Rami Malek credited as playing...
Elliot Alderson
- Elliot Alderson: [as narrator] Like a hard drive blasted by excessive voltage, my mind is frayed, close to fried. I can feel the static running through my brain. Serotonin receptors working overtime.
- Elliot Alderson: [as narrator] Evil Corp, Angela, Vera, his brother, Darlene, Shayla. This is too much. I should just tell her what she wants to hear.
- [to Isaac Vera]
- Elliot Alderson: I only need to press one key to run the exploit. Or, I can press another and disable the entire plan. I made my move. You make yours.
- Fernando Vera: When I found out you did this, I didn't get angry. I got impressed. Your power. I want it, Elliot. And I want it so bad it makes my dick hard. And I want it today.
- Elliot Alderson: I don't know what you think I can do. I can't just hack you out of prison. Not all prisons are networked, and even if yours is, it would take weeks to find security holes.
- Fernando Vera: [a inmate prison break out has just occurred for Vera's escape] My own brother; that's what the universe asked of me. To be my brother's keeper. Like Cain after Abel, I'll be a fugitive and wander on the earth. Brave fugitive. Braver wanderer.
- [Beat]
- Fernando Vera: Look at how you helped me, that's the type of bravery I've been talking 'bout, Elliot. But now... now I want you to look at Issac.
- Fernando Vera: [Grabs Elliot's face and tilts his head down] Look! Dead proof that my operation is over, right in your face. So go on, Elliot, crash it. Burn it to the ground. Doesn't matter 'cause I'm gone; A spirit one with all the heavens, all the existences with the universe.
- Elliot Alderson: [a car pulls up and DJ and Fernando Vera walk over] Shayla, where is she?
- Fernando Vera: Keys yo.
- [DJ throws him the keys and gets into the car]
- Fernando Vera: Told you, you'd get her back, bro. You just didn't realise...
- [indicates the trunk of Elliot's car]
- Fernando Vera: she was with you the whole time.
- Elliot Alderson: [suddenly realizing] You don't want me to free Vera. That's why you don't care about the operation.
- Isaac Vera: [holding a gun to Elliot's head] I'd pick better last words.
- Elliot Alderson: You're trying to kill him. That's why Vera wants to leave tonight. That's what's been bugging me about you. You never wanted me to break him out. Your best option for survival is to kill him in prison because if you don't, you're dead. You're the reason Vera's locked up right now and he knows it.
- [Isaac lowers the gun in shock]
- Elliot Alderson: It doesn't matter anyway. Vera was just gloating about how he got in with the right crew, how he got the jump on some men. He's not worried, man, he's protected now.
- Isaac Vera: Bullshit.
- Elliot Alderson: That leaves you with a zero-sum game. If you don't get him out of jail he'll have you killed for failing. Only way this works in your favor is for you to kill him first, and you can't do that with him inside anymore.
- Isaac Vera: Shut, up motherfucker! Shut the fuck up!
- [aims gun at his head]
- Elliot Alderson: [turns around to face him] Let me free him. I'll break Vera out tonight, you do with your brother what you want. That's the only outcome where you've got the possibility of living. It's your best move.
- Isaac Vera: What makes you think I still won't kill you afterwards?
- Elliot Alderson: I don't. I'm just playing my best move.