William Cooper Quotes in RED (2010)

Frank Moses: [while grappling with Cooper] Kordeski trained you?

William Cooper: Yeah.

Frank Moses: I trained Kordeski.

[dislocates Cooper's shoulder]

Henry, The Records Keeper: Frank Moses was one of the most effective black op agents we've ever had. He retired drug-lords, terrorists. Hell, he toppled governments. Yeah. He was truly gifted.

William Cooper: Why was he retired?

Henry, The Records Keeper: He got old. Then some thumb-sucker came along and tagged him "RED".

William Cooper: Red?

Henry, The Records Keeper: Yeah, RED. R-E-D, "Retired, Extremely Dangerous".

William Cooper: Bad move grandpa.

Cynthia Wilkes: [In the meeting spot] This is gonna happen either way!

William Cooper: [Obviously trusting Moses over her] Fuck you Cynthia!

[Pulls out a gun and kills her]

William Cooper: How's retirement, Frank?

Frank Moses: It's been a real blast.

William Cooper: [at the "back room", secret records location] I didn't even know this place existed.

Henry, The Records Keeper: It doesn't.

Hanged Man: [perched on a chair with a noose around his neck] I can make you rich. Don't you know who I am?

William Cooper: 'Course I do.

[kicks the chair away]

[Frank calls Cooper on the phone; Cooper is told to stall him while the call is traced]

Frank Moses: Here's the thing, Cooper. With age comes a certain perspective. I'd be a liar if I said there wasn't a time when I was exactly like you: blind ambition, misplaced trust...

William Cooper: Why are you telling me this?

Frank Moses: It may help me to decide what to do next.

William Cooper: Why? What are you thinking about?

Frank Moses: Our business is a very hard one. But it was never the killing or the stress, the bad pay, that bothered me.

William Cooper: Well, what was it, Frank?

Frank Moses: It's the only thing that you love can be taken away from you. It taught me never to care, never to invest. Then I met this woman, Sarah. And now you have her. Now I can't think of anything more horrible than to know that your enemies can hurt someone you love. The feeling is almost indescribable.

[the trace completes, and a technician hands Cooper a printout]

Frank Moses: You still there, Cooper?

William Cooper: [horrified] You're at my house.

[Frank looks out the window into the yard, where Cooper's wife and two children, unaware, are playing]

Frank Moses: Almost indescribable, isn't it?

William Cooper: [whispering] Please... please don't hurt my family.

Frank Moses: If anything happens to Sarah, I will rip everything you love out of your life. And then I'll kill you.

Frank Moses: We don't have much time. Do you understand that?

William Cooper: What are you gonna do, Frank?

Frank Moses: I'm gonna kill the Vice President. What are you gonna do?