Pieter Vorstedt Quotes in Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)

Arjen "Aryan" Rudd: Mr. Getz got away. A missed opportunity and he gets away. He slips right through our fingers, and into the hands of the police.

[catches Pieter staring at the floor around him]

Arjen "Aryan" Rudd: What are you doing?

Pieter Vorstedt: I was just checking to see if I was standing on plastic.

Pieter Vorstedt: What is going on down here?

Martin Riggs: Freeze dickhead! Get down here dickhead. Come on, it's been a bad day!

Pieter Vorstedt: I was going to offer you a drink, Riggs, but I hear you're on the wagon these days.

Martin Riggs: Yeah, that stuff'll kill you quick. Listen, you know so much about me; who the hell are you?

Pieter Vorstedt: I'm the guy that changed the course of your life, man. 4 years ago, Riggs, when you were a narc down in Long Beach, you were getting too close to us so we put a contract out on you. I handled it myself; drove your car right off the fucking road, remember? Now, of course, you weren't driving. You can't imagine the surprise. I pulled back this matted mop of blood-soaked hair to see this woman's face... your wife, right? She didn't die straightaway... took a bit of time.

[Riggs angrily charges for Vorstedt, but is restrained]

Pieter Vorstedt: Don't know much luck with women, do you, Riggs?

[Vorstedt and his goons have broken into Murtaugh's house and have gagged him and Trish]

Pieter Vorstedt: I bet you're wondering what we've done to your kids, aren't ya?

[squeals and groans from the Murtaugh's]

Pieter Vorstedt: I'll bet your mind is going fucking bananas, isn't it?

[more squeals and groans]

Pieter Vorstedt: Now this has just been a warning. Next time it will get bloody. Now you tell your people to *back off*. Don't you go being a smart kaffir. Perhaps we'll let you live, ja.

[Vorstedt and goons leave]

[Vorstedt bursts in on Wyler in the middle of a weight routine]

Pieter Vorstedt: Hello, Wyler. This just isn't your day. Just like your buddy, Murtaugh. Tell me something. Have your brains ever seen the light of day?

Tom Wyler: Who the fuck do you think you are, man? I'm a cop!

Pieter Vorstedt: No. You *were* a cop, Wyler.

[shoots him]

Arjen Rudd: Certain policemen in this city have become an intolerable nuisance. They are obviously onto us again. How do you propose to handle it?

Pieter Vorstedt: [with cigarette in mouth] Warn them off. It's my experience that a scared cop is more useful than a dead one.

Arjen Rudd: A warning? Is that not a bit tame?

Pieter Vorstedt: Depends on how you do it.

[about 25 minutes later into film after a very scary warning that still didn't stop the police from bothering them]

Arjen Rudd: Things are getting out of hand. We are suffering too many losses. We have to move the cash in one large shipment.

Pieter Vorstedt: We'll need something bigger than a suitcase.

Arjen Rudd: I'll worry about that. You worry about the police. The warning did not work.

Arjen Rudd: Certain policemen in this city have become an intolerable nuisance. They are obviously onto us again. How do you propose to handle the situation?

Pieter Vorstedt: Warn them off. It's my experience that a scared cop is more useful than a dead one.

Arjen Rudd: A warning... is that not a bit tame?

Pieter Vorstedt: Depends how you do it.

[In Rudd's office, Hans meets Rudd & Vorstedt after losing the Krugerrands in the chase]

Arjen Rudd: Hans, come in.

[points in front of his desk]

Arjen Rudd: Mind the plastic. I'm having some painting done. Well now, the important thing is, are you all right? Any broken bones?

Hans: I'm fine, thank you, Mr. Rudd.

Arjen Rudd: Only a few bumps and bruises, eh?

Hans: Yes, that's all.

Arjen Rudd: Good, good.

[pause]

Arjen Rudd: However, we did lose over a million dollars in Krugerrand.

Hans: I know. I'm sorry, Mr. Rudd. It happens.

Arjen Rudd: Ah, it's not your fault. Sometimes these things do not go as planned. As you say, they just happen... eh, Pieter?

[Pieter shoots Hans. He falls dead onto the plastic, and Pieter starts wrapping its edges around his body]

Pieter Vorstedt: You give a new meaning to the phrase "drop-cloth," Mr. Rudd.