The Wicker Man (2006)

Molly Parker: Sister Rose, Sister Thorn

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• Edward Malus : [38:16]  You little liars. Rowan Woodward IS your classmate, isn't she? ISN'T SHE? That is HER desk! And you're the biggest liar of them all. I am warning you, you tell me another and I'll arrest you myself. That is a promise, MISS...

  Sister Rose : Rose, SISTER Rose.

  Edward Malus : Of course, another plant! Rose!

• Sister Rose : And Daisy, will you tell us what man represents in his purest form?

  [pause] 

  Sister Rose : Yes?

  Chorus of schoolgirls : [whole classroom raises hands]  Phallic symbol! Phallic symbol!

  [Edward laughs awkwardly] 

• Edward Malus : What happened to her?

  Sister Rose : She'll burn to death.

  Edward Malus : Excuse me, what did you say?

  Sister Rose : Precisely what I meant to say: "She burned to death."

• Sister Rose : Mr. Malus, no one is lying to you. I told you that if Rowan Woodward existed, we would know of her.

  Edward Malus : If she existed? If?

  Sister Rose : But you cannot come barging into our...

  Edward Malus : I just saw that she existed with my own two eyes. And I suppose her mother is lying to me, too, huh? She's lying?

  Sister Rose : Not lying, no. Grieving. We all are.

  Edward Malus : Wait, wait, wait, wait. When you say that she's grieving, you mean that Rowan is... dead?

  Sister Rose : You would say so, yes.

  Edward Malus : She's dead or she isn't.

  Sister Rose : We never use that word here.

  Edward Malus : [sarcastic]  No, that'd be too quixotic.

  Sister Rose : Yes.

• Sister Rose : [Malus interrupts her school lesson]  I was unaware any of my girls needed arresting.

  Edward Malus : They don't, no. I'm just up here to find a missing girl whom people are pretending doesn't exist.

  Sister Rose : How quixotic of you.

  Edward Malus : Quixotic?

  Sister Rose : From "Don Quixote"; pursuer of lofty but impractical ideals.

• Dr. T.H. Moss : You came to find our little Rowan. But it is we who found you, just as we intended to do.

  Edward Malus : I don't understand. Rowan was missing. I had to come. I had a letter. Willow, tell them. Willow, please tell them.

  Sister Beech : The letter was from all of us here. Your invitation to visit... one might say.

  Sister Summersisle : You see, you were just the man we needed. And we were determined to get you here.

  Sister Rose : Notice, Sir Knight, how we led you to believe that your daughter would be sacrificed, due to the failure of the crops last year.

  Edward Malus : But they did fail. I saw the photo.

  Sister Summersisle : Yes, they failed, all right; disastrously so. One of the few times since my ancestors moved here. But we are always prepared with a powerful sacrifice. And that, my friend, is your destiny.

  Edward Malus : [aiming his gun around as he's circled]  BACK UP!

  Sister Summersisle : What we require is a stranger, yet one who is connected to us.

  Sister Rose : Connected by blood.

  Edward Malus : Willow... why have you done this to me?

  Sister Willow : We orchestrated all of this with the greatest care; everything that's happened. Be proud of yourself. You have done so well.

  Sister Summersisle : Yes. My daughter speaks the truth. Your fate was sealed many years ago, when she chose to be with you.

  Edward Malus : Your daughter.

  Sister Summersisle : Yes. My Willow. This is a story whose chapters were carefully written. You have been chosen to die a martyr's death. You will sit beside the gods and goddesses for all of eternity.

  Edward Malus : [the townsfolk move in closer]  BACK UP! I SWEAR TO GOD I WILL SHOOT YOU!

  Sister Summersisle : It is a great honor. One that you cannot refuse. It is ordained. There is no way out.

  Edward Malus : STAY BACK!

  [he pulls the trigger, but the gun clicks empty, and Willow reveals the bullets in her hand] 

• Edward Malus : [40:28]  Wait, Rose... sister... .Rose... wait a minute. How did she die?

  Sister Rose : She'll burn to death

  Edward Malus : What? What did you just say?

  Sister Rose : Precisely what I meant to: She burned to death