John Wick (2014)

Michael Nyqvist: Viggo Tarasov

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• Viggo Tarasov : I heard you struck my son.

  Aurelio : Yes, sir, I did.

  Viggo Tarasov : And may I ask why?

  Aurelio : Yeah, well, because he stole John Wick's car, sir, and, uh, killed his dog.

  Viggo Tarasov : [pause]  Oh.

• Viggo Tarasov : It's not what you did, son, that angers me so. It's who you did it to.

  Iosef Tarasov : Who? That fucking nobody?

  Viggo Tarasov : That "fuckin' nobody"... is John Wick. He once was an associate of ours. They call him "Baba Yaga."

  Iosef Tarasov : The Boogeyman?

  Viggo Tarasov : Well John wasn't exactly the Boogeyman. He was the one you sent to kill the fucking Boogeyman.

  Iosef Tarasov : [stunned]  Oh.

  Viggo Tarasov : John is a man of focus, commitment, sheer will... something you know very little about. I once saw him kill three men in a bar... with a pencil, with a fucking pencil. Then suddenly one day he asked to leave. It's over a woman, of course. So I made a deal with him. I gave him an impossible task. A job no one could have pulled off. The bodies he buried that day laid the foundation of what we are now. And then my son, a few days after his wife died, you steal his car and kill his fucking dog.

  Iosef Tarasov : Father, I can make this right.

  Viggo Tarasov : Oh? How do you plan that?

  Iosef Tarasov : By finishing what I started.

  Viggo Tarasov : [irritated, turning to Avi]  What the... did he hear a fuckin' word I said?

  Iosef Tarasov : [in Russian]  Dad, I can do this! Please!

  Viggo Tarasov : [pulls Iosef close, talks into his ear]  Iosef, Iosef! Listen! Huh? John will come for you, and you will do nothing because you can do nothing, so get the fuck out of my sight!

• John Wick : Viggo.

  Viggo Tarasov : Yeah?

  John Wick : When Helen died, I lost everything. Until that dog arrived on my doorstep... A final gift from my wife... In that moment, I received some semblance of hope... an opportunity to grieve unalone... And your son... took that from me.

  Viggo Tarasov : Oh, God.

  John Wick : Stole that from me... *Killed that from me*! People keep asking if I'm back and I haven't really had an answer. But now, yeah, I'm thinkin' I'm back. So you can either hand over your son or you can die screaming alongside him!

• Viggo Tarasov : What happened, John?... We were professionals... Civilized.

  John Wick : Do I look civilized to you?

• Viggo Tarasov : [calling John Wick on the telephone]  Hello, John.

  [John says nothing] 

  Viggo Tarasov : I heard about your wife, and I'm sorry. My condolences. It's, uh, seems to be fate, or happenstance, or just bad fuckin' luck caused our paths to cross once again.

  [John says nothing] 

  Viggo Tarasov : John?

  [John says nothing] 

  Viggo Tarasov : Let us not resort to our baser instincts and handle this like civilized men to move on...

  [John hangs up mid-sentence; Viggo puts down his phone in a resigned manner] 

  Avi : What'd he say?

  Viggo Tarasov : [pause]  Enough.

  Avi : [quietly]  Oh, God.

  Viggo Tarasov : Task your crew.

  Avi : H-how, how many?

  Viggo Tarasov : How many do you have?

• Viggo Tarasov : They know you're coming.

  John Wick : Of course... But it won't matter.

• Viggo Tarasov : John is a man of focus, commitment, sheer will, something you know very little about.

• Viggo Tarasov : [Viggo is dying]  Be seeing you, John

  John Wick : Yeah... Be seeing you.

• Viggo Tarasov : People don't change. You know that. Times, they do.

• Viggo Tarasov : I'll say this, John. They sure as fuck broke the mold with you.

• Viggo Tarasov : We are cursed, you and I.

  John Wick : On that we agree.

• Viggo Tarasov : Do you know what was in that vault? Artwork, cash, not without its worth, but the leverage I had on this city, audio recordings, physical evidence, blackmail, it was fuckin' priceless!

  [shouting] 

  Viggo Tarasov : PRICELESS!

  John Wick : [having destroyed the vault and its contents]  Yeah. I kind of enjoyed that.

• Marcus : To what do I owe this visit?

  Viggo Tarasov : I have a job for you.

  Marcus : And I've got a phone.