Predators (2010)
Oleg Taktarov: Nikolai
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Quotes
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Nikolai : [In Russian] You're one ugly motherfucker!
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Stans : [to Edwin] You know, man, if we ever make it home, I'm going to do so much fucking cocaine. I'm gonna rape so many fine bitches. I'll be like, "What time is it? After 5:00? Damn. Time to go rape me some fine bitches."
Stans : You know what I'm saying?
Edwin : [humoring Stans] Oh, yeah. Totally. Like; 5:00, it's bitch-raping time.
Stans : Mmm. Yeah.
[Edwin moves away from Stans and sits down next to Nikolai]
Nikolai : You should stay away from him.
Edwin : Yeah.
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Ronald Noland : Anyway, every once in a while, once of us kills one of them. And, let me tell you, that's when they get interested. See, they learn quick. They adapt. They develop a whole new set of skills. They come back the next season in threes, always in threes. Their armor might've changed, or their weapons have changed, or their tactics have changed. It's amazing
Nikolai : So, it's like evolution. They're trying to make themselves into better killers.
Ronald Noland : Mmm hmm.
Royce : You said they come back.
Ronald Noland : They got a ship.
Royce : A ship?
Ronald Noland : Yeah. It's 30 yards from their camp.
[to his imaginary friend]
Ronald Noland : I told you they wouldn't see it. I told you they wouldn't.
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[the group finds a monolith with a pile of skulls and bones at its base]
Stans : What the hell is that?
Isabelle : Who would do this?
Mombasa : Whoever they are, they take trophies. In my culture the warrior with the greatest trophies commands the most respect.
Stans : Whatever.
Nikolai : It's a test. To see how we do under pressure.
Isabelle : If this were a test, you'd all be military. Total strangers. Live rounds. This is something else.
Cuchillo : Maybe it's ransom. Back in Tijuana, we kidnap you, put you in an oil drum. The ransom's not paid, we light you on fire.
Stans : I hear these stories about these experiments they run on cons. They stick drugs in your food and they sit back and watch what happens.
Edwin : Well, it's not drugs. If it was a psychotropic compound, we'd be feeling residual side effects. Loss of motor skills, blurry vision. And if it was a behavioral experiment... I mean, there... There'd be a point.
Mombasa : What if we are dead?
Stans : I was going to be executed in two days.
Nikolai : And I was in combat.
Mombasa : So was I.
Cuchillo : This is hell.
Royce : Last time I looked, you didn't need a parachute to get there. But it doesn't matter what happened, or why. We're here. Only question is, how do we get out?
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Stans : [Nikolai is looking at a picture] Who's that?
Nikolai : My kids. Big one, Ilya. And that's Sascha.
[Nikolai hands the picture to Edwin]
Stans : [Stans lifts up his shirt to reveal a tattoo of a big breasted woman] Uh... This is, uh, Candy Lee. Tits like Howitzers.
[he pokes the breasts with his fingers as if to play with them]
Edwin : Is that your girlfriend?
Stans : No. It's my sister.
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Royce : [a confused Nikolai starts shooting at Royce and Cuchillo. Royce flanks him and puts his shotgun to Nikolai's head] Please stop doing that. You're shooting at the wrong people.
Nikolai : How do I know?
Royce : Because otherwise, we wouldn't have be having this conversation.
Nikolai : All right. You wanna show me the right ones?
[points to chest]
Nikolai : Nikolai. I mean, I'm Nikolai.
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[after the group narrowly escapes a heavily booby-trapped area, they find a rotting corpse whose chest is blown out]
Mombasa : We triggered a dead man's trap.
Edwin : It's two weeks, judging from the rate of decomposition.
Nikolai : He took up a position here. Shooting in all directions. This was a last stand.
[Nikolai Checks the man's pocket and finds some documents]
Nikolai : United States Special Forces. This is strange. He is supposed to be deployed in Afghanistan.
Stans : What's he doing here, setting traps for us?
Royce : They weren't meant for us. He was hunting something else. Something a lot bigger.
Edwin : Bigger?
Royce : The trunk was a deadfall. Rule of thumb with a deadfall is you set the weight five times that of the target animal. Whatever it was, got through the trip wires. And did this.
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Royce : What's the last thing you remember, Nikolai?
Nikolai : War. Yeah. I was with the Chechnya. And then there was a light. And then I... Then I woke up and I was...
Cuchillo : Falling. Yeah, same thing. I was in Baja. And then there was a light. And then chingao.
Nikolai : Where are we?
Royce : Maybe she knows.
[Royce directs his gaze, the other two turn to see Isabelle standing there aiming her rifle at them]
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[Nikolai goes to touch a strange looking plant]
Edwin : Uh, yeah, I wouldn't do that.
[Edwin sticks his scalpel into the plant and it secretes a fluid]
Edwin : Yep. Archaefructus liaoningensis. That is really, really poisonous. Wouldn't take more than one scratch to cause total paralysis...
Nikolai : Thank you. I'll watch for you out there.
Isabelle : [to Edwin] You made a buddy.
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[Isabelle is pointing her rifle at Royce, Nikolai and Cuchillo]
Royce : You want to lower the weapon?
Isabelle : [Isabelle shakes her head] I've never seen this jungle. And I've seen most.
Nikolai : All right, you think this is Asia? Maybe Africa?
Isabelle : Too hot for this time of year. And the topography is all wrong. Amazon, maybe. I saw more parachutes.
