Pasquale Acosta "S.A. Gerald Diego" Quotes in Smokin' Aces (2006)

Bill: Am I really dying?

Pasquale Acosta "S.A. Gerald Diego": We are all dying.

Pasquale Acosta "S.A. Gerald Diego": What, you got some sultan up there?

[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]

Pasquale Acosta "S.A. Gerald Diego": I'd like to see the penthouse.