Jonas quotes from The Unit

Jonas

You been training for this moment your entire life. The universe has been conspiring, if you think about it, to put you right here, right now. Off you go, we're all waitin' on ya.

Jonas

(to Molly about working for Blackthorn) You do what you have to but I ain't going to be your cheering squad.

Jonas

Yeah, I bet that hurt.

Jonas

We've got gophers! Let's flush them out.

Jonas

This is my house, here, which means that's your house, there.

Bob

I don't even have a key.

Jonas

Well, there's not much crime in this neighborhood.

I have a job to do.

Jonas

I want you to postpone it.

Why should I?

Jonas

[Takes a card from his pocket and writes his number down] Take this card. Hold on to it.

What is that?

Jonas

No matter how blessed our lives, how charmed our existence, things still, inevitably, irrevocably, go wrong. Your mother is swindled out of her savings. Your estranged husband runs off with your kids. Your best friend goes on vacation in a foreign land and disappears. Eventually, bad things find us all. You ever hear of the Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free card? This is a Get-Out-of-Hell card. At some point in your life, God forbid, you have no where else to turn, call that number. That is why you are going to postpone your job.

Two hours.

Molly

How many, ya think?

Jonas

She bring laundry?

Molly

Mm-hmm...

Jonas

Set for three.

Molly

You gonna talk to her?

Jonas

Said she'd talk to me. I imagine that's what she'll do.

Molly

And you'll "daddy" her up, but you won't put it to her.

Molly

Then show me what you're gonna do.

Jonas

Be careful... Even the dumbest of generals wouldn't start a two-front war.

Bob

(pointing to a picture of the target) He reminds me of someone.

Jonas

Does he.

Bob

My wife's grandad, maybe. What does that make him, my grandfather-in-law?

Jonas

Did grandfather-in-law ever bomb a busload of schoolchildren?

Bob

Not that I know of.

Jonas

That's one big difference, then.

What's permitted to others is not permitted to you.

Jonas

The injunction of the Roman Legionnaire.

Ah! I see I've found a fellow scholar.

Jonas

No, just another old soldier.

Well it's better than civilian life.

Jonas

As what is not?

Jonas

And what precaution have we ever found unnecessary?

Which is why we two old soldiers may be fated to die in bed

Jonas

Now wouldn't that be a hell of a thing.

Radio check, over.

Jonas

You're coming in broken and stupid.

Jonas

I would appreciate it, if in front of our friends (gesturing to Bob and Kim) you will tell me why you doubt my word? I mean, am I known as a man of my word?

Molly

Not when it comes to housework.

Jonas

Seeking glory was Napoleon's downfall.

And those claim not to, lie.

Bob

(putting the lucky charm away) Just trying to keep the missus happy.

Jonas

Keep your team happy. Next time I see you packing crap instead of ammunition I'll strip you naked and start from stratch.