Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)
Angela Bassett: Rita
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Quotes
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Det. Rita Veder : [to Detective Justice] I know what you always say: 'Everything by the book.' But what if this ain't in the book? Huh? Going by the book won't solve it.
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Detective Justice : [about to kill Max with the dagger] Right through your black heart!
[Justice opens the casket, only to find Rita lying there instead of Max]
Det. Rita Veder : [raspy] You shouldn't have come.
[she reaches out to Justice, but frightens him off]
Det. Rita Veder : It's too late for me...
[the door in Max's chamber closes, trapping Det. Justice inside the room with Rita]
Detective Justice : Rita...
[Justice looks at Rita, now a monstrous, hungry vampire; horrified]
Detective Justice : Oh, shit! Look at you!
Det. Rita Veder : Now it's too late for YOU.
Maximillian : [reappears] You still don't believe in vampires, Detective?
Detective Justice : I'm taking Rita with me. It's not too late for her.
Maximillian : You should be worried about yourself.
[Justice lunges at Max, but the latter disappears as Rita crawls out of the coffin]
Maximillian : Hey, bitch!
[Max kisses Rita on her forehead]
Detective Justice : Rita, get away from him!
[Justice lunges at Max again to stake him, but Max and Rita disappears]
Maximillian : [enraged] I can give her everything, Justice! Tell me why you deny her that!
Detective Justice : [yells] She doesn't belong in your world! She's not a killer!
Maximillian : It's in her BLOOD!
Detective Justice : But not in her heart!
[turns and sees Max and Rita; to Rita]
Detective Justice : It's not in your heart, Rita.
Maximillian : Are you sure about that?
Detective Justice : I'm sure you're ugly!
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[Max and Julius brings a severely weakened Rita back to their apartment so she can feed]
Maximillian : Rita, my sweet, you must feed, or you're going to die.
Det. Rita Veder : [defiant] I want to die.
Maximillian : I won't let you. I'll find someone for you.
Silas Green : [Silas enters the apartment looking for Julius] Hey, hey, Hey! The Knicks won! Julius, goddamn it, you owe me $50.
[he then notices the new decor created by Max's casting spells]
Silas Green : Good God, he's a bad motherfucker. Julius! Where's my $50, Julius...
[then notices Rita, weak and hungry, resting]
Silas Green : You ain't Julius. You that cop's girl. What wrong, baby? You look sick. Had too much pork today, huh? Bad pig's feet, ate the bay leaf? Want some cod-liver oil, baby? Tell me what you need.
Maximillian : [sneaks up behind Silas] What she needs is some fresh blood.
Silas Green : Blood? Blood? I'll go to the Red Cross, get all you need.
Maximillian : [yells] Shut up!
[Max stabs two holes in Silas' neck as Rita moves closer to her prey]
Silas Green : [scared] Ow! Hey, brother, what the idea?
Maximillian : The idea is dinner.
Silas Green : Dinner? I don't see no dinner. What are we having?
Maximillian : You!
Silas Green : [frightened] ME? Don't do it, baby!
Maximillian : Do it, Rita. You don't have to resist. Do it!
[Rita is about to feed on Silas' blood...]
Silas Green : [completely frightened] Don't do it, baby. I got old, tired Grandpa blood! I got high blood pressure, baby! High as the MOTHERFUCKIN' MOON! You suck my blood. I've gotta take three pills a DAY!
[... but then NYPD Det. Justice and Dr. Zeko intervenes]
Detective Justice : [yells] Rita! NO!
Silas Green : [relieved] Police! Police!
Detective Justice : It's okay.
Silas Green : Out of my way. POLICE!
[Silas runs away from the apartment]
Detective Justice : [to Rita] Rita, it's all over. Just walk away.
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[Dets. Veder and Justice are at Caprisi's, an Italian restaurant, speaking with owner/mob boss "Kitty" Caprisi and sidekick Lizzy]
Kitty Caprisi : [to Rita about the deaths of Anthony and Tony] They was making a pickup on, uh, let's just say some business proceeds.
Det. Rita Veder : Pickup from who?
Lizzy : Just a punk numbers runner, name of Julius something or other. I seen his girlfriend kick the living snot out of him once. Some big broad named Eva, lives down on Court, I think.
Detective Justice : So you think this Julius could've iced your boys?
[Lizzy and Kitty laughs, taking it as a joke]
Kitty Caprisi : [laughs] Ice the boys!
Lizzy : That putz couldn't ice tea. He's almost as big a chickenshit as Guido.
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Det. Rita Veder : I like cats!
Guido : Well, that's all you had to say, doll face.
