The Visitors (1972)

Steve Railsback: Sgt. Mike Nickerson

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• Harry Wayne : He was in some kind of trouble in Vietnam. Do you know about it?

  Sgt. Mike Nickerson : We were it.

• Sgt. Mike Nickerson : What do you think a Viet-Cong looks like? Think they wear a uniform? They don't look any different than anybody else over there.

• Sgt. Mike Nickerson : He's a very interesting guy.

  Martha Wayne : You think so?

  Sgt. Mike Nickerson : Yeah, he's been through it.

  Martha Wayne : My mother couldn't stand him. Neither could either of his other two wives.

  Sgt. Mike Nickerson : Well, hell, I wouldn't want to be married to him.

• Harry Wayne : I don't think these Cong, these North Vietnamese - or whatever the hell they are - have the guts the Japs did.

  Bill Schmidt : Whatever the hell they are, they keep on fighting.

  Tony Rodriguez : Over there, you don't know who your friend is, and who isn't. There's no side but your own.

  Bill Schmidt : So in the end, it's easier to shoot everybody.

  Harry Wayne : Bill doesn't believe in fighting. Kid, you should have gotten yourself a job in a hospital patching up guys who had the guts to get shot at.

  Bill Schmidt : I got shot at. By an old man. Civilian. He was scared to death.

  Harry Wayne : You shoot back?

  Bill Schmidt : Sure. Over his head.

  Sgt. Mike Nickerson : Tsk tsk. Might have hurt him.

• Sgt. Mike Nickerson : Oh, you got it safe here. You don't know - till you've been there, till you've been shot at. What would you do, lie back and take it? Till you've gone to a village, handin' out candy bars to the kids - and then you've seen your best buddy's legs blown off by a mine. Because the people you gave the candy bars to, forget to tell ya Charlie was in town!

  Martha Wayne : That happened?

  Sgt. Mike Nickerson : It happened.

• Tony Rodriguez : "Racial difference?" Isn't that illegal?

  Harry Wayne : No, they can't play because they're too small, not because they're Puerto Rican. Some people are just naturally smaller than others, like Orientals...

  Tony Rodriguez : I ain't no goddamn slopehead!

  Sgt. Mike Nickerson : Cool it, Tony.

  Harry Wayne : It's just an example, for Christ's sake.