Cube (1997)
Maurice Dean Wint: Quentin
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Quotes
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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.
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Quentin : You're telling me telethon boy is a genius?
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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!
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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!
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Quentin : I'm not dying in a fucking rat maze!
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Quentin : Who do you think the establishment is? It's just guys like me. Their desks are bigger, but their jobs aren't. They don't conspire, they buy boats.
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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?
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Quentin : You want to come with us, Worth? Down the hatch!
[Quentin drops Worth through a door in the floor, and Worth screams as he falls into the room below]
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Quentin : [talking to Holloway] You listen to me, woman. Every day I mop up after your bleeding heart. The only reason you even exist is because I keep you!. I know your type. No kids, no man to fuck you. So, you go around outraged, sticking your nose up other people's assholes. Sniffing their business.
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Quentin : Trust me on this. It's my job to read people like an x-ray.
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[last lines]
Quentin : Red Kazan.