Skyfall 2012 quotes, page 2

M

I **** this up, didn't I?

James Bond

No. You did your job. [beat] I read your obituary of me.

M

And?

James Bond

Appalling.

M

Yeah, I knew you'd hate it. I did call you an exemplar of British fortitude.

James Bond

Oh, that bit was alright.

James Bond

Are you ready?

Kincade

I was ready before you were born, son.

M

Well I'm not hiding in there, if that's your brilliant plan.

James Bond

We're changing vehicles. The problem with company cars is they have trackers.

M

Well, I suppose that's completely inconspicuous.

James Bond

Get in.

M

It's not very comfortable, is it?

James Bond

You gonna complain all the way?

M

Oh, go on then, eject me. See if I care.

M

Where are we going?

James Bond

Back in time. Somewhere we'll have the advantage.

M

Where the hell have you been?

James Bond

Enjoying death. 007 reporting for duty.

M

Why didn't you call?

James Bond

You didn't get the postcard? You should try it sometime. Get away from it all. It really lends perspective.

M

Ran out of drink where you were, did they?

James Bond

What was it you said? Take the bloody shot.

M

I made a judgment call.

James Bond

You should have trusted me to finish the job.

M

It was a possibility of losing you or the certainty of losing all those other agents. I made the only decision I could and you know it.

James Bond

I think you lost your nerve.

M

What are you expecting? A bloody apology? You know the rules of the game. You've been playing it long enough. We both have.

James Bond

Maybe too long.

M

Speak for yourself.

James Bond

Ronson didn't make it, did he?

M

No.

James Bond

So this is it. We're both played out.

M

If you believed that, why did you come back?

James Bond

Good question.

M

Because we're under attack. And you know we need you.

Raoul Silva

You're smaller then I remember.

M

Whereas I barely remember you at all.

Raoul Silva

It's strange; for me, it just feels like yesterday. Are you surprised?

M

Not particularly, but then you always were a slippery one.

Raoul Silva

Maybe that's why you liked me so much.

M

You flatter yourself.

Raoul Silva

No remorse. Just as I had imagined.

M

Regret is unprofessional.

Raoul Silva

"Regret is unprofessional?" They kept me for five months in a room with no air. They tortured me and I protected your secrets. I protected you. But they made me suffer and suffer [beat.] and suffer. Until I realized, it was you who betrayed me. You betrayed me. So I had only one thing left: my cyanide capsule in my back left molar. You remember, don't you? So, I broke the tooth and bit into the capsule. It burned all of my insides, but I didn't die. Life clung to me like a disease. And then I understood why I had survived. I needed to look into your eyes one last time.

M

Well, I hope it was worth it. Mr. Silva, you're going to be transferred to Belmarsh Prison, where you will be remanded in custody, until the Crown Prosecution Service deem you fit to stand trial-

Raoul Silva

Say my name. Say it. My real name. I know you remember it.

M

Your name is on the memorial wall of the very building you attacked. I will have it struck off. Soon, your past will be as non-existent as your future. I'll never see you again.

Raoul Silva

Do you know what it does to you? [They stop] Hydrogen cyanide? [he goes down on one knee, and removes a dental prosthesis from his upper palate, causing his left cheek to sag and revealing a gaunt, misshapen face and a row of rotted teeth.] Look upon your work, mother.
[M and Bond leave the room. Silva puts his dental prosthesis back into his mouth and he laughs hysterically at the look on M's face.]

M

Chairman, ministers, today I've repeatedly heard how irrelevant my department has become. Why do we need agents, the 00 section? Isn't it all rather quaint? Well, I suppose I see a different world than you do, and the truth is that what I see frightens me. I'm frightened because our enemies are no longer known to us. They do not exist on a map, they aren't nations. They are individuals. And look around you - who do you fear? Can you see a face, a uniform, a flag? No, our world is not more transparent now, it's more opaque! It's in the shadows - that's where we must do battle. So before you declare us irrelevant, ask yourselves - how safe do you feel? Just one more thing to say. My late husband was a great lover of poetry, and um - I suppose some of it sunk in, despite my best intentions. And here today, I remember this, I think, from Tennyson: "We are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are. One equal temper of heroic hearts, made weak by time and fate, but strong in will. To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

Kincade

Welcome to Scotland.

James Bond

I always hated this place.

Raoul Silva

Hello James, welcome. Do you like the island? [chuckles.] My grandmother had an island. Nothing to boast of. You could walk along it in an hour. But still, it was - it was a paradise for us. One summer, we went for a visit and discovered the place had been infested with rats. They'd come on a fishing boat and gorged themselves on coconut. So how do you get rats off an island, hmm? My grandmother showed me. We buried an oil drum and hinged the lid. Then we wired coconut to the lid as bait, and the rats would come for the coconut, and... [imitates metallic skittering.] ...they would fall into the drum. And after a month, you've trapped all the rats. But what did you do then? Throw the drum into the ocean? Burn it? No. You just leave it. And they begin to get hungry, and one by one... [imitates rat munching sound.] ...they start eating each other, until there are only two left. The two survivors. And then what - do you kill them? No. You take them and release them into the trees. But now they don't eat coconut anymore. Now they only eat rat. You have changed their nature. The two survivors. This is what she made us.

Raoul Silva

Not such a clever boy.

James Bond

The whole office goes up in smoke and that bloody thing survives?

Raoul Silva

Think on your sins.

Kincade

The night I told him his parents had died, he hid in here for two days. When he did come out, he wasn't a boy anymore.

M

Oh to hell with dignity, I'll go when the job is done.

Raoul Silva

Everyone, listen to me! Don't you dare touch her! She's MINE!

James Bond

The latest thing from Q Branch. It's called a radio.