The cable moves all around the deck of the ship. It sweeps away the remaining fighters, knocking them into the sea.
UrsusArctos: That sweeps the deck clean of those beautiful fighters. If you look closely, you'll realize that the fighters are actually about half the size of what they should be.
SEELE-01: Compared to Nerv's operative budget, those sunken planes were pocket change...
UrsusArctos: So were the sunken ships, but that doesn't make the tragedy any smaller.
