Deception (2008)

Ewan McGregor: Jonathan McQuarry

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• Jonathan McQuarry : [after having sex with a woman in The List]  Can I ask you something? Why do you do this?

  Wall Street Belle : For the same reason that men do it - the economics of the arrangement. It's intimacy without intricacy. I work past midnight almost every night.

• Jonathan McQuarry : Why should I trust you? Everything you told me was a lie.

  Wyatt Bose : Oh, not lies, Jonathan. That was foreplay - and now you are fucked.

• Wyatt Bose : So, what's the deal? Our firm hires you to bless our books they send you?

  Jonathan McQuarry : I'm the audit manager, yeah. I handle the same 7 or 8 clients every year. I must've done Stern for something like four years now.

  Wyatt Bose : Oh, wow. So you like this work?

  Jonathan McQuarry : Yeah, I do. The order of it appeals to me - the symmetry. It's alright, I guess, if you like workin' with numbers. Do you like being a lawyer?

  Wyatt Bose : Yeah, it's alright, I guess, if you like workin' with assholes.

• [first lines] 

  Wyatt Bose : 10:53 pm. Sorry if I scared you. I was just heading home and uh - we met before in the can.

  Jonathan McQuarry : Oh, you're Wyatt, right?

  Wyatt Bose : Yeah. So, you are working late or you downloading a multitude of porn?

• Wyatt Bose : You were poor, right?

  Jonathan McQuarry : I guess I was kinda poor. I was brought up by my mom on her own and she died when I was 19 and so it was kind of like a lifeline.

  Wyatt Bose : Wow. Sounds like you needed it.

  Jonathan McQuarry : I'm sure there's a lot of people that had it worse.

  Wyatt Bose : Not around here. Practically every suit I know is Harvard by way of Andover.

  Jonathan McQuarry : Are you?

  Wyatt Bose : Oh, hell no. No, no. I'm Princeton by way of Exeter.

• Jonathan McQuarry : I haven't felt this good since I saw Van Halen in '97.

• Jonathan McQuarry : Those two girls were so pretty.

  Wyatt Bose : You don't get much, do you?

  Jonathan McQuarry : Do you mean sex?

  Wyatt Bose : No, flood insurance.

• Wyatt Bose : Listen, you don't think women have the same urges? Successful women, you know, working their asses off to stay that way?

  Jonathan McQuarry : And?

  Wyatt Bose : Well, let's just say there's a way that it can be taken care of.

  Jonathan McQuarry : You make it sound like a mob hit.

• Jonathan McQuarry : Thank you. And thanks for the tennis and for takin' me out.

  Wyatt Bose : It's okay. Tennis anytime. Particularly if you play that badly.

• Jonathan McQuarry : You have to get outside. Those fluorescent lights will kill you. I read a thing about them.

• Wall Street Belle : You're rather new to this, aren't you? The initiator is responsible for the room. That's one of the rules.

  Jonathan McQuarry : Oh. So I should...

  Wall Street Belle : Precisely.

• Wall Street Belle : How did you get into this?

  Jonathan McQuarry : A friend of mine...

  Wall Street Belle : He introduced you to The List but failed to explain the basics?

  Jonathan McQuarry : Well, he had to leave town. Look, I'm doing something wrong here, aren't I?

  Wall Street Belle : It's not that. You just strike me as something of a stowaway. If it wasn't for the $4,000 suit, I'd say you didn't belong here at all.

• Wall Street Belle : Frankly, I'm surprised whoever sponsored you didn't explain more.

  Jonathan McQuarry : Downstairs, you talked about a rule. Are there others?

  Wall Street Belle : No rough stuff. I say if that's your thing, take it elsewhere. No business talk and no names.

• Jonathan McQuarry : I met this girl last night, and I broke all the rules and I had an honest-to-God conversation with her.

  Wyatt Bose : Well, that's extremely naughty of you.

• Jonathan McQuarry : Ever since that night on the subway I haven't stopped thinking about you.

  S : I'm not sure I believe you. I mean, you're in a sex club. I'm not judging you. I'm in there, too. But don't say you've been solemnly holding a torch for me.

• Jonathan McQuarry : If we acted - just suddenly tore off the rest of these clothes to consummate that deep, human needs in a frenzy of...

  S : Fucking and sucking.

  Jonathan McQuarry : Beautifully put.

  S : You were saying?

  Jonathan McQuarry : Well, who could blame these two people?

• Jonathan McQuarry : What are you thinking about?

  S : I don't want to complicate your life.

  Jonathan McQuarry : No, I want all the complications you've got.

• Jonathan McQuarry : I know we decided not to rush, but - just for the record - I'm doing everything I can just to apply the brakes here.

  S : Oh, me too. Our parents would be proud.

• S : Maybe you should go?

  Jonathan McQuarry : Maybe you should stay.

• Tina at the Rhigha Royal : There was something about him. Something terrifying.

  Jonathan McQuarry : So why did you call him again?

  Tina at the Rhigha Royal : You know when it's so good you'd rather die than stop? You want to kill someone. You wanna kill the person you're doing it with. Fuck it. Y'know what? He was a good lay.