Karl Urban credited as playing...
William Cooper
- Frank Moses: [while grappling with Cooper] Kordesky trained you?
- William Cooper: Yeah.
- Frank Moses: I trained Kordesky.
- [dislocates Cooper's shoulder]
- Henry, The Records Keeper: Frank Moses was one of the most effective black op agents we've ever had. He retired drug-lords, terrorists. Hell, he toppled governments. Yeah. He was truly gifted.
- William Cooper: Why was he retired?
- Henry, The Records Keeper: He got old. Then some thumb-sucker came along and tagged him "RED."
- William Cooper: Red?
- Henry, The Records Keeper: Yeah. RED. R-E-D, "Retired: Extremely Dangerous."
- Cynthia Wilkes: [in the meeting spot] Cooper... This is gonna happen either way.
- William Cooper: Fuck you, Cynthia.
- [turns his gun on her and kills her]
- William Cooper: [at the "back room", secret records location] I didn't even know this place existed.
- Henry, The Records Keeper: It doesn't.
- Hanged Man: [perched on a chair with a noose around his neck] Listen. I can make you rich. Don't you know who I am?
- William Cooper: Of course, I do.
- [kicks the chair away]
- [Frank calls Cooper on the phone; Cooper is told to stall him while the call is traced]
- Frank Moses: Here's the thing, Cooper. With age... comes a certain perspective. I'd be a liar if I said there wasn't a time when I was exactly like you. Blind ambition. Misplaced trust.
- William Cooper: Why are you telling me this?
- Frank Moses: It may help me to decide what to do next.
- Interrogation Surveillance Tech: [technician tracing the call whispering to Cooper] Just keep it going.
- William Cooper: Why? What are you thinking about?
- Frank Moses: Our business is a very hard one. But it was never the, uh... the killing or the stress, the bad pay that bothered me.
- William Cooper: Well, what was it, Frank?
- Frank Moses: It's how anything that you love... can be taken away from you. It taught me never to care. Never to invest. Then I met this woman. Sarah. And now you have her. Now I can't think of anything more horrible than to know that your enemies can hurt someone you love. The feeling is almost indescribable.
- [the trace completes, and the technician hands Cooper a printout]
- Frank Moses: You still there, Cooper?
- William Cooper: [horrified] You're at my house
- [Frank looks out the window into the yard where Cooper's wife and two children, unaware, are playing]
- Frank Moses: Almost indescribable, isn't it?
- William Cooper: [whispering] Please... Please don't hurt my family.
- Frank Moses: If anything happens to Sarah, I will rip everything you love out of your life. And then I'll kill you.
- Frank Moses: We don't have much time. Do you understand that?
- William Cooper: What are you gonna do, Frank?
- Frank Moses: I'm gonna kill the Vice President. What are you gonna do?