The Beekeeper (2024)

Emmy Raver-Lampman: Agent Verona Parker

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• Agent Verona Parker : I believe you. But there are laws for that.

  Adam Clay : There are laws for that. Until they fail. Then they've got me.

• Agent Verona Parker : She got scammed. Somebody emptied out all her accounts, her savings, her retirement. Got every penny. Maxed out all her cards. She was an educator, and director of a charity for kids. They got two million out of that account.

  Adam Clay : You know who did it?

  Agent Verona Parker : I talked to an agent in our cyber-crimes office. This crew's been operating for two years, and we don't even have names. And even if we did, good luck building an indictment that would stand up in court. Some defense attorney would just argue that the elderly victim agreed to wire a complete stranger his entire life savings.

  Adam Clay : Taking from an elderly person is as bad as stealing from a child. Maybe worse. Someone hurts a child, there are parents. People who care, ready to step in. Someone hurts an older person... sometimes, they're left to face the hornets alone. Because either it goes unnoticed... or no one cares.

  Agent Verona Parker : I care. And I'm stubborn. And so help me God, I'm going to get these motherfuckers who did this.

  Adam Clay : I need to take care of the hive.

  Agent Verona Parker : You've been up all night.

  Adam Clay : The hive is more important.

• Adam Clay : I was bringing her a jar of honey.

  Agent Verona Parker : Who are you - Winnie the Pooh?

• Agent Verona Parker : Now, who the fuck are you, and what are you doing in my mother's house?

  Adam Clay : Verona... I'm so sorry.

  Agent Verona Parker : Well, how do you know my name?

• Agent Verona Parker : [reading]  In a beehive there's something called a queen slayer. It's a bee that will rise up and kill the queen if she produces defective offspring.

• Agent Verona Parker : I wanted to thank you for taking care of my Mom. I tried to stay in her life as much as I could. Obviously, I could've done a better job.

  Adam Clay : Being old can be a lonely thing. Turn a certain age, you cease to exist. Cease to matter. Used to be a part of life, of the family. Part of the hive, I guess you could say.

  Agent Verona Parker : There's some British Isles hiding in your accent.

  Adam Clay : I was born there.

  Agent Verona Parker : I hated that she was out here alone. She wouldn't leave. There's too many memories.

• Agent Verona Parker : [disgusted with the call reps at the call center]  Fucking scumbags. I want IDs on all of them.

  Agent Matt Wiley : You know this is just the tip of, like, 20 spears, right?

  Agent Verona Parker : Can I just have this moment?

• Detective Chen : [referring to Adam Clay]  Until we can clear him, he's our best and only perp.

  Agent Verona Parker : [stunned]  Clear him?

  Detective Chen : Agent Parker, I know that's your mother. I understand. But there's a world where she committed suicide.

  Agent Verona Parker : Suicide? You can't be serious. That woman loved life more than anybody I know. But by all means, let's just completely ignore the big white dude in her house with a knife.

• Agent Verona Parker : Okay, listen. Remember our favorite burning building? United Data Group. The guys who work there are hackers, con men, fraudsters, et cetera, et cetera.

  [showing Matt Wiley a photo of Mickey Garnett] 

  Agent Verona Parker : Guy who ran it. Garnett. He's in the book. He's a known mob associate. He's missing, but I've got P.D. chasing him down.

  [puts the photo down] 

  Agent Verona Parker : Okay, so I had some analysts run some shit, and I think I'm starting to get the shape of the animal. Dude, I think United Data Group is one of several call centers. So there's gotta be, like, a central office that's controlling all of them, and that's what we've gotta find. Wiley, this could be, like, a billion-dollar-a-year operation.

  [throwing a handful of chips at a silent Wiley] 

  Agent Verona Parker : Hello?

  Agent Matt Wiley : Hey!

  Agent Verona Parker : Did you hear a single word I just said?

  Agent Matt Wiley : Yeah.

  Agent Verona Parker : And?

  Agent Matt Wiley : I was just thinking you come in here, hung-over on your day off, and gain more yardage on this thing than the whole squad has in two years.

  Agent Verona Parker : Yeah, well, they fucked with my family.

• Lazarus : [speaking to Adam Clay]  Beekeeper, huh? God's right hand? You aren't shit.

  [whips out his gun and aims it at Clay's head] 

  Agent Verona Parker : Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

  Lazarus : Hey, take a step back. I'm putting this asshole's brains on the lawn.

  Agent Verona Parker : What are you doing? He's not even armed.

  Lazarus : Armed? As long as this motherfucker's breathing, he's armed.

• Anisette : You don't have to do this, you know? Why not let Clay do his thing? Your mom is dead because of these people.

  Agent Verona Parker : Wherever it's headed... I swore an oath. I can't stand by and watch it happen.

  Anisette : Even if he's right?

  Agent Verona Parker : [looking unsure]  Even if he's right.

• Agent Verona Parker : So, help me understand, because I'm a little confused. What's the nature of your business?

  Sleazy Call Rep : Don't know nothing about no business.

  Agent Verona Parker : So then why are people just wiring you their entire life savings?

  [sarcastic chuckle] 

  Agent Verona Parker : Must be your winning personality.

  Sleazy Call Rep : They got us lawyers, so maybe you wanna talk to them.

  Agent Verona Parker : [looking at the call rep's shirt]  You know, this is a really nice shirt, by the way. Did you steal it out of a casket, you dog fucker?