Moonfall (2022)

Donald Sutherland: Holdenfield

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• Holdenfield : This planet has suffered five extinctions. This is going to be the sixth.

• Holdenfield : What are you doing?

  Jocinda Fowler : Holdenfield?

  Holdenfield : You're not supposed that, 136 Alpha. That's classified. Top secret.

  Jocinda Fowler : Why is NASA lying about all this?

  Holdenfield : July 20, 1969. "One small step for a man, One giant leap for"... yada, yada, yada. In school, you were taught that Apollo 11 lost contact with mission control for two minutes. Not true. Mission control cut their feed to the world because they found something on that day. Strange, pulsating lights emanating from beneath the moon's crust. It was me who was assigned to keep it under wraps. The Apollo crew played ball. Everyone after. Just Brian Harper wouldn't. They called him crazy. Threw him out with the trash.

  Jocinda Fowler : You're telling me that the moon was effectively the biggest cover-up in human history?

  Holdenfield : [laughing]  Biggest? Probably.

  Jocinda Fowler : You had blood on your hands, too.

  Holdenfield : Yeah, well anyone who follows orders pretty much always does, don't they? That technology is light years ahead of us. Compared to that, we're the Stone Age. The only shot we had to stop it was Zulu X-Ray 7. It was shutdown. Shelved. For budgetary reasons. Well, Commander, I have pressing business waiting for me on my desk.

  Jocinda Fowler : The sand in the hourglass is dropping quickly for all of us.

  Holdenfield : Well, It's good as gone. I'm really sorry. Really.