Dead Man Down (2013)

Noomi Rapace: Beatrice

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Quotes 

• Alphonse : What happened to your face?

  Beatrice : Car accident. What happened to yours?

• Beatrice : You speak French?

  Victor : I'd like to.

  Beatrice : Yeah?

  Victor : Sure.

  Beatrice : Another language?

  Victor : Hungarian.

  Beatrice : You're Hungarian?

  [Victor silently nods] 

  Beatrice : You don't have an accent.

  Victor : I work very hard to get rid of it.

• Beatrice : I swear sometimes. Especially when I drink.

  Victor : Me too.

  Beatrice : Fuck.

  Victor : Shit.

• Victor : I thought you talk a lot.

  Beatrice : I thought you don't.

  Victor : It must be the company. Usually I don't.

• Beatrice : I was involved in a car accident last year. I was a beautician before. They rebuilt part of my face, but it's... it's kind of hard to give advice on beauty now. And, uh, I have to smile a lot in my job, and most of the time it hurts to smile.

  Victor : I don't get to smile so much. My work.

  Beatrice : No?

  Victor : No. Maybe you and I should switch jobs.

• Beatrice : [to Victor]  I never thought about it before. Revenge. But, when I saw you kill that man in your apartment, I knew I had my answer.

• Victor : I don't want you to do that. Bring me food.

  Beatrice : My ma likes to cook. It'll just go to waste otherwise. I'll wedge it in between the mustard and those plastic explosives.

• Beatrice : He didn't pay!

  Victor : Stop saying that! I understand.

  Beatrice : You're going to do it.

  Victor : What I did has nothing to do with you!

  Beatrice : You have to do this. He ruined my life. I have nothing. I am nothing. I want it done as soon as possible. Then I will forget. I will begin my life. And I will forget that I ever met you.

  Victor : [yelling]  Do you know what it is to kill a man?

  Beatrice : I will forget that I ever met you.

  Victor : Well it's not a bug! It's not a rat!

  Beatrice : I will never kill a bug or a rat. He's much worse than these things!

  Victor : You don't know what you're getting into with me. You've no fucking idea!

• Beatrice : When I manage to forget what happened to me, when there are no mirrors and no people that reminds me, when my mom makes me laugh... in these moments, I have hope.

  [pause] 

  Beatrice : My ma... my ma says that I, um... it is these moments that makes the pain bearable. These moments, where I should try to find them where I can and hang onto them. But they're fleeting. And then I remember and... and I'm filled with so much hate. It's like I want to set the whole world on fire.

• Beatrice : Have you made any progress?

  Victor : I will.

  Beatrice : I know. Because I realize now that if I call the police and tell them what I saw, it's not prison you're afraid of. It's that you won't get to finish your revenge.

• Beatrice : These men, they don't seem easy to beat. And you might have used up all your luck. So...

  [hands Victor a rabbit's foot] 

  Victor : It's yellow?

  Beatrice : Chartreuse. Keep it. I need you around.

  Victor : Rabbits don't come in chartreuse.

• Beatrice : I - I found a moment with you. I want to hang onto it.

  Victor : It's not gonna end up that way. I never said it would.

  Beatrice : Not with words.

• Victor : My real name is Laszlo Kerick, and I was born in Hungary. A few years ago my wife and I came to America. I was an engineer before. We came here looking for work. Took an apartment in a building. It was a building they wanted to control.

  Beatrice : The men I saw?

  [Victor silently nods] 

  Victor : They got most people out of the building. One night they came and they fired some shots. To scare us, so we would leave. A bullet went through a wall and my daughter was killed while she slept.

  [pause] 

  Victor : We were going to testify. My wife and I. But the man responsible for it all, Alphonse - he gave his orders to make sure he never went to trial. And they were followed. He was afraid to use his own guys, so they sent a crew of Albanians after us. They killed my wife, and they thought they killed me too. And they should've made sure of it.

• Beatrice : You have to take off your shoes. My mom likes to keep the floor clean.

• Beatrice : This is the man who hit my car when he was drunk. This is the man who did this to me. I want you to kill him. As you did with the man in your apartment.

  Victor : Wait a minute.

  Beatrice : No! If you don't do it, I'll call the police and tell them what I saw.

  Victor : What the fuck are you talking...

  Beatrice : His BMW. It's fixed. As if it never happened. But I can't be fixed. He served three weeks. Three weeks for what he did to me.

• Florence : I was worried when you didn't contact my friend. Nicolas - therapist. He really did wonders helping me out. He could help you.

  Beatrice : I found someone else.

  Florence : As long as you're getting the help you need.

  Beatrice : Yeah. I'm in good hands.