Nomad quotes from Heart of Stone (2023)

View Quote Nomad: What's happened? I need to know what's happened. How long were we compromised?
Jack of Hearts: Three minutes and 45 seconds. Running a system check now.
Nomad: We need to know what they accessed. Is the Locker safe? Boom.
Jack of Hearts: The Locker is still high with the Locker safe inside, 85,000 feet up. No one's getting up there without a Space Shuttle. It's passing over the Atlantic towards West Africa.
Nomad: And the other suits, can they still access the Heart?
Jack of Hearts: Looks like it-- Jesus.
Nomad: What?
Jack of Hearts: There's been 100,000 attempts to access files. Clubs teams are analyzing the date, but looks like our security held.
Stone: We need to shut it down now.
Nomad: Shut what, down? The Heart?
Stone: Until we know what they've done. We have no idea of what they're capable of.
Jack of Hearts: Don't shut it down to find out what they've done. We'd be harming ourselves.
Stone: We don't know. She's not stupid.
Jack of Hearts: And neither are we.
Stone: Sure about that? Because right now.
Nomad: Rachel, Rachel. He's right. We'll sort it.
Stone: "We"?
Nomad: A word in private. Now.
Stone: I told you. I knew Keya was playing us, playing the Heart.
Nomad: No, you didn't. No, you didn't. You had a feeling. Nothing... nothing concrete, nothing actionable. A mood! A notion! A hunch! A bollocks! We don't trade in those!
Stone: I knew she wouldn't be there.
Nomad: You ignored the Heart and you went back in.
Stone: To save my team.
Nomad: They weren't your team! They died anyway! You going back made sure of that. You blew your cover! If you'd left when we told you to, Parker would've followed you, we'd have caught him and Bailey and Yang might be alive!
Stone: I should've just listened to the Heart?!
Nomad: Yes. The Charter exists for one reason. To maximize lives. That's the only moral metric there is. And it's a calculation. A pure and objective calculation.
Stone: Made for us by a machine.
Nomad: Have you forgotten how radical this is? It doesn't mean that what we do is easy or feels nice. you'll have the voices of those people in your head for the rest of your life. And you will never not feel responsible for them ever. But the end justifies the means.
Stone: I spent every day with Parker for a year and didn't see it coming.
Nomad: No. Neither did the Heart.
Stone: So, what do we do now?
Nomad: I'm... gonna make some tough choices, and this is the first one. I'm standing you down, Rachel. Go home. Get some rest. Keep your head down. Don't do anything stupid.
Stone: You can't do this.
Nomad: You're compromised. Parker knows you. Dhawan knows you. And the other, quite Kings... don't know if you can be trusted.
Stone: And you?
Nomad: I want to protect what we've spent 20 years trying to build.
Stone: So, I'm just out.
Nomad: It's about the greater good. it's nothing personal.
Stone: No. I'm starting to see that.

View Quote [Nomad is meeting with all Charter kings at an opera house]
King of Clubs: All four kings in the same room. How long has it been, three years?
King of Diamonds: Not long enough.
King of Spades: So, who is this Parker, and how did we miss him?
Nomad: Career intelligence agent. Born in Belfast, lives alone. He has no one to care for.
King of Diamonds: There's nothing much to live for. He has devoted his life to a country that sees him as expendable.
King of Spades: Okay. We get it. All that is fuel for the fire. But it won't burn without a spark.
King of Diamonds: I was getting to that. I had to lean extremely hard on some very old friends for this. Chechnya, December 2015.
Nomad: What's this?
King of Spades: It was before your time. Before the Heart, for that matter. A Chechen warlord was given free rein by the Chechen and Russian governments. the West, as always, was looking the other way.
King of Diamonds: He was wiping out whole villages, trying to stamp out dissent.
Nomad: But... what's this got to do with Parker?
King of Diamonds: He was there. Different identity. No electronic records. But he was there, with MI6, delivering weapons to take the warlord out. Intelligence came through from MI6 that their entire team had been executed. We thought there was no one left to save.
King of Clubs: The region was a tinderbox, on the verge of civil war.
King of Diamonds: We had a drone that was stationed overhead armed with missiles.
King of Clubs: I gave the order myself.
King of Diamonds: We made it look like the rebel force had ordered the drone strike. MI6 buried their mistake. No report, no investigation. No record of the personnel who had been involved. We thought everyone had died. Until a few hours ago.
Nomad: What a mess.
King of Spades: So, you think... he knows it was us?
King of Diamonds: I think it's a safe assumption. And now he wants to destroy the Charter.

View Quote [Stone is freefalling towards the airship]
Jack of Hearts: We have a something approaching fast. A something? Thirty seconds out.
Nomad: What is it?
Jack of Hearts: I think-- I think it's a someone.
Nomad: Who is that? Go in closer?
Jack of Hearts: Is that...?
Nomad: It's Stone!

View Quote Helicopter pilot: I have to descend. Lower the rotor speed. Copy that. See you in seven minutes.
Nomad: [Stone appears to have difficulty landing on the airship, going under] She's not gonna make it.
Parker: [Stone maneuvers upwards and succeeds in landing on top of the airship and Parker has spotted her] Look who it is. I'm gonna need a minute [Draws a handgun and Keya thwarts him]
Keya: No! The ship's lining is filled with hydrogen, one spark and we're all dead!
Jack of Hearts: No way to get ahold of her.
Nomad: Come on, Rachel, come on.
Stone: [Stone walks up airship structural beam] It's over Keya.
Keya: For who?
Parker: I told you not to get out of the van.
Stone: You also told me to have some fun.
Jack of Hearts: It's gone.
Keya: Now you answer to me.
Jack of Hearts: We have lost the Heart.
Nomad: Not yet.
Keya: Parker. Ninety seconds. Let's go.
Parker: [Parker has caused Stone to lose footing on airship structural beam and Stone has torn her parachute hanging off it] Shame about your parachute. You'll be needing that.
[The airship is imploding and Parker and Keya have secured a rope from a helicopter and Stone successfully jumps ahold of the rope and she successfully separates Keya from Parker's helicopter rope by cutting it]
Parker: Get after them.
Helicopter pilot: Impossible. We'll be lucky to get to base as it is.
Keya: [Keya and Stone are in free fall with airship debris raining down on them and Stone is trying to get ahold of Keya] Get away! Leave me alone! [Debris burns a hole in the parachute so they both land hard in the Senegalese Lompoul desert]

View Quote Jiang: We're approaching now. We'll see you on the other side.
Nomad: You're going in with them?
Jiang: I ordered the strike on Parker. It's only fair. You know... I would have made the same call in Chechnya.
Nomad: Thanks. The right-- I've lost contact. The Heart's online.
Jack of Spades: No, no, no, no. We're locked in. Oh God, they've shut off our ventilation system. No, no, no, no.
Nomad: Jack, how long we got? At this rate, an hour and we're out of oxygen.
Parker: The Charter never worries about who gets in their way. Neither will we. King of Hearts is locked in. They'll be dead in an hour.

View Quote Nomad: Stone, thank god, where are you?
Stone: Clubs are dead. University was a trap. I have new intel. A new location.
Nomad: We've-- We've lost Clubs? What new Intel?
Stone: Keya. She shut down the Heart.
Nomad: How do you know she's not playing you?
Stone: I don't.
Nomad: We're gonna die in less than an hour. They shut down our air supply.
Stone: What?
Nomad: She shut down our air supply.
Stone: Parker did. I believe her, Nomad. I'd be dead too if I hadn't listened to her. I trust her, and you need to trust me.
Nomad: Fifty minutes.
Stone: I can work with that.
Nomad: I'll see you. You too.