Eastern Promises Monologues

A teenager who dies during childbirth leaves clues in her journal that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family

I can't become king if someone else already sits on the throne.

Sentimental value? Ah. I heard of that.

Your uncle is fine, he is in Edinburgh, in a 5-Star Hotel. I was ordered to send him to Heaven with a bullet in his brain... instead I gave him a first class ticket to Scotland. He is old-school, he understands things... exile or death.

Forget any of this happened. Stay away from people like me.

Kirill, we don't kill little babies.

I need you to take Semyon out of the picture. I want you to arrest him.

Rape. The girl was 14.

She is dead, but she had Semyon's baby. If you can prove baby was his, and girl was underage, that is statutory rape. You have baby, you need Semyon's DNA. For poetic reasons, I suggest you take his blood.

Okay. Now I'm going to do his teeth and cut off his fingers. You might want to leave room.

Anger is dangerous. It makes people do stupid things.

I'm just a driver.

Sometimes, if things are closed, you just, open them up.

Stay alive a little longer.

Dasvidaniya, Anna Inanovna.

Are you finished cutting his hair?

I thought you might want $6.50 from his pocket.

So what do you care? Slaves give birth to slaves.