Five Pillars (2015)

Tom Bott: Darren

Quotes 

• Graham : They chuck you out then?

  Darren : Honorable discharge. Medical grounds.

  Graham : [raises an eyebrow]  Don't know what your great granddad would've said about that.

  Darren : Yeah, well - things were different back then.

  Graham : He came out of the army when the job was done. Didn't cut and run leaving someone else to finish things.

  Darren : Neither did I.

  Graham : They're your family you know. Those lads you serve with. That's what he always used to tell me. He'd say that he had two families - the one back home and the one out there in Africa, where he was fighting.

  Darren : I've not come here to fight, granddad.

  Graham : Sounds like you don't want to fight anyone.

• Graham : Half of them don't bloody belong here anyway. They're not rioting for a cause, they're rioting for themselves.

  Darren : You reckon?

  Graham : There are no causes worth fighting for these days.

  Darren : No point in me staying in the army then, was there?

• Graham : Some folks have their reasons for falling out.

  Darren : What were yours?

  Graham : Probably the same as most people's. Fathers and sons don't see eye to eye sometimes and have to go their own way. Live their own lives.

• Sophie : You made me feel like I was some kind of missing piece in a jigsaw when I was with you. Just something that made you complete.

  Darren : I didn't mean to.

  Sophie : You can't use me to fill the empty gaps in your life Darren.

• Darren : Some of them fighting out there - they're only kids, you know? Thirteen, fourteen, sometimes younger. Can you imagine how it feels to kill someone Billy's age? Younger?

• Darren : They'll stick a gun in your hand at seventeen and tell you that you can travel the world, see new sights, do exciting things.

  [pause] 

  Darren : Blow shit up.

• Darren : You were my mates, my life. All of you. I felt like I belonged to all of you, like I was somebody.

  Paul : Darren, don't do this!

  Darren : I came back to be with you all again. To be a part of something. And this is what I get?