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[last lines]
[instead of taking a picture of the pods falling to Earth, Polly turns and snaps a shot of Joe]
Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan : Polly... you...
Polly Perkins : It's all right. You don't have to say anything.
Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan : Lens cap.
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[after Dex unplugs the Telsa coils that previously electrocuted Dr. Kessler]
Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan : Is it safe?
Dex Dearborn : Well, there's only one way to find out.
[Sky Captain and Polly cross the threshold together and are relieved to be unharmed]
Dex Dearborn : I meant throw something.
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[Joe and Polly are preparing to take off along with Franky. Polly looks annoyed with Joe]
Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan : What?
Polly Perkins : [The girl in Nanjing was Franky, played by Angelina Jolie] 'Nanjing'?
Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan : [shouts] I CAN'T HEAR YOU, Polly! You'll have to speak up!
[they take off]
Capt. Francesca 'Franky' Cook : [over the radio] Keep your nose up, Joseph. You always were bad at the short takeoff.
Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan : Keep up, Franky. I don't wanna have to come back for you.
Polly Perkins : [in a soft tone of voice] I thought your takeoff was just fine.
Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan : Thank you, Polly.
Polly Perkins : [accusingly] So you HEARD THAT, did you?
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Polly Perkins : [after Joe wouldn't let her go back to get her case of film that was in cave that was about to explode] You should've let me go back for my film.
Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan : You're right, I should've.
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Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan : Polly, this may be our last moment together. There's something I need to ask you.
Polly Perkins : Yes, Joe?
Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan : Did you cut my fuel line?
Polly Perkins : Damn it! I didn't sabotage your lousy airplane!
Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan : Fine.
Polly Perkins : Our last moments on earth and this is all you have to say to me?
Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan : Could we just for once die without all this bickering?
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Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan : It's a mobile airstrip. Dex had a hand in designing it. It's kind of a secret. You can keep a secret, can't you, Polly?
Polly Perkins : [raising her camera to photograph it] Yeah. I can keep a secret.
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Polly Perkins : Joe, I wanna ask you something and I want you to tell me the truth. I don't care one way or the other, I swear. I just need to know. The girl in Nanjing was Franky, wasn't it?
Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan : Polly...
Polly Perkins : How long were you seeing her?
Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan : Look me in the eyes. I never fooled around on you. Never.
Polly Perkins : I sabotaged your plane.
Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan : Three months.
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Capt. Francesca 'Franky' Cook : Joseph Sullivan, I was sure you'd be dead by now.
Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan : It's good to see you too, Franky.
Capt. Francesca 'Franky' Cook : This had better be important or one of us is in trouble.
Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan : It's important.
Capt. Francesca 'Franky' Cook : *What* is *that*?
Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan : You be nice. Commander Cook, meet Polly Perkins.
Capt. Francesca 'Franky' Cook : Polly Perkins. I've heard so much about you. It's a pleasure to finally meet the competition.
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Dr. Totenkopf : Who dares come before me? Who dares enter this place? What has begun cannot be stopped. The time for this world is over.
Polly Perkins : Totenkopf.
Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan : Hello, doctor. Why are you doing this?
Dr. Totenkopf : I have been witness to a world consumed by hatred and bent on self-destruction, watched as we have taken what was to be a paradise and failed in our responsibilites as its steward. I know now that the course of human race has set for itself cannot be changed. I am the last desperate chance for a doomed planet. Now, leave this place or die!
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[repeated line]
Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan : Good boy, Dex.
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Capt. Francesca 'Franky' Cook : What have you gotten me into this time, Joseph?
Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan : Nothing you can't handle, Franky.
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Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan , Capt. Francesca 'Franky' Cook : Protect the rabbits! Protect the rabbits!
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Polly Perkins : It's been three years, Joe. You're not still mad at me, are you? Can't even remember what we were fighting about.
Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan : You sabotaged my plane.
Polly Perkins : Right.
Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan : I spent six months in a Manchurian slave camp because of you. They were gonna cut off my fingers.
Polly Perkins : Joe, for the last time, I didn't sabotage your damn airplane!
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Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan : It's a dead end. Some short cut!
Polly Perkins : That's... not supposed to be there.
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Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan : What are you doing? You honestly think you're gonna find something more important than every single creature on Earth being led two by two inside a giant rocket ship?
Polly Perkins : I might.
Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan : Like what?
Polly Perkins : I'll know when I see it!
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Polly Perkins : [after Joe marked Totenkopf's location on a map] There's nothing there. Are you sure you did it right?
Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan : I'm sure. If the old man was right, that's where Totenkopf is now. Dead center in the middle of nowhere.
[marks another spot on the map]
Polly Perkins : What's that point there?
Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan : That's where we run out of fuel.
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Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan : [Polly laughs] What?
Polly Perkins : I missed you. Thanks for saving my life today, by the way.
Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan : Oh, were you down there?
Polly Perkins : You missed me, too! How nice.
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Polly Perkins : [on Franky Cook] She's some kind of girl.
Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan : Yes, I know.
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Dex Dearborn : I thought you said this thing was big? Can I have it?
Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan : You find out where it came from and I'll buy you one for Christmas.
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Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan : Come in, Dex.
Dex Dearborn : Look, whatever you do, don't shoot!
Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan : Er... OK!
Dex Dearborn : You shot it, didn't you?
Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan : Yes.
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[after Polly's faulty directions nearly crash them into a building]
Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan : "Shortcut." Heh!
Polly Perkins : I got us here, didn't I?
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Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan : Naked... you can say it, Polly.
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[to the Mysterious Woman]
Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan : Why won't you die?
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Polly Perkins : You mean you knew this the whole time and you let me think we were going to crash? I thought we were gonna die! You should have said something!
Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan : Look, Polly, it was your idea to tag along, not mine. If you can't take it, that's not my fault.
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[Sky Captain flies over the sidewalk where Polly is standing]
Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan : Polly.
[Polly snaps a picture of Sky Captain flying overhead]
Polly Perkins : Joe.
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Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan : This is Sky Captain. I'm on my way.
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Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan : Is it safe?