Always makes me a little melancholy... The grand old warship being ignominiously hauled away for scrap... The inevitability of time, don’t you think? What do you see?
Skyfall (2012)
Q
A screenplay character in Skyfall (2012).
- lines
- 57
- words
- 575
- scenes
- 19
- dialogue
- 11%
- avg words / line
- 10
- shortest / longest
- 1 / 45
Sample dialogue
Now, looking at Silva’s computer, it seems to me he’s done a number of slightly unusual things... He’s established fail-safe protocols to wipe the memory if there’s any attempt to access certain files. Only about six people in the world could program safeguards like that.
scene 87 — INT. MI-6 BUNKER - Q BRANCH - DAY...And that’s it.
scene 50 — INT. NATIONAL GALLERY - DAYBlowing up HQ -- all the emergency protocols, knowing we’d retreat down here...
scene 104 — INT. MI-6 BUNKER - Q BRANCH - INTERCUT - DAYGet on the train.
scene 111 — INT. TEMPLE TUBE STATION PLATFORM - DAYWalther PPK/S 9mm short. Those are micro-dermal sensors in the grip. It’s been coded to your palm print, so only you can fire it ... Less of a random killing machine, more of a personal statement.
scene 50 — INT. NATIONAL GALLERY - DAY
Bookends
But, Sir... what if the P.M. finds out?