Taken (2009) - Quotes

A Father's Vow of Retribution

Taglines: They have taken his daughter. He will hunt them. He will find them. He will kill them.

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Urgency in a Dangerous Situation

Taglines: Time is Running Out

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A Race Against Time for Redemption

Taglines: His daughter was taken. He has 96 hours to get her back.

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A Father's Vow for Revenge

Taglines: They took his daughter. He'll take their lives.

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Unexpected Encounter in a Tense Situation

Patrice Saint-Claire: Would you mind telling me what you're doing here?

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Unraveling Connections in a Complex Situation

Jean-Claude: Find anything interesting?

Bryan: As a matter of fact, I did. Over in the 10th Arrondissement on Rue Paradis. People there know someone who works in your office, I think. A Mr. Macon. Do you know him?

Isabelle: Oh, Henri! I call him Mr. Nervous. Always seems like he's about to have a problem. Carrots?

Bryan: [not answering her] I got to the bottom of it, Jean Claude. I know everything. I hope you're not involved in this shit?

Isabelle: [horrified] What shit?

Jean-Claude: This is not the time or place, Bryan.

Bryan: Are you involved?

Isabelle: Involved in what? What are you two talking about?

Bryan: Are you?

Jean-Claude: [Angrily] My salary is X. My expenses are Y. As long as my family is provided for, I do not care where the difference comes from. That is my entire involvement!

Bryan: And what about my family?

Jean-Claude: I told you, I would help, as long as it didn't cause trouble for me.

Bryan: Who is Patrice Saint-Clair?

Jean-Claude: I don't know, I don't care. I'm driving you to the airport.

Isabelle: Jean-Claude!

Jean-Claude: [Shut up!] Tais-toi, Isabelle. Tais-toi! Let's get going. Dinner is over.

Bryan: I'm not finished yet.

Jean-Claude: Yes you are!

Isabelle: No!

Bryan: [rises] No, I'm not.

Bryan: That's what happens when you sit behind a desk! You forget things! Like the weight in the hand of a gun that's loaded and one that's not!

Jean-Claude: [Bryan points the gun at him; You "asshole"!] ISABELLE! SALE CON!

Bryan: [aims the gun at Isabelle] It's a flesh wound! But if you don't get me what I need, the last thing you'll see before I make your children orphans is the bullet I put between her eyes. Now... Patrice Saint-Clair!

Bryan: You could have made this much less painful if you had been more concerned about my daughter, and less concerned about your goddamned desk. Please apologize to your wife for me.

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A Reminder of Past Conversations

Bryan: [takes a slip of paper out, as if remembering it, and handing it to Marko] You've made a very good investment, Gentlemen. See you in a month... Oh... A friend gave this to me. It's Albanian. Would you mind translating it for me?

Marko: Good luck".

Bryan: [Marko looks at him in surprise] You don't remember me? We spoke on the phone two days ago. I told you I would find you.

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Nostalgia vs. Reality in Changing Roles

Jean Claude: Just like the old days.

Bryan: Would you have it any other way?

Jean Claude: Between you and me, no. But now that I sit behind a desk, the world looks different.

Bryan: You mean it looks boring.

Jean Claude: I mean different. Okay, a little boring. But is being retired any more interesting?

Bryan: It wasn't until my daughter disappeared in Paris yesterday. She and her friend were marked by a spotter at the airport. Albanians took her.

Jean Claude: How do you know this?

Bryan: I'm retired, not dead.

Jean Claude: And I assume you don't want to go to the police.

Bryan: I was told I have 96 hours. That was sixteen hours ago.

Jean Claude: Okay, first we should find the spotter.

Bryan: I found him. He's dead.

Jean Claude: You found him that way?

Jean Claude: Bryan, you cannot just run around, tearing down Paris.

Bryan: Jean Claude, I will tear down the Eiffel Tower if I have to.

Identifying Criminal Ties and Connections

Bryan: Sam, what've you got?

Sam: [over phone] They're speaking Albanian; based on their accents and dialects, they must be from a town called Tropojë. Place is ground zero for scummers like this. Even the Russians give these guys a wide berth. Um, the one you spoke to, his name is Marko, and we have information that a mobster boss by the name of Marko Hoxha moved to Paris about six months ago. If he's the one, he's a big fish. And, uh, the tattoo, by the way is group ID. Am I on speaker or are you by yourself?

Bryan: Lenore's here.

Sam: Hey, Lennie.

Lenore: Hello, Sam.

Bryan: She needs to hear this, Sam.

Sam: The specialty of the groups coming out of this area is trafficking in women.

Bryan: Keep going.

Bryan: To what?

Sam: To never finding her.