- The Adjudicator: Have you decided to step down?
- Winston: I think not.
- The Adjudicator: And you, will you be putting a bullet in his head?
- John Wick: No, I don't think I will.
- The Adjudicator: Very well.
- [Adjudicator makes a phone call]
- Administrator: Administration.
- The Adjudicator: I'd like to change a designation.
- Administrator: Verification?
- The Adjudicator: Adjudication 1011979, The Continental Hotel, New York.
- Administrator: New designation?
- The Adjudicator: Deconsecrated.
- Bowery King: Avert your eyes, my sweet.
- [He releases the pigeon he's holding]
- Bowery King: The king is dead. Long live the king.
- [last lines]
- Bowery King: How you doing John? You look as bad as I feel.
- [King chuckles]
- Bowery King: Johnny, Johnny, Johnny. Raise a hand if you can hear me, John.
- [John raises his left hand]
- Bowery King: Oh, shit. They took a finger. Ain't that a bitch?
- [King chuckles again as John flips him off]
- Bowery King: Oh, John fucking Wick. So, the old boy keeps his hotel and you take the fall. Can't say I blame him. I would've done the same thing if I was in his shoes. But this High Table shit...
- [King gets up]
- Bowery King: Seven cuts.
- [King chuckles]
- Bowery King: Under the table is where shit gets done. And they're about to find out, if you cut a king, you better cut him to the quick.
- [King gets down on his knees]
- Bowery King: So... Let me ask you, John. How do you feel? 'Cause I am really pissed off. You pissed, John? Hmm? Are you?
- John Wick: [gets up] Yeah.
- The Adjudicator: You gentleman, of course, realize that was the first wave. Merely an amuse-bouche. We can keep this up as long as you'd like, but it only ends one way.
- Winston: Are you sure a protracted war is the best way forward?
- The Adjudicator: There won't be anything "protracted" about it.
- Winston: Or you can take the Continental, I have no about that, but keeping it, that's a different matter entirely. My allegiances run way beyond this building.
- The Adjudicator: We are High Table.
- Winston: And we... are New York City.
- The Adjudicator: Are we negotiating?
- Winston: I believe we are.
- Bowery King: [Referring to his carrier pigeon flock] Welcome to my Mission Control. Brain stem of my operation. The information super flyway. From whence I control the word on the street, the way of the world.
- The Adjudicator: With pigeons.
- Bowery King: Yes. You see rats with wings, but I see the Internet. No IP addresses. No digital footprint. Can't track it, can't hack it, can't trace it.
- The Adjudicator: Can you get disease from it?
- Bowery King: Well, I wouldn't recommend that you eat one.
- Bowery King: Okay. You made your point. You have earned my fealty. Matter of fact, I'm gonna shove so much fealty up your ass it's gonna come spilling out of your mouth.
- The Adjudicator: You had your chance.
- Bowery King: Well, since you see it that way, I guess it's time I told you to climb down off your High Table and go fuck yourself.
- The Adjudicator: Duly noted. You gave John Wick seven bullets, your penance will be paid with seven cuts.
- Bowery King: Well, sometimes you gotta cut a motherfucker.
- The Adjudicator: [during the parley] What are we going to do about John Wick?
- Winston: Oh, he has to die.
- [suddenly pulls out a gun and shoots Wick several times, causing him to fall off the roof]
- Winston: Sorry, Jonathan. I don't see any other way.
- Shinobi #1: [after the Shinobis knock John down] He's getting slow.
- Shinobi #2: He's been retired for five years.
- Shinobi #1: But he is still... John Wick.
- Shinobi #2: We will see.
- Berrada: I cannot tell you where to find the Elder. You fail to understand. The Elder is not a man you find. He can only choose to find you. You wish to speak with him? Go to the edge of the desert, look up. Canis Minor, the dog that followed Orion through the sky. You follow the brightest star. Walk until you are almost dead. Then, keep walking. When you are on your last breath, he will find you... Or he will not.
- The Adjudicator: Gentlemen, this institution is now deconsecrated. Business may now be conducted on Continental grounds. Since you are refusing to step down and you are refusing a direct order, your lives are now forfeit. High Table emissaries will be joining you presently to see the removal of your souls from the property.
- The Adjudicator: Good evening, gentlemen.
- Winston: This haven is safe no more.
- John Wick: Are services still off limits to me?
- Winston: Under the circumstances, your privileges are reinstated immediately. What do you need?
- John Wick: Guns. Lots of guns.
- Sofia: You do realize that I'm management now, right? I'm not service anymore, John. So, I don't go around shooting people in the head.
- John Wick: I'm not asking you to kill anyone. I just need you to get me to him.
- Sofia: To who?
- John Wick: Your old boss.
- Sofia: You wanna kill Berrada.
- John Wick: I'm not gonna kill him. I just need to talk.
- Sofia: What could he possibly give to you?
- John Wick: Guidance.
- Sofia: Look, I made a deal when I agreed to run this hotel. And that deal said that I had to follow the rules of the Table. If you're not gonna kill him, he is gonna kill you, and then probably me, too, for walking you up in there. If I make one mistake, one enemy... maybe somebody goes looking for my daughter. And I know what you did, John, to get her out. But that's not a chance I can take. Sorry.
- John Wick: Do you wanna know where she is?
- Sofia: No. I don't ever wanna know, because I don't trust that I won't go find her. A part of me longs for her. And I have to kill that part of myself every day, just to keep her safe. Because sometimes you have to kill what you love. That's why I gave you that marker in the first place. That's why I'm sitting here right now, and that's why I'm fucked!
- The Director: [as she and John walk through various studios within the Tarkovsky Theater] You know, when my pupils first come here, they wish for one thing: a life free of suffering. I try to dissuade them from these childish notions, but as you know
- [as they pause to watch a ballerina tear off a worn toenail]
- The Director: , art is pain. Life is suffering.
- The Director: Even if I wanted to, I can't help you, Jardani. The HIgh Table wants your life. How can you fight the wind? How can you smash the mountains? How can you bury the ocean? How can you escape from the light? Of course, you can go to the dark. But they're in the dark, too. So, tell me, Jardani. What do you really want?
- John Wick: Passage.
- The Director: Where did you want to go?
- John Wick: Casablanca.
- The Director: The path to paradise begins in hell.
- The Adjudicator: Santino D'Antonio. A newly instated member of the High Table, slain by Mr. Wick while seeking sanctuary in the Continental.
- [inspecting the bullet wound]
- The Adjudicator: With a .45 ACP, it appears.
- Winston: I had no control over Mr. Wick's actions.
- The Adjudicator: And yet he lives because you deemed it so, yes?
- Winston: Yes.
- The Adjudicator: You have known Mr. Wick for a great many years. It might even be fair to call you friends, yes? Instead of stopping him, instead of killing him, you stood by and let him walk away after he shot Santino D'Antonio in front of you.
- Winston: I made him excommunicado.
- The Adjudicator: But not before you gave him an hour to escape.
- Winston: He broke the rules in my hotel.
- The Adjudicator: This is exactly the problem, your hotel. Where is your fealty?
- Winston: I've been of service for over 40 years.
- The Adjudicator: Under the Table. Serving the Table. Everything is under the Table. I understand that you have your loyalties, but this cannot be overlooked. Let me be clear, I am here to adjudge you. You have one week to get your affairs in order.
- Winston: Excuse me?
- The Adjudicator: At such time, your successor will be named. There are rules, they are the only things that separate us...
- Winston: From the animals.
- The Adjudicator: Yes. You have seven days. In the meantime, if you need any assistance with your transition, you may look for me in room 217.
- Winston: Enjoy your stay at the Continental.
- Bowery King: What the hell do you want?
- The Adjudicator: I wanted to see where it didn't happen.
- Bowery King: Where what didn't happen?
- The Adjudicator: Where you didn't kill John Wick.
- Bowery King: I've always been under the impression that contracts and executing them was optional. I have no problem with John Wick.
- The Adjudicator: And yet, you gave John a seven-round Kimber 1911, knowing that he intended to use it to stand against the Table, yes?
- [taking a gun out of her handbag]
- The Adjudicator: This Kimber 1911, to be exact. You gave John Wick seven bullets, the High Table is giving you seven days.
- Bowery King: Seven days for what, exactly?
- The Adjudicator: To settle your affairs and find a new home for your birds. In seven days, you abdicate your throne.
- Bowery King: [roaring with laughter] Oh, my dear. Tell me, do you know what the Bowery is, Adjudicator? Do you know what happens when I wave my hand? No, there will be no replacement for me on the throne. Because I am the throne, baby. I am the Bowery! I am all that you deign not to look at when you walk down the street at night. The Bowery is mine. Mine alone.
- The Adjudicator: Do not make the mistake of thinking you exist outside the rules, no men do. You have seven days.
- Doctor: [unable to finish stitching up John's injury] Top shelf. On the right. Yeah. Take four. It will give you energy. Help with the pain.
- [taking a gun out of his desk drawer]
- Doctor: Mr. Wick? They'll never believe I stopped on the hour.
- John Wick: But you did.
- Doctor: They'll know.
- John Wick: Know what?
- Doctor: I told you where the medicine was.
- John Wick: [taking the gun] Where?
- Doctor: Here. Just below my floating rib. But sure not to hit my...
- [groaning as John shoots him]
- Doctor: Oh, wait! One may not be enough.
- [opening the collar of his shirt]
- Doctor: Yeah. All right. Be sure not to graze my...
- [groaning as John shoots him again]
- Doctor: Good luck, Mr. Wick.
- John Wick: Thanks, Doc.
- The Director: Jardani. Why have you come home?
- [John holds up his rosary]
- The Director: You present this to me like an answer.
- John Wick: I still have my ticket.
- The Director: After all the chaos you've caused for the last few weeks, you think your ticket is valid? Do you forget that the Ruska Roma is bound by the High Table, and the High Table stands above all? They could kill me just for talking to you. You honor me by bringing death to my front door. Oh, Jardani, what has become of you?
- John Wick: [in Russian] I am Jardani Jovonovich. I am a child of the Belarus, an orphan of your tribe... you are bound to help me.
- [in English]
- John Wick: You are bound, and I am owed.
- Winston: I presume you're here to discuss John Wick. If that's so, we can make this short. I told him to walk away, he declined to do so. And that's the all of it.
- The Adjudicator: Mr. Wick broke the rules.
- Winston: Oh, yes. And I haven't the slightest idea where he is...
- The Adjudicator: You're mistaken. I'm not here for Mr. Wick. I'm here because Mr. Wick broke the rules in this hotel.
- Winston: Mm-hmm.
- The Adjudicator: The blood was spilt on the grounds of the Continental, was it not?
- Winston: Oh, yes. As a matter of fact, the body gets colder within these very walls.
- The Adjudicator: I'd like to see it.
- The Adjudicator: Mr. Wick is gone.
- Winston: A true tragedy.
- The Adjudicator: You misunderstand. I mean that he is no longer on the street.
- Winston: That seems improbable.
- The Adjudicator: And yet, true. I trust you understand the repercussions if he survives. Both from above and below. The last thing either one of us needs is Mr. Wick paying us a visit in the night. For both our sakes, I'll hope you see to it that this situation is taken care of, yes?
- Winston: Absolutely. How far can he get?
- The Elder: I can give you one last chance to earn a life. However, it might not be the life that you wish. Complete a task for us, and your excommunicado will be reversed, the open contract closed. You would be permitted to continue to live. Not free under the Table, but bound to it. Doing what you do best for the rest of your days. The choice is yours. Die here and now, or continue to live and remember through death.
- John Wick: What must be done?
- The Elder: The cost of your life will be the death of others. The first of which will be the man they call Winston.
- John Wick: What?
- The Elder: He has forgotten his fealty. Neither the open contract nor the excommunicado will be lifted until you complete your task. So if you wish to live, and if you wish to remember, this is the choice you must make.
- John Wick: [getting down on one knee] I will serve. I will be of service.
- Zero: I wasn't expecting the High Table so soon.
- The Adjudicator: There is a task. It involves someone who broke the rules and stood against the Table.
- Zero: John Wick, you mean. My students have not been idle.
- The Adjudicator: John Wick and all who've helped him. You've heard the stories about him, of course. Killed scores of men this past week alone because of...
- Zero: A dog, a car. I'm familiar. And I'm interested. Very.
- [offering her a morsel of food]
- Zero: Blowfish. Very fatal. No soy.
- [she ingests it with no hesitation]
- Zero: I have served, I will be of service.