The Beekeeper (2024)

Jeremy Irons: Wallace Westwyld

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• Pettis : Can't somebody just pick up the phone, and tell this yahoo to stand the fuck down?

  Wallace Westwyld : That's the one thing Beekeepers don't do; stand down. Not unlike bees themselves, Beekeepers keep working until they die.

• Wallace Westwyld : [speaking to Derek]  For someone who has elevated fucking up into an art form, this might well be your Mona Lisa.

• President Danforth : I still think of you, sometimes.

  Wallace Westwyld : [chuckling]  Sometimes.

• Wallace Westwyld : [Speaking to Pettis and his men]  When I was sworn in as director, I was read into programs I never imagined existed. Well... there are programs even I wasn't privy to. Like the Beekeepers. The honeybee has always had a special relationship with humanity. A sacred relationship. Why? No bees, no agriculture. No agriculture, no civilization. Our nation is not unlike a beehive, with its complex systems of workers, caretakers, even royalty. If any of the beehive's complex mechanisms are compromised, the hive collapses. Someone, a long time ago, decided that a mechanism was needed to keep our nation safe -- a mechanism outside the chain of command, outside the system. Its one mission -- to keep the system safe. Beekeepers are given all resources, empowered to act on their own judgment. For decades, they have quietly worked to keep the hive safe. That is, until now. It appears that a retired Beekeeper has gone off program, and is acting in what he mistakenly believes is the hive's best interest.

• Derek Danforth : You're scared.

  Wallace Westwyld : Dead right I'm scared. Terrified. So should you be.

  Derek Danforth : Wallace, just tell me what the fuck this guy is.

  Wallace Westwyld : He's probably the last pair of eyes that you're going to sneer at.

• Wallace Westwyld : Just hear me out. Now, you know who I work for, don't you?

  Director Janet Harward : Oh, yeah. God help you, Wallace.

  Wallace Westwyld : Exactly. Well, Director Harward, my young friend seems to have caught the unwanted attentions of... I don't know how else to say this... of a Beekeeper.

  Director Janet Harward : Wait, a -- a *Beekeeper* Beekeeper?

  Wallace Westwyld : As in.

  Director Janet Harward : Well, that's not good.

  Wallace Westwyld : No, it's not.

  Director Janet Harward : What's the body count?

  Wallace Westwyld : Seven today.

  Director Janet Harward : You busy making funeral arrangements?

  Wallace Westwyld : I need help, Janet. Not jokes.

• Wallace Westwyld : [answering his cell phone]  Does this mean you've taken pity on an old man?

  Director Janet Harward : So your problem? He's retired from the program. No longer active.

  Wallace Westwyld : Well, that changes everything.

  Director Janet Harward : The current active Beekeeper is aware of the issue, and is going to be taking things from here. You can rest easy, old friend.

  Wallace Westwyld : Oh, no. Janet, the current active Beekeeper is a fucking lunatic who should've been removed months ago. God help us now.

• Lazarus : Fuck, bruh! How'd you piss this oak off, huh?

  Wallace Westwyld : I...

  [points to Derek] 

  Derek Danforth : You're looking at me?

  Wallace Westwyld : Mm-hmm.

  Derek Danforth : How is any of this my fault? Wasn't your supersecret CIA data mining software supposed to, I don't know, maybe filter out un-fucking-stoppable killing machines?

  Wallace Westwyld : Don't you fuck with me, young man! Any other life, you'd be in jail!

• Wallace Westwyld : [speaking to Derek Danforth]  I put up with you. I've put up with your tantrums, kept you out of the tabloids, kept you out of jail... the endless stream of sex workers... you're a drowning man. Do you know that?

• Wallace Westwyld : [in the President's beach-side mansion]  Get the Secret Service out of the house. I don't want them here. They're C team. B team at best.

  Derek Danforth : Uh, Mom's detail is not gonna like that.

  Wallace Westwyld : Well, if Mom's detail gets in the way of what's coming for us, they're dead men, and so are we.

• Wallace Westwyld : [as President Danforth arrives at the mansion]  Madam President, you look spectacular.

  President Danforth : When the fuck are you gonna tell me what's going on, Wallace?