Smokin' Aces (2006)

Nestor Carbonell: Pasquale Acosta "S.A. Gerald Diego"

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• Bill : Am I really dying?

  Pasquale Acosta "S.A. Gerald Diego" : We are all dying.

• Pasquale Acosta "S.A. Gerald Diego" : What, you got some sultan up there?

• Pasquale Acosta "S.A. Gerald Diego" : I'd like to see the penthouse.

• [Carruthers is in an elevator with Pasquale Acosta, who is pretending to be Bill, a dead security manager] 

  Pasquale Acosta "S.A. Gerald Diego" : [pretending his radio is dead]  I don't believe this. Battery's completely dead.

  [Carruthers tries his mobile phone] 

  Pasquale Acosta "S.A. Gerald Diego" : Oh... forget it. Won't get a signal in here. You'll have to wait.

  Donald Carruthers : [points to the emergency phone]  Well, what about that line? Can't you contact your people with that?

  Pasquale Acosta "S.A. Gerald Diego" : No, these phones are hard-wired directly to maintenance. But, once we reach the penthouse, I can call down, I'll have the elevators taken offline, sir.

  [Mildly agitated, Carruthers looks down and notices something about 'Bill'] 

  Stanley Locke : [Carruthers' remembers Locke's briefing] 

  [voiceover] 

  Stanley Locke : "Pasquale Acosta. Blood-money mercenary. "El Estrago" - "The Plague".

  [Carruthers' notices Acosta's damaged fingertips] 

  Stanley Locke : [voiceover]  "When he was caught by the SAS in Belfast, and in prison, he chewed off his fingertips to the bone."

  Donald Carruthers : [Carruthers becomes very suspicious]  Why don't you have maintenance do it?

  Pasquale Acosta "S.A. Gerald Diego" : Do what, sir?

  Donald Carruthers : Shut the elevator down.

  Pasquale Acosta "S.A. Gerald Diego" : An emergency shutdown of our entire elevated lift system, sir? No, that has to be handled by my staff, sir.

  Donald Carruthers : [becoming even more cautious]  How long have you been working here?

  Donald Carruthers : [slowly reaches for his gun]  Bill?

  Staff : [Acosta notices movement in the reflection of the elevator] 

  [Over the radio] 

  Staff : Oh my God! I need an ambulance for Bill! I'm in the security room.

  [Carruthers pulls his gun out, while Acosta turns around and impales him with his wrist blade. A shootout ensues between Carruthers and Acosta]