The Killer (2023)

Charles Parnell: The Lawyer - Hodges

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• The Killer : I need that information, Edward, and you are running out of time.

  The Lawyer - Hodges : [gasping]  Fuck... you.

  The Killer : [voiceover]  Three 9-gauge nails. Early middle age, non-smoker. About a hundred and eighty pounds. Should last six, seven minutes?

  [Hodges expires] 

  The Killer : Shit.

• The Lawyer - Hodges : [annoyed]  What is it, Dolores? I said I need email ti-

  [looks up to see The Killer escorting his assistant into his office at gunpoint] 

  The Lawyer - Hodges : Good God! What could you possibly be thinking coming here? This is very unlike you, my friend. Care to explain? Cause I can't conceive of anything I have to offer that could remotely be worth the exposure you're risking right now.

• The Lawyer - Hodges : You went home. How could you have, realizing my hands wer... you had to have known, you must've, that I had no say in the matter going forward and still you went home?

  The Killer : Who were they?

  The Lawyer - Hodges : Who were they? First of all, who cares? I barely glanced at the invoice, which if I may say, is very much beside the point. The consequences, when someone's wide of the mark, are automatic. However regrettable, they're an obligation to client and calling. I was forced to make amends to a very angry, very powerful man. Never in my wildest imagination did I think you'd actually go home. Not in a million years.

• The Lawyer - Hodges : This'll be resolved in a moment darling, I promise you.

• The Lawyer - Hodges : Hello? You still there?

  The Killer : It's been five days. I'll give it today and tomorrow.

  The Lawyer - Hodges : Fair enough. I needn't remind you, if we don't meet our commitment...

  The Killer : We?

  The Lawyer - Hodges : Yes, frankly. We don't invoice, we eat the expenses to date. Just... call if the next twenty-four hours pass... uneventfully. We'll go from there... hello?

  [the Killer hangs up, drops the phone, stomps on it and sweeps it off the curb] 

• The Lawyer - Hodges : [startled by The Killer firing nails into two laptops on the desk]  The fuck? That's just... juvenile. Though, it's not too late. Even this entire debacle can be salvaged, but only if you disappear. Which is what I assumed you'd already done. You've got more money than you could ever spend, thanks in no small part to me. So why aren't you already on the other side of the globe under any number of aliases spending it. You don't believe me. Don't feel you can trust me. Fine. I suppose I brought that on myself. But after all these years having built this from the ground up, I thought we had a relationship.

  The Killer : [scanning Hodges' law library]  It's all in here somewhere. I know you have backups, Eddie. For me, everyone, the whole shebang. Because you'd never put it on the cloud, any more than you'd trust it outside this office.

  The Lawyer - Hodges : There's nothing like that. Everything I dealt with was on those two laptops, and now, it's not. Who do you think you're trying to intimidate? You're not gonna... there's no upside. The only logical choice, for you, is to turn around right now, walk out that door. Go, embrace your next life. I wish you well.

  [the Killer discharges three more nails] 

  The Killer : You'll drown slowly, then I'll dispose of you. So while a few fragments of your side hustle may be left to puzzle over, since you will completely vanish, the trail ends where it began.

• [in an airport lounge] 

  The Lawyer - Hodges : How could this happen? It's unprecedented...

  The Killer : It happened.

  The Lawyer - Hodges : Is that what you suggest I inform the client? It happened? This is a problem. Obviously it's a fucking problem to say the least. The window of opportunity's closed now for who knows how long. Oh, Jesus fucking Christ. I'll offer to make it right as a soon as humanly possible. I'll tell them we'll do whatever's necessary. You let me know the moment you...

  [the Killer hangs up]