Eastern Promises

Anna: Have you ever met a girl named Tatiana? Nikolai Luzhin: I meet lot of girls named Tatiana. Anna: She was pregnant. Nikolai Luzhin: Ah, in that case – no, I've never heard of her. Anna: She died on my shift. Nikolai Luzhin: I thought you did birth? Anna: Sometimes birth and death go together. She came in with needle punches all over both arms. Probably a prostitute, at the age of fourteen. Do you think Semyon's son knew her? Nikolai Luzhin: I am driver. I go left, I go right, I go straight ahead – that's it.

Eastern Promises, CC BY-SA 4.0

Anna: How did you get in here? Semyon: There are always open doors, Anna Ivanovna.

Eastern Promises, CC BY-SA 4.0

Anna: So you've read the diary. How can you keep doing what you're doing? Nikolai Luzhin: I'm just a driver.

Eastern Promises, CC BY-SA 4.0

Anna: My uncle has gone missing, since I told you about him translating the diary. Nikolai Luzhin: Your uncle is fine, he is in Edinburgh, in a 5-Star Hotel. I was ordered to send him to Heaven with a bullet in his brain... instead I gave him a first class ticket to Scotland. He is old-school, he understands things... exile or death.

Eastern Promises, CC BY-SA 4.0

Nikolai Luzhin: I need you to take Semyon out of the picture. I want you to arrest him. Yuri: Arrest him for what? Nikolai Luzhin: Rape. The girl was 14. Yuri: And of course she will testify? Nikolai Luzhin: She is dead, but she had Semyon's baby. If you can prove baby was his, and girl was underage, that is statutory rape. You have baby, you need Semyon's DNA. For poetic reasons, I suggest you take his blood.

Eastern Promises, CC BY-SA 4.0

Anna: Why are you doing this, why are you helping us? Nikolai Luzhin: How can I become king, if the king is still in place?

Eastern Promises, CC BY-SA 4.0