Towering Inferno

James Duncan:
Just how bad is it?

Chief O'Hallorhan:
It's a fire. All fires are bad.

Senator Parker:
At this rate it's going to take a couple of hours to get everyone down. So, I would suggest that those of us with stout hearts and trim waistlines start using the stairs.

James Duncan:
That's 135 floors.

Senator Parker:
All downhill.

Chief O'Hallorhan:
For what it's worth, architect, this is one building I figured would never burn.

James Duncan:
Give me the architect that designed you, and who needs Doug Roberts?

Susan:
I do.

James Duncan:
You know... there is really nothing the living can do to bring back the dead.

Chief O'Hallorhan:
You know we got lucky tonight, body count's less then 200. Someday your gonna kill ten-thousand in one of these firetraps, and I'll keep eating smoke and carrying out bodies until someone asks us how to build them.

Doug Roberts:
Ok, I'm asking.

Chief O'Hallorhan:
You know where to reach me.

Doug Roberts:
How do you plan to get the explosives up there?

Chief O'Hallorhan:
Oh, They'll find some dumb son of a b*tch to bring them up there.

James Duncan:
Senator Parker is flying in from Washington tonight for the dedication ceremony. He's almost guaranteed to sign the Urban Renewal Contract. Do you know what that means? Skyscrapers like this all over the country. You design 'em and I'll build 'em.

Doug Roberts:
Don't you think you're suffering from an edifice complex?

James Duncan:
You'll never leave.

Doug Roberts:
Oh yeah? Why don't you come downstairs after the party and watch me burn my black tie?

Doug Roberts:
Hey Dunc, if that fire was caused by kooky wiring, we could have fires breaking out everywhere.

Dan Bigelow:
I'll be back, with the entire fire department.

Doug Roberts:
I think they ought to leave it the way it is. It kind of shrines all of the bullshit in the world.

Chief O'Hallorhan:
So, how do I get back down?

Chief O'Hallorhan:
oh... sh*t.

Doug Roberts:
Take this pad and number it, oh say, to a hundred.

Susan:
High-rise roulette?

Doug Roberts:
High-rise roulette.

Mayor Ramsey:
How much time to we have?

James Duncan:
I wish I knew.

Mayor Ramsey:
Goddamnit Jim, you built the place.

James Duncan:
I just don't think all of us are going to make it.

Flaker:
This is Chief Petty Officer Flaker. We have those helicopters you requested, and we'd like to set up a forward command next to yours.

Chief O'Hallorhan:
No, no, too dangerous, stay out of those elevators.

Flaker:
Then we'll just walk up the stairs, sir.

Chief O'Hallorhan:
Yeah, you're gonna trot right up to seventy-nine. Huh?

Flaker:
Standing by in the lobby.

Chief O'Hallorhan:
Thank you.

Doug Roberts:
And they're partying up there.

Chief O'Hallorhan:
What party? Where?

Doug Roberts:
Up in the Promenade Room, three hundred people.

Chief O'Hallorhan:
Didn't you try getting them the hell out of there?

Doug Roberts:
You try talking to Duncan, he ain't exactly listening to me.

Chief O'Hallorhan:
I will.

James Duncan:
For God's sake Carlos, don't tie yourself up to a lot of glass.

Carlos:
But that's the twenty-nines.

James Duncan:
You know, there's a saying that goes "No matter how hot it gets up there during the day...

James Duncan:

James Duncan:
That's right. Now what the hell are you going to do at night in the middle of nowhere?

Doug Roberts:
Sleep like a winner.

Chief O'Hallorhan:
We'll go down by rope. We're gonna rappel down to 65, get on top of that elevator, use it as an exit.

Young Fireman:
I can't make it. I'll fall. I know I'll fall.

Chief O'Hallorhan:
Ok. Then you better go first. That way when you fall, you won't take any of us with you.

James Duncan:
Did you change Doug's electrical specifications?

Roger Simmons:
I most certainly did.

James Duncan:
For God's sake, why?

Roger Simmons:
The reason should be obvious, especially to you.

James Duncan:
We've got a fire, and if it was caused by anything you did I'm going to hang you out to dry, then I'm going to hang you.

Dan Bigelow:
What happened, somebody hang the wallpaper upside down?

Chief O'Hallorhan:
Why do they make these goddamned things so heavy?

Kappy:
You want it easier, Chief?

Chief O'Hallorhan:
I don't know why they couldn't design a survival suit for us like they did for football players.

Kappy:
Who pays to see us play?