Guy Pearce credited as playing...
Aldrich Killian
- Jarvis: Mark 42 inbound.
- [Stark sees the MK42 armor flying toward the battlefield]
- Tony Stark: I'll be damned. The prodigal son returns.
- [Stark summons Mark 42 to come to him, but it hits a pole and breaks into pieces]
- Tony Stark: Whatever.
- Aldrich Killian: You really didn't deserve her, Tony. It's a pity. I was so close to having her... perfect.
- [jumps down to confront Tony]
- Tony Stark: OK, OK, wait, wait, slow down, slow down! You're right... I don't deserve her. Here's where you're wrong: she was already perfect.
- [Stark summons the Mark 42 pieces to assemble on Killian and attach him against the wall]
- Tony Stark: Jarvis, do me a favor and blow Mark 42.
- Aldrich Killian: NOOO!
- [the suit explodes]
- Aldrich Killian: No more false faces... You said you wanted the Mandarin? You're looking right at him! It was always me, Tony, right from the start! I AM THE MANDARIN!
- [Pepper, glowing with Extremis, swats him away with a pole and looks at Tony, who thought she was dead]
- Tony Stark: I got nothing.
- Aldrich Killian: [referring to Trevor Slattery] You have met him, I presume?
- Tony Stark: Yeah, Sir Laurence Oblivier.
- Aldrich Killian: I know he's a little over the top sometimes. It's not entirely my fault. He has a tend... he's-he's a stage actor. They say his Lear was the toast of Croydon, wherever that is. Anyway, the point is, ever since that big dude with a hammer fell out of the sky, subtlety's kinda had its day.
- Pepper Potts: You think he'll help you... he won't.
- Aldrich Killian: It's more, uh, embarrassing than that. You're here as my, uh...
- Pepper Potts: Trophy.
- Aldrich Killian: Yeah.
- Maya Hansen: [puts a gun to her head] Let him go! What's going to happen to your men, what's going to happen to YOU?
- [Killian shoots Maya]
- Aldrich Killian: [to Stark] Well, the good news is, a high-level position has just been vacated.
- Aldrich Killian: [about to Extremis-punch Stark] Close your eyes. You don't want to see this happening.
- [brings down his fist...]
- Tony Stark: [cuts off Killian's hand] Yeah, be with you in a minute...
- [spoiler]
- Aldrich Killian: But as I looked out over that city - nobody knew I was there, nobody could see me, no one was even looking - I had a thought that would guide me for years. Anonymity, Tony. Thanks to you, it's been my mantra ever since.
- [glances at Maya]
- Aldrich Killian: Right? You simply rule from behind the scenes. Because the second you give evil a face - a bin Laden, a Gaddafi, a Mandarin - you hand the people a target.