Donald Carruthers Quotes in Smokin' Aces (2006)

Richard Messner: [asking about his wounds] How bad?

Donald Carruthers: [weakly] Mortal.

Richard Messner: What?

Donald Carruthers: Mortal.

Richard Messner: No. Fuck!

[first lines]

Donald Carruthers: You've got to be careful when doing your stakeouts. I did one for... I was on one for six months. I gained, like, 20, 25 pounds. You keep eating this crap...

Richard Messner: Well, that's not my problem, though. I don't gain weight. I tried.

Donald Carruthers: That's 'cause you're 12 years old.

Donald Carruthers: Do you know what? Urine is good for your skin? My grandmother... I swear to god, my grandmother told me. She said... She didn, 'cause when I used to get a zit or something, she said...

Richard Messner: She pissed on your face?

Donald Carruthers: Get the fuck out of here. Are you fucking nuts?

Richard Messner: What?

Donald Carruthers: She's my grandmother.

Richard Messner: You just told me your grandmother said that piss is good for your skin.

Stanley Locke: Sparazza introduced Israel into the life. Gave him his first big break onstage, brought him up through the ranks. And Israel played the situation very shrewdly, slowly amassing the loyalties of Sparazza's top men, with the idea of toppling the throne.

Donald Carruthers: You know, I've seen some stupid moves, but...

Stanley Locke: Well, you spend your life pulling rabbits out of hats and sawing people in half, anything seems possible. Israel wanted to touch something real, something dangerous. But what he wound up doing was splitting up the family into dual factions. Sparazza on one side, Israel on the other. The infighting that followed drew the attention of every investigatory body operating under the canopy of the federal government. Presently, we have...

FBI Aid: Sixteen state and federally-funded agencies running concurrent criminal probes on select members of La Cosa Nostra.

Stanley Locke: With Israel being the target of virtually every one. His testimony has the potential of blowing the lid off of what's left of La Cosa Nostra in this country. That alone warrants total immunity from prosecution and a vanishing act with the Witness Protection Program.

[Carruthers is in an elevator with Pasquale Acosta, who is pretending to be Bill, a dead security manager]

Pasquale Acosta "S.A. Gerald Diego": [pretending his radio is dead] I don't believe this. Battery's completely dead.

[Carruthers tries his mobile phone]

Pasquale Acosta "S.A. Gerald Diego": Oh... forget it. Won't get a signal in here. You'll have to wait.

Donald Carruthers: [points to the emergency phone] Well, what about that line? Can't you contact your people with that?

Pasquale Acosta "S.A. Gerald Diego": No, these phones are hard-wired directly to maintenance. But, once we reach the penthouse, I can call down, I'll have the elevators taken offline, sir.

[Mildly agitated, Carruthers looks down and notices something about 'Bill']

Stanley Locke: [Carruthers' remembers Locke's briefing]

[voiceover]

Stanley Locke: "Pasquale Acosta. Blood-money mercenary. "El Estrago" - "The Plague".

[Carruthers' notices Acosta's damaged fingertips]

Stanley Locke: [voiceover] "When he was caught by the SAS in Belfast, and in prison, he chewed off his fingertips to the bone."

Donald Carruthers: [Carruthers becomes very suspicious] Why don't you have maintenance do it?

Pasquale Acosta "S.A. Gerald Diego": Do what, sir?

Donald Carruthers: Shut the elevator down.

Pasquale Acosta "S.A. Gerald Diego": An emergency shutdown of our entire elevated lift system, sir? No, that has to be handled by my staff, sir.

Donald Carruthers: [becoming even more cautious] How long have you been working here?

Donald Carruthers: [slowly reaches for his gun] Bill?

Staff: [Acosta notices movement in the reflection of the elevator]

[Over the radio]

Staff: Oh my God! I need an ambulance for Bill! I'm in the security room.

[Carruthers pulls his gun out, while Acosta turns around and impales him with his wrist blade. A shootout ensues between Carruthers and Acosta]