Eddie Redmayne credited as playing...
Balem Abrasax
- Balem Abrasax: My mother made me understand that every human society is a pyramid and that some lives will always matter more than others. It is better to accept this than to pretend it isn't true.
- Balem Abrasax: [sitting on his throne with his back to Jupiter] You should have stayed dead.
- Jupiter Jones: [angrily] I am not your mother.
- Balem Abrasax: [scoffing] No, my mother never cleaned a toilet in her life.
- Jupiter Jones: Maybe that was her problem.
- Balem Abrasax: My mother... My mother taught me what was necessary to rule in this universe.
- Jupiter Jones: By killing people?
- Balem Abrasax: [throws up his hands] *I create life*! And I destroy it. Life in an act of consumption, Jupiter. To live is to consume. Now, the human beings on your planet are merely a resource waiting to be converted into capital. And this entire enterprise is just a small part in a vast and beautiful machine defined by evolution, designed to a single purpose... To create profit.
- Balem Abrasax: [to Titus on the recently-harvested planet of Zalintyre] The House of Abrasax continues to thrive, despite the squandering of your inheritance, brother.
- Balem Abrasax: Understand this, Mr. Night. I will harvest that planet tomorrow... before I let her take it from me.
- Balem Abrasax: Slow.
- [play back of the scene in the operating room where Caine meets Jupiter slows as Balem moves around in it]
- Balem Abrasax: There... you... are...
- [he stoops down to look at Jupiter as she is floating in the operating room]
- Balem Abrasax: You know there are moments when I actually miss you. Because no one understands this universe like you did. No one understands me...
- [his voice breaks]
- Balem Abrasax: ...like you did.
- Balem Abrasax: Double our security deployment. Destroy any ship that comes near the planet.
- [shouts]
- Balem Abrasax: Go!
- Titus Abrasax: I was going through some of mother's old sheavework and I came across a description of a planet she claimed was the most rare and beautiful estate she ever owned. I believe she named it...
- Balem Abrasax: Earth.
- Titus Abrasax: Earth. It was part of your inheritance, wasn't it, brother? I was quite moved by her description and I was wondering if there was any chance you might be willing to part with it.
- Kalique Abrasax: Titus, didn't you bother to look at the sheaves? That planet is worth more than all of your estates combined.
- Titus Abrasax: Really? I had no idea.