- How much can you decipher?
- Hell, fifty percent...
- Really decipher.
- Ten percent.

6 seconds sound clip from the Midway (1976) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:07:53.565 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Here's a list of Japanese ships that we suspect are gonna be assigned to amphib operations south of Rabaul.

- The Coral Sea! That's where we think they'll strike next.

- But something else is stirring, something out our way.

- Joe, we need facts, not guesswork.

- Matt, we've cracked Yamamoto's staff level code. But that don't mean we just reel it off word for word like a song. We get a flicker here and a glimmer there. Missing pieces fall into place.

- How much can you decipher?

- Hell, fifty percent...

- Really decipher.

- Ten percent.

- That's one word in ten. For Christ's sakes, Joe, you're guessing!

- We like to call it analysis.

- All right. What are these indications you got of something brewing back our way?

- Got no hard clues yet.

- What do you have, Joe?

- An increase in radio traffic between Yamamoto's staff commanders. And that's all?

- Could be significant. At least I feel that something is stirring.

- All right. I'll take that list of Jap warships you feel are heading for Coral Sea. Nimitz may wanna send Jack Fletcher's task force down there to find out what the hell is going on.

[...]

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