Skyscraper (2018)

Chin Han: Zhao Long Ji

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Quotes 

• Zhao Long Ji : So what's the plan?

  Will Sawyer : Got any duct tape?

• Zhao Long Ji : Welcome to Heaven.

• Ajani Okeke : Sir, I can't protect you if you don't tell me what's going on. This isn't just a fire. It's a plot.

  Zhao Long Ji : I can't say for sure.

  Ajani Okeke : I don't need facts. What is your gut telling you? Who's behind this?

  Zhao Long Ji : Kores Botha.

  Ajani Okeke : I don't understand. If a man like Botha wanted you dead, there are easier ways.

  Zhao Long Ji : He doesn't want me dead. At least not yet. He wants this.

  [showing him a flash drive] 

  Zhao Long Ji : And lighting the Pearl on fire is the only way he can get it.

• Will Sawyer : All right, if we're gonna get out of here, you're gonna have to tell me the truth. How does a man like that call you his business partner?

  Zhao Long Ji : His name is Kores Botha. He handles extortion for three powerful crime syndicates. And when I began construction on the Pearl, Botha came to me. He said that if I didn't pay him, he'll cripple my labor force and keep me from ever completing this place.

  Will Sawyer : You paid him.

  Zhao Long Ji : Yes. But what he didn't know was that I hid tracking software inside my wire transfer. As Botha laundered my payments through their offshore accounts, I was able to trace every transaction, giving me their bank accounts, their names, their identities. This was my insurance policy. Botha would never be able to extort money from me again. But when the syndicates found out that they were compromised, they threatened to destroy Botha if he didn't clean up his mess. If he kills me, the copies I've made will be sent to the authorities. But if he gets his hands on this, the original, he can reverse-engineer my tracking software and hide the identities before anyone's the wiser.

  Will Sawyer : So he lit this entire building on fire knowing that you would take the most valuable thing in this world to you and run.

  Zhao Long Ji : And his plan worked.

  Will Sawyer : Not yet it hasn't. We're gonna give Botha what he came here for.

  Zhao Long Ji : As soon as he has the drive, he'll kill us both.

  Will Sawyer : Maybe. But he has my daughter. And her life is what matters to me, not mine.

• Zhao Long Ji : Long time, Botha.

  Kores Botha : Yeah. Did you miss me? I see you met my associate. Surprise, surprise.

  Zhao Long Ji : Why don't you just shoot me and take it?

  Kores Botha : You think I'm stupid, huh? You know I can't do that. 'Cause the men I work for will kill me if I don't get it back for them. You should've paid me and been done with it. But no. Clever boys like you always think you can be clever. So how's this for clever? I'm gonna take you and your drive and your helicopter. And I'm going to make you watch as your building burns to ash, and there's nothing you can do about it.

• Zhao Long Ji : [holding a gun on Will]  Don't move.

  Will Sawyer : You're too close.

  Zhao Long Ji : What?

  Will Sawyer : [using his military skills to disarm him]  We need to talk.