Dusty Mayron: Don’t you see what he’s up to, he thinks you and me are harboring bad feelings? Brad Whitaker: No, I’m not harboring anything.
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Brad Whitaker
Brad Whitaker is a fictional character in the James Bond film The Living Daylights. He was portrayed by American actor Joe Don Baker. Baker also appeared as Jack Wade, Bond's CIA contact, in Pierce Brosnan's first two Bond films, GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies. Steven Rubin describes Whitaker as a "smarmy bad-guy arms trader." 2Background Brad Whitaker is an international black market arms dealer. He is fascinated by war, but has no actual military experience, so he turns to arms dealing to organize his own personal military force. Expelled from West Point for cheating, he spends a short stint as a mercenary in the Belgian Congo before starting to work with various other criminal organisations that would help organise his very first arms deals. He loves military history and it is implied that he wargames various historical conflicts using automated miniature figures and effects, such as the battles of Agincourt, Waterloo, and Gettysburg. In a conversation with Bond during the confrontation, Whitaker says that he believes that Pickett's Charge should have been made up Little Round Top and that, if Ulysses S. Grant was in charge of the Union at Gettysburg, he would have crushed the Army of Northern Virginia, thus ending the rebellion. He says "Meade should have taken another 35,000 dead at Gettysburg!". Whitaker has a personal pantheon of "great military commanders" in his headquarters, which includes some of history's most famous and infamous figures, such as Adolf Hitler, Napoleon Bonaparte, Genghis Khan, Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, Oliver Cromwell, and Attila the Hu
Kurt Mayron: So this co-dad thing, you’ve got to ask another man’s permission to see your own kids? Dusty Mayron: Everything is rock solid between me and Brad here. In fact, we’re best friends. Brad Whitaker: Really? [Brad gets emotional and starts to cry] Thank you. Dusty Mayron: Brad, stop it.…
[as Brad’s dad is coming down the escalator] Dad. That sweater, he wears a red sweater so that I can see him in a crowd.
Kurt Mayron: There you go. Why don’t you bring the car around and we’ll meet you at the curb? Brad Whitaker: Right away, sir. I mean, no. I’m sorry, I’m not the driver. I’m Brad. The stepdad. Kurt Mayron: [to Dusty] Why is her here? Brad Whitaker: Because my dad’s coming, too.
Dylan: I don’t get the whole girls thing. Brad Whitaker: Here’s the game plan, you want to be that one that she tells you about all of her problems with the guys she’s actually dating. It’s called the friendzone. Dusty Mayron: No, no, no! That’s the worst advice anyone could give you. Do you want to…
[as Kurt stands in front of Brad and scowls at him] Oh, gosh. Those piercing eyes, like a velociraptor.
[as they see Kurt riding down the escalator] Dear God. This is going to come off weird, Dusty, but he’s beautiful.
[waiting to meet their dads at the airport] Brad Whitaker: Look, your father hasn’t met the new, evolved Dusty. Dusty Mayron: That’s exactly the stuff he’s going to make fun of us for, you’ll see. [as they see Kurt riding down the escalator]
Dusty Mayron: My dad is going to scoff at everything we do. Nothing’s ever good enough for him. Brad Whitaker: Your father hasn’t met the new evolved Dusty. I mean, who wouldn’t be impressed with you?
Stepdads and dads don’t always get along, but Dusty and I have this co-dad thing on lockdown.
Kurt: [to Dusty; referring to Brad] His total lack of masculinity, I mean his weak chin and soft underbelly bothers you not a bit? Brad: [after camera zooms out, to show him sitting in a chair next to Kurt and Dusty ] You know, I'm just getting the feeling maybe you guys would like some privacy.
[Referring to his machine gun vs Bond's handgun] You've had your eight, now I have my eighty.
Brad Whitaker: How do you like my personal pantheon of great commanders? Leonid Pushkin: Butchers. Brad Whitaker: Surgeons. They cut away society's dead flesh.
That's too bad, Bond. You could've been a live rich man, instead of a poor dead one.