Bartlett: "I hate these last-minute letdowns, but I've only just been told. It's too risky for you."
Henley: "Don't you think that's Colin's decision?"
Bartlett: "No, I don't."
Henley: "Come on, Roger. We all know the score here. Well, at least, most of us do. Your idea of this escape is to start another front, to foul up the Germans behind the lines. All right, that's fine. But once we get past that wire and have them looking all over Germany for us, that mission is accomplished. Afterwards, we have some ideas of our own."
Bartlett: "You mean getting home? Back to your family?"
Henley: "That's right."
Bartlett: "Good god man do you really believe I haven't thought about that too?"
Henley: "I'm sure you have. I know Colin has. And, Roger, I have too. We think we can make it all the way."
Bartlett: "Not Colin. He'd be an appalling hazard to the escape. That must be my decision."
Henley: "You wanna talk about hazards, let's talk about hazards. Let's talk about you. You're the biggest hazard we have. The Gestapo has you marked. No ones said you can't go."
Bartlett: "That's true. I have thought about the Gestapo. But if you're asking me how far a commanding officer is allowed to go, or dare go, or should be permitted to play God, I can't answer you. But I can tell you a blind man is an unnecessary hazard to himself and the whole plan, and must therefore be eliminated from the operation."
Henley: Colin's not a blind man as long as he's with me, and he's going with me."
Bartlett: "It's all right with you, Colin?"
Blythe: "Oh, yes. Quite."
(From the Great Escape, just when Roger has told Colin he can't go through the tunnel because he's blind.)
I could actually just quote the entire Great Escape film, it's that good!
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