Captain America: Civil War (2016)

Daniel Brühl: Zemo

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Quotes 

• [Zemo sits on a rock, listening to his wife's last recorded message on his cellphone] 

  Voice of Zemo's Wife : You should have seen his little face. Just try, okay? I'm going to bed. I love you.

  [T'Challa sneaks up behind Zemo. He places his helmet on the ground] 

  T'Challa : I almost killed the wrong man.

  Zemo : Hardly an innocent one.

  [Zemo deletes the message] 

  T'Challa : Is this all you wanted? To see them rip each other apart?

  Zemo : [quietly]  My father lived outside the city. I thought we would be safe there. My son was excited. He could see the Iron Man from the car window. I told my wife "Don't worry. They're fighting in the city. We're miles from harm". And the dust cleared... and the screaming stopped... it took me two days until I found their bodies. My father... still holding my wife and son in his arms... and the Avengers?

  [Zemo shakes his head] 

  Zemo : They went home.

  [Zemo smiles bitterly] 

  Zemo : I knew I couldn't kill them. More powerful men than me have tried. But if I could get them to kill each other...

  [a flashback: Captain America fights Iron Man] 

  Zemo : I'm sorry about your father. He seemed a good man, with a dutiful son.

  T'Challa : Vengeance has consumed you. It's consuming them. I'm done letting it consume me.

  [T'Challa retracts his claws] 

  T'Challa : Justice will come soon enough.

  Zemo : [spitefully]  Tell that to the dead.

  [Zemo places the gun under his chin and pulls the trigger. T'Challa grabs him and moves the gun away. The bullet misses] 

  T'Challa : The living are not done with you yet.

• Zemo : Longing. Rusted. Seventeen. Daybreak. Furnace. Nine. Benign. Homecoming. One. Freight Car... Soldier?

  Bucky Barnes : ...Ready to comply.

• Zemo : An empire toppled by its enemies can rise again. But one which crumbles from within? That's dead... forever.

• Zemo : When S.H.I.E.L.D. fell, Black Widow released Hydra files to the public. Millions of pages. Much of it encrypted, not easy to decipher, but... I have experience... and patience. A man can do anything if he has those.

• Everett K. Ross : So how does it feel? To spend all that time, all that effort, and to see it fail so spectacularly?

  Zemo : Did it?

• Zemo : Mission Report: December 16, 1991.

• Zemo : [to Captain America]  I've thought about nothing else for over a year. I studied you, I followed you, but now that you're standing here I just realized... there's a bit of green in the blue of your eyes.

  [chuckles] 

  Zemo : How nice to find a flaw.

• Captain America : You're Sokovian. Is that what this is about?

  Zemo : Sokovia was a failed state long before you blew it to hell. No. I'm here because I made a promise.

  Captain America : You lost someone.

  Zemo : I lost everyone. And so will you.

• Steve Rogers : Who are you? What do you want?

  Zemo : To see an empire fall.

• Zemo : HYDRA deserves its place on the ash heap. So your death would not bother me. But I'd have to use this book... and other bloodier methods to find what I need. I don't look forward to that. You'd only be dying for... your pride.

• Zemo : Tell me, Bucky. You've seen a great deal, haven't you?

  Bucky Barnes : I don't wanna talk about it.

  Zemo : You fear that if you open your mouth, the horrors might never stop. Don't worry. We only have to talk about one.

• Zemo : If it's any comfort, they died in their sleep. Did you really think I wanted more of you?

  Bucky Barnes : What the hell?

  Zemo : I'm grateful to them, though. They brought you here.

  [a light turns on, revealing Zemo; Cap throws his shield, but it rebounds back] 

  Zemo : Please, Captain. The Soviets built this chamber to withstand the launch blast of UR-100 rockets.

  Iron Man : I'm betting I could beat that.

  Zemo : Oh, I'm sure you could, Mr. Stark. Given time. But then you'd never know why you came.

  Captain America : You killed innocent people in Vienna just to bring us here?