The Replacement Killers (1998)

Mira Sorvino: Meg Coburn

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Quotes 

• John Lee : You're safer with me.

  Meg Coburn : Is it my perfume or something? Because you are the second guy today to assume I need, want or will accept help. I won't.

  John Lee : [drawing his pistol]  It's not an option.

  Meg Coburn : And what happens when I tell you to go fuck yourself?

  [John cocks his pistol] 

  Meg Coburn : O.K. If that's the way you want to play it. But when the gun is in my hand, we're gonna have this conversation again.

• Meg Coburn : So you didn't want to kill a kid. Welcome to the human race.

• [Kogan is stalking Meg] 

  Michael Kogan : I'm gonna find you. But you could save me time and put a bullet in your head. If the positions were reversed, I'd do the same for you.

  [he becomes distracted, then she appears behind him] 

  Meg Coburn : Are you?

  Michael Kogan : Excuse me?

  Meg Coburn : Gonna put a bullet in your head, now that our positions are reversed?

  Michael Kogan : [attempts to laugh]  Meg, it doesn't...

  [he wheels around, she shoots him dead] 

  Meg Coburn : I didn't think so.

• Meg Coburn : You know, you could've saved yourself a lot of trouble just by doing that third job.

  John Lee : It was wrong. Mr. Wei was taking revenge. A man named Zedkov killed his son.

  Meg Coburn : Zedkov? Jesus Christ. You're getting yourself killed for a cop?

  John Lee : Not a cop. His son.

  Meg Coburn : What?

  John Lee : A seven-year-old boy.

  Meg Coburn : Why?

  John Lee : That's how Mr. Wei *deals* with his enemies. Through their families.

• John Lee : My father taught me how to shoot.

  Meg Coburn : Playing catch is so impersonal.

• Meg Coburn : [Holding gun to John's head]  Now what the fuck did you get me into with Terence Wei?

  John Lee : He's my patron.

  Meg Coburn : Patron?

  John Lee : He made it possible for me to come here.

  Meg Coburn : What does he, sponsor you to play the violin?

  John Lee : ...in exchange for... services.

  Meg Coburn : What a nice way of saying you kill people.

• Meg Coburn : Smile, and say "Flight from prosecution."

• Meg Coburn : Hostage etiquette: kidnapper pays the incidentals.

• Stan 'Zeedo' Zedkov : You're not under arrest, Meg, which means you have no right to an attorney.

  Meg Coburn : It also means I can walk out the fucking door.