Florence Pugh: Yelena Belova

Thunderbolts*

Yelena Belova

Yelena Belova: Daddy, I'm so alone. I don't have anything anymore. All I do is sit, and look at my phone, and think of all the terrible things I've done; and then I go to work, and then I drink, come home to no-one, then I sit and think of all the terrible things I've done again and ag...
Alexei Shostakov: Yelena, stop. We all have things that we regret.
Yelena Belova: Yes. But I have so many!
[bursts into tears]
Alexei Shostakov: Yelena, when I look at you, I don't see your mistakes.

Yelena Belova: Bucky, you have the wrong people. We have all done bad things.
Bucky Barnes: Look, I've been where you are. The past doesn't go away. So you can either live with it for ever, or do something about it.

[the Thunderbolts arrive on the top floor of the Watchtower to confront Valentina]
Bucky Barnes: This ends today.
Valentina Allegra de Fontaine: Congressman Barnes, wow. You know, I never really thought you'd have a promising political career, but less than half a term? Yikes.
John Walker: We're taking you in, Val.
Valentina Allegra de Fontaine: [scoffs] I don't think so, junior varsity Captain America.
[Walker prepares to pull his handgun]
Bucky Barnes: Walker.
[Ghost approaches Valentina]
Valentina Allegra de Fontaine: Oh, nice to see you, Ava.
[Valentina looks at Yelena]
Valentina Allegra de Fontaine: Yelena, you look awful.
Yelena Belova: [smiling] Mhm.
Valentina Allegra de Fontaine: You sure you're ready for that public-facing role you asked me about?
Yelena Belova: Eat shit, Valentina. Where's Bob?
Valentina Allegra de Fontaine: Look at you. You are all so adorable. Just think, I send you down there to kill each other, and instead, you make nice and you form a team.
[Valentina notices Red Guardian]
Valentina Allegra de Fontaine: Who's this old Santa?
Red Guardian: I'm Alexei Shostakov. The Red Guardian.
[pause]
Valentina Allegra de Fontaine: What?

[first lines]
Yelena Belova: There's something... wrong with me. An emptiness. I thought it started when my sister died, but now it feels like something bigger. Just a... void. Or maybe I'm just bored.

Yelena Belova: We can't stop him alone. No one can. But we can find a way together.

Red Guardian: Yelena, being the hero, there is no higher calling. Your sister understood something about that.
Yelena Belova: No, that's just a fairytale.

Yelena Belova: [in the void where everyone has had to confront their biggest shame] Are YOU alright?
Bucky Barnes: Yeah, I had a great past, I'm fine.

Red Guardian: Yelena, do you know what you told me about why you wanted to be goalie?
Yelena Belova: So I wouldn't have to run as much?
Red Guardian: No, it was because you could be the person everyone relies on when they make a mistake.

Yelena Belova: [sees Alexei's limousine from afar while hiding in the middle of the desert, the limousine honks loudly] Oh no...
John Walker: What? It's going right at us.
Ava Starr: Who is that?
Yelena Belova: [embarrassed, covering her face] It is no one, it's nothing.
[the limousine keeps honking then stops in the middle of the desert, Alexei gets out and screams]
Yelena Belova: Oh God.
Red Guardian: YELENA! IT'S YOUR DAD! DON'T GO IN THE VAULT! VALENTINA'S GONNA BURN YOU ALIVE! YELENA!

Yelena Belova: [reading Alexei's taxi service's tagline] Protecting you from boring evening.

Bob's Mom: [as Bob's dad is abusing her in Bob's memory] Bobby, stop! You're making it worse! You always make things worse!
Yelena Belova: I'm sorry.