Privateer 2: The Darkening (1996 Video Game)
Clive Owen: Lev Arris
Quotes
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[Lev Arris meets the CIS Commander Hassan on the prison planet Hades]
Lev Arris : This is not a place I ever wanted to see the inside of.
Hassan : Why should you see the inside of Hades? Unless you're guilty of a crime.
Lev Arris : Am I being accused of something here?
Hassan : Not necessarily.
Lev Arris : Now look, I saved your life, I chose to follow you down here, now if you don't quit playing the Man of Mystery, I'm going to get back on my ship and I'll take my own chances with whoever's trying to nail me.
Hassan : There's a lot to tell you, Arris. I don't know how much you know, I don't know how much you're involved, right now I don't care. You could be the biggest cutthroat this side of New Bedlam as long as you help me get the Kindred.
Lev Arris : The Kindred? Isn't that some kind of organized crime group?
Hassan : It's THE organised crime group. Over the past 40 years, they've infiltrated every aspect of society. Commerce, government, law enforcement, on every planet known to man. They manipulate stock markets, planetary economies, politics. And anyone who tries to stop them, anyone who tries to get in their way, they're eliminated.
Lev Arris : That puts you in the firing line, Hassan.
Hassan : It's my job.
Lev Arris : That's all it is, a job?
Hassan : The man who runs the organization has stayed in the shadows for some time. But you tell me, Arris, you tell me about the man who runs the Kindred.
Lev Arris : What am I supposed to know?
Hassan : He's clever. Ruthless. Brilliant by all accounts. Lavish with rewards to his faithful servants, brutal to those who aren't.
Lev Arris : Yeah, I think we've established that he's a powerful bastard, what's that got to do with me?
Hassan : In the Kindred organization his name is Kronos.
[staring out of the window into the storm, Lev has a sudden flash of recognition]
Hassan : The CIS is at war with the Kindred. It's a war you've found yourself in the middle of.
Lev Arris : I don't want any part of it. I've got my own problems.
Hassan : You haven't begun to have problems. You cross me, you'll have problems. You're gonna have to choose sides, Arris.
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Rhinehart : But think, if you hadn't been frozen you would have been part of our war against the CIS. There wouldn't have been quite such buddy love between you then, huh?
Lev Arris : Whoever I was, I've changed.
Rhinehart : People don't change that much. Some are born wolves, some are sheep. You might be wearing sheep's clothing but your fangs are showing through.
Lev Arris : Yeah, well, maybe losing my memory was the best thing that could've happened to me. It's given me a chance to choose who I am.
Rhinehart : God, this is becoming dangerously close to being a religious experience. Forget it. As soon as all your memories return, you'll be just like you used to be, your father's son.
Hassan : Maybe he's right.
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Rhinehart : So you made it through after all. Bravo.
Hassan : Bravo? Do you know how many people have died?
Rhinehart : Oh, who the hell cares?
Lev Arris : Who are you?
Rhinehart : Well, I suppose we're all friends around here. My codename is Rhinehart.
Hassan : You sure you're not Malakai?
Rhinehart : Don't be absurd, Malakai's dead. Do I look dead?
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Rhinehart : He knows you could replace him.
Lev Arris : That's right, I will.
Rhinehart : Maybe you'll have a chance to test that resolve, he's coming to take someone out himself.
Lev Arris : Who? Me?
Rhinehart : [nods at Hassan] His boss. The head of CIS.
Hassan : Sheila Nabakov! The security conference!
Rhinehart : The very same.
Lev Arris : [stopping Hassan as he starts to run out] David, this is my war too.
Hassan : What side are you on?
Lev Arris : The right side.
Rhinehart : Ser Arris, remember, once a wolf... always a wolf.
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[Lev Arris enters the notorious Sinner's Inn and walks up to the bar]
Joe : You're a hungry man.
Lev Arris : Yeah, I guess I could eat.
Joe : You are starving, don't deny it. A barman nowadays, he has to have a sixth sense about his customers. And I'm nothing if I'm not a barman. Your credit's sweet enough. So we have stew, we have lizard guts... oh, and we have Space Bug Gumbo!
Lev Arris : I'll have the stew, please.
Joe : I could have told you that. And you prefer your beer lukewarm, right?
Lev Arris : No. No, actually I prefer it...
[he suddenly hesitates, Joe's smile fades]
Lev Arris : Lukewarm.
[Joe's smile returns]
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Xavier Shondi : I hear you've got yourself a ship.
Lev Arris : You must have good ears.
Xavier Shondi : Got a little time on your hands?
Lev Arris : Who's asking?
Xavier Shondi : Xavier Shondi, with an X.
Lev Arris : Lev Arris, with a Y.
Xavier Shondi : Y?
Lev Arris : Why do you want me and my ship?
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Angus Santana : Don't mind the mess, mess the mind! That's for the slogan for today. Don't know what it means but when did that ever stop progress, eh? How can I help, Ser...
Lev Arris : Lev Arris.
Angus Santana : Excellent. I can only give you a few minutes I'm afraid, Ser Arris, on the way to a meeting, three meetings actually, simultaneously.
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Lev Arris : Don't you have your own agents for this kind of thing?
Hassan : Never know who to trust in this business, Arris. It's a dirty war. They got moles inside the CIS, we got agents in their organization. We give them the mushroom treatment.
Lev Arris : The mushroom treatment?
Hassan : Feed 'em shit, keep them in the dark.
[laughs]
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[Lev Arris has been summoned to the Museum of Hom by the eccentric Bexian priest Uncle Kashumai, who appears to be rather distraught about something, his wailing and moaning echoes around the museum]
Uncle Kashumai : Oh, grief!
[he jumps up and down]
Lev Arris : What's the matter, Uncle?
Uncle Kashumai : Oh, nephew! The heart of the things that we had here, the soul of them, has been stolen! Taken by heartless infidels! Doubtless to be sold for filthy lucre!
[he moves his face in close to Lev's while vigorously shaking his head, wobbling his cheeks and making a gargling noise]
Lev Arris : What was this exactly?
Uncle Kashumai : A small and exquisitely made image of the Lord of the Brews in his aspect as taster.
[he belches]
Uncle Kashumai : The Holy cup in one hand, his other raised in blessing. A thing of great beauty, of history, which our people have cherished for a millennia. And now, all gone. We would do anything to get it back, anything.
Lev Arris : How much anything?
Uncle Kashumai : [suddenly snaps out of his anguish] Quite a lot, uh, ten thou' at least.
Lev Arris : Nasty despoiling infidels. You, um, you got their names did you?
Uncle Kashumai : Oh, yes indeed. Bray, Ronnie or Reggie.
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[Lev confronts his brother, a hideously deformed man]
Kronos : You! You look... you look the same. How I hated that face. And how I loved my own.
Lev Arris : Well, it's just as well you're so well adjusted, Sar, otherwise that could have driven you a little crazy. You look like shit, by the way.
Kronos : Shit? SHIT? Still the same old smug Vell, eh? Well, your face might be new, but that's the only thing that is. You're history, the firm's done quite nicely without you.
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[after rescuing her in space, Lev meets Louisa Phillips, a manic and very clingy teenage girl]
Louisa Phillips : Oh my Lord... Sir Galahad!
Lev Arris : Sir who?
Louisa Phillips : The Ser who saved my silly old skin! I'd know you anywhere. Do you have a girlfriend?
Lev Arris : Um, that's a matter of opinion.
Louisa Phillips : My daddy will be so pleased with you. I'm his favourite. Well, um, actually, his only child. But that still makes me his favourite, doesn't it?
Lev Arris : [starts backing away but she follows him] Absolutely. Look, um...
Louisa Phillips : Daddy is very important on Anhur. Not that I need to go back there, I like being on my own. I'm a grown woman!
Lev Arris : Yeah. So you are.
Louisa Phillips : Do you want to be my partner? I've been looking for a partner ever since I left home. We could do jobs and risky errands and stuff. Oh, it'll be so much fun. And we'll probably fall madly head over heels in love and everything.
Lev Arris : Sorry, Serra, I didn't catch your name.
Louisa Phillips : Louisa Elizabeth Einstein Mayflower Tennessee Buttercup Phillips!
Lev Arris : Well, unfortunately, Louisa Elizab... Unfortunately, Lou, I can't stay, um, I've got to meet somebody, they're not here, um, I'd better go. Nice talking to you, try and stay away from dangerous areas next time.
[Lev hastily walks off]
Louisa Phillips : Oh, don't go! What about you being my partner? WHAT ABOUT US?
[she makes a frustrated noise and stomps off]
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Lev Arris : Sorry, Serra, I didn't catch your name.
Louisa Phillips : Louisa Elizabeth Einstein Mayflower Tennessee Buttercup Phillips!
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[at the Sinner's Inn, a rough drinking establishment]
Joe : [as a fight breaks out] Don't mind them, they're loudmouth vicious cutthroats.
[a man crashes against the bar]
Joe : But they're decent loudmouth cutthroats.
Lev Arris : So, they're no trouble?
Joe : No, nothing I can't see coming. No, some spacers, as soon as they walk in I can smell it on them so I break their necks just a little to be on the safe side. No trouble I smell on you.
Lev Arris : Uh-uh. I left my troubles outside.
Joe : Good. Soon as I saw you, I said "Well there's one smart vertebrae." You hang around here and I'll see you'll have decent food and drink, maybe a couple of juicy deals. A respectable guy like you wants to be careful where he's seen. You don't want to hang out in some spit-and-sawdust toilet with a liquor licence, you need somewhere like this. A place with a little... refinement.
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[at the Shadow Play Bar, a man with a large ear trumpet approaches Lev Arris]
Bill Maddox : [loud voice] Ser... Arris, isn't it?
Lev Arris : Yeah, thanks for telling the whole world.
Bill Maddox : Word has it you do odd space jobs here and there.
Lev Arris : What of it?
Bill Maddox : I found my old Grandpa Doug's journal. It's a MacArthur Model 6 Journalmaster Mark 41!
Lev Arris : Lucky old Grandpa Doug.
Bill Maddox : Don't mind if I do, I'll have a beer! You'll have to speak up. Ear drums got a little dented. Too many explosions.
Lev Arris : What's your problem?
Bill Maddox : Next Tuesday. Now, came across an entry... he left an old warehouse full of hardware on Bex just before he died. The equipment is still there.
Lev Arris : I think I get the picture.
Bill Maddox : No, I'm not religious myself. All you've got to do is go and pick the stuff up. Clever guy like you should be able to do that.
Lev Arris : Yeah, but how will I know how to find the place?
Bill Maddox : Just land, and a friend will have the stuff loaded for you.
Lev Arris : What's in it for me?
Bill Maddox : [giggles] My knee is fine! It's my ears!
Lev Arris : Payment?
Bill Maddox : Oh! Six thousand. And I'll throw in a holobook I wrote about military hardware through the ages.
Lev Arris : All right.
[giggling like a madman, Bill rummages through his various pockets and pouches until he finds a disc. He breathes on it and rubs it on his sleeve a couple of times before handing it to Lev. Then he shrugs and wanders off around the bar, holding his large ear trumpet to his ear]
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[at the Shadow Play Bar, after Bill Maddox's mission is completed]
Bill Maddox : Hey! You did me a big favour there. Put a little something in your account just now, six thou'.
Lev Arris : [shouting into Bill's ear trumpet] THANKS, BILL!
Bill Maddox : No! I'm never ill!
[Bill walks off, wandering erratically through the bar with his big ear trumpet]
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Melissa Banks : You free tonight?
Lev Arris : Free for what?
[she whispers in his ear]
Lev Arris : Is that legal?
Melissa Banks : Legal? That probably isn't even physically possible.
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[Lev goes to see Hal Taffin, a very shifty salvage dealer]
Hal Taffin : Yeah? What is it? Who sent you?
Lev Arris : Are you Hal Taffin?
Hal Taffin : I might be. Then again, who's asking?
Lev Arris : My name's Lev Arris. I believe you're in possession of a medical pod.
Hal Taffin : Oh, no, not me. Uh-uh.
Lev Arris : The public database says you got it off the Canera.
Hal Taffin : Don't believe everything you read in the database. Now if you'll excuse me, I got a wayward biochip I got to de-discombobulate. Good day!
Lev Arris : Now listen, Taffin, I don't have time for your paranoid games. Maybe you'll be a little more talkative...
[Lev reaches into his jacket but Taffin pulls a gun on him]
Hal Taffin : Touch me and you're dead! Now go. Or stay. Yeah, yeah, stay. I'll call the teeps, tell them how you threatened me, how I had to shoot you. It's happened before. They won't ask questions. They like me, the teeps.
[Lev pulls out his own gun]
Lev Arris : OK, shoot, Taffin. But make it a good 'un. Because if I don't drop dead the second you pull that trigger, you lose the rest of your ugly face.
Hal Taffin : [lowering his gun] Oh, the pod. You want to know about the medical pod. Why didn't you say so?
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Dimitri Avignoni : I'm known as Dimitri. I believe you're being called Arris.
Lev Arris : I believe so.
Dimitri Avignoni : Joe says you've got some nature of a problem.
[Lev hands him the silver capsule]
Dimitri Avignoni : Aha. Protected. Spiteful.
Lev Arris : Spiteful? How?
Dimitri Avignoni : Well, the algorithm for breaking this little baby is going to be a technical headache on a major scale. We are talking problems.
Lev Arris : How many problems?
Dimitri Avignoni : About 30,000 problems, I'd venture.
Lev Arris : That's a lot of problems.
Dimitri Avignoni : So is this. Where I have to go for the algorithm, I may not be able to go again for a while. I have to cover my lost business.
Lev Arris : 20,000.
Dimitri Avignoni : [shakes his head] Uh-uh. Take it or leave it. This one's hotter than a venturi chamber with an asshole.
Lev Arris : OK, you're on.
Dimitri Avignoni : Good. It'll take me a little while to get this sorted, time-wise. You hang limply and abuse yourself.
Lev Arris : [grabs Dimitri's arm before he can leave] Where are you going?
Dimitri Avignoni : Somewhere quiet to work.
Lev Arris : Oh, no, no, no. How do I know you won't just run off with it?
Dimitri Avignoni : Dimitri don't run. Unless there's a fight.
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[at Sinner's Inn, Dimitri returns with the capsule Lev paid him to open]
Lev Arris : That was quick.
Dimitri Avignoni : It is, when you know how.
[he presses a button and the capsule automatically twists open. Lev takes out a small canister that's inside]
Lev Arris : [pointing at something on the base of the capsule] What's that?
Dimitri Avignoni : Duodecaplylatomate.
Lev Arris : What?
Dimitri Avignoni : Someone must have nervous body trying to force this out. There's enough duodec here to blow you, me, Sinner's and this whole goddamn side of this port into vaporsphere. And the hole wouldn't even smoke afterwards. Just goes to show you, it pays to spend money on quality work.
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[at the Rampant Robot Bar on Hephaestus, after Lev helps Auntie Maria escape from Bex, a planet famous for its beer]
Auntie Maria Gabriel : Ser Arris, I owe you my freedom.
Lev Arris : And 3,000 credits.
Auntie Maria Gabriel : Paid, with thanks.
Lev Arris : [holding up his drink] And the beer?
Auntie Maria Gabriel : [suddenly looks very uncomfortable] Oh! Don't talk to me about beer!
[she runs out of the bar]
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[Lev gets aggressive with the receptionist at Shernikov Medical Supplies so she traps him in a force field. He decides to try and flatter her]
Lev Arris : [awkwardly] Serra, do you, um... Do you know you, um, you look like my sister?
Shernikov Receptionist : No.
Lev Arris : I mean, that is, um, if I had a sister, I'd, um, I-I-I'd really like her to look like you.
Shernikov Receptionist : You're telling the truth now, because no one like you who had a sister would have survived this long.
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Dr. Janna Frevel : And how's Ser Arris this morning?
Lev Arris : He's OK. I just wish he would tell me who he was.
Dr. Janna Frevel : We'll get our memory back eventually.
Lev Arris : Do you talk to all your patients as though they were children, Dr. Frevel, or is it just me?
Dr. Janna Frevel : I'm sorry. We find that usually people in your condition appreciate a gentle approach.
Lev Arris : Yeah, well, I'm not usual people.
Dr. Janna Frevel : No. I don't believe you are.
