- Bumblebee: [clip from "A Few Good Men"] You can't handle the truth!
- Optimus Prime: I do not want you going to that drive-in theater any more.
- Elena Wallace: [under attack by Scourge and his minions] Stop following me.
- Noah Diaz: I'm not following you. I'm just escaping in the same direction.
- [last lines]
- Optimus Prime: I am Optimus Prime, leader of the Autobots. We have lost the Transwarp Key, and with it, our ability to go home. But we have gained an ally in our battle against the forces of evil. Forces too powerful for any of us to defeat on our own... but together, we might just have a chance.
- [From the trailer]
- Optimus Primal: Of all the threats from both your past and future, you've never faced anything like this.
- Optimus Prime: Let them come!
- Bumblebee: I have come here to kick ass.
- [first lines]
- Optimus Primal: There's a legend that precedes the dawn of our civilization: a vile god so large, so powerful, that it consumes entire planets as fuel. Few believed such a thing could be true... until the day we saw Unicron with our own eyes. But he didn't just come for our planet. He wanted our greatest technology, the Transwarp Key. And he sent his most powerful henchman, Scourge.
- Cheetor: More enemies are landing! We won't be safe for long!
- Airazor: Do we have the Key?
- Apelinq: You must take it, keep it hidden! Secure it so it never falls into the hands of Unicron!
- Optimus Primal: But Apelinq, we can fight!
- Apelinq: No! Protecting the Transwarp Key is all that matters!
- [hands the Key to Primal]
- Apelinq: Go! Use it to escape!
- Airazor: What will you do?
- Apelinq: I'll hold them off, buy you some time.
- Optimus Primal: Then I'm staying with you!
- Apelinq: This is my fight. Listen: if Unicron were to get the Key, it would open a portal in time and space, with no end to the worlds he could destroy! It is now your time to lead the Maximals, Optimus Primal.
- Battletrap: [Swinging his mace around] Someone give me a real fight!
- Optimus Primal: [Grabs Battletrap's mace] If it's a fight you want, you've got one!
- Mirage: Okay, so where is this t-tran, t-trun...
- Arcee: Transwarp Key?
- Mirage: Thank you.
- Arcee: It's in the new museum on Ellis Island.
- Bumblebee: Let's blow it up and get the hell out of Dodge.
- Arcee: No, we can't just go in blasting and steal it, Bee. The humans will hunt us down. What we need is a quiet way in.
- Mirage: [getting down from a scaffold, Noah makes a loud noise of clattering metal] Ooh, how about him?
- Optimus Primal: No.
- Mirage: What? Come on, man. He could slip in right through one of them little doors, grab the Key, leave a nice IOU, and peace out. He's perfect.
- Noah Diaz: What?
- Optimus Primal: No, it is a bad idea.
- Noah Diaz: I agree with Big Man. So, it's been real, y'all. But...
- Mirage: Uh, time-out.
- Optimus Primal: Mirage.
- Mirage: No, no, I know, I know. Just relax. Let me just talk to my guy real quick.
- Arcee: Mirage, what have you done?
- Optimus Prime: You brought a human here?
- Mirage: Optimus! Hey! Looking good, man! Wait a second. Are those new rims?
- Optimus Prime: You were told to stay hidden.
- Mirage: Right, right. Crazy coincidence. When you called, all Optimus-like...
- [imitating Prime]
- Mirage: "Autobots, roll out!" - this guy was already in the car. But he's cool, so it's cool. Cool?
- Optimus Prime: [picking Noah up] Not cool. Who are you, human?
- Noah Diaz: I'm nobody. I ain't even seen nothing. I'm not even seeing anything right now.
- Optimus Prime: Arcee.
- Arcee: [scanning him] Private Noah Diaz, U.S. Army. Multiple commendations. A wizard with electronics. Huh. He's a soldier.
- Optimus Prime: He does not look like a soldier.
- Noah Diaz: I mean, you looking pretty rough yourself.
- Mirage: [snickering] Sorry, sir.
- Optimus Prime: I will deal with your mistake later.
- Scourge: [approaches Apelinq] So you are this planet's great warrior. Mmm. You have such a beautiful world filled with an abundance of life. Savory. My master grows hungry. Give me the Transwarp Key, and he will spare your home.
- Apelinq: We'd rather die than let him reach other planets.
- Scourge: So be it.
- Optimus Prime: I've had enough!
- [cuts off both of Scourge's arms and strikes his blade through his head]
- Optimus Prime: Time to show you the real power of a Prime!
- Optimus Prime: [Optimus pulls Scourge's head off, killing him. Then grabs Bumblebee's insignia from his corpse] This belongs to a friend of mine!
- Bumblebee: [clip from "The Wizard of Oz"] Not so fast!
- Scourge: I love your fire, Prime... but you're going to die on this speck of dust!
- Optimus Prime: I can think of no better place to bury you!
- Mirage: [Drives away] Prime! What the hell are you doing?
- Optimus Prime: [Aiming at Scourge] I'm going to take back Scourge's key, and then... take off his head.
- Arcee: Okay, the energy surge we felt was in the 4,000 yottahertz range, which is undetectable to humans. I've reconstructed the source from the energy echoes.
- Optimus Prime: [seeing a hologram of the Transwarp Key] I cannot believe it. It exists and it is here.
- Bumblebee: [clip from "Spaceballs"] What the hell am I looking at?
- Optimus Prime: The Transwarp Key. It was thought to be lost thousands of years ago. It was once used to open space-time portals to Energon-rich planets throughout the universe.
- Mirage: You mean Energon-rich planets like...
- Arcee: Cybertron.
- Optimus Prime: After seven long years stranded on Earth, we've finally found a way home.
- Noah Diaz: [stealing a car] What am I doing?
- Reek: Well, the coast is clear out here, so whenever you wanna slide that thing on out, you good.
- Noah Diaz: I can't. I can't.
- Reek: Like you can't drive stick or something?
- Noah Diaz: No, it's just... I ain't no thief.
- Reek: Are you having an existential crisis now? The deadline for that was when I offered you Twizzlers.
- Optimus Prime: This is an emergency. Can you hear me, Mirage? Roll out!
- Reek: Hey, yo, who the hell was that?
- Noah Diaz: That's the radio, bro. This car is buggin'. I'm out.
- Noah Diaz: So, y'all are robots that transform into cars, even though you're from way out in space. But now there's this key that opens a portal back to your home. Oh, and you know this because there's a beacon light in the sky that I can't see because I'm human.
- Mirage: You say that like it's weird.
- Noah Diaz: It's super weird.
- Mirage: You know what's weird? Marky Mark is leaving the Funky Bunch! I heard he's just gonna pursue acting now. That's crazy!
- Noah Diaz: What? How does that...
- Mirage: What a world.
- Noah Diaz: I'm just trying to collect this money and get your angry-ass boss off of Earth before he blows a gasket.
- Mirage: Don't take it personal. He just misses home. And I think he blames himself for us getting stuck here. Earth was supposed to be a pit stop, you know, a place for us to regroup and rejoin the war back home. Prime feels like it's his fault we've been stranded here, like he has to fix it all on his own.
- Reek: There you go. Let that breath fill you up. In...
- [inhaling]
- Reek: ...out.
- Noah Diaz: Please stop talking.
- Reek: Okay, all right, I get it, you don't like to chitchat back and forth. But I got something for you.
- [he inserts a cassette tape into his car's tape player, which Noah can hear over his end of their two-way radio]
- Noah Diaz: You got a robbing mixtape?
- Reek: Uh, no. I got a liberating mixtape.
- Arcee: [Optimus sits with what's left of Bumblebee] Do you think an Energon infusion could bring him back?
- Optimus Prime: Perhaps. If we could get him back to Cybertron. I never should have taken us so far from home.
- Scourge: [facing down Noah] You think you can take me on alone?
- Optimus Prime: [lands beside Noah] He is not alone!
- Bumblebee: [announcing his arrival] I have come here to kick ass.
- Noah Diaz: Glad to have you back.
- Optimus Prime: Everyone, guard the bridge! Elena, shut it down!
- Elena Wallace: So, I've been doing some research, and I don't think that the statue is Horus. As a matter of fact, I'm sure it's not. The boys dated it around 5000 BC, right?
- Jillian: Mm-hmm.
- Elena Wallace: But the Nubians, they never even had contact with the Egyptians until 600 years after that. The symbol's not hieroglyphic. I don't even think it's from that part of the world. I think it might be Aztec or Inca. It's not some Egyptian god. It's something else.
- Mirage: [asking Noah for help to obtain the Transwarp Key] Yo, don't leave me with these tight-asses, bro. We make a great team.
- Optimus Prime: This is a waste of time.
- Noah Diaz: Look, I'm not breaking into a museum for some space robots.
- Mirage: But what about for friendship?
- [seeing Noah isn't convinced]
- Mirage: Uh, uh... or, or, or what about for cash?
- [Noah's interest piques]
- Mirage: Uh-huh. You help us get this key, so we can get off this rock - no offense. Love the neighborhood and all. - And then I let you sell me.
- [transforming]
- Mirage: Lambo? Ferrari? Indy? Look, you get paid and then I'll split.
- Noah Diaz: So all I gotta do is walk in and out?
- Mirage: All you gotta do. We'll take care of the rest. Cross my spark and hope to die. Wow! That was corny when I said it out loud.
- Noah Diaz: What about the big man? Optimal, or whatever.
- Mirage: You let me worry about him. Cool?
- Jillian: Intern, I paged you three times. Why didn't you call me?
- Elena Wallace: Okay, well, I figured if I stopped to call, that would make me later.
- Jillian: The police are here. They busted an art auction. The owner claims that everything is authentic, but they want a second opinion.
- Elena Wallace: All right.
- [cut to a row of items she's inspecting]
- Elena Wallace: The da Vinci sketch is legit. The painting's a copy. Real one is at the National Gallery in London. Roman vase. Valuable, but you are not gonna retire off of them. This Greek curse tablet, it would be expensive, but it's a fake.
- Jillian: How can you tell?
- Elena Wallace: See the spelling? Roman. Doesn't even show up in that era.
- Optimus Prime: [seeing the Transwarp portal] This cannot be. Calling all Autobots! Calling all Autobots!
- Bumblebee: [clip from "Die Hard"] Yippie-kay-yay, mother...
- Arcee: Prime, this is Arcee. I have a visual. What am I looking at?
- Optimus Prime: A way home.
- Jillian: [Elena comes across a statue of Airazor] It's pretty neat, right?
- Elena Wallace: Yes. Where is it from?
- Jillian: They just discovered it in Sudan. The boys say it's Horus, fifth millennia BC, Nubian?
- Elena Wallace: This symbol is definitely not hieroglyphic.
- Jillian: Well, if it's as exotic as it looks, I'm gonna get a feature in "Minerva".
- Noah Diaz: I think your boy back there is confused. He said our interview was canceled.
- Bishop: Because it is.
- Noah Diaz: Wait, why? On the phone, you said I was perfect for the job. You said this was just a formality.
- Bishop: It was until your old commanding officer called me back. Said you were brave, an expert comtech, but unreliable. Couldn't trust you. Your head was always somewhere else.
- Noah Diaz: Sir, I can explain all of that. I had some responsibilities at home. My brother, he's sick.
- Bishop: You had a responsibility to the United States Army.
- Noah Diaz: Mr. Bishop! Sir. I'm a hard worker, okay? I just... I just, I just really need a break.
- Bishop: Listen, I can't have someone like you mess up what I've built.
- Noah Diaz: Someone like me? You don't know anything about me!
- Bishop: I know you don't know how to be part of a team.
- Breanna Diaz: Are you sure you can take him?
- Noah Diaz: Yeah, uh, hospital's on the way. I got time.
- Breanna Diaz: And if that lady, that administrator, is there and she mentions a bill, just... tell her we're handling it.
- Noah Diaz: I will. And after today, I'll be able to help out more.
- Breanna Diaz: Good luck on the interview. Don't forget to laugh at all their jokes. White people love that shit.
- Reek: Hey, yo, Kris, what'd I tell you about letting your mans come out the crib looking like a whole square?
- Kris Diaz: Only so much I can do.
- Noah Diaz: Yeah, whatever, bro. Look. Here.
- Reek: [taking an electronic box] Ooh! My dawg! When you gonna let me put your skills to work and get you some real money?
- Noah Diaz: Yeah, says the dude who can't even afford cable.
- Reek: [sarcastically mimicking him] "Says the guy who..." I choose not to purchase cable. It's my own personal way to protest the vampiric nature of modern-day capitalism!
- Kris Diaz: Hey, look. Superman went on a bunch of interviews before he got his job on the Daily Planet. But he never gave up.
- Noah Diaz: I'm not Superman, Kris. Life ain't a comic book.
- Kris Diaz: I'm just saying, you'll get the next one.
- Noah Diaz: Yo, there is no next one. No one's coming to save us. We're alone in this.
- Mirage: So, what kind of jet we taking to Peru? Or is it a plane? Either one's fine. I just need first class, okay? 'Cause I got long-ass legs.
- Arcee: Uh, well, he is a plane.
- Mirage: No. No, no. Don't... don't tell me we're flying on...
- [seeing a C-119 Flying Boxcar cargo plane]
- Mirage: Oh, no.
- Stratosphere: [transforming as he lands] My lads! I am Stratosphere, lord of the skies!
- Mirage: Yeah, I'm walking to Peru.
- Arcee: All right, team, heads up. There's security up ahead.
- Mirage: Nice! This is gonna be fun, man.
- Noah Diaz: No, no, no. No, bro. You need to switch it up. I-I... you need to turn into a helicopter or a speedboat or something.
- Mirage: I got something way better than that.
- [cut to the museum, where Noah pulls up to the gate in a garbage truck and security lets him in]
- Noah Diaz: Good call.
- Mirage: Wu-Tang is in the building, baby!
- Optimus Prime: Way to be incognito.
- Mirage: Aw, come on, Prime. Smile a little bit. It won't hurt. Let me see that underbite.
- Optimus Primal: We have a small window before the portal opens large enough for Unicron to enter. The bridge is girded by a series of tunnels. They are too small for Maximals, but...
- Cheetor: But not for humans.
- Optimus Primal: If Noah and Elena reach the central antenna, they can use the code to shut it down, remove the Transwarp Key, and close the portal before Unicron enters our atmosphere.
- Arcee: But Scourge will be watching our every move. He'll do anything to stop us from getting the key.
- Optimus Prime: Then we bring the fight to him. Autobots and Maximals will charge the bridge together and lure Scourge onto the battlefield.
- Noah Diaz: While me and Elena sneak in through the back way.
- Wheeljack: It sounds like we're all going to die.
- Optimus Prime: If we are to die, then we will die fighting all as one.