Eraser (1996)
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Eraser
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Quotes
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[Johnny C is working as a bartender in a drag club. John comes to see him]
Johnny C : I got one question: was it your idea to hook me up with the Village People here?
John : Well, you're safe, aren't you?
Johnny C : Well, from the mob, yeah. I mean no self-respecting wiseguy would ever be caught dead in a joint like this. Only... do me one favor. Don't let it out that I'm straight, all right? I don't wanna break any hearts or nothing.
John : Trust me.
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John : [to dead alligator] You're luggage!
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John : Do you remember when you told me that if I ever needed anything, I could come to you?
Johnny C : Yes.
John : Well, I need your help.
Johnny C : Wait, you want my help?
John : Yes... right now.
Johnny C : You got it!
[to the bartender]
Johnny C : Evan! Look, cover me at the bar for a few seconds. I gotta go home and help out a friend here.
Evan the Bartender : [looking at John] Who is he? He looks rough!
Johnny C : Please, don't start. It's not what you think.
John : I'm sorry, do you two need a moment alone?
Johnny C : We're fine, thanks.
John : Just an idea.
Johnny C : Evan here just... worries about me. He and I...
[John smirks at Johnny insinuating what it means]
Johnny C : Don't ask!
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[the phone rings]
Undersecretary of Defense Daniel Harper : It's for you.
[takes the phone]
Robert : Yeah?
John : [over phone] You've just been erased.
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John : There's a major arms deal going down. A U.S. contractor is selling out to international terrorists.
[Tony and his whole crew start laughing]
Tony Two Toes : Mr. Sixty Minutes, tell me something I don't know.
John : It's going to happen tonight, on your docks.
Tony Two Toes : [stops laughing] *That* I didn't know.
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Sal : We heard you got whacked.
Johnny C : Yeah, must have been some other guy.
Tony Two Toes : Yeah? Was it some other guy who ratted out Vincenzo Canelli?
Johnny C : Hey, Canelli's a piece of shit.
Tony Two Toes : I got no love for Canelli, either. But you crossed the line, Johnny.
Johnny C : Hey, I'm still here.
Tony Two Toes : Nah, that don't matter. What you did was wrong, John.
John : [entering] No, what he did got a drug dealer and his poison off the streets.
Tony Two Toes : Whose da tree trunk?
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John : Don't move, you're dead.
[takes a photo]
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Johnny C : You want me to help you break into Cyrez?
John : Yeah.
Johnny C : What, are you shitting me? When you said you needed my help, I thought you wanted me to help you move a sofa or something.
John : Pull over, up ahead.
Johnny C : Alright, I'm gonna help you out here... All we are gonna need is some tanks, a couple of rocket launchers, and a set of balls like, uh... the King of Bayonne.
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John : Lee, this is Father Rodriguez.
Lee : How do you do?
Father Rodriguez : Of course, I wasn't always Father Rodriguez. You might say I was born again, with a little help from our friend here.
John : Some of his Colombian associates wanted to introduce him to God personally.
Father Rodriguez : I've been given a second chance at life. I'm using it to do God's work.
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Agent : This is Special Agent John Kruger. He'll be handling your personal security.
Lee : My protection?
John : New identity, relocation, I'll take you through it step by step.
Lee : What are you talking about? I'm not going anywhere!
John : You're in an extremely high risk situation, Miss Cullen. That should've been explained to you.
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John : That weapon, it came from your company, right?
Lee : Yes. It's an EMP prototype, it's not even supposed to exist.
John : EMP?
Lee : Electro-Magnetic Pulse. No gunpowder, no conventional bullets. They fire caseless aluminum shells at nearly the speed of light.
John : You're talking about the rail gun?
Lee : [surprised] That's right.
John : The Navy has been working on those for years. But the smallest one I've ever seen is mounted on a battleship.
Lee : Cyrez was contracted to scale them down, design a man-portable version. The most powerful assault rifle on earth. They took millions, then said the physics were impossible.
John : It looked real enough to me.
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John : Don't move. You're dead.
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[John wakes up from a drug-induced sleep]
Robert : Confused, pal? New York.
John : You're off course.
Robert : No, no we're not. You're gonna take us to her John.
[John reaches for his gun. Robert holds up his gun in a plastic bag]
Robert : You did a very, very bad thing, John. You killed Monroe. Now that makes you the mole.
John : No, that makes you a murderer.
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U.S. Marshal John 'The Eraser' Kruger : [the teaser trailer] Relax! You've been erased.
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Robert : [52:05] I'm a businessman. A very serious businessman
John : Businessmen. Selling weapons with your old CIA pals. Is it just the money or are you trying to start your own dirty little war somewhere?
Robert : Wars. John John, I mean wars they come and go. We did 'nam we lost, we did the gulf we won, hey. What changed, John? Nothing. Nothing ever does. The only difference is who gets rich and who gets dead.
John : You must be a very rich man by now.
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Lee : [On the computer on Donahue's office] How are we doing ?
John : You were right about Donahue, he left himself a back door. But we've still got to break his code.I'd figure we've that we have about five or six minutes until they trace us.
[scrolling through the records]
John : Do you recognize any of this?
Lee : No. But, we're getting warm, it's an accounting format.
John : Okay, stop me if I get lucky.
Lee : Now those are offshore banking deposits here it is UBS, that's United Bank of Syria.
John : $52 million? If it's an arms sale, it's a major one. Let's see who their buyer is.
Lee : Sergei Ivanovich Petrofsky ? Who's that?
John : [sighs] Bad news. He runs a cartel in the Russian mafia, selling drugs, guns, and influence to some very unpleasant people.
[Scrolls lower]
John : There it is, delivery date. Tonight, midnight? A thousand units at Baltimore Harbor.
Lee : Thousand units of what?
[Screen reveals the item]
Lee : An EM gun.
John : A *thousand* EM guns.
Lee : Are they insane? If these things get offshore...
John : There'll be a whole new era of world terrorism.
