He says he's onto something. He wants to know if his claim will be honored.
4 seconds sound clip from the Aliens (1986) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:16:41 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- I'll be down in maintenance, okay?
- Al!
- What?
- Hey, Al.
- What?
- Remember you sent some wildcatters out to the middle of nowhere last week, out past the Ilium Range?
- One of them's on the horn, a mom-and-pop survey team.
- He says he's onto something. He wants to know if his claim will be honored.
- Why wouldn't his claim be honored?
- Christ! Some honch in a cushy office on Earth says, 'Go look at a grid reference'.
- We look. They don't say why, and I don't ask.
[...]