Victoria Lasseter Quotes in American Ultra (2015)

Victoria Lasseter: Cherry Progressive, listen. Mandelbrot set is in motion. Echo Choir has been breached.

Mike Howell: Is that a lyric from something?

Krueger: You directly interfered with a government operation. And as a result, you caused the deaths of innocent civilians. Is that correct?

Victoria Lasseter: Yes, sir.

Adrian Yates: You're absolutely right, sir. Thanks to Lasseter activating Howell, seven American citizens are now dead.

Krueger: This is an operation that you created and spearheaded without any authorization, is that correct?

Adrian Yates: Yes, sir. But you have to understand, I was self-starting.

Krueger: Excuse me?

Adrian Yates: Did I make some mistakes? You know, I did. Did I take some shortcuts? Sure. But in the end, I was just doing what I needed to do to create a cost-efficient exploit of a system already put in place. And if I'd pulled it off, you'd be thanking me. Right? Come on, you'd be fucking thanking me, right?

Krueger: Yeah.

Adrian Yates: Okay! Thank you.

Krueger: [kills Yates]

Victoria Lasseter: I don't know if this is appropriate, but please do not kill me.

Krueger: I'm your source. When I called to notify you that the sweep was happening, I did it out of respect and courtesy. And you've made me regret that now. It was not my intention for you to act like a child and try to save your puppy. The puppy was going down, I was notifying you of the puppy's death. But the puppy just shit all over everything! You have a crazy, scary rabid puppy that murders people and will still need to be put down. You understand that, correct?

Victoria Lasseter: Yes, sir.

Krueger: You better pray you can find a way to turn this into a win and pull a miracle out of your ass. Because if you can't, that's you.

[looks to Yates]

Victoria Lasseter: You already have your miracle, sir. My program worked. Wiseman beat Toughguy. Mike Howell eliminated 17 Toughguy assets single-handedly. That makes him the most effective asset we've ever seen in any of the Ultra programs. Ever! In 60 years. Pardon me for saying it, sir, but that is a puppy worth saving. That is a $400 million puppy. And you have him sitting in a holding cell right now.

Victoria Lasseter: Do you remember when you were arrested when you were 18 for the acid? That was when we first met. I was recruiting for a program called Wiseman. Which was basically designed to take third strike misdemeanor offenders and offer them the opportunity to volunteer.

Mike Howell: Volunteer? For what?

Victoria Lasseter: To be an experiment.

Mike Howell: An experiment?

Victoria Lasseter: Yeah.

Mike Howell: That was a mistake.

Victoria Lasseter: No, but Mike, you worked. All the other subjects that came in, they were all failures. But not you. You were a success, but it was driving you insane. It was driving everybody insane. The risks weren't worth the rewards. So I shut it down, and I gave you all new lives and new identities. A fresh start here.

Mike Howell: Yeah. So you erased my memories and you fucked with my head. And you left me here with a fake girlfriend.

Victoria Lasseter: This isn't who you always were. The slow thinking, the inability to leave town. The phobias. We did that to protect you.

Mike Howell: To protect me? Well, tell that to the guys who are trying to kill me.

Victoria Lasseter: Wiseman was my baby.

Adrian Yates: Yeah, and it's still-born. So what are you crying about?

Victoria Lasseter: So you're coming after my still-born baby?

Adrian Yates: I don't understand why you're so upset here. Aren't you the one who shut down the program?

Victoria Lasseter: Yeah, because it was a flawed model. Because we were hurting people. I didn't expect your yuppie ass to come riding in on a vulture and pick at the bones of my operation.

Adrian Yates: I was made supervisor fair and square.

Victoria Lasseter: You were made a temporary supervisor because you kissed the right asses.

Adrian Yates: Because I'm the right man for the job.

Victoria Lasseter: According to who? Daffy Duck?

Adrian Yates: Well, I guess I'm doing something right because I've had the job for about two years.

Victoria Lasseter: You're supposed to protect these assets. Not kill them!

Adrian Yates: Victoria, we're clearing the portfolio. Mike Howell keeps trying to leave town. He needs to be eliminated.

Victoria Lasseter: You're going to kill him for trying to leave town?

Adrian Yates: That's a security breach. I'm just doing my job.

Victoria Lasseter: He's a human being.

Adrian Yates: They're assets.

Victoria Lasseter: He's an American citizen.

Adrian Yates: They're government property.

Victoria Lasseter: Are you actually fucking insane?

Adrian Yates: Ow, language!

Victoria Lasseter: Thanks for the location on Howell. I'm heading to him right now, but in the meantime we've got to go public on this. Call Krueger. I can't believe Yates has been training mental patients for his program.

Petey Douglas: It is my duty to inform you that should you go public with this operation.

Victoria Lasseter: It's your duty? What? We have to stop this! He's completely out of his mind!

Petey Douglas: If you go public with this operation, you're committing treason and will be treated as a traitor to the United States of America. I'm sorry. I can't help you anymore.

Victoria Lasseter: No! Pete! Peter! Petey!