Ripley's Game (2002)

Dougray Scott: Jonathan Trevanny

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• Tom Ripley : I'm a creation. A gifted improviser. I lack your conscience and when I was young that troubled me. It no longer does. I don't worry about being caught because I don't believe anyone is watching. The world is not a poorer place because those people are dead. It's one less car on the road. It's a little less noise and menace. You were brave today. You put some money away for your family. That's all.

  Jonathan Trevanny : If you lack my conscience, why did you help me on the train?

  Tom Ripley : I don't know, but it doesn't surprise me. The one thing I know is we're constantly being born.

• Jonathan Trevanny : Oh, hi. You're here, then. Excellent. We were hoping you'd come.

  Tom Ripley : Why?

  Jonathan Trevanny : Well, to... to add spice to the evening.

  Tom Ripley : Meaning?

  Jonathan Trevanny : You're a bit of a local personality.

  Tom Ripley : Meaning?

  Jonathan Trevanny : People have heard about you.

  Tom Ripley : Meaning?

  Jonathan Trevanny : Nothing. Just... nothing.

• Jonathan Trevanny : One of them's still alive.

  Tom Ripley : How do you know?

  Jonathan Trevanny : Well, I heard it on the world news.

  Tom Ripley : Jesus. I always figured you for a talk radio man. Okay, well, I guess I didn't strangle him long enough. It's not like a garrote comes with a manual.

  Jonathan Trevanny : Ah, one of them got a very, very good look at me.

  Tom Ripley : Jonathan, that's the first rule of the game. Don't ever worry about anything you can't control, ever. Anyway, I don't think they can trace us here and if they get close, I'll let you know.

  Jonathan Trevanny : What about my family? I'm just worried about my family.

  Tom Ripley : Well, don't worry. If they come for anyone, they'll come for me. I think these Balkan types tend to take strangling quite personally.

• Jonathan Trevanny : Are you scared?

  Tom Ripley : No,

  [pause, still calmly] 

  Tom Ripley : I am fucking terrified.

• Jonathan Trevanny : I've just never been the sort of person to get away with things. At school, other kids got away with all sorts. But not me. I always got caught.

  Tom Ripley : You know why you got caught?

  Jonathan Trevanny : Why?

  Tom Ripley : Because you didn't think of just killing your teachers.