Quotes

Rennes: No more talking. No more guessing. Don't even think about nothing that's not right in front of you. That's the real challenge. You've gotta save yourselves from yourselves.

Leaven: [Leaven, Kazan & Worth reaching the exit of the cube] What are you doing? You can't quit now. It's not your fault!

Worth: I have nothing... to live for out there.

Leaven: What is out there?

Worth: Boundless human stupidity.

Leaven: I can live with that.

Quentin: Is that your two cents worth, Worth?

Worth: For what it's worth.

Quentin: Why put people in it?

Worth: Because it's here. You have to use it, or you admit it's pointless.

Quentin: But it, it *is* pointless.

Worth: Quentin... that's my point.

Holloway: [after Rennes is killed] I think we *have* to ask the big questions! What does it want? What is it thinking?

Worth: "One down, four to go."

Worth: I'm the poison. I designed the outer shell.

Quentin: Why don't you tell us what your purpose is, Worth?

Worth: Often wondered that myself. I'm just a guy, I work in an office building doing office building stuff. I wasn't exactly bursting with joie de vivre before I got here, life just sucks in general.

Holloway: Oh I can't stand that attitude.

Leaven: 'Cos he's right.

Kazan: Astronomical!

[Quentin and Holloway are discussing who could have made the cube]

Quentin: This place is... remember Scaramanga? The bad guy in "The Man With The Golden Gun?" It's some rich psycho's entertainment

Holloway: [laughs] Is that what you think?

Quentin: Somebody has to take responsibility around here.

Worth: And that somebody has to be you?

Quentin: Not all of us have the luxury of playing nihilist.

Worth: Not all of us are conceited enough to play hero.

Leaven: Give me a minute. Okay. The numbers are markers; points on the map, right?

Worth: Right.

Leaven: And how do you map a point that keeps moving?

Worth: Permutations.

Quentin: Permu - what?

Leaven: Permutations. A list of all the coordinates that the room passes through. Like, a map that tells you where the room starts, how many times it moves, and where it moves to.

Quentin: The number tells you all that?

Leaven: I don't know. See, I've been looking at only one point on the map. Which is probably the starting position. All I saw was what the Cube looked like before it started to move.

Quentin: Okay, so it's moving. How do we get out?

Leaven: 27. - I know where the exit is.

Quentin: [standing up] Where?

Leaven: [ferociously] Stay away from me.

Worth: Back off, Quentin!

Quentin: I just want to know. Don't you want to know?

Leaven: [to Worth] You remember that room we passed through before? The one with the coordinate larger than 26?

Worth: What about it?

Leaven: That coordinate placed the room outside the cube.

Worth: A bridge!

Leaven: Right! But only in its original position.

Quentin: What are you talking about?

Leaven: Look. The room starts off as a bridge. And then it moves its way through the maze, which is where we ran into it. But, at some point, it must return to its original position.

Worth: So the bridge is only a bridge...

Leaven: For a short period of time. This thing is like a giant combination lock. When the rooms are in their starting position, the lock is open. But when they move out of alignment, the lock closes!

Holloway: Only the government could build something this ugly.

Leaven: [looking at the "room numbers"] Prime numbers. I can't believe I didn't see it before!

Worth: What do ya think?

Leaven: You don't have a lot of lives left.

Quentin: Listen, we can't go climbing around in here.

Holloway: Why not?

Quentin: There's traps.

Holloway: What do you mean traps?

Quentin: Booby traps. I looked in the room down there, and something almost cut my head off.

Quentin: Start with us. We got an escape artist and a cop. There's gotta be a reason for that. You're a doctor, Holloway. That gives you a function, a reason, right?

Holloway: No! It just makes me go, "Why me and not one of the other ten million doctors out there?"

Leaven: [to Worth and Holloway] Well... Duh! Have you been on glue all your lives? I felt guilty for ruining the world since I was like seven! God, if you need someone to blame throw a rock!

Worth: We've been going in circles.

Quentin: That can't be.

Worth: [Quentin hauls Leaven off the ground and over to the window to the outside] Where are we?

Leaven: I don't know.

Quentin: [roaring like a lion] Where are we?

Leaven: *You* figure it out! You haven't done anything! All you do is freak out, you murderer!

[Leaven weeps, while Worth is oddly laughing. Quentin drops to the floor]

Quentin: I guess you were right, Worth. There is no way out of here.

Quentin: [Quentin begins crying, and Kazan pats his head] Get away from me.

Worth: [Worth has been thinking, and he gets to his feet] Wasn't Rennes killed in that room?

[Worth re-opens the door to the darkness outside and asks:]

Worth: How come there's nothing out there?

Quentin: It's the edge.

Worth: We weren't at the edge before. Where's the room that killed Rennes?

Quentin: [flings a boot out into the darkness] Fuck off!

Worth: Oh, that was good.

Quentin: What difference does it make? We're dead anyways.

Worth: Hey, listen to what I'm saying! There was a room there before. We haven't been moving in circles; the rooms have!

Leaven: Of course.

Quentin: Rooms...?

Leaven: That explains the thunder and the shaking. We've been shifting the whole time.

Leaven: It, it's the only logical explanation.

[she climbs up to the window into darkness next to Worth]

Leaven: I'm such an idiot.

Worth: What are you on to, Leaven?

Holloway: It's like Chile. They always come in the middle of the night.

Quentin: [talking to Holloway] You listen to me, woman. Every day I mop up after your bleeding heart. The only reason you even exist is because I keep you!. I know your type. No kids, no man to fuck you. So, you go around outraged, sticking your nose up other people's assholes. Sniffing their business.