National Treasure (2004)

David Dayan Fisher: Shaw

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• Butcher Lady : If you're not a steak, you don't belong here.

  Abigail Chase : I'm just trying to hide from my ex-husband.

  Butcher Lady : [sees Shaw]  Who, Baldie?

  Abigail Chase : Yes.

  Butcher Lady : Honey, stay as long as you like.

  Abigail Chase : Huh, thank you.

  Butcher Lady : [to Shaw]  You want something?

  [leaning on the counter panting, while looking around for Abigail] 

  Butcher Lady : Do you want something?

  Shaw : [unnerved]  Shut up.

  [leaves] 

  Butcher Lady : [to Abigail]  I see why you left him.

• Ben Gates : "The stain effected" could refer to a dye or a reagent used to bring about a certain result. Combined with "The key in silence undetected", the implication is that the effect is to make what was undetectable detectable. Unless, "The key in silence" could be...

  Shaw : Prison.

  Riley Poole : Albuquerque. See, I can do it too. Snorkel.

  Shaw : That's where the map is. Like he said, "Fifty-five in iron pen." "Iron pen" is a prison.

  Ben Gates : Or it could be, since the primary writing medium of the time was iron gall ink, the "pen" is - just a pen. But then why not say a pen? Why say "iron pen"?

  Shaw : Cause it's a prison.

• Shaw : Ask your girlfriend. She's the one who's calling all the shots now. She won't shut up.

• Shaw : [after Ben escaped in the elevator with the Declaration of Independence]  Damn!

  Ian Howe : He's got the bloody map!

• Ben Gates : Timothy Matlack was the official scribe of the Continental Congress. Calligrapher, not writer. And to make sure he could not offend the map, it was put on the back of a resolution that he transcribed, a resolution that 55 men signed. The Declaration of Independence.

  Riley Poole : Come on, there's no invisible map on the back of the Declaration of Independence.

  Shaw : That's clever, really. A document of that importance would ensure the map's survival.

• Shaw : Ben, I understand your bitterness. I really do. You've spent your entire life searching for this treasure, only to have the respected historical community treat you and your family with mockery and contempt. You should be able to rub this treasure in their arrogant faces, and I want you to have the chance to do that.