- Jesse: I'm not a whaler.
- Max: So what?
- Jesse: Well, I'm sort of the opposite.
- Max: You're a whale?
- Jesse: No, but I'm trying to protect them. What he's doing is wrong and you know it.
- Max: Who?
- Jesse: Your dad.
- Max: My dad's a salmon boat captain.
- [Jesse puzzles Max]
- Max: Why do you care anyway?
- Jesse: If one of your friends was in trouble, wouldn't you try to help them?
- Max: If I could.
- Jesse: My friends are whales.
- Drew: [watching Jesse play his harmonica] What are you doing?
- Jesse: Making a call.
- [Jesse uses the keyboard to replicate the notes he played on the harmonica]
- Jesse: Willy likes the sound of my harmonica playing. When he hears it, he knows it's me.
- Drew: Oh, so you think your gonna play that sound on the hydrophone.
- Jesse: [playing the keyboard] Uh huh.
- Drew: And he's just gonna come running?
- Jesse: [nods] Uh huh.
- Drew: From miles away?
- Jesse: Yeah.
- Drew: Okay.
- Jesse: Those guys have already left. They're going after the whole pod tonight! Willy, Nicky, Nicky's baby... Can I ask you a question?
- Randolph: Ten years in jail.
- Jesse: What?
- Randolph: The penalty for "borrowing" a boat that doesn't belong to you. It's called piracy. Ten years in jail. Do not pass Go. Do not collect 200 dollars.
- Jesse: You're right. It was a bad idea.
- Randolph: [stops walking] Let's do it.
- Max: A cheeseburger saved your life.
- [Wesley smiles back]
- John Wesley: [pauses] You were right.
- Max: Hey. You made a mistake.
- [Max hugs his father]
- John Wesley: What am I supposed to do now? I'm a whaler. That's what I am.
- Max: Not to me. You're my dad.
- Max: How'd you know the whale was there?
- John Wesley: Not even get a sense. You'll get it too after a while. Never take your eye off the ball, Max. If you do, either the sea'll get you or the whale will.
- Max: The whale will?
- John Wesley: Don't you worry. We'll get em first. I promise.
- John Wesley: [to Randolph] You're making a mistake. I suggest you ride out on the boat you came in on.
- Jesse: Thanks for all you've done.
- Captain Drake: Ah, it was nothing.
- Randolph: [sarcastically] No kidding
- Drew: It's not what I would have done.
- Randolph: What do you mean?
- Drew: I mean... Some guy tries to kill me, I wouldn't have save his life. I would've bit his butt.
- Jesse: Well, maybe he's smarter than we are.
- Randolph: Or more human.
- Jesse: [watching Willy and Nicky swim off] Willy's gonna make a good father. Don't you think?
- Randolph: When the time comes.
- Jesse: Listen. They're close. It's quite a sound isn't it?
- Max: Yeah.
- Jesse: Do you know an orca is mostly water?
- Max: Sure.
- Jesse: But did you know that when he sings, you can feel the beat of his song. In time with the waves.
- Max: Why do they do that?
- Jesse: I say it's because they're good musicians, but a friend of mine thinks differently. He says the whole Earth is breathing. And that their song is the Earth breathing.
- [Jesse and Max laugh at Drew's black eye from the camcorder as payback for goving the former a pair of black eyes]
- Jesse: I like it, Drew. It brings out your eyes. Well, one of them, at least.
- Drew: [complimenting Jesse's black eyes he got from the binoculars] I like it, Jesse. It brings out you're eyes.
- Jesse: [about Drake] That guy's a jerk.
- Randolph: You're right. He's a jerk.
- Drew: You just notice this?
- Jesse: I thought you're gonna tell me he's doing his job.
- Drew: Well he is just doing his job.
- Jesse: The whalers are just doing their jobs. We're just gonna follow orders and do nothing to stop them. It's not a problem.
- Drew: Keep this up, you're gonna get me fired.
- Drew: What you say your name was?
- Jesse: Jesse.
- Drew: Your name's not Willy?
- Jesse: Willy's a whale.
- [Randolph laughs and reaches his arm out. Drew hands Randolph a pizza slice]
- Jesse: Randolph, tell her who I am.
- Randolph: I've never seen this kid before in my life.
- [Randolph takes a bite of his slice]
- Randolph: Good pizza.
- Drew: [eating pizza] You didn't tell me he's so young.
- Randolph: He's not so young.
- [Drew sarcastically leaves]
- Jesse: Wait a minute. Listen, I'll do anything. I'm just here to learn. I'll do whatever you tell me.
- [Randolph chuckles]
- Drew: Oh we're gonna get along just fine then. What you say your name was?
- Jesse: Jesse.
- Drew: Okay, Jesse. Help me get this gear down below.
- Jesse: Alright.
- Drew: Botany Bay, this is the Noah. We know who you are and we know what you're doing. If you attempt to harm these whales.
- [Drew asks Randolph]
- Drew: What now?
- Randolph: You'll be fired upon.
- Drew: You will be fired upon.
- [Drew puts down the radio signal]
- Drew: [to Randolph] With what? We don't have anything to fire upon them with.
- Randolph: They don't know that.
- Max: Dad
- John Wesley: [working on the spears] Yes Max?
- Max: What if whales are like people?
- John Wesley: They aren't.
- Max: What if they are?
- John Wesley: Max, whales are animals. They were put here by God for us to hunt. You don't get upset when you eat a cheeseburger do you?
- Max: Why not?
- John Wesley: Whales don't feel. They aren't people. They're just fish.
- Max: Your wrong.
- [Sanderson is stunned at Max scolding his father]
- John Wesley: You know better than me? You're ten years old.
- Max: But your wrong, dad?
- John Wesley: And I've been wrong all my life. My dad was wrong and his dad was wrong, we're all wrong and you're right.
- Max: You're hurting people.
- John Wesley: Who am I hurting? I'm not hurting anyone.
- Jesse: You have to call this in.
- Captain Drake: Kid, there's nothing to call in.
- Jesse: You saw it yourself. Willy went after that boat. He was defending himself. They attacked him.
- [Botany Bay leaves]
- Captain Drake: They know that for a fact.
- Jesse: It's obvious. If you'd open your eyes..Sir.
- Captain Drake: Botany Bay checks out. It's a registered salmon boat. It's Captain, John Wesley, is licensed and his record his clean.
- Jesse: You're right. If they were whalers, they'd have a big neon sign saying, "Arrest me, I kill whales". Hello?