Lord Of War Page #7

before you got your chance to kill him.

This man came here hoping to

take your place.

Is that not so?

No, I'm not here to supply

Mr. Baptiste.

I am here to supply his enemies.

I fear it's a sale I shall never complete.

He killed your blood... Your uncle...

when he tried to kill you.

No.

No?

You want that I should let him go?

"No. I..."

You do want him dead.

You just... don't want

to have to do it yourself.

So.

We will do this together.

This will be a bonding experience.

You know you can stop this

any time that you want.

But I don't think that you do.

Just say the word.

Say it. "Stop."

Stop.

I will get you another room,

my friend.

With a much nicer view.

He ordered you brown-brown,

Mr. Yuri.

What?

Brown-brown.

What is it?

A mixture of cocaine...

...and gunpowder.

They give it to the young boys

before they do battle.

They'll do anything!

Some other time.

I suggest you try it,

at least once, Mr. Yuri.

Why?

'Cause it's your gunpowder.

Even before that night,

I'd started doing a lot of cocaine

in West Africa.

I'd never tried brown-brown before,

but then I'd never killed a man, either.

Oh.

Oh, I didn't do anything, did I?

I didn't do anything, did I?

You didn't do much.

Wait. Are you sick?

SIDA? AIDS?

Ask the white man. He will know.

Sir, will my hand grow back?

Simeon.

Remember, Yuri, take sides.

Simeon!

Don't! He's Andre's.

F*** Andre!

F*** Andre!

I'm sorry they don't usually do that.

Let me look it. Maybe I can fix it.

Let me see it. It's the magazine.

Give it to me.

F*** you!

I started to feel I'd been cursed.

...the curse of invincibility.

Nicki, please, go to your room.

I don't believe you.

Can you prove any of this?

Mr. Orlov goes to a lot of trouble

to make his business look legitimate.

Even to you.

Perhaps especially to you.

I don't expect we'll find anything here today.

So what do you want?

I was hoping that you would help me.

I understand that uh...

your parents died tragically?

The illegal firearms used to murder

your mother and father

were procured from men exactly

like your husband.

I'd like you to leave.

Okay. Gentlemen.

Ava?

Ava, what's wrong?

I can't wear the clothes.

Can't wear the jewelry.

Can't drive the car.

Can't live in this house.

Everything's got blood on it.

Blood on it?

What's the matter with you?

Don't be so melodramatic.

I'm melodramatic.

I'm a failed actress, remember?

I told you, these people, it's political.

They lie. They're liars.

Look at me. They lie to make

themselves look good, okay?

You can't trust them.

It's not just them.

Don't worry. Your family didn't

say anything.

They didn't have to.

I sell people a means to defend

themselves. Ava.

That's all.

Yuri, I see the news. I see those pictures.

The guns are bigger than the boys!

There is nothing illegal

about what I do!

I don't care if it's legal!

It's wrong!

Please, stop.

It makes no difference if I stop.

Someone will take my place the next day.

So let them. We have enough.

It's not about the money.

Then what is it?

I'm good at it.

I feel like all I've done my whole life

is be pretty.

I mean all I've done is be born.

I'm a failed actress, a failed artist.

I'm not much good as a mother.

I'm not even that pretty anymore.

I have failed at everything, Yuri.

But I won't fail as a human being.

My enemies had finally found a weapon

that could hurt me.

For the next six months,

I stopped running guns.

I went legitimate.

This is an untapped market.

I'm talking over five million

cubic meters of timber

in the first year alone.

Over 100 exploitable species.

The oil?

Between you and me, this...

Ten thousand barrels a month?

He must be lying. He's talking!

Listen, there are gas reserves off the

Ivory Coast that OPEC doesn't

even know about.

The phone numbers all check out.

It's all on the level.

No wonder Valentine was confused.

Thank God there are still legal ways

to exploit developing countries.

The only problem with an honest buck

is they're so hard to make.

The margins are too low.

Too many people are doing it.

Still, I'd promised Ava.

Yuri, the President of Liberia

is on his way up.

He's early.

I'll be back in a minute.

What the f*** are you doing here, Andre?

We are here for peace talks at the

United Nations.

So at the same time you thought

you'd drop in on your arms dealer?

Well, I was beginning to wonder

whether that was still your profession.

You know, you're a hard man

to get a hold of all of Sudden.

That is a shame.

My son and I were hoping to do

a little shopping.

While in New York.

You know they're watching you.

Yes, I know they blame me.

They blame me for everything,

those hypocrites.

There're hunt for a witch.

Witch hunt.

Hostilities have escalated.

And they are making it very

difficult for me to re-supply.

That requires a man of your rare ingenuity.

I can't help you, I'm sorry.

I understand.

But you should know this:

Due to our present situation

we are compelled to be unusually generous.

So, see you soon, Lord of War.

You still haven't brought me

the gun of Rambo.

At four and a half months old...

a human fetus has a reptile's tail...

a remnant of our evolution.

Maybe that's what I couldn't escape.

You can fight a lot of enemies and survive,

but if you fight your biology,

you always lose.

You guys aren't waiting to say goodbye?

I'm not leaving for another ten minutes.

Sorry, Nicki has swim practice.

You know, I'm kind of glad you're going.

You've been here so long

you're starting to get on my nerves.

This oil concession should be

wrapped up by Thursday.

I'll be back for the weekend.

We'll go somewhere.

The sea.

That would be fun.

Come on.

Hey. You trust me, right?

She looked me directly in the eye...

the way I've looked in the eyes

of a thousand customs officials...

government bureaucrats and

law enforcement agents.

Yes, I trust you.

And she lied without flinching.

I'll see you, big guy.

Bye Papa.

She learned from the best.

Have a good trip.

That's him.

Where are we going, Mama?

It's a game, honey.

Like hide and seek?

Yes.

Like hide and seek.

I can always sense

when I'm being tailed.

I know what to look for.

But then I'd never been tailed

by the woman I love.

I can put myself in Ava's place.

She might've understood if the combination

was the last four digits of my

social security number...

my birth date, even her birth date,

but not Nicolai's.

My son's birthday unlocked

what the government would

later describe...

...as "a catalogue of carnage."

Nicki, stay right there.

Come on, Nicki.

Come to see how the other half lives?

I miss your borscht.

Mom and Dad say you're clean.

Yeah, you, too.

You went legit, huh?

That's hard to believe.

That's because it's not true.

Only you know.

I'm leaving tonight on a job

I want you to come.

I can't. I've got a girlfriend.

I think she might be the one.

Plus, I'm thinking of opening

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