Cube (1997)

David Hewlett: Worth

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• Leaven : [Leaven, Kazan & Worth reaching the exit of the cube]  What are you doing? You can't quit now. It's not your fault!

  Worth : I have nothing... to live for out there.

  Leaven : What is out there?

  Worth : Boundless human stupidity.

  Leaven : I can live with that.

• Holloway : It's all the same machine, right? The Pentagon, multinational corporations, the police. If you do one little job, you build a widget in Saskatoon, and the next thing you know, it's two miles under the desert, the essential component of a death machine. I was right! All along, my whole life, I knew it! I told you, Quentin. Nobody's ever going to call me paranoid again! We've gotta get out of here and blow the lid off this thing!

  Worth : Holloway, you don't get it.

  Holloway : Then help me, please. I need to know!

  Worth : This may be hard for you to understand, but there is no conspiracy. Nobody is in charge. It, it's a headless blunder operating under the illusion of a master plan. Can you grasp that? Big Brother is not watching you.

• Quentin : Why put people in it?

  Worth : Because it's here. You have to use it, or you admit it's pointless.

  Quentin : But it, it *is* pointless.

  Worth : Quentin... that's my point.

• Quentin : Is that your two cents worth, Worth?

  Worth : For what it's worth.

• Worth : This is an accident, a forgotten, perpetual public works project. You think anybody wants to ask questions? All they want is a clear conscience and a fat paycheck.

• Quentin : For Christ's sake, Worth, what do you live for? Do you have a wife, or a girlfriend, or something?

  Worth : Nope. I've gotta pretty fine collection of pornography.

• Quentin : Why don't you tell us what your purpose is, Worth?

  Worth : Often wondered that myself. I'm just a guy, I work in an office building doing office building stuff. I wasn't exactly bursting with joie de vivre before I got here, life just sucks in general.

  Holloway : Oh I can't stand that attitude.

  Leaven : 'Cos he's right.

• Holloway : [after Rennes is killed]  I think we *have* to ask the big questions! What does it want? What is it thinking?

  Worth : "One down, four to go."

• Quentin : Somebody has to take responsibility around here.

  Worth : And that somebody has to be you?

  Quentin : Not all of us have the luxury of playing nihilist.

  Worth : Not all of us are conceited enough to play hero.

• Worth : Hey! Listen to what I'm saying. We haven't been moving in circles, the rooms have.

• Holloway : What have we come to? It's so much worse than I thought.

  Worth : Not really. Just more pathetic.

• Worth : I don't wanna die, I'm just being realistic. Do you think they'd go to all the trouble to build this thing if we could just walk out?

  Quentin : Do you think they would have left us clues and let us beat it so far if there wasn't a way out?

  Worth : You think we matter? We don't.

  Quentin : Put us out of your misery so we can get on with getting out of here.

  Worth : Oh, you're not getting out of here.

  Quentin : Yes, we are!

  Worth : No, you're not!

  Quentin : Yes, we are!

  Worth : There is no way out of here!

• Worth : I'm the poison. I designed the outer shell.

• Leaven : Give me a minute. Okay. The numbers are markers; points on the map, right?

  Worth : Right.

  Leaven : And how do you map a point that keeps moving?

  Worth : Permutations.

  Quentin : Permu - what?

  Leaven : Permutations. A list of all the coordinates that the room passes through. Like, a map that tells you where the room starts, how many times it moves, and where it moves to.

  Quentin : The number tells you all that?

  Leaven : I don't know. See, I've been looking at only one point on the map. Which is probably the starting position. All I saw was what the Cube looked like before it started to move.

  Quentin : Okay, so it's moving. How do we get out?

  Leaven : 27. - I know where the exit is.

  Quentin : [standing up]  Where?

  Leaven : [ferociously]  Stay away from me.

  Worth : Back off, Quentin!

  Quentin : I just want to know. Don't you want to know?

  Leaven : [to Worth]  You remember that room we passed through before? The one with the coordinate larger than 26?

  Worth : What about it?

  Leaven : That coordinate placed the room outside the cube.

  Worth : A bridge!

  Leaven : Right! But only in its original position.

  Quentin : What are you talking about?

  Leaven : Look. The room starts off as a bridge. And then it moves its way through the maze, which is where we ran into it. But, at some point, it must return to its original position.

  Worth : So the bridge is only a bridge...

  Leaven : For a short period of time. This thing is like a giant combination lock. When the rooms are in their starting position, the lock is open. But when they move out of alignment, the lock closes!

• [They are staring, wide-eyed, at each other as they begin to understand the coding] 

  Leaven : How do you map a point that keeps moving?

  Worth : [He thinks for a few moments, then:]  Permutations.

  [They stare at each other again, realizing they've made a breakthrough] 

• Leaven : Is he dead?

  Worth : Not quite.

  Quentin : Not even close!

• Worth : We've been going in circles.

  Quentin : That can't be.

  Worth : [Quentin hauls Leaven off the ground and over to the window to the outside]  Where are we?

  Leaven : I don't know.

  Quentin : [roaring like a lion]  Where are we?

  Leaven : *You* figure it out! You haven't done anything! All you do is freak out, you murderer!

  [Leaven weeps, while Worth is oddly laughing. Quentin drops to the floor] 

  Quentin : I guess you were right, Worth. There is no way out of here.

  Quentin : [Quentin begins crying, and Kazan pats his head]  Get away from me.

  Worth : [Worth has been thinking, and he gets to his feet]  Wasn't Rennes killed in that room?

  [Worth re-opens the door to the darkness outside and asks:] 

  Worth : How come there's nothing out there?

  Quentin : It's the edge.

  Worth : We weren't at the edge before. Where's the room that killed Rennes?

  Quentin : [flings a boot out into the darkness]  Fuck off!

  Worth : Oh, that was good.

  Quentin : What difference does it make? We're dead anyways.

  Worth : Hey, listen to what I'm saying! There was a room there before. We haven't been moving in circles; the rooms have!

  Leaven : Of course.

  Quentin : Rooms...?

  Leaven : That explains the thunder and the shaking. We've been shifting the whole time.

  Leaven : It, it's the only logical explanation.

  [she climbs up to the window into darkness next to Worth] 

  Leaven : I'm such an idiot.

  Worth : What are you on to, Leaven?

• Worth : What do ya think?

  Leaven : You don't have a lot of lives left.