Luther Stickell Well, well, well, if it isn't Mr."Those who can't do, teach" back in the field.
2nd most-quoted character in Mission: Impossible III (2006): in 17 of its 64 quotes
Most scenes with: Ethan Hunt (12)
He made it...he made it! [quitely] I knew he'd make it.
More lines from Luther Stickell
4 quotes Luther Stickell Luther Stickell Or have you been away for so long you've forgotten how good we are?
Luther Stickell The look in your eyes is the pain in my ass, you know that right?
Luther Stickell Wait, wait, Ethan, I'm not saying I have a better idea, but there's a point where bold becomes stupid.
Scenes with Luther Stickell
12 scenes Luther [On radio]
So Raider One, at some point, we got to go over this whole "getting married" thing.
Negative, Observer, I don't respect you nearly enough to have that conversation.
Luther Well you may not respect me, but for now you got my voice stuck in your head.
Luther (Luther is examining the microdot Ethan found on the postcard Lindsey sent him)
It's a microdot. A microdot with nothing on it, this is unusual.
Lindsey wouldn't send me a blank microdot.
Luther I'm telling you, man, this's no image.
Maybe you're not looking at the right place.
Luther Well where the hell am I supposed to look? There's not much square footage to this thing.
Luther I don't know. Why would Lindsey send you anything? You were her instructor, not her handler. [Ethan turns and stares at him] Look, I don't mean to cross the line here, but was there something going on between you two? You and Lindsey?
Lindsey was like my little sister.
Luther And you've...never slept with your little sister? [Ethan stares at him again] Look brother, if I don't ask you, who would?
The thing about Lindsey, is that she's brand new, sweet. Remember when you were sweet? Remember that far back?
Luther Yeah. Well, barely.
In Berlin you asked what I see in Julia. When I look at Julia, I see the life before all this. And that is good.
According to one of these e-mails, your Mr.Davian is going to attend a function in tomorrow afternoon at one Vatican City.
Luther What the hell's Davian doing in Vatican?
Well, it's all got to do with "the Rabbit's foot".
What is that?
I'm assuming it is a kind of code-word for a deadly weapon, something Davian is going to sell to his unspecified buyer for 850 millions, by the way. Or maybe it's not a code-name, maybe it is just a really, really expensive bunny appendage.
Do you have any ideas what it is?
It's interesting - I used to have this professor at Oxford, okay? Doctor Wickham, his name was and he was, like, this massive fat guy, you know? Huge, big guy. We used to call him - you know, well, I won't tell you what we used to call him, but he taught biomolecular kinetics and cellular dynamics. And he used to sort of scare the underclassmen with this story about how the world would eventually be eviscerated by technology. You see, it was inevitable that a compound would be created which he referred to as the 'Anti-God'. It was like an accelerated mutator or sort of, you know, like a, an unstoppable force of destructive power, that would just lay waste to everything - to buildings and parks and streets and children and ice cream parlors, you know? So whenever I see, like, a rogue organization willing to spend this amount of money on a mystery tech, I always assume...it's the Anti-God. End-of-the-world kinda stuff, you know... [pauses, Ethan and Luther gaze at him thoughtfully] But no, I don't have any idea what it is. I was just speculating.
Tomorrow is perhaps the only time we'll be able to predict where Davian will be: at Vatican City. Our mission, is to get in there, and kidnap Davian.
Luther I don't know what he's so happy about. I did remind him that the Vatican is the Vatican. An 109 acres Sovereign State in the middle of Rome, surrounded by a sixty foot wall, which is monitored 24/7, with over 200 CCTV cameras!
That's not even going make it a challenge.
Luther You see, normal relationship isn't viable for people like us.
I don't agreee with you.
Luther Then I'm smarter than you.
Luther (Luther tries to convince Ethan to give up trying to get married while making the facial mask of Davian)
I'm not proud of it, I'm not happy about it, but I've lived with a woman a few times, and didn't even make it for two years.
Thanks for your advice, I guess it is different to you than it is for me, I'm not in the field anymore.
Luther Oh-Okay, here's a retirement present. [hands him the mask, Ethan puts it on] Our job is always between you and a woman, always.
That's not true.
Luther Dishonesty, a dishonesty that poisons everything.
I've got to tell you something.
Luther Stop talking. This isn't about you, Ethan. Whoever this girl is, you're going to end up messing her life too, don't do it.
Luther [pause]
Congratulations.
Thanks. [applauses come from the hall outside]
(Davian's bodyguard enters the bathroom to find Ethan, who is disguised as Davian, Declan is holding the real, stunnded Davian inches from the bodyguard, hidden behind the door.)
Bodyguard Sir, is everything all right?
Luther [On radio]
Everything is not all right! Voice mask is still compiling, I'll need 30 second.
Bodyguard [The bodyguard stares at Ethan, confused, while Ethan stares back, then starts coughing]
Sir?
Luther Six seconds...
Bodyguard [Steps forward]
Sir?
Luther Okay, go!
(Ethan peeps through the trapdoor in Zhen's car and greets Luther and Declan, who are holding Davian in the manhole of the sewers beneath) [deadpan]
What's up.
Luther [deadpan]
Nuthin', what's up with you?
Oh, it's such a nice car.
And yet, do it.
Luther Listen, man, I didn't mean to be so cavalier the other day about you getting engaged.
I know that. Thanks.
Luther But a normal relationship isn't viable for people like us.
I don't agree with that.
Luther Then I'm smarter than you.
Now, if I get out with Julia, we win. If I don't, then... Look, then she's dead anyway. And so am I. You know? Goddamn it, it's 8:11-- it's 8:12. And we have two hours before they kill my wife. Are you in or not?
Luther Of course we're in.
Thanks again. I'll see you back home.
Luther Ethan... you know they're probably planning to kill you both.
Then I won't see you back home.
