Armand Assante: Rico

Judge Dredd

Rico

Rico: You want fear? I'm the fear. You want chaos? I'm the chaos. You want a new beginning? Here...
[knocks a bust statue off it's plinth]
Rico: I am the new beginning!

Rico: Why are you here? Have you come for another chat?
Warden Miller: Just a short one, I'm afraid. Duty calls.
Rico: Ah, duty. Keeping these parasites here, at the public's expense.
Warden Miller: Yeah. You especially.
Rico: I don't cost anything. I'm a ghost. And we're both prisoners here. You're behind your desk and I'm behind this.
[he indicates the forcefield surrounding his prison cell]
Rico: What a clever reward from Fargo. I mean, considering the services.
Warden Miller: When you start killing innocent people, Rico, you went beyond service.
Rico: The innocent exist only until they inevitably become perpetrators. Guilt and innocence is a matter of timing.

[Geiger gives Rico the package he ordered. The case slides open to reveal a Lawgiver gun. Rico reaches to pick it up]
Geiger: No, wait a second! Don't touch it.
Rico: Why not?
Geiger: Well, that's a Lawgiver. That's programed to only recognise a Judge's hand. You touch that, it'll take your arm off!
[Rico grabs the gun and points it in Geiger's face. The gun has accepted his grip]
Rico: Gee, how do you like that? I must be a Judge.
[he shoots Geiger]

Rico: [after blowing away the council with a Lawgiver gun] Now who says politics is boring?

Rico: [points all around him]
[exclaims]
Rico: I BETRAYED THIS? Your Councils Experiment... WHICH FAILED... In You! I was your brother, your blood, your friend. Who betrayed who? When are you going to stop being a goddamn slave and grow up?
[snorts]
Rico: That's your birthright, that's your family. I'm your family,
[close to tears]
Rico: I'm the only family you ever had. Now choose!
Judge Dredd: The best thing you can do is kill me.
Rico: Why?
Judge Dredd: Because it's your only chance... brother.
[looks close to breaking down but instead becomes enraged]

Ilsa: He looks a lot like you.
Rico: He is a lot like me.
Judge Dredd: I am nothing like you.
Rico: The only difference between us, Joseph, is you destroyed your life to embrace the law. And l destroyed the law to embrace life.

Rico: [noticing a huge robot in Geiger's shop] I thought they destroyed all these ABC warriors during the last war.
Geiger: Well, you can still collect 'em, as long as they're non-functioning. Like my wife.

Rico: You left the DNA in there for over 30 years, sooner or later somebody's gonna clean out the fridge.

[Griffin enters his office to find the ABC Warrior robot and Rico waiting for him]
Rico: Chief Justice Griffin.
[giggles]
Rico: It's got a nice ring to it.
Judge Griffin: [grimly] We had to get rid of Vartis... he found out about Janus... we could've used Dredd
Rico: [leaps to his feet]
[yelling]
Rico: FORGET DREDD...
[quiets down]
Rico: There Is No Dredd... Let Me Tell You About Dredd... He Worships The Law... He Would've Gone Your Way... And Then He Would Found Out... YOUR PISSING ON IT
[grumbles]
Rico: Let's See How He Likes Freezing His Ass Off In Aspen? Let's See How He Likes... TO BE ME?

[the ABC Warrior robot blows away a group of Judges and then looks to Rico for approval]
Rico: [smoking a cigar] M'boy.