Limitless (I) (2011)

Bradley Cooper: Eddie Morra

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• Eddie Morra : Well, in order for a career to evolve, I'm gonna have to move on.

  Carl Van Loon : That you would even think that would only show me how unprepared you are to be on your own. I mean, you do know you're a freak? Your deductive powers are a gift from God or chance or a straight shot of sperm or whatever or whoever wrote your life-script. A gift, not earned. You do not know what I know because you have not earned those powers. You're careless with those powers, you flaunt them, and you throw them around like a brat with his trust-fund. You haven't had to climb up all the greasy little rungs. You haven't been bored blind at the fundraisers. You haven't done the time and that first marriage to the girl with the right father. You think you can leap over all in a single bound. You haven't had to bribe or charm or threat your way to a seat at that table. You don't know how to assess your competition because you haven't competed. Don't make me your competition

• Eddie Morra : [voiceover - standing on edge of his apt. building]  For a guy with a four digit IQ, I must have missed something. And I hadn't missed much... I'd come this close to having an impact on the world... And now the only thing I'd have an impact on... was the sidewalk.

• Eddie Morra : I don't have delusions of grandeur, I have an actual recipe for grandeur.

• [from trailer] 

  Eddie Morra : [to Carl Van Loon]  No scenario? I see every scenario, I see fifty scenarios. That's what it does, Carl - it puts me fifty moves ahead of you.

• Carl Van Loon : Have you been talking to anyone?

  Eddie Morra : No, I haven't been talking to anybody, Carl. I'm not stupid.

  Carl Van Loon : I know you're not stupid, Eddie, but don't make the classic smart person's mistake, thinking no one's smarter than you.

• Lindy : Since when do you speak Italian?

  Eddie Morra : Oh...

  [chuckles] 

  Eddie Morra : Self-improvement month.

• Eddie Morra : [parting ways with Carl]  You know, you should really be glad about this, 'cause - you know, me working for you? - you'd end up as my bitch.

• Eddie Morra : [voiceover]  I wasn't high, I wasn't wired, just clear. I knew what I needed to do, and how to do it.

• [first lines] 

  Eddie Morra : Obviously I miscalculated a few things.

  Gennady : [banging door]  Eddie! I know you're in there.

  Eddie Morra : [a chainsaw revs up]  Why is it that the moment your life exceeds your wildest dreams, the knife appears at your back?

  Female Computer Voice : The access code you have entered is invalid. The access code you have entered is invalid.

  Eddie Morra : Well, I'll tell you one thing... I will never let them touch me.

• Eddie Morra : What was this drug? I couldn't stay messy on it, I hadn't had a cigarette in six hours, hadn't eaten, so... abstemious and tidy? What was this? A drug for people who wanted to be more anal retentive?

• Carl Van Loon : You don't really live here, do you?

  Eddie Morra : Well, ah... the Spartans weren't really big on amenities.

  Carl Van Loon : Yeah, and they eventually got their asses kicked.

• Eddie Morra : [voiceover]  I was blind, but now I see.

• Eddie Morra : You see that guy? That was me not so long ago. What kind o' guy without a drug or alcohol problem looks this way? Only a writer.

• Eddie Morra : [over the phone]  Okay, I need you to go into the bag and take one of the pills.

  Lindy : Why?

  Eddie Morra : Because you'll know what to do. You'll take it and then you'll know.

  Lindy : [panicking]  He's got a knife. Eddie, I can't *think* my way out of a knife.

• [from trailer] 

  Eddie Morra : A tablet a day and I was limitless.

• Lindy : Eddie.

  Eddie Morra : What?

  Lindy : I know how it's going. I'm your... I was your girlfriend.

  Eddie Morra : That word doesn't even begin to describe what you are to me.

  Lindy : Partner? Squeeze?

  Eddie Morra : Paramour. Inamorata.

  Lindy : Cleaning lady. Bank.

  [pays for meal] 

• Eddie Morra : Hotel rooms were no longer an option. What I needed was a bunker.

• [Gennady slugs Eddie Morra in his apartment hallway when an NZT pill falls from Eddie's hand] 

  Gennady : What is it?

  Eddie Morra : [panicking]  No, it's just aspirin.

  [desperately tries to get it] 

  Gennady : [picks it up and examines it]  Don't look like no aspirin I ever see.

  [takes pill out of little bag and holds it up to light] 

  Gennady : It's something good, eh?

  [pops pill in mouth, swallows and slaps his neck] 

  Gennady : [cut to bank where Eddie withdraws money. He exits the bank and gives Gennady the money] 

  Gennady : [glowing]  I feel good, man. What's in this stuff?

  Eddie Morra : Well, it's just, uh, vi-vitamins and aspirin.

  Gennady : [knowing Eddie's lying]  You so full of shit, Eddie baby.

• Eddie Morra : [voiceover]  Information from the odd museum show, a half-read article, some PBS documentary... it was all bubbling up in my frontal lobes, mixing itself together into a sparkling cocktail of useful information... She didn't have a chance.

• Eddie Morra : [at a party]  ... Well, sure, y-you get a short-term spike, but wouldn't that rapid expansion devalue the stock completely in two years?

  Kevin Doyle : No, 'cause there are safeguards!

  Eddie Morra : Against aggressive overexpansion? There aren't because there are no safeguards in human nature. We're wired to overreach. Look at history, all the countries that have ever ruled the world: Portugal, with this big, massive navy - all they've got now are salt cod and cheap condoms.

  [crowd laughs] 

  Eddie Morra : And Brits? Now they're just sitting in their dank little island, fussing over their suits. No one's stopping and thinking, 'Hey, we're doing pretty well. We got France, we got Poland, we got a big Swiss bank account... You know what? Let's not invade Russia in the winter. Let's go home, let's pop a beer, and let's live off the interest.'

• Eddie Morra : And what if I don't like your idea?

  Carl Van Loon : And then we'll say, "Godspeed," and your candle will have shed a brief but lovely light.

• [while being lectured by the landlord's wife] 

  Eddie Morra : [thinking]  I suddenly had extra reason to get away from her. I had thoughtlessly ingested a substance.

• Eddie Morra : So, uh, wha-what's it called?

  Vernon : Doesn't have a street name yet, but the boys in the kitchen are calling it NZT-48.

  Eddie Morra : The boys in the kitchen? I don't... That doesn't sound very FDA-approved, Vern.

• Eddie Morra : [voiceover]  Okay, so what do we have here? Some unknown, untested, possibly dangerous drug scammed out of some unidentified lab somewhere, given to me by a highly unreliable guy I hadn't seen in years.

  Vernon : Uh, so, you want some more?

  Eddie Morra : Yes, definitely.

• Carl Van Loon : So, Eddie Morra... what's your secret?

  Eddie Morra : Medication.

• Eddie Morra : Just finish your story.

  Melissa : Well, I didn't take any more and I didn't die, but after awhile I realized that I couldn't concentrate on anything for longer than ten minutes. I, uh... I missed deadlines, got lazy, slow, so slow... That was two years ago, and I haven't been the same since.

• Eddie Morra : [voiceover]  In the end, how much worse could it get?

• Eddie Morra : [to Carl Van Loon]  I see every everything, Carl. I'm fifty moves ahead of you and everybody else. What makes you think I don't have a guy with a bead on you right now? How do you know you're gonna be alive this time next year?

• Vernon : So, Eddie, you are interested after all.

  Eddie Morra : That stuff's amazing.

  Vernon : Works better if you're already smart.

• Carl Van Loon : So, Eddie Morra... What's your secret?

  Eddie Morra : Medication

• Eddie Morra : A tablet a day and what I could do with my day was limitless.

• Eddie Morra : What's the asking price?

  Realtor : Eight-point-five.

  Eddie Morra : I'll take it.

• [last lines] 

  Eddie Morra : [to Lindy after ordering in Chinese]  What?

• [Vernon extracts a pill from his coat pocket] 

  Eddie Morra : You're still dealing.

  Vernon : Brother, I am light years from that now. I've been doing, uh, some consulting for a pharmaceutical company.

  Eddie Morra : What, like some offshore lab making fake Viagra? Come on, Vern.

  Vernon : No. This is an exclusive product that's coming on stream next year. They've had clinical trials and it's FDA approved.

• [uncensored version] 

  Eddie Morra : I was sick.

  Carl Van Loon : You don't get sick. You're playing at this level, you get hit by a fucking car, you don't even die.

• Eddie Morra : What's wrong?

  Valerie : What?

  Eddie Morra : You don't like me and I don't blame you. You see a self-defeating, energy-sucking piece of shit who's sponging off your husband. You're wishing I'd blow my brains out, but my existence shouldn't make you this upset. What is it?

• Eddie Morra : [voiceover]  He knew he had me.

  Eddie Morra : [aloud]  Sure.

  Eddie Morra : [voiceover]  From now on, I'd happily be his errand boy, wash his windows, scrub his toilet - anything I could do to get my hands on that little clear pill that would bring back... Enhanced Eddie.

• Eddie Morra : [voiceover]  The next morning, I sent a little probe down into my brain... No surge of brilliance came up to greet me.

  [pauses] 

  Eddie Morra : In short, I was back.

• Eddie Morra : [voiceover]  My brain was just pouring this stuff out. Everything I had ever read, heard, seen, was now organized and available. Here it is. Here you go.

• Carl Van Loon : What are you going to do?

  Eddie Morra : When this is over? I don't know. You haven't given me the answer.

  Carl Van Loon : You haven't asked the question.

  Eddie Morra : Well, given the scale of my contribution... let's say forty-five.

  Carl Van Loon : Done! Forty-five thousand dollars.

• Eddie Morra : Thanks for stopping by, Carl.

  Carl Van Loon : [to chauffeur]  Give us a second.

  [to Eddie] 

  Carl Van Loon : What are you doing? You wanna be president of the United States or brain dead stuck fulla tubes?

  Eddie Morra : I'll take my chances.

  Carl Van Loon : I told you. Your chances don't exist. We shut down your lab.

  Eddie Morra : You don't think some smart ass on NZT might have 2 or 3 or even 4 labs?

  Carl Van Loon : So what? You're not making anymore.

  Eddie Morra : That right, I'm not. I thought better of it. You see, once you know what's in it you can tweak it, re-engineer it, get the bugs out. Taper off. I'm off it, Carl.

  Carl Van Loon : Well, on it or off it, there's no scenario where you're not working for me.

  Eddie Morra : How are you gonna pay me? In cigarettes? Last year you traded on inside information 17 times. Blank check from Dubai, dumping in Chile.

  Carl Van Loon : You threatening me?

  Eddie Morra : Disappeared officials. I mean, you shed a spotlight on this...

  Carl Van Loon : You wanna go to war with me?

  Eddie Morra : And trust me when I say this, I'm not even being creative yet.

  Carl Van Loon : There's no way you can be making accusations like that and be walking around alive.

  Eddie Morra : That you would even think that shows me how unprepared you are to fight me.

  Carl Van Loon : You're no longer equipped to fight me.

  Eddie Morra : I may be off it, but you think I didn't learn anything? That my synapses didn't change? That I kept absolutely nothing?

  Carl Van Loon : You have no idea what kind of enemy I can be.

  Eddie Morra : That van's gonna rear end that taxi.

  Carl Van Loon : What?

  Eddie Morra : The driver's distracted. He's texting. He's going 30 miles an hour. He needs 60 feet to stop. He doesn't have room.

  Carl Van Loon : What van?

  Eddie Morra : [Someone hails cab, cab stops short, van rear ends him]  I see everything, Carl. I'm 50 moves ahead of you and everybody else. What makes you think I don't have a guy with a bead on you right now? How do you know you're gonna be alive this time next year?

  Carl Van Loon : [Eddie grabs van Loon and puts a hand on his chest]  What are you doing. You get your hands off me. What are you doing?

  Eddie Morra : Something's pumping half-a-mass in there. The walls of your heart are dilated. You're aortic valve's steno, so you're gonna need to get that replaced. But you already knew that.

  [sighs] 

  Eddie Morra : You know, you should really be glad about this, 'cause me working for you? You'd end up as my bitch.

  Carl Van Loon : [Takes a deep breath and gets into his limo while Eddie holds the door open]  Maybe we should cool off. Talk again.

  Eddie Morra : I don't think so. Don't forget to vote.

  [Eddie closes limo door] 

• Eddie Morra : [voiceover]  Only problem... if I wasn't moving forward, I felt like I was going to explode.

• Eddie Morra : [voiceover]  I met some new friends who invited me to the beach... The beach, was not nearby.

  [plane flies toward destination]