Holloway:
You've got a gift.
Leaven:
It's not a gift. It's just a brain.
Quentin:
For Christ's sake, Worth, what do you live for? Do you have a wife, or a girlfriend, or something?
Worth:
Nope. I've gotta pretty fine collection of pornography.
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:
I'm not dying in a fucking rat maze!
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.
Worth:
Hey! Listen to what I'm saying. We haven't been moving in circles, the rooms have.
Worth:
What do ya think?
Leaven:
You don't have a lot of lives left.
Quentin:
Is that your two cents worth, Worth?
Worth:
For what it's worth.
Worth:
There is no conspiracy. Nobody is in charge. It's a headless blunder operating under the illusion of a master plan.
Worth:
Big Brother isn't watching you!
Quentin:
Who do you think the establishment is? It's just guys like me. Their desks are bigger, but their jobs aren't. They don't conspire, they buy boats.
[
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?
Worth:
You think somebody would go to all the trouble to build this thing if you could just walk out?
Kazan:
Astronomical!
Worth:
This is an accident, a forgotten, perpetual public works project. You think anybody wants to ask questions? All they want is a clear conscience and a fat paycheck.
Holloway:
What have we come to? It's so much worse than I thought.
Worth:
Not really. Just more pathetic.
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:
[
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.
Leaven:
This room moves to 0, 1, and -1 on the X-axis, 2, 5, and -7 on the Y and 1, -1, and 0 on zed.
Quentin:
And what does that mean?
Leaven:
You suck at math.
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.
Holloway:
It's all the same machine, right? The Pentagon, multinational corporations, the police. If you do one little job, you build a widget in Saskatoon, and the next thing you know, it's two miles under the desert, the essential component of a death machine.
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."
Kazan:
This room is... green. I wanna go back to the blue room.
Quentin:
But why put people in it?
Worth:
Because it's here. You have to use it, or you admit that it's pointless.
Quentin:
But it *is* pointless.
Worth:
Quentin... that's my point.
[
They are staring, wide-eyed, at each other as they begin to understand the coding]
Leaven:
How do you map a point that keeps moving?
Worth:
[
He thinks for a few moments, then:] Permutations.
[
They stare at each other again, realizing they've made a breakthrough]
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:
[
looking at the "room numbers"] Prime numbers. I can't believe I didn't see it before!
Leaven:
Give us the boot, you pig!
[
Quentin turns suddenly and hits Worth with the boot]
Quentin:
You don't want the boot!
[
Quentin starts beating Worth savagely with the boot]
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!
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.
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