[hitman enters the room of the bar owner] Bar Owner: Who are you? Jeff Costello: Doesn't matter. Bar Owner: What do you want? Jeff Costello: To kill you. [shoots him]
Jeff Costello: Who sent you? Gunman: I can't tell you that. Jeff Costello: Yet you could try to kill me. Look at me. I'll ask you just once more. Who? Name and address. Gunman: You don't know him; he's not in our league. Jeff Costello: Don't keep me ...
Superintendant: Don't you love him? Jane Lagrange: No. Superintendant: Really? I'd have said you did. Laying yourself on the line for him like that, I thought you must love him. Jane Lagrange: You're not the psychologist you imagined.
Jane Lagrange: If I understand you right, I'll have no problems if I perjure myself. If I insist on telling the truth, then I can expect trouble. Am I right? Superintendant: Not quite. Because the truth isn't what you say, it's what I say... despite ...
Gunman: Nothing to say? Jeff Costello: Not with a gun on me. Gunman: Is that a principle? Jeff Costello: A habit.
Jane Lagrange: I like it when you come round, because you need me.
Jeff Costello: I never lose. Never really.
Olivier Rey's associate: He's a lone wolf. Olivier Rey: He's a wounded wolf; now there will be a trail. He must be disposed of quickly.
Superintendant: I don't like forcing the pace to extract confessions or get information. I'm very liberal, a great believer in the liberty of the individual... in people's right to live as they choose. Provided that the way of life they choose harms ...
Superintendant: Have you ever thought how close girls like you are to being prostitutes?
Jeff Costello: Trouble?... Because of me? Jane Lagrange: No, you've never meant trouble for me.
[pulls a gun on her, she just looks disappointed] Valérie: Why Jeff? Jeff Costello: I've been paid to.
Jeff Costello: Why say you did not recognize me? Valérie: Why kill Marty? Jeff Costello: I was to be paid. Valérie: What had he done to you? Jeff Costello: Not a thing. I didn't know him. I met him for the first and last time 24 hours ago. [pause] ...
