Ronin (1998)
Sean Bean: Spence
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Quotes
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Spence : [drawing a diagram on the white board - two circles with arrows pointing at each other] We got shooters here... shooters here. I'll tell you an old trick...
Sam : Hey.
[Sam puts his cup of coffee down on a table, walks over to the white board and rubs out Spence's diagram]
Spence : What's your problem?
Sam : Draw it again. Draw it again. You're the ace field man, draw it again. It's a simple diagram, just draw it again, draw what you saw.
[Spence just stands there]
Sam : Draw it again! Draw it again.
[Spence still does nothing so Sam takes the marker pen off him and redraws his diagram]
Sam : Two shooters, car comes through here, shooters across from each other, kill each other dead. Oh my, where'd you learn that? Huh?
Spence : In the regiment.
Sam : What regiment was that?
Spence : The 22nd Special Air Service.
Sam : What's the color of the boathouse at Hereford? What's the color of the boathouse at Hereford?
Spence : I don't like your attitude.
Sam : What's the color of the boathouse?
Spence : Oh, fuck off!
Sam : [moves closer to Spence, who backs away] You got the gun, I'm unarmed. Do something. Go ahead, do something. Do something. Do something.
[as he backs away, Spence bumps into the table with Sam's coffee cup on it, spilling hot coffee onto his leg. Sam grabs his neck and face and bends him backwards over a railing, completely overpowering him. He takes Spence's gun off of him, then releases him]
Sam : Tell me about an ambush? Tell me about an ambush? I ambushed you with a cup of coffee!
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[the arms dealers want to complete the deal inside a tunnel]
Sam : You aren't going in there?
Spence : Yeah, I'm going in there. And so are you.
Sam : Why am I going in there?
Spence : Why? To protect me.
Sam : There is no protection there. If it's a come-on, we're fish in a barrel. What are you doing? Why do they want you in there? What are you, crazy?
Spence : You know, you think too hard.
Sam : Nobody ever told me that before. But I wouldn't go in there.
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Spence : [in French] Don't make any sudden moves. Just because we're buying guns doesn't mean we didn't bring any.
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Spence : Got the swag, kept the money, job well done! That's a fact, that is a fact!
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Spence : [in the car, escaping from the scene of a shoot-out] Almost a bit of raspberry jam back there, eh? A bit of raspberry jam back there!
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Spence : What do you use, weapons-wise?
Sam : Hm?
Spence : Weapons. I'm a weapons man.
Sam : Weapons man?
Spence : Yeah. They tend to settle the argument. So what do you favour?
Sam : Oh, you know, it's a toolbox. I don't care, you put the tools in for the job, that's all.
Spence : What?
Sam : You know, I actually favour the old 1911.
Spence : .45. Old gun.
Sam : It served my country well. A long time.
Spence : Your country. Not done too well though, have you, last few wars?
Sam : Perhaps not, but at least we don't go around whining about it.
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Spence : [Sam asks Larry not to light a cigarette] Bad for the night vision, yeah?