The Scorpion King (2002)

Grant Heslov: Arpid

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Quotes 

• [Mathayus, Arpid, and the Sorceress have stopped at a pond] 

  The Sorceress : What do you think? Is it safe to drink?

  Arpid : Woo hoo!

  [Arpid jumps into the pond] 

  Mathayus : Not any more.

• Balthazar : Where do you think you're going with my horse?

  Arpid : To Gomorrah. Nothing we can say will stop him.

  Balthazar : Without your sorceress?

  Mathayus : She returned to save the lives of your people. I won't let her face Memnon's wrath alone. Step aside.

  Balthazar : Akkadian, you're riding to your death. If I let you ride alone...

  [pause. Balthazar grins] 

  Balthazar : what glory would there be left for me?

• [after getting inside the city gates] 

  Mathayus : All right, that was the easy part. Everybody know what to do?

  Balthazar : Cripple the guards.

  Philos : Ignite the powder.

  Arpid : And try not to get killed.

• Arpid : Let me tell you, after a hard day of looting and pillaging, there is no greater city than Gomorrah... except maybe Sodom.

• [Mathayus and Arpid are buried up to their necks in sand. Around them, the guard drops burning scraps of cloth into the ant mounds] 

  Arpid : Fascinating, isn't it? The smoke, it causes the fire ants to abandon their homes, you see?

  [the fire ants swarm out of the mounds, towards them] 

  Arpid : All the sooner to feast on our naked heads.

  [laughs] 

  Mathayus : You think this is funny?

  Arpid : It's a little bit funny, yes. You see, I am about to escape, while you on the other hand are about to die a horrible death, for leaving me to die last night!

• Arpid : So, where are we going?

  Mathayus : The Valley of the Dead.

  Arpid : The Valley of the Dead? Nobody goes to the Valley of the Dead. That's why they call it the Valley of the Dead!

  [the Scorpion King & the sorceress ride away on the camel] 

  Arpid : Wait for me, please!

• Arpid : [tied upside down over a fire]  Stop! Stop, listen to me! I am a high priest of Set! Spare me, and I shall bless thee in five different languages!

  Torturer : You'll scream in five different languages, horse thief.

• [Mathayus revives an unconscious Arpid] 

  Arpid : What happened?

  Mathayus : You got us in! I knew you could do it. A jug of your finest wine for my road-weary friend here.

  Arpid : Wait a minute... the last thing that, that I remember was this huge Akkadian fist coming straight into my...