The Beekeeper (2024)

Josh Hutcherson: Derek Danforth

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• Derek Danforth : How is any of this my fault ?

• President Danforth : You're a good looking kid. You really are. You know that?

  Derek Danforth : [suspiciously]  What does that mean?

  President Danforth : It means that God doesn't give with both hands.

• Mickey Garnett : What if I find this guy? Then what?

  Derek Danforth : You -- you get a wrecking crew together, and you go Goodfellas on him. I mean, come on, you're a connected guy, right?

• Derek Danforth : You're scared.

  Wallace Westwyld : Dead right I'm scared. Terrified. So should you be.

  Derek Danforth : Wallace, just tell me what the fuck this guy is.

  Wallace Westwyld : He's probably the last pair of eyes that you're going to sneer at.

• Mickey Garnett : [Looking at the burned-out shell of the call center]  It seems we had a disgruntled customer.

  Derek Danforth : Uh, I just can't comprehend why you're bothering me. Just get in touch with the attorney, and start shoving back.

  Mickey Garnett : Well, yeah, I -- I -- I don't think that legal's gonna -- gonna help much.

  Derek Danforth : Okay, tell me what the fuck is going on, right now.

  Mickey Garnett : This dude just strolls in, saying we're stealing from people, and he just tears through all my security guys like fucking tissue paper and, um...

  Derek Danforth : And what?

  Mickey Garnett : And he burns the place to the ground. Yeah. The call center is gone. I'm standing here staring at a $30 million building. It's, it's now -- it's just a giant fucking ashtray. Four people didn't get out.

  Derek Danforth : You're telling me that this asshole burnt the entire building down, and dropped four fucking bodies? Yeah, that's not exactly a disgruntled customer, is it?

• Adam Clay : [speaking to Derek Danforth via Mickey Garnett's cell phone]  Who do I have the pleasure of speaking with?

  Derek Danforth : Fuck you. That's who. You burned down my million-dollar fucking call center.

  Adam Clay : Now I'm gonna burn you down. You haven't told me your name.

  Derek Danforth : I told you my name. It's fuck you. Mr. Fuck You. You better fucking remember it, because you don't burn *me* down -- I burn *you* down. You understand me? You are fucking with forces that you cannot comprehend.

  Adam Clay : You sound young. I bet you don't have estate planning.

  Derek Danforth : I'm fucking 28-years-old. Why would I need that?

  Adam Clay : I'm about to show you.

• Lazarus : Fuck, bruh! How'd you piss this oak off, huh?

  Wallace Westwyld : I...

  [points to Derek] 

  Derek Danforth : You're looking at me?

  Wallace Westwyld : Mm-hmm.

  Derek Danforth : How is any of this my fault? Wasn't your supersecret CIA data mining software supposed to, I don't know, maybe filter out un-fucking-stoppable killing machines?

  Wallace Westwyld : Don't you fuck with me, young man! Any other life, you'd be in jail!

• Derek Danforth : [trying in vain to hide the cocaine he was snorting]  Hey, uh, you -- you look fucking great, by the way. I mean, power just -- it just looks so good on you.

  President Danforth : Doing blow on your father's desk... God, how I wish he was still alive so I could kill him.

• [last lines] 

  Derek Danforth : Sorry Mom

• Wallace Westwyld : [in the President's beach-side mansion]  Get the Secret Service out of the house. I don't want them here. They're C team. B team at best.

  Derek Danforth : Uh, Mom's detail is not gonna like that.

  Wallace Westwyld : Well, if Mom's detail gets in the way of what's coming for us, they're dead men, and so are we.