a look at the office, Alec.
[They go into a bare room with wires hanging down]
Freeman: Well . . . it's all beginning to take shape.
Straker: Yes, this is it. SHADO HQ, the nerve centre of the whole organisation! You know, Alec. Setting all this up, the delays, the problems, security, personnel, a thousand details, a hundred hold-ups -- sometimes seems we're fighting a ten-headed monster.
Freeman: And what drives you on, fighting the monster?
Straker: I don't know. Something inside me, I guess.
Freeman: It's called dedication.
Straker: Pig-headedness would be nearer.
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Setting: Straker and SHADO operatives work late hours to complete HQ. He is in his office phoning contractors when one of the operatives comes in.
SHADO employee: We don't seem to be able to find the fault, sir.
Straker: Well, keep checking . . . and don't look at me like that. You're not the only one with a home to go to!
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Straker: If I might point out, sir, we're confronted with alien space craft, possibly from another solar system.
Duvall (French delegate): Maybe the General [Henderson] and Colonel Straker have been reading too much science fiction.
Straker: The Earth is faced with a power threat from an extra-terrestrial source. We've moved into an age when science fiction has become fact. We need to defend ourselves.
Straker [As he is getting his papers together to leave]: Monsieur Duvall, I understand you have three daughters.
Duvall: Yes?
Straker: I pray that you never find yourself looking down at one of their mutilated bodies. I hope that the next UFO incident is not in your home town!
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Setting: Freeman and Straker inspect the building of SHADO HQ.
Straker: Let's take a look at the office, Alec.
[They go into a bare room with wires hanging down]
Freeman: Well . . . it's all beginning to take shape.
Straker: Yes, this is it. SHADO HQ, the nerve centre of the whole organisation! You know, Alec. Setting all this up, the delays, the problems, security, personnel, a thousand details, a hundred hold-ups -- sometimes seems we're fighting a ten-headed monster.
Freeman: And what drives you on, fighting the monster?
Straker: I don't know. Something inside me, I guess.
Freeman: It's called dedication.
Straker: Pig-headedness would be nearer.
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Setting: Straker and SHADO operatives work late hours to complete HQ. He is in his office phoning contractors when one of the operatives comes in.
SHADO employee: We don't seem to be able to find the fault, sir.
Straker: Well, keep checking . . . and don't look at me like that. You're not the only one with a home to go to!
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