Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)

Derrick O'Connor: Pieter Vorstedt

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Quotes 

• Arjen "Aryan" Rudd : Mr. Getz got away. A missed opportunity and he gets away. He slips right through our fingers, and into the hands of the police.

  [catches Pieter staring at the floor around him] 

  Arjen "Aryan" Rudd : What are you doing?

  Pieter Vorstedt : I was just checking to see if I was standing on plastic.

• Pieter Vorstedt : I was going to offer you a drink, Riggs, but I hear you're on the wagon these days.

  Martin Riggs : Yeah, that stuff'll kill you quick. Listen, you know so much about me; who the hell are you?

  Pieter Vorstedt : I'm the guy that changed the course of your life, man. 4 years ago, Riggs, when you were a narc down in Long Beach, you were getting too close to us so we put a contract out on you. I handled it myself; drove your car right off the fucking road, remember? Now, of course, you weren't driving. You can't imagine the surprise. I pulled back this matted mop of blood-soaked hair to see this woman's face... your wife, right? She didn't die straightaway... took a bit of time.

  [Riggs angrily charges for Vorstedt, but is restrained] 

  Pieter Vorstedt : Don't know much luck with women, do you, Riggs?

• Pieter Vorstedt : What is going on down here?

  Martin Riggs : Freeze dickhead! Get down here dickhead. Come on, it's been a bad day!

• [Vorstedt and his goons have broken into Murtaugh's house and have gagged him and Trish] 

  Pieter Vorstedt : I bet you're wondering what we've done to your kids, aren't ya?

  [squeals and groans from the Murtaugh's] 

  Pieter Vorstedt : I'll bet your mind is going fucking bananas, isn't it?

  [more squeals and groans] 

  Pieter Vorstedt : Now this has just been a warning. Next time it will get bloody. Now you tell your people to *back off*. Don't you go being a smart kaffir. Perhaps we'll let you live, ja.

  [Vorstedt and goons leave] 

• [In Rudd's office, Hans meets Rudd & Vorstedt after losing the Krugerrands in the chase] 

  Arjen Rudd : Hans, come in.

  [points in front of his desk] 

  Arjen Rudd : Mind the plastic. I'm having some painting done. Well now, the important thing is, are you all right? Any broken bones?

  Hans : I'm fine, thank you, Mr. Rudd.

  Arjen Rudd : Only a few bumps and bruises, eh?

  Hans : Yes, that's all.

  Arjen Rudd : Good, good.

  [pause] 

  Arjen Rudd : However, we did lose over a million dollars in Krugerrand.

  Hans : I know. I'm sorry, Mr. Rudd. It happens.

  Arjen Rudd : Ah, it's not your fault. Sometimes these things do not go as planned. As you say, they just happen... eh, Pieter?

  [Pieter shoots Hans. He falls dead onto the plastic, and Pieter starts wrapping its edges around his body] 

  Pieter Vorstedt : You give a new meaning to the phrase "drop-cloth," Mr. Rudd.

• [Vorstedt bursts in on Wyler in the middle of a weight routine] 

  Pieter Vorstedt : Hello, Wyler. This just isn't your day. Just like your buddy, Murtaugh. Tell me something. Have your brains ever seen the light of day?

  Tom Wyler : Who the fuck do you think you are, man? I'm a cop!

  Pieter Vorstedt : No. You *were* a cop, Wyler.

  [shoots him] 

• Arjen Rudd : Certain policemen in this city have become an intolerable nuisance. They are obviously onto us again. How do you propose to handle it?

  Pieter Vorstedt : [with cigarette in mouth]  Warn them off. It's my experience that a scared cop is more useful than a dead one.

  Arjen Rudd : A warning? Is that not a bit tame?

  Pieter Vorstedt : Depends on how you do it.

  [about 25 minutes later into film after a very scary warning that still didn't stop the police from bothering them] 

  Arjen Rudd : Things are getting out of hand. We are suffering too many losses. We have to move the cash in one large shipment.

  Pieter Vorstedt : We'll need something bigger than a suitcase.

  Arjen Rudd : I'll worry about that. You worry about the police. The warning did not work.