Edge of Tomorrow Quotes: Imaginative and Quirky

(Total Quotes: 93)

MOVIE INFO.

Directed by: Doug Liman
Written by:
Christopher McQuarrie (screenplay)
Jez Butterworth (screenplay)
John-Henry Butterworth (screenplay)
Hiroshi Sakurazaka (novel “All You Need Is Kill”)
Starring:
Tom Cruise – Cage
Emily Blunt – Rita
Brendan Gleeson – General Brigham
Bill Paxton – Master Sergeant Farell
Jonas Armstrong – Skinner
Tony Way – Kimmel
Kick Gurry – Griff
Franz Drameh – Ford
Dragomir Mrsic – Kuntz
Charlotte Riley – Nance
Masayoshi Haneda – Takeda
Terence Maynard – Cruel Sergeant
Noah Taylor – Dr. Carter
Lara Pulver – Karen Lord
Madeleine Mantock – Julie

OUR REVIEW & RATING ★★★★☆

In many ways Edge of Tomorrow feels like a video game with the quotes being fast, exciting and witty. The plot of this intelligently written sci-fi centers on military officer, Bill Cage who is demoted into serving a combat mission to take down a hive-like alien race invasion. When Cage is killed within minutes by one of the aliens he wakes up again to find himself in a time loop forcing him to relive the day over and over again. However, once he makes contact with legendary soldier Rita Vrataski, under her tutelage Cage becomes smarter and hopefully closer to defeating the aliens and changing his fate.

The script is character driven laced with a sarcastic humor use of repetition which is what ultimately makes it so fresh and quirky. Cruise is brilliant as the cowardly soldier who is forced into finding a way out of his nightmarish time loop and Blunt is on strong form, comfortably believable as a warrior soldier and an equal match for Cruise which results in a strong chemistry between them. The narrative flows quickly with some fascinating twists to keep the audience engaged, however the film loses steam towards the third act where it becomes more generic and less inventive.

Verdict: Even though the story becomes less creative towards the end, Edge of Tomorrow is a supremely entertaining on every level, with an originality, ironic humor and an unexpected poignancy that all audiences can appreciate.

Edge of Tomorrow Quotes Page 1 2 THE NOVEL

[first lines; we see a montage of newsreels as earth is invaded by aliens]
Channel 2 News Anchor: I’m not sure if we’re even on the air. Uh…this is uh…a series of explosions…
[suddenly the building behind him explodes]
English New Reporter #1: This is a major incident. The emergency is a major incident…
English New Reporter #2: It does now appear to be a major attack…
CNN News Anchor: Since they landed outside Hamburg five years ago they have steadily advanced across Europe. We’ve suffered millions of casualties and yet…
BBC News Anchor: The evacuation of key government officials continuing…
BBC New Reporter #1: Nothing has been able to stop their advance…
BBC New Reporter #2: Human costs, the Europeans have paid the highest…
Sky News Anchor: They appear to mimic and even anticipate our actions…

[being interviewed on CNN]
General Brigham: We could not defeat them in France, we’ll be fighting them in the streets of London, then New York, then Tokyo. All of humanity is at stake.
[more newsreels showing allied armies winning against the aliens]
CNN News Anchor: After five years, we finally have a victory.
Sky News Reporter: These pictures are just in from Verdun.
CNN News Reporter: …and the quick coalition victory was how low casualties were…
BBC New Reporter: We have seen a stunning victory here today. The United Defense Force…
[we then see Major William Cage being interviewed]
BBC News Anchor: How do you convince people that this is a fight that can be won?
Cage: This is an alien invasion and a global war. With the new jack in technology and limited amount of training we’ve been able to create super soldiers. Look at Rita Vrataski, The Angel of Verdun.
CNN News Anchor: They’re calling her “The Angel of Verdun”.
[Rita becomes an instant icon and a recruiting boon for the human military with other military representatives repeating the same lines as Cage on other news channels]
Military Spokesperson 1: With the new jack in technology and limited amount of training Rita Vrataski was able to kill hundreds of Mimics…

[we see Cage being interviewed on CNN talking about Rita]
Cage: She was able to kill hundreds of Mimics on only her first day in combat, imagine any army of Rita Vrataski’s.
CNN News Anchor: We’re managing to hold them back at the English Channel, but for how long?
[we see more newsreel footage and reports]
New Reporter #1: It is a dangerous task and it’s easy to understand why people are so suspicious about this…
New Reporter #2: Over seventy nations are joining the United Defense Force which hopes to push them back once and for all.
Military Spokesperson 2: We’ve got it contained, and with this new technology we’re gonna defeat ’em.
[being interviewed on another news channel]
Cage: Operation Downfall is going to be the largest mechanized invasion in the history of mankind. We will be victorious. We fight, that’s what we do.

[Cage awakens from a doze on a helicopter trip to London, as they land he walks over to meet a UK military representative]
Cage: Major William Cage, United Stated military.
Julie: Welcome to London, Major.
[Cage is taken to meet with General Brigham at the United Defense Force headquarters]
Secretary – Iris: The General will see you now.
Cage: Thank you.
[Cage follows the secretary to meet with Brigham]
General Brigham: Operation Downfall, the entire might of the UDF invading from France, the Mediterranean, Scandinavia, relieving pressure in the Eastern front and allowing the Russians and Chinese to push the enemy back and we all meet in the middle, exterminating this Mimic scourge along the way. A lot of good soldiers are going to die tomorrow, Major, and when the smoke clears and the body bags start coming home people tend to look for someone to blame, someone like me. Ideally I’d prefer a different scenario.

[Brigham moves over to take a seat behind his desk]
General Brigham: Please.
[Cage takes the seat opposite]
Cage: A bestselling memoir perhaps? Maybe a career in politics? Off the top of my head I would go with the…”The Sense of Manifest Destiny”, “Rags to Riches: Rags Rise Through The Ranks, Born to Deliver”. You see people, well, they’d love that sort of thing.
General Brigham: You misunderstand, Major. I didn’t ask you here to sell me, I want you to sell the invasion.
Cage: Okay.
General Brigham: You ship out to the coast in one hour, your comrade is standing by. You’ll be on the beach with the first wave.
[Cage looks confused]
Cage: I’m sorry, the first wave, the beach? You mean, the front?
General Brigham: France. Satellite show minimum enemy movement down the coast, little resistance. It’d be exciting, something to tell your grandchildren.
Cage: Well, I appreciate the confidence, General. I do…I do this to avoid doing that.
[Cage laughs nervously]

Cage: I…I…I was an ROTC in college and war broke out, I lost my advertising firm and here I am. I do what I do, you…you do what you do, but I’m not a soldier really.
General Brigham: No, of course you’re not. That’s why I’m embedding you with several hundred thousand men and women who are.
Cage: Well it is an honor, General. I’m afraid I’m gonna have to decline. I can’t stand the sight of blood, not so much as a paper cut.
[Cage laughs and looks at Brigham who gives him a cold look]
Cage: Uh…but, uh…sitting here thinking about this, uh…a couple of names come to mind that I feel like I could recommend to you inste…
General Brigham: It’s not an offer, Major, it’s an order.
Cage: General, I’m an officer in the United States Military, you don’t even have that authority…
General Brigham: I’ve spoken to your C.O., you are now under my command. You will retain your present rank of course. My secretary has all the details.
[Cage looks stupefied]
General Brigham: Do a good job, Major. Good luck, you’re dismissed.

[as Cage turns to leave Brigham’s office he hesitates]
Cage: General, I just inspired millions of people to join your army, and when the body bags come home and they’re looking for someone to blame, how hard do you think it would be for me to convince people to blame you? I’d imagine a General would prefer to avoid that.
General Brigham: Are you blackmailing me, Major?
Cage: I would prefer not to be filming acts of heroism and valor on that beach tomorrow.
[Brigham gets up and walks over to Cage]
General Brigham: You won’t be.
Cage: I’m glad we could uh…work this out. Now, if you’ll excuse me, General, I…
[he turns to leave, stumbles into a chair then walks over to the door]
Cage: Thank you.
[as Cage leaves the office Brigham turns to one of his guards]
General Brigham: Arrest this man.
Cage: What?
[Brigham turns and walks back in his office, suddenly Cage makes a run for it, the guards rush after him and taser Cage]

[Cage wakes to find himself on a pile of duffel bags at Heathrow Airport]
Cruel Sergeant: On your feet, maggot!
[he kicks Cage and Cage stands to face him]
Cage: Now that’s no way to address an officer, Sergeant.
Cruel Sergeant: That’s how I address a slack-jawed recruit right before I bust his hole with my hand, maggot!
[he shoves a duffel back into Cage’s arms]
Master Sergeant Farell: Hold up there, Sergeant. edge-of-tomorrow-2
[Farell walks over to Cage]
Master Sergeant Farell: Can I help you, sir?
Cage: Where the hell am I, Sergeant?
Master Sergeant Farell: Falling Operating Base, Heathrow. You just came in with the fresh recruits.
Cage: Do I strike you as a fresh recruit?
Master Sergeant Farell: No, sir, you do not.
Cage: My name is Major William Cage, I’m an American officer…
Master Sergeant Farell: Officer? This is Processing. There’s no officers down here.

[to the other Sergeant]
Master Sergeant Farell: I got this, Sergeant.
[the Sergeant turns and leaves]
Master Sergeant Farell: How the hell did you end up in Processing? What was it? Poker night? Bachelor party?
Cage: If it’s all the same to you, Sergeant, I’d like to explain that to my Commanding Officer in Washington. So if you just take me to the phone…
Master Sergeant Farell: Haven’t you heard? We’re t-minusing our whole S.H. out, we’re fixing to invade France. This whole F.O.B is on lockdown, no calls, in or out.
Cage: You’re name’s Farell?
Master Sergeant Farell: That’s right. Master Sergeant Farell.
Cage: Master Sergeant Farell, you’re an American.
Master Sergeant Farell: No, sir. I’m from Kentucky.
Cage: Okay, well, look at me and look at where I am. I’ve been railroaded. It’s obvious, I don’t belong here. So please, Sergeant, there has to be a way I can make a phone call.
Master Sergeant Farell: I’ll get you sorted out, sir.
Cage: Thank you.
Master Sergeant Farell: Right this way.

[as Cage thinks Farell is taking him to make a phone call, he follows Farell]
Cage: Where are you from in Kentucky, Sergeant?
Master Sergeant Farell: Little town called Science Hill, heard of it?
Cage: I have now.
Master Sergeant Farell: How about you, where are you from?
Cage: Cranbury, New Jersey.
Master Sergeant Farell: They grow our cranberries there, do they?
Cage: Tomatoes, best I’ve ever had.
Master Sergeant Farell: Why do they called Cranbury then?
Cage: Why do they call it Science Hill?
Master Sergeant Farell: Never asked, don’t care.
[they stop, Farell smiles points to a military tent]
Master Sergeant Farell: After you.
[Cage looks around and realizes he’s been duped]
Cage: You’re not taking me to a phone, are you, Sergeant?
Master Sergeant Farell: No, I’m not. Seems about the only honest thing you’ve said to me so far is your name.
[Farell takes out a piece of paper and looks at it]
Master Sergeant Farell: Says here you’re a deserter. Says here you were caught impersonating an officer, it says here you’d likely try to make an outside call, even compromise security of this operation, anything to get out of combat duty tomorrow. But that’s not gonna happen, ever. Private Cage.

[Farell takes Cage to the soldier barracks]
Master Sergeant Farell: Rumor is a terrible thing, and not following these men we’ll all reach the same conclusion, that you’re a coward and a liar putting your life above theirs. The good news is there’s hope for your, Private. Hope in the form of glorious combat, battle is the great redeemer, the fiery crucible in which the only true heroes are forged. The one place where all men truly share the same rank, regardless of what kind of parasitic scum they were going in.
[he enters one of the barracks, the soldiers all quickly stand to attention]
Master Sergeant Farell: Squad, this here is Private Cage. Private Cage, J Squad.
[to Cage]
Griff: Isn’t that an Officer’s uniform?
Skinner: These sure ain’t officers cufflinks.
[Cage looks down his hands which are in handcuffs]
Master Sergeant Farell: I see everyone is having a productive morning. You know it gives me a swell of pride knowing soldiers of your…caliber will be leading the charge tomorrow. Tip of the spear. Edge of the knife. Crack of my ass.
[Farell walks around the room then pulls back the covers on one of the beds to reveal a cards and some money]
Nance: Oh, shit.

Master Sergeant Farell: Private Kimmel, what is my view of gambling in the barracks?
Kimmel: Dislike it, Sergeant Farell.
Master Sergeant Farell: Nance, why do I dislike it?
[Farell holds out the pack of cards]
Nance: Cause it maintains the notion that our fate is in hands other than our own.
[each soldier takes a card from the pack Farell holds out]
Master Sergeant Farell: And what is my definitive position on the concept of fate, chorus.
Squad: Through readiness and discipline we are masters of our fate.
[Cage watches as soldiers eat the cards they were gambling with, Farell walks over to Cage]
Master Sergeant Farell: You might call that notion ironic, but trust me, you’ll come around.

[Farell uncuffs Cage’s hands and turns to the squad]
Master Sergeant Farell: Private Cage is a deserter, I’m making you all personally responsible for his deliverance. He will be combat ready at 06:00 tomorrow.
Cage: Combat ready? edge-of-tomorrow-3
Master Sergeant Farell: Private Cage is under the delusion that he does not belong here, we must dissuade him of this delusion. If he tries to run, feel free dissuade him until he can’t piss standing up.
Cage: You have to listen to me, I will never be combat ready!
[Farell shoves Cage’s private boots and uniform into his gut, forcing him to take them]
Master Sergeant Farell: I envy you, Cage. Tomorrow morning you will be baptized, born again.
[Farell turns and starts to walk off]
Master Sergeant Farell: PT, ten minutes!
[as Farell leaves the rest of squad look at Cage with distrust]
Nance: You’re not in uniform…Private.

[the next morning the soldiers stand for attention as Farell addresses the squad]
Master Sergeant Farell: It’s a new day, people! Destiny calls. The world expects only one thing from us: that we will win!
[then everyone, including Cage, is fitted into a suit, Cage looks around nervously and watches as Skinner straps some explosives onto his suite]
Skinner: Come on! Come on, let’s have it!
[then we see Kimmel getting fitted into his suite naked]
Nance: Oh, for Christ’s sakes, Kimmel!
Kimmel: I gotta be free, man!
[Griff helps Cage into his suite]
Griff: Alright, man. Let’s get this show on the road, I gotta suite up.
Cage: What’s that noise? That… Listen, man, I’ve never been in one of these.
Griff: Yeah, well, I’ve never been with two girls at the same time before. But you can bet when that day comes, I’ll make it work.
[Griff goes to leave]
Cage: Uh…Kimmel?
Griff: It’s Griff.
Cage: Griff. Griff. Listen to me, think about this, man. I could hurt somebody.
Griff: Not with the safety on you won’t.
[Griff walks off]
Cage: What? Where is the safety?
Griff: Exactly!
[the others laugh]

[we see a suited up soldier walk over to Rita who is preparing herself for the battle]
Soldier #1: It’s time.
[Rita gets suited up including wearing a helmet, then as she walks out with her squad a soldier walks over to her]
Soldier #2: Bloody hell! It’s the full metal…
[suddenly she punches the soldier in his stomach, then we see Farell, Cage and the rest of the J Squad making their way to the aircrafts]
Master Sergeant Farell: Griff!
Griff: Serge?
Master Sergeant Farell: Take care of Private Cage?
Griff: What, all day?
Master Sergeant Farell: Something tells me he won’t be needing it that long.

[as the J Squad make their way to their aircraft Cage looks around him like a nervous wreck and decides to make a run for it]
Skinner: Griff, Cage!
[Griff and Skinner stop Cage, then on the aircraft Farell addresses the squad as they head towards the French Coast]
Master Sergeant Farell: We lost Germany, we lost France. If we lose today we won’t get to fight in battle. Now I know the pressure on you is enormous. Two minutes to drop, it’s alright to be scared. Remember, there’s no courage without fear.
[we see Cage with his eyes closed, sweating buckets and looking like a nervous wreck]
Skinner: Oy! Oy, mate! I think there’s something wrong with your suite! Yeah! There’s a dead guy in it.
[everyone laughs]
Ford: Hey, watch your back out there, sir.
Nance: No one else will.
[they all laugh again]
Master Sergeant Farell: One minute! One minute to drop!

[Cage turns his head to the soldier next to him]
Cage: Hey! Hey!
Kimmel: What?
Cage: How do I turn the safety off of my weapon?
[at the same time a loud alarm goes off]
Kimmel: What?
Cage: How do I turn the safety off…
[suddenly the bottom of the aircraft starts to open]
Cage: Oh, my God!
Master Sergeant Farell: Everyone, thirty seconds to drop! On my mark, standby to deploy! Activate drop ride! Remember…
[just then the back of their aircraft explodes]
Master Sergeant Farell: Drop! Drop!
[the squad starts dropping out of the plane one by one]
Master Sergeant Farell: Drop! Go! Let’s go! Drop! Drop!
[Cage watches everyone drop and remains the last one]
Master Sergeant Farell: Cage, drop or die!
[Farell drops and Cage still reluctant to drop has no choice but to drop, as he does he clumsily lands on the shore of the French Coast with the other soldiers]

[as everything around him is exploding, Cage looks around and sees Kimmel in the distance]
Kimmel: Yeah! Wooh-hoo! We made it! Thank God, we made it! Yeah…! edge-of-tomorrow-4
[suddenly one of the aircrafts drops onto Kimmel killing him instantly, Cage walks across the shore along with the other soldier as the Mimics fire at them, he watches soldiers being killed, an explosion from an aircraft landing nearby makes Cage fall, he watches as Rita and her team get out of the aircraft and start battling it out with the Mimics, then after she kills one Mimic she notices Cage, they stare at each other for a second when suddenly a Mimic kills Rita and her body lands next to Cage]
Cage: What the…?!
[Cage gets up and starts walking off when he runs into Farell]
Master Sergeant Farell: Now then, Cage! You’re going the wrong way! You’re gonna miss your moment!
[he turns Cage around and pushes him]

[as watches the Mimics slaughtering them]
Griff: What the hell? They’re not supposed to know we’re even coming.
Ford: It’s a slaughter house, man! It’s a slaughter house!
Skinner: Pull yourself together, Ford!
Master Sergeant Farell: On your feet, people! Get in line! Nance, get me a signal out!
Cage: Safety? My safety?
Master Sergeant Farell: Griff, Ford, go to the front!
[to Griff and Ford as they walk past him]
Cage: My safety? My safety? How do I get my safety…?
[suddenly there’s an explosion nearby]
Master Sergeant Farell: I’m waiting, Nance!
Nance: I got traces! Five hundred meters and they’re coming in fast!
Master Sergeant Farell: Son of a bitch.
[Farell turns and pushes Cage away]
Master Sergeant Farell: Out of the way!

[looking ahead as Mimics land on the shore]
Master Sergeant Farell: Here they come. Mean as hell and filthy as grass. Wait till the other ride’s on us! Few more seconds!
[as Cage is frantically trying to figure out how to get the safety off his weapon he notices movement under the ground and sees a Mimic comes out]
Cage: Hey! Hey!
[the Mimic starts slaughtering them all then Cage finally manages to get the safety off his weapon and shoots down the Mimic before it kills him, then as he’s laughing to himself another giant blue Mimic appears, just as the Mimic is about to jump on Cage, he grabs a claymore mine and the blast kills them both with the Mimic’s blood dousing him]

[as Cage dies from the mine blast he suddenly wakes up yelling in panic at Heathrow he notices he’s in the same position he was the previous morning, lying on top of the duffel bags with his hands cuffed]
Cruel Sergeant: On your feet, maggot!
[Cage gets up and looks at the Sergeant in confusion]
Cruel Sergeant: Get in line before I bust your hole with my boot heel, maggot!
[he hands Cage a folded military uniform and boots]
Master Sergeant Farell: Hold up there, Sergeant.
[Cage watches in shock and confusion as Farell walk over to him]
Master Sergeant Farell: Can I help you, sir?
Cage: Sergeant Farell…
Master Sergeant Farell: That is my name.
[Cage looks around him in confusion]
Master Sergeant Farell: I think I get it. What was it? Poker night? Bachelor party?
Cage: I’m not sure.
Master Sergeant Farell: It happens. I’ll get you sorted out, sir. Let me take those for you.
[Farell goes to grab the military clothes from Cage’s hands but Cage pulls back]
Cage: What…what day is it?
Master Sergeant Farell: For you…
[he takes out a piece of paper from his pocket]
Master Sergeant Farell: Judgment day.

[Farell takes Cage to the barracks]
Master Sergeant Farell: The good news is there’s hope for your, Private. Hope in the form of glorious combat, battle is the great redeemer, the fiery crucible in which the only true heroes are forged…
Cage: …in which the only true heroes are forged.
Master Sergeant Farell: Did you just interrupt me, Private?
Cage: Sergeant, you’re…you’re not gonna believe what I’m about to tell you.
Master Sergeant Farell: No, I’m not. Now, where was I?
Cage: The fiery crucible.
Master Sergeant Farell: The fiery crucible in which the only true heroes are forged.
[Farell continues to walk on]
Master Sergeant Farell: The one place where all men truly share the same rank, regardless of what kind of parasitic scum they were going in.

[Farell enters the J squad barracks]
Master Sergeant Farell: Squad, this here is Private Cage. Private Cage, J Squad.
Griff: Isn’t that an Officers uniform?
Skinner: These sure ain’t officers cufflinks.
[Cage looks around as he realizes he’s hearing the same conversation as the previous morning]
Master Sergeant Farell: You know it gives me a swell of pride knowing soldiers of your caliber will be leading the charge tomorrow. Tip of the spear. Edge of the knife. Crack of my ass.
[as the previous day Farell discovers their playing cards under one of the bed covers]
Master Sergeant Farell: Private Kimmel, what is my view of gambling in the barracks?
Kimmel: Dislike it, Sergeant Farell.
Master Sergeant Farell: Nance, why do I dislike it?
[Farell holds out the pack of cards]
Nance: Cause it maintains the notion that our fate is in hands other than our own.
[Cage watches as Nance takes one of the cards]
Master Sergeant Farell: And what is my definitive position on the concept of fate, chorus.
[Cage says the words quietly under his breath as the others say it out loud]
Cage: Through readiness and discipline we are masters of our fate.
[Farell walks over to Cage]
Master Sergeant Farell: You might call that notion ironic, but trust me, you’ll come around.

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[next we see Cage as he gets suited hearing again the same conversations as the previous day]
Nance: Oh, for Christ’s sakes, Kimmel!
Kimmel: I gotta be free, man!
Griff: Alright, man. Let’s get this show on the road, I gotta suite up.
[as Griff finishes suiting him up Cage suddenly presses a button and disengages a part of his suite which nearly hits Griff in the face]
Griff: Hey, what the hell’s wrong with you, man? Haven’t you been in one of these before?
[looking confused]
Cage: Maybe.
Griff: Do you know where the safety is?
Cage: I’m not sure.
Griff: Good.

[on the aircraft as they are being taken to the French Coast Farell gives them the same speech as the day before]
Master Sergeant Farell: Now I know the pressure on you is enormous. Two minutes to drop, it’s alright to be scared. Remember, there’s no courage without fear.
Skinner: Oy! Oy, mate! I think there’s something wrong with your suite! Yeah! There’s a dead guy in it.
[everyone laughs]
Ford: Hey, watch your back out there, sir.
[Cage knowing what Nance is about to say repeats her words at the same time]
Cage, Nance: No one else will.
Nance: Jinx, bitch!
[just then the bottom of the plane opens]
Master Sergeant Farell: On my mark, standby to deploy! Activate drop ride, thirty seconds! Remember…
[just as the previous day suddenly the back of the plane explodes, Cage watches as everyone then drops off the plane and as yesterday Cage drops last]

[after Cage lands on the ground he looks over to Kimmel]
Kimmel: Yeah! Wooh-hoo! We made it!
Cage: Behind you!
[it’s too late and the aircraft suddenly lands on Kimmel again killing him and again Cage watches as Rita’s plane crash lands, watches her fight the Mimics and as she’s about to get killed he pushes her away from the explosion]
Cage: Incoming!
[Cage manages to save Rita but gets hit in the process]
Cage: I’m hit! I’m hit!
[Rita pushes him off of her]
Cage: How bad is it? Is there…is there a lot of blood?
Rita: You have a hole in your chest.
Cage: Really?
Rita: Yeah.
[Rita takes Cage’s battery pack from his suite]
Cage: Did you just take my…battery?
[Rita turns and walks off, at the same time the Mimic from underground suddenly emerges]
Cage: What the fu…?!
[the Mimic kills Cage]

[after getting killed by the Mimic again Cage wakes up again on top of the duffel bags at Heathrow airport]
Cruel Sergeant: On your feet, maggot!
[suddenly Cage rushes ahead and steps in front of Farell’s vehicle]
Cage: Sergeant Farell! Sergeant Farell!
[Farell stops his vehicle and gets out]
Master Sergeant Farell: Can I help you, sir?
Cage: My name is Major Bill Cage, U.S. Army Media Relations. I wasn’t at a bachelor party or a poker game! You have an order in your left pocket that says that I’m a deserter impersonating an officer, but what it doesn’t say is that your…your name is Master Sergeant Farell from Science Hill, Kentucky. And if you’ll give me thirty seconds to explain how I know that you may just save the lives of every soldier on this base.
[we see Cage being dragged into the barracks by Farell’s guards]
Cage: You have to listen to me! They know we’re coming! They’re waiting for us! I have been there, I’ve seen it! You’re all doomed! You’re doomed!

[to the guards as they enter the J Squad barracks and he pull himself out of their hold]
Cage: Okay, I’m calm. Okay, I’m fine. I’m fine.
[turning to Farell]
Cage: This is J Squad, yes?
Master Sergeant Farell: This is J Squad, yes.
Cage: Not that I should know that, but okay. Have any of you met me before?
Nance: Bitch, I don’t know you.

Cage: Exactly! Yes! Thank you. Your name is Nance.
[pointing to Kimmel]
Cage: You’re Bimmel…Kimmel! Kimmel! You fight balls out, literally.
[pointing to each man]
Cage: Ford. Skinner. Griff.
[points to Kuntz]
Cage: You’re…
[turning to Farell]
Cage: He doesn’t talk much. But there’s a card game under the bed…
Ford: Thank a lot, asshole.
[Farell takes off the bed cover to reveal the cards]
Cage: Uh…Kimmel’s winning on a flush. Uh…spades, no clubs.
[goes over to Farell]
Cage: And you’re gonna make them eat those cards. Am I right?
[Farell just watches him in confusion]
Cage: Now, what I’m about to tell you sounds crazy. It’s true, and you have to listen to me. You’re very lives depend on it.

[next we see Cage with his mouth gagged inside the aircraft taking them to the French Coast, he continues to warn them under his mouth gag]
Griff: What is he saying? Nance, what is he saying?
[just then the bottom of the plane opens]
Master Sergeant Farell: On my mark, standby to deploy! Activate drop ride, thirty seconds! Remember…
[suddenly Cage gets the gag off his mouth and yells out]
Cage: This ship is about to explo…!
[as before the back of the ship explodes, but this time knowing Cage presses the button on his suite to drop himself out of the plane and as before he sees Kimmel in the distance]
Kimmel: Yeah! Wooh-hoo! We made it!
[just as the large aircraft is about to land on Kimmel, Cage rushes over to him and pushes him out of the way and instead ends up being crushed to death by the aircraft]

[Cage wakes up again on the duffel bags at Heathrow going through the same loop again]
Cruel Sergeant: …or I’ll bust your hole with my boot heel!
[we see Cage landing on the beach and as before sees Kimmel in the distance yell in excitement]
Kimmel: Yeah! Wooh-hoo! We made it!
[Cage manages to push Kimmel to safety without getting himself killed this time, then rushes off to find Rita but in the process gets hit by military vehicle; in the next loop we Cage running to get to Rita but this time manages to avoid getting hit by the vehicle]

[Cage finds Rita and as he rushes towards making her fall back into the crashed aircraft]
Cage: I’m sorry! I’m trying to save you. We’re getting slaughtered, you need to get us off this beach.
[Rita watches him in shock as Cage points his weapon up to shoot the Mimic that’s about to attack them]
Cage: We have to go. This drop ship is about to explode. We have to go now!
[he helps Rita stand and rushes forward but stops as he sees another Mimic]
Cage: Wait.
[he shoots at the Mimic]
Cage: Come on!
[Cage rushes out of the aircraft and shoots at the wounded Mimic killing it, Rita watches him as she slowly walks out of the aircraft]
Cage: Come on!
[as Cage moves on ahead Rita stops just by the aircraft watching Cage]
Cage: Come on! This ship is going to explode!
[Rita drops her weapon to the ground]
Cage: What are you doing?
Rita: Find me when you wake up.
Cage: What?
Rita: Come find me when you wake up…
[suddenly the aircraft explodes killing them both]

[Cage wakes up again on the duffel bags at Heathrow]
Cruel Sergeant: On your feet, maggot!
[Cage watches the bus go by which as image of Rita painted on with the words “Full Metal Bitch” written over her image]
Cruel Sergeant: Get in line before I bust your hole with my boot heel, maggot!
[next we see Farrell escorting Cage to the J Squad barracks]
Master Sergeant Farell: The good news is there’s hope for your, Private. Battle is the great redeemer, the fiery crucible in which the only true heroes are forged. The one place where all men truly share the…
[suddenly Cage rushes on ahead to enter the barracks, whistles to warn them that Farell is coming in and helps to cover up their game of cards by pulling down the bed cover]
Master Sergeant Farell: Squad this here is…
Cage: Private Cage. You must me J Squad. It’s good to meet you.
Griff: Isn’t that an officer’s uniform?
[Cage turns to Skinner, holds up his handcuffed hands and speaks the words Skinner was going to say]
Cage: These sure ain’t officers cufflinks.
[Cage turns to Farell]
Cage: Keys in the left pocket…probably.
[Farell gets the keys out and unlocks Cage’s cuffs]

[to the squad]
Master Sergeant Farell: Private Cage is a deserter, I’m making you all personally responsible for his deliverance. He will be combat ready by 06:00 tomorrow.
[Cage turns and grabs his folded uniform from the guards that escorted him and places it on his bunk bed]
Master Sergeant Farell: Private Cage is under the delusion that he does not belong here, we must dissuade him of this delusion. If he tries to run, feel free dissuade him until…
Cage: Oh, no, no, no, no. I’m…I’m not gonna run from you guys. It’s uh…not a chance.
Master Sergeant Farell: …he can’t piss standing up.
Cage: Thank you, Sergeant Farell.
[he shakes Farell’s hands, Farell gives him a cold look and walks out of the barracks]
Cage: What next? A little uh…PT?
[he hears Farell’s voice in the background]
Master Sergeant Farell: PT, ten minutes!

[during PT with Farell, Cage looks around him to find a way to sneak out and find Rita]
Master Sergeant Farell: Left. Left. What do you stand for?
J Squad: A warrior!
Master Sergeant Farell: What do warrior’s do?
J Squad: Kill!
Master Sergeant Farell: What are you gonna do?
J Squad: Kill!
Master Sergeant Farell: What are you gonna do?
J Squad: Kill!
Ford: This is gonna be my twentieth battle tomorrow, man.
Griff: You haven’t been in twenty battles, man.
Ford: I have, too!
Griff: You’re gonna dump your load the second we hit the beach tomorrow.
Nance: Why don’t you two get yourselves a nice hot cup of shut the hell up?
[Ford chuckles]
Ford: You funny, girl. But I bet you I set some kind of record tomorrow.
Skinner: Fastest time moving backwards for slipping in your own shit.
Master Sergeant Farell: Knock off the grab ass!
Cage: Grab this, Serge!
Master Sergeant Farell: Hold up!

[the Squad stops running, Farell goes over to Cage]
Master Sergeant Farell: Private give me…
[Cage immediately drops down to do sit up]
Cage: Fifty, Serge?
Master Sergeant Farell: That’s right. Fifty. Platoon, drop and give me fifty. Compliments of Private Cage!
[the Squad gets down to do the sit ups]
Cage: Thank you, Serge.
Master Sergeant Farell: And one!
J Squad: One!
Master Sergeant Farell: And two!
J Squad: Two!
[Cage watches out of the army tanks driving by them]
Master Sergeant Farell: And three!
J Squad: Three!
Master Sergeant Farell: Four!
J Squad: Four!
Master Sergeant Farell: Five!
[suddenly as one of the army truck drives past Cage he quickly rolls out to go under it but instead ends up getting run over and killed]
Master Sergeant Farell: Oh! What the hell were you thinking?

[we’re onto the next loop with Cage being taken to the barracks to be introduced to J Squad]
Master Sergeant Farell: There’s hope for your, Private. Hope in the form of glorious combat, battle is the great redeemer…
[next we see Cage at PT doing the sit ups with the rest of the squad waiting for army trucks to drive past them]
Master Sergeant Farell: Three!
J Squad: Three!
Master Sergeant Farell: Four!
J Squad: Four!
Master Sergeant Farell: Five!
J Squad: Five!
Master Sergeant Farell: Six!
[Cage grabs his moment again and rolls out and this time manages to roll under the moving truck and out the other side safe and alive and goes in search for Rita]

[after getting away from PT he finds Rita whilst she’s training]
Cage: Excuse me, Sergeant Vrataski?
[she ignores him] edge-of-tomorrow-5
Cage: Excuse me! Sergeant Vrataski?
[he sees all the other soldiers watching him with curiosity, as she ignores him he steps over “Do Not Cross” line and enters her training area which sets off an alarm, he rushes over to her managing to avoid getting hit by the mock Mimics in the training area]
Cage: Excuse me!
[looking annoyed Rita faces Cage]
Rita: Yes! Who said you could talk to me? Have I got something on my face, soldier?
Cage: You did. You did. Tomorrow, at the beach. Tomorrow, at the beach, we meet. You said to find you when I wake up.
[Rita walks closer to him as she stares at him]
Cage: You do know what’s happening to me.
Rita: Come with me. Now.

Rita: You don’t talk to anyone about this but me, cause the best case scenario is you’re gonna end up in a psych ward, the worst case you’ll get dissected for study. Are we clear?
[Cage looks at her]
Rita: Yes?
Cage: Yes.
Rita: First time you died, what happened? You killed a Mimic?
Cage: Yes.
Rita: Describe it.
Cage: Uh…it was different, it was a bigger, blueish.
Rita: And you got covered in its blood.
Cage: As a matter of fact, I did.
Rita: They know we’re coming, on the beach tomorrow. It’s a slaughter, isn’t it?
Cage: How do you know this?
[Rita doesn’t reply and walks on ahead]
Cage: Could you just wait! Wait! Wait!

Rita: Would you please just explain to me what the hell is happening?
[Rita turns and faces Cage]
Rita: What happened to you happened to me. I had it, I lost it. Okay?
Cage: I mean, that’s great, there’s a cure. How do I get rid of this?
Rita: First I need your help.
Cage: Help with what exactly?
Rita: Winning the war.
[she turns and goes to one of the army vehicles]
Rita: Let’s go, come on!

[Rita takes Cage to a weapons building bay where her acquaintance Carter works, as Rita enters a back room Carter joins them]
Dr. Carter: Rita, what is this? Rita, what are you doing here? You’ve got to give me some warning. Who’s this?
Rita: He’s me, before Verdun. He’s gonna help us.
Dr. Carter: What, you mean, he’s…?
Rita: Yes.
[looking at Cage]
Dr. Carter: When did he die? Where?
Rita: On the beach, tomorrow.
[to Cage]
Dr. Carter: How many fingers am I holding up behind my back?
Cage: How should I know that?
[Carter brings his hand forward to show two fingers]
Dr. Carter: Okay, so this is the first time we’ve had this conversation?
[Cage nods]

[Rita picks up a small device from the table]
Rita: We should try this on him?
[she presses a button which brings out several small spikes from the device making Cage pull back surprise]
Cage: What the hell is that?
Dr. Carter: It doesn’t work.
[Carter takes the device out of Rita’s hand and puts it away]
Dr. Carter: Has he had any visions yet?
Cage: Visions of what?
Dr. Carter: Okay, so there’s still time.
Rita: Yes.
Cage: Time? Look, I…I’m sorry.
[looking at Carter]
Cage: What…who is this? Who are you?
Dr. Carter: I’m Dr. Carter, Particle Physics Advanced Microbiology.
Rita: He’s also the only other person who’ll believe what’s happening to you. No one understands Mimic biology, better than him. He’s a top analyst at Whitehall.
Dr. Carter: Ye…well, I mean, I was until I met Rita and now I’m just a…a “mechanic with psychiatric delusions.”

Rita: Carter, show him.
Dr. Carter: Here, uh…
[he uncovers a monitor and activates it which show up 3D images of Mimics]
Dr. Carter: Right, well, first of all, you’re not fighting an army. You have to think of this as a single organism. Now these common drones, they act like its claws.
Rita: That Alpha’s, like the one that you killed, are much more rare.
Dr. Carter: Yeah, they’re like one in six point one eight million, by my guess.
Rita: Yes. They act as the enemies…
Dr. Carter: They’re like its central nervous system. But this…is the brain.
[he brings up a 3D image of its brain]
Dr. Carter: It controls them all. And this is the Omega. And the Omega has the ability to control time.
Rita: Whenever an Alpha is killed, an automatic response is triggered. The Omega starts the day over again, but you see this time it can remember what’s going to happen, just like you do.
Dr. Carter: It-it knows exactly what we’re going to do before we’re gonna do it.
Rita: And an enemy that knows the future can’t lose.
Cage: But if that’s true, how did you win in Verdun?
Rita: We were allowed to win. This thing wants us to believe we can win. It wants us to throw everything we have into the invasion. Operation Downfall isn’t our end game, it’s the enemy’s.

Dr. Carter: The thing you’ve got to understand is this is a perfectly evolved world conquering organism. For all we know, there are thousands, millions, of those asteroids floating around the cosmos like a virus. And it’s just waiting to crash land into a world with just the right conditions. All they need is for the dominant life form to attack and…
[he snaps his fingers]
Rita: And they’ll be nothing to stop the Mimics from conquering the rest of the world. Unless you change the outcome.
Cage: Me?
Dr. Carter: When you killed that Alpha you inadvertently entered the enemy’s nervous system.
Rita: Cage, you’ve seized control of the Omega’s ability to rest the day.
Cage: How is that even possible? edge-of-tomorrow-7
Dr. Carter: Perhaps this organism’s only vulnerability…its…its only vulnerability, is humanity.
Rita: Regardless of that, you control the power now, just as I did in Verdun.
Cage: So I’m resetting the day?
[Rita nods her head]
Cage: Okay. How do I control it?
[Carter looks at Rita for a moment]
Rita: You have to die.
Dr. Carter: Every day.
Rita: Until the Omega is destroyed.
[Cage looks shocked]
Cage: Fist of all, that was a terrific presentation. Terrific. I know the General, we should take this to him. You just tell him everything you told me, he would know…
Rita: I went to see the General, Cage, many number of times. Psyche ward, dissection, remember?

Cage: What are you expecting from me?
Dr. Carter: Have you seen anything strange?
[looking at Rita]
Cage: Is he shitting me?
Rita: Visions.
Dr. Carter: Visions! Have you seen any visions like that?
[pointing to the 3D image of the Omega]
Dr. Carter: The Omega centers when it’s losing control of its power, even now its mentally searching to find you.
Rita: When it’s close to finding you, you will start having visions. You’ll start to see that.
[points to the 3D image of the Omega]
Dr. Carter: You’ll even see where it is.
Cage: And you had these visions?
Rita: Yes.
Cage: But eventually you saw it, I mean, you actually saw it. Right?
[Rita hesitates a moment before replying]
Rita: Never in the flesh
Cage: So this is all just some…theory? You don’t know if this thing even exists.
Rita: The visions showed me it was at Verdun, I could see it! I…I just lost the power before I could get to it.
Dr. Carter: And by the time we took Verdun, the Omega was gone.
Cage: Okay, so all I have to do is wait to have these visions, and then tell you where this Omega thing is?
Rita: No, Cage. You’re gonna get me there, and I’m gonna kill it.
Cage: Get you there. I mean, I’m not even trained for combat.
[Rita gives him a look]

[Cage is being combat trained by Rita, as she demonstrates for him by taking down the mock Mimics one of them smacks right into Cage and he smashes into the wall]
Rita: You alright, Cage?
Cage: I think I broke something.
Rita: What?
Cage: My back. The only thing I can feel are my lips.
Rita: Now listen carefully. This is a very important rule. This is the only rule. You get injured on the field, you better make sure you die.
Cage: Why?
Rita: Last time I was in combat, I was hit. I was bleeding out, just not fast enough. I woke up in a field hospital with three pints of someone else’s blood and I was out. I lost the power, do you understand? Then you better start over don’t you?
Cage: What?
[Rita holds up her weapon and shoots him]

[Cage wakes up again back at Heathrow, then we skip to PT where Farell is making J Squad do sit ups]
Master Sergeant Farell: No one knows what happened to Private Cage? Skinner, his dumb ass was standing right next to you, you’re telling me you don’t know where that slippery son of a bitch went?
Skinner: No, Serge!
Master Sergeant Farell: Alright. Let’s do another fifty, shall we? And one!
Kimmel: Oh, no!

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