Most scenes together: Tom Ripley & Jonathan Trevanny (7)
Are we going to get away with it?
Why not?
I've just never been the sort of person to get away with things. At school, other kids got away with all sorts. But not me. I always got caught.
You know why you got caught?
Why?
Because you didn't think of just killing your teachers.
Are you scared?
No. [pause, still calmly] I am **** terrified.
Jesus, this waiting! I can't stand this waiting.
When I was a little boy, I waited on the beach for hours for my parents to come back from a boat ride. They drowned. [pause] I waited forever.
One of them's still alive.
How do you know?
Well, I heard it on the world news.
Jesus. I always figured you for a talk radio man. Okay, well, I guess I didn't strangle him long enough. It's not like a garrote comes with a manual.
Ah, one of them got a very, very good look at me.
Jonathan, that's the first rule of the game. Don't ever worry about anything you can't control, ever. Anyway, I don't think they can trace us here and if they get close, I'll let you know.
What about my family? I'm just worried about my family.
Well, don't worry. If they come for anyone, they'll come for me. I think these Balkan types tend to take strangling quite personally.
Luisa Harari He's got leukaemia.
Is drunken pomposity a symptom?
Luisa Harari No. He's just English.
I don't know how much you...
How much I...drink? Bathe? Work out?
How much you know about Jonathan's condition.
Nothing. I'm an innocent.
Jonathan has chronic myeloid leukemia.
Thank you. So, this opportunity came up for him to get a second opinion at this research foundation. [quietly] He doesn't talk about it much, but I know he's angry. He's angry because... he'll probably die soon, while the rest of us go on living. And he's angry to be so young. And he's angry that he might not see Matthew grow up.
And what about you? Are you angry?
Sometimes. I love him completely, but... I feel there's a part of me that will be glad when it's all over...and that's a terrible thing to say.
I don't think you could say anything that terrible, or think it. I don't think what you're feeling is terrible at all. I think Jonathan is very, very fortunate to have someone like you, and I imagine he knows it.
Do you the interesting thing about doing something terrible?
What?
Often, after a few days, you can't even remember it.
You're not planning on singing me through the door, are you?
Reeves I've got the Carregio in here.
Well, you're not coming in.
Reeves I'm **** coming in.
No, because it's not a Carr-egg-io, it's a Correggio. Just like it's not tacco but ta-a-cco. Not pasto but pasta, see? Your entire education comes from classic car magazines and you dress like you're on a condom run for the mob. By the way, it isn't a Correggio, it's a fake Rembrandt, and until you know that, you're not coming in with me.
Reeves Don't **** me over here, prat!
Don't threaten me. I'm not the one wearing an earring.
I know I should thank you, because I wouldn't be alive now if you hadn't helped me.... but I can't. I can't say thank you. I don't know anything about you. Who are you?
I'm a creation. A gifted improviser. I lack your conscience and, when I was young, that troubled me. It no longer does. I don't worry about being caught because I don't think anyone is watching. The world is not a poorer place because those people are dead — it's not. It's one less car on the road, a little less noise and menace. You were brave today. You'll go home and put some money away for your family. That's all.
If you "lack my conscience," then why did you help me on the train?
I don't know, but it doesn't surprise me. If there's one thing I know, it's that we're constantly being born.
But why me? Why did you pick me?
Partly because you could. Partly because you insulted me. But mostly because that's the game. [checks watch] We need to catch this flight. Shall we?
Oh, hi. You're here, then. Excellent. We were hoping you'd come.
Well, to... to add spice to the evening.
Meaning?
You're a bit of a local personality.
Meaning?
People have heard about you.
Meaning?
Nothing. Just... nothing.
Hold my watch, because if it breaks, I'll kill everyone on this train.
I want you to call the man who sent you here. I want you to tell him you got a very long look at the two of us, we were definitely not the people on the train. Do you understand? If you do that, you do it convincingly, you walk out of here, we give you half a million dollars, okay? If you don't do it convincingly, I take you out back, and I run my **** tractor over your head the rest of the day. Okay?
