Cube (1997)
Nicole de Boer: Leaven
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Quotes
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Quentin : Why don't you tell us what your purpose is, Worth?
Worth : Often wondered that myself. I'm just a guy, I work in an office building doing office building stuff. I wasn't exactly bursting with joie de vivre before I got here, life just sucks in general.
Holloway : Oh I can't stand that attitude.
Leaven : 'Cos he's right.
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Leaven : *You* figure it out! You haven't done anything! All you do is freak out, you murderer!
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Leaven : Give me a minute. Okay. The numbers are markers; points on the map, right?
Worth : Right.
Leaven : And how do you map a point that keeps moving?
Worth : Permutations.
Quentin : Permu - what?
Leaven : Permutations. A list of all the coordinates that the room passes through. Like, a map that tells you where the room starts, how many times it moves, and where it moves to.
Quentin : The number tells you all that?
Leaven : I don't know. See, I've been looking at only one point on the map. Which is probably the starting position. All I saw was what the Cube looked like before it started to move.
Quentin : Okay, so it's moving. How do we get out?
Leaven : 27. - I know where the exit is.
Quentin : [standing up] Where?
Leaven : [ferociously] Stay away from me.
Worth : Back off, Quentin!
Quentin : I just want to know. Don't you want to know?
Leaven : [to Worth] You remember that room we passed through before? The one with the coordinate larger than 26?
Worth : What about it?
Leaven : That coordinate placed the room outside the cube.
Worth : A bridge!
Leaven : Right! But only in its original position.
Quentin : What are you talking about?
Leaven : Look. The room starts off as a bridge. And then it moves its way through the maze, which is where we ran into it. But, at some point, it must return to its original position.
Worth : So the bridge is only a bridge...
Leaven : For a short period of time. This thing is like a giant combination lock. When the rooms are in their starting position, the lock is open. But when they move out of alignment, the lock closes!
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Leaven : [looking at the "room numbers"] Prime numbers. I can't believe I didn't see it before!
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Leaven : [to Worth and Holloway] Well... Duh! Have you been on glue all your lives? I felt guilty for ruining the world since I was like seven! God, if you need someone to blame throw a rock!
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Worth : We've been going in circles.
Quentin : That can't be.
Worth : [Quentin hauls Leaven off the ground and over to the window to the outside] Where are we?
Leaven : I don't know.
Quentin : [roaring like a lion] Where are we?
Leaven : *You* figure it out! You haven't done anything! All you do is freak out, you murderer!
[Leaven weeps, while Worth is oddly laughing. Quentin drops to the floor]
Quentin : I guess you were right, Worth. There is no way out of here.
Quentin : [Quentin begins crying, and Kazan pats his head] Get away from me.
Worth : [Worth has been thinking, and he gets to his feet] Wasn't Rennes killed in that room?
[Worth re-opens the door to the darkness outside and asks:]
Worth : How come there's nothing out there?
Quentin : It's the edge.
Worth : We weren't at the edge before. Where's the room that killed Rennes?
Quentin : [flings a boot out into the darkness] Fuck off!
Worth : Oh, that was good.
Quentin : What difference does it make? We're dead anyways.
Worth : Hey, listen to what I'm saying! There was a room there before. We haven't been moving in circles; the rooms have!
Leaven : Of course.
Quentin : Rooms...?
Leaven : That explains the thunder and the shaking. We've been shifting the whole time.
Leaven : It, it's the only logical explanation.
[she climbs up to the window into darkness next to Worth]
Leaven : I'm such an idiot.
Worth : What are you on to, Leaven?
