Top Gun: Maverick/Transcript

== The Dogfighting Exercise ==
(Later at noon...)
Maverick: Good morning, aviators; this is your captain speaking.
Maverick: Welcome to basic fighter maneuvers.
Maverick: As briefed, today’s exercise is dog fighting; Guns only, no missiles.
Maverick: We do not go below the hard deck of 5,000 feet.
Maverick: Working as a team, you have to shoot me down, or else...
Payback: Or else what, sir??
Maverick: Or else I shoot back. If I shoot either one of you down, you both lose.
(The other graduates listen from the ground level radio.)
Hangman: This guy needs an ego check.
???: We’ll see to that.
Payback: Sir, what say we put some skin in the game?
Maverick: What do you have in mind?
Payback: Whoever gets shot down first has to do 200 push-ups!
(He and Fanboy share a laugh, while Rooster complains on the matter.)
Rooster: Guys...
Maverick: That’s a lot of push-ups.
Fanboy: They don’t call it an exercise for nothing, sir!
Maverick: You got yourself a deal, gentlemen; fight’s on, let’s turn and burn!
Rooster: Fanboy, you see him?
Fanboy: Nothing on radar up ahead; He must be somewhere behind us!
(Suddenly, Maverick swoops in between the trio's planes.)
Rooster: DAMN IT!
Fanboy: AH! WHAT THE HELL!?
Payback: SHIT!
Maverick: Easy, Maverick...let’s try not to get fired on the first day.
(He begins by going after Fanboy and Payback.)
Fanboy: TALLY, TALLY TALLY!
Fanboy: MAVERICK'S COMING IN; BREAK LEFT!
Payback: BREAKING LEFT!
Maverick: Payback, where’s your wing man?
Payback: Rooster, where are you!?
Rooster: I got your back!
Rooster: I’m coming; hang in there, hang in there!
Payback: Hurry up, man! Hurry up!
Rooster: Payback, break right!
Payback: Breaking right!
Maverick: Rooster just saved your life, fellas! But it’s gonna cost him.
Rooster: Not this time, old man!
(He flies down and out of his range.)
Maverick: Don’t let him get to you, Maverick...
(Maverick then shifts his focus towards Rooster, and flies after the constantly descending pilot.)
Payback: Rooster, you’re too low! Pull up! You’re hitting the hard deck!
Rooster's F-18: Altitude. Altitude.
Rooster: Oh, shit!
(But in doing so, he left himself open to a lock on.)
Maverick: That’s a kill.
(Back in ground level...)
Hondo: Down! 109.
Hondo: Down! 110.
(Rooster is breathing shakily as he goes on.)
Fanboy: That should be us down there.
Hondo: (Down!) 111!
Phoenix: But it’s not.
Hondo *while they all speak*: Down! (112!)
Phoenix: And now you know a little something about Rooster.
(3 more students approach the still condemned Rooster and pose for a mocking selfie.)
Fanboy: Hold that tarmac down till we get back, brother, all right?
Hondo: Get in there, boys.
(They take the picture and get on their jets off-screen.)
(Back to the dofighting exercise...)
Maverick: That’s a kill.
Fritz: DAMN!!
Maverick: Smoked!
Harvard: DAMN IT!
Yale: URNGH!
(Back in ground level..)
Hondo: It was all fun and games in that selfie, wasn’t it?
Hondo: Down!
(Later, in the second dogfighting exercise...)
Hangman: Say, Phoenix?
Hangman: How’s about we tell everybody “Bob” stands for something other than Robert, i mean?
Phoenix: Don’t take the bait, Bob...
Phoenix: Want to know why we call him Hangman?
Hangman: Ah, I got it; ''Baby on board''.
(He laughs mockingly...)
(...until Maverick darts between the three's jets.)
Hangman: SHIT!
Maverick: Greetings, aviators! Fight’s on.
Hangman: All right, Phoenix, let’s take this guy out!
Bradley/Rooster: Watch your back, Phoenix.
Hangman: Break right!
Phoenix: Breaking right!
B.O.B: Where’s he going!?
Phoenix: That’s why we call him Hangman; he’ll always hang you out to dry!
Maverick *to himself*: Leaving your wing man! There’s a strategy I haven’t seen in a while..
Hangman: He called you a man, Phoenix! You gonna take that?~
Phoenix: So long as he doesn’t call you a man!
Phoenix: Talk to me, Bob! Where’s Maverick?
B.O.B: Jesus, his nose is already coming around!
Phoenix: Get him off me, Hangman!
Hangman: For all you folks at home, this is how you bury a fossil.
Maverick: All right, Hangman. Time to teach you a lesson.
(He quickly locks onto Phoenix and B.O.B.)
Maverick: You’re out, Phoenix.
Phoenix: Son of a bitch!
B.O.B: Ngh!
Maverick: That’s it.
Hangman: Let’s go, Mav; let’s see what you got!
Maverick: Come get me!
(And in an symbolic inversion to his duel with Viper, the two are now after each other.)
Hangman: Evil be gone; Hangman’s coming!
(The former displays a relatively decent amount of skill which Mav notices right away.)
Maverick: Yeah, you’re good; I’ll give you that.
(He quickly decides to end this by flying towards the direction of the sun to leave Hangman vulnerable.)
Hangman: Shit!
Hangman: Phoenix, I can’t see him; How close am I?
Hangman: Phoenix??
Phoenix:...i’m dead, dickhead.
B.O.B: See you in the afterlife, bag man.
(Phoenix chuckles in response to the latter's roast.)
Hangman: Where is he, where is he?-
Hangman: *gasp*
Maverick: That’s a kill.
(Back in ground level...)
Hondo: 79!
Hondo: Down!
Hondo: 80!
Hondo: Down!
(Later, at the third dogfighting exercise...)
Maverick: Let’s go; Who’s next?
Maverick: I got you, Omaha!
Omaha: Damn it!
Halo: *exasperated sigh*
Maverick: Lights out, Coyote.
Coyote: Copy kill.
(Back in ground level...)
Hondo: Down!
Hondo: 51!
Hondo: Down!
Hondo: 52!
(Once again, later, at the final dogfighting exercise...)
Hangman: So, Rooster, mind if I ask you a personal question?
Rooster: Would it matter if I did?
Hangman: So what’s the story with you and Maverick? It seems like he’s got your little rattle.
Rooster: That’s none of your business.
Rooster: Now where the hell is he?
Maverick *from underneath the former's plane*: Been here the whole time.
(He slowly and carefully turns upside down to on top of Rooster's plane.)
Hangman: Holy shit...
Maverick: You see me now?
Maverick: Come on, let’s get it over with.
Rooster: Fight’s on!
(And so the two begin to spiral down.)
Hangman: What is with these two...?
Maverick: All right, you put us here! How you gonna get yourself out?
Rooster: You can bail out anytime!
Maverick: How low you want to go, Rooster!?
Rooster: I can go as low as you, sir; and that’s saying something!
(The two's intense descent continues.)
Maverick: What’s past is past! For both of us!
Rooster: You’d like to believe that, wouldn’t you!?
Hangman: Hard deck is 5,000 feet, fellas; You are running out of room!
(Everyone at ground level, especially Phoenix and Bob begin to feel concerned about the two.)
Both Rooster and Maverick's F-18s: Altitude. Altitude.
Maverick: Your strategy is about to run us into the ground!
Rooster: What’s your move?
Both Rooster and Maverick's F-18s: Altitude. Altitude.
Both Rooster and Maverick's F-18s: Altitude. Altitude.
Both Rooster and Maverick's F-18s: Altitude.
(Their descent has now reached dangerous lows.)
Both Rooster and Maverick's F-18s: Altitude. Altitude.
Both Rooster and Maverick's F-18s: Altitude. Altitude. Altitude.
(Both jets are now on the brink of crashing straight into the ground.)
Maverick's F-18: Pull up, Pull up!
(He is the first to force his plane back on straight course.)
Rooster's F-18: Pull up, Pull up!
(Rooster soon follows, leaving the former in an disadvantageous position.)
Maverick: Now you got it; don’t think, just do!
Hangman: Come on, Rooster, you got him! Drop down and take the shot!
(But Rooster, in line with his careful flying, attempts to re-adjust his position to one that's safer for both him and his jet.)
Rooster: It’s too low!
(However, Maverick had enough waiting.)
Maverick: Too late; you had your chance!
(He pulls up and slows down to position himself behind Rooster, and locks onto him.)
Maverick: That’s a kill. 
Maverick: Knock it off.
Rooster: Damn it!
Hangman *disappointingly*: same old rooster...
Maverick: Go see Hondo about your push-ups.
(He flies back down, concluding the dogfighting session for today.)
==The First Bombing Run Training Session==
(The next morning...)
(Maverick sits alone in the room, still shaken by what happened yesterday.)
(But then, he gets a notification of a message from Ice.)
I need to see you.
(Maverick types Not a good time.)
I'm not asking.
==A Reunion==
(Later that day, Maverick arrives to Ice's home on his new motorcycle.)
(He greets Sarah, his wife, and then stops to look at a bunch of old photos from his youth stacked together on top of a cupboard.)
Sarah: Maverick...
Maverick:...it's come back.
Sarah: No one knows.
(Maverick looks down sadly.)
Sarah: There's nothing else they can do.
Sarah: Even speaking...is painful now.
(She looks at him on the verge of tears...)
...Maverick gently hugs her for comfort.)
Maverick:...sarah, i'm so sorry...
(As he does so...he looks at a photo of them shaking hands during the victory celebration after their dogfight against the MIG-28s all the way back in 1986.)
-
(Later, he finally enters the admiral's office as he is reading a couple of papers...while coughing.)
Maverick: Admiral?
(Ice turns to face him as the former sits down.)
Maverick: How's my wingman...?
(Ice smiles...before typing something on his monitor screen.)
I want to talk about work.
Maverick:...please, don't worry about me. what can i do for you?
(Ice points at the words on the screen.)
Maverick: ...alright...
(He takes a deep breath...and begins his update on the training.)
Maverick: ...rooster's still...angry with me about what i did.
Maverick: i thought eventually, he would...understand why...
Maverick: ...i hoped he'd forgive me.
There's still time.
Maverick: the mission is less than 3 weeks away...the kid's not ready.
Then teach him.
Maverick:...he's a lot more than what i have to give.
(Ice gestures a shrug off.)
Maverick: Ice, please.
Maverick: Don't ask me to send someone else to die, please don't-
Maverick: Don't ask me to send him...
Maverick:...send me.
(Ice smiles...and types into the screen the following words:)
It's time to let go.
Maverick:...
(He visibly begins to tear up as he remembers all of the pain he had to endure after the tragedy that changed his life...)
(...to which Ice looks on with clear sympathy.)
Maverick *in tears*:...i don't know how.
(He sighs.)
Maverick:...i'm not a teacher, ice-
Maverick: -i'm a fighter pilot...
(He wipes a tear from his right eye.)
Maverick:...a naval aviator.
Maverick: it's not- what i am...
Maverick:...it's who i am.
Maverick: how do i teach that...?
Maverick: And even if i could teach it, it's not what Rooster wants...it's not what the Navy wants...
Maverick:...that's why they canned me the last time.
Maverick: The only reason i'm here...is you.
(Ice looks on sadly as his old friend continues to share his grievances.)
Maverick: If i send him on this mission...he might never come home...
Maverick:...and if i don't send him?
Maverick: he'll never forgive me.
Maverick: Either way...i could lose him forever.
(He sighs...and looks at the monitor screen once again.)
Maverick:...i know...i know-
(He tears up again, and sighs.)
(Seeing this, Ice stands up, and, as Maverick helps him do so, he tries one last time to encourage him after coughing twice and clearing his throat.)
Ice: The navy...needs...Maverick.
Ice: The kid...needs...Maverick.
Ice: That's...why i fought for you.
Ice: That's why you're still here.
(...touched by these words, Maverick hugs him tightly.)
Maverick: Thank you, Ice...
Maverick:...for everything.
(Afterwards, they hold each other's arms.)
Ice: One last thing...
Ice:...who's the better pilot?
Ice: You or me?
Maverick:...this is a nice moment; let's not ruin it.
(Both share a laugh...)
(...before tightly hugging each other again.)
(The camera cuts back to the handshake photo one last time...)
==The Second Bombing Run Training Session==
Phoenix: Talk to me, Bob!
B.O.B: We are 12 seconds late on target; we gotta move, we gotta move!
Coyote: Copy, try to stay with me!
(But as they focus back on getting to the target, the former two's F-18 detects another plane in the victinity.)
B.O.B: Huh?
B.O.B: Wait, who's that?
Maverick: Blue Team, you've been spotted.
Coyote: Shiot, it's Maverick!
Phoenix: What the hell is he doing here!?
Maverick: I'm a bandit on course to intercept; Blue team, what are you gonna do?
B.O.B: He's 20 miles left, 10 'o clock; 700 knots closure! 
Coyote: Your call, what do you wanna do?
Phoenix: Continue...we're close! Stay on target!
B.O.B: He's swinging around to the north!
Coyote: Standby for pop-up!
Phoenix: Be ready on that laser, Bob!
B.O.B: Copy, i'm on it!
(He does as stated.)
Maverick: Blue team, bandit is still closing!
Coyote: Popping now!
(They all pull up to the first climb.)
(This visibly affects them, but they manage to endure through the whole climb and then flip upside down to aid in their descent.)
Coyote: Talk to me Bob, where's Maverick!?
B.O.B: He's 5 miles out, he's coming fast!
Phoenix: Target's in sight!
Coyote: Where's my laser, Bob?
(It was failing.)
B.O.B: Deadeye, deadeye! It's no good!
B.O.B: Sorry, i can't get a lock!
Coyote: We're out of time, i'm dropping blind!
(He pulls the trigger, and begins to pull up to the Egress climb along with the other two.)
(But he misses.)
Coyote: Damnit, missed!
(Both planes are left helpless and their pilots harshly enduring the increasing G-Force as a result.)
(Coyote is unfortunately unable to endure the climb as much as Phoenix and Bob are.)
(Meanwhile, Maverick sulks in, and locks on Phoenix and Bob's F-18.)
Maverick: That's tone!
B.O.B: Maverick's got missile lock on us!
Phoenix: Shit; we're dead!
(She quickly bails out, unaware of Coyote's worsening condition.)
Maverick: Blue Team, that's a fail!
Maverick: Level out, Coyote!
Maverick: Coyote, do you copy?
(As his radio silence increasingly worries Mav, Coyote has finally succumbed to the climb, and passes out.)
Maverick: Coyote, come in!
Maverick: Coyote, level wings!
Maverick:...oh my god, he's in G-Lock...!
(Coyote's plane continues to flip around and out of control.)
Maverick *barely echoing through his mind*: Coyote! Coyote!
Phoenix: He's gonna burn in!
Maverick: I'm going after him!
(He quickly approaches Coyote's F-18, and attempts to lock him in.)
Maverick: Come on, give me tone, give me tone, give me tone...!
(He finally manages to do so in order to wake him up with the accompanying noise.)
Maverick: Snap out of it, Coyote, come on, come on!
(But it's still not working!)
Maverick: Come on, Coyote, Come on, COME ON!
Coyote's F-14 *interwined with Maverick*: Pull up! Pull up, Pull up!
Maverick *interwined with Coyote's F-14*: Damnit, Coyote! COYOTE!!
Coyote's F-14 *interwined with Maverick*: Pull up, Pull up! Pull up, Pull up! Pull up, Pull up!
Maverick *interwined with Coyote's F-14*: COYOTE!!! COYOTE!!!!!
(He finally wakes up, and quickly pulls up...)
(...towards safety.)
Maverick: Coyote, you okay? You okay!?
Coyote *panting*: I'm okay...i'm good.
Maverick: Good...good...that's enough for today.
(Phoenix and Bob's F-14 comes into view.)
Phoenix: That was close.
Maverick: Too close.
(But then, all of a sudden, a flock of birds hit Maverick's cockpit window, and obliterate Phoenix and Bob's engines.)
Maverick: Bird strike; BIRD STRIKE!
(Phoenix and Bob's left engine is lit ablaze soon after.)
Phoenix: Bird strike!
(The jet soon starts to lose stability.)
B.O.B: Phoenix, left engine's on fire!
Phoenix: Climbing!
(She does as stated as Maverick watches.)
Phoenix: Throttling back; shutting off fuel to left engine!
Phoenix: Extinguishing fire!
(But just as she does, their F-18's right engine goes off.)
B.O.B: Right engine is out!
Phoenix: It's still spinning, trying to restart it!
(Maverick notices as she does so.)
Maverick: PHOENIX, IT'S ON FIRE, DON'T START-
Phoenix: -throttling up!
(But it is too late, as the right engine soon burns out, and the jet begins to spin out of control.)
Maverick: oh my god...
(Horrified, he follows them to give the two further instructions in order to survive.)
B.O.B: WE'RE ON FIRE! WE'RE ON FIRE!!
Phoenix: DAMNIT!
Phoenix and B.O.B's F-18: Engine fire right.
Phoenix: Extinguishing right engine!
(She successfully does so, but they are still in peril as their jet continues to veer towards land.)
(Maverick follows close by.)
Maverick: PHOENIX, BOB; PUNCH OUT, PUNCH OUT!
B.O.B: Warning lights everywhere; hydraulic failure!
Phoenix and B.O.B's F-18: Flight controls.
Phoenix: I can't control it!!!
B.O.B: WE'RE GOING DOWN, PHOENIX; WE'RE GOING IN, WE'RE GOING IN!
Maverick: YOU CAN'T SAVE IT; EJECT, EJECT!
Phoenix: EJECT, EJECT, EJECT!
Phoenix and B.O.B's F-18: Altitude.
(B.O.B is the first to punch out of the jet.)
Phoenix and B.O.B's F-18: Altitude.
(Phoenix soon follows...)
(...as their jet crashes into the hill.)
==Rooster and Maverick==
(Later that night...)
(Rooster is sitting somewhere in the , looking visibly shaken by the incident that nearly cost Phoenix and B.O.B their lives.)
(Maverick enters the room a while later to check up on him.)
Maverick: They'll keep Phoenix and Bob in the hospital overnight for observation.
Maverick: They're going to be okay.
(Rooster looks relieved...but his mood then starts to shift.)
Rooster: that's good...
Rooster:...i've never lost a wingman.
(Maverick reminisces of what Viper told him soon after Goose's death.)
Maverick: You're lucky.
Maverick: Fly long enough and it'll happen...
Maverick:...there will be others.
Rooster:...easy for you to say.
Rooster: no wife...no kids...
Rooster:...nobody to mourn you when you burn in...
Maverick:...go home.
Maverick: let's all get some sleep.
(But before he could, Rooster stands up to confront him about his grievances.)
Rooster: Why did you pull my papers at the academy?
Rooster: Why did you STAND IN MY WAY!?
Maverick:...you weren't ready.
Rooster *approaching him*: Ready for what?
Rooster: Huh?
Rooster: Ready to fly like you?
Maverick: No; Ready to forget the book; trust your instincts, and don't think, just do.
Maverick: You think up there, you're dead; believe me.
Rooster:...my dad believed in you.
(Maverick visibly flinches.)
Rooster: i'm not gonna make the same mistake.
(...the silence is soon interrupted by Cyclone quietly entering the room.)
Cyclone: maverick...
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