Robbie Coltrane credited as playing...
Valentin Zukovsky
- James Bond: [while talking about the incident at Savernaya] They're not just criminals Valentin, they're traitors.
- Valentin Dmitrovitch Zukovsky: Well, what do you expect from a Lienz Cossack?
- James Bond: What?
- Valentin Dmitrovitch Zukovsky: This Janus, I've never met the man, but I know that he is a Lienz Cossack.
- James Bond: Group that worked for the Nazis against the Russians. Second World War.
- Valentin Dmitrovitch Zukovsky: You know your history, Mr. Bond. At the end of the war, they surrendered to the British, thinking they would help in waging war against the Communists. But, the British betrayed them, sent them back to Stalin, who promptly had them all shot. Women, children, entire families.
- James Bond: Not exactly our finest hour.
- Valentin Dmitrovitch Zukovsky: Still, ruthless people. They got what they deserved.
- Valentin Dmitrovitch Zukovsky: He wants *me* to do him a favor! My knee aches every single day! Twice as bad when it is cold. Do you have any idea how long the winter lasts in this country? Tell him, Dmitri.
- Bodyguard: Well, it depends...
- Valentin Dmitrovitch Zukovsky: SILENCE!
- Valentin Dmitrovitch Zukovsky: [as Bond points a gun to his head] Walther PPK, 7.65 millimeter. Only three men I know use such a gun. I believe I've killed two of them.
- James Bond: Lucky me.
- [a gun is pointed at the back of Bond's head]
- Valentin Dmitrovitch Zukovsky: I think not.
- Valentin Dmitrovitch Zukovsky: James Bond. Charming, sophisticated secret agent. Shaken, but not stirred.
- [Zukovsky and his men laugh]
- James Bond: I see you haven't lost your delicate sense of humour, Valentin.
- [nods toward the stage]
- James Bond: Or your need for an audience. Who's strangling the cat?
- Valentin Dmitrovitch Zukovsky: [looks towards the stage] Strangling a cat?
- [Zukovsky looks over at Irina, who singing out of tune, then takes out his gun and shoots right between Bond's legs]
- Valentin Dmitrovitch Zukovsky: That is Irina, my mistress.
- James Bond: Very talented girl. Tell her to go.
- [Zukovsky looks to the stage]
- Valentin Dmitrovitch Zukovsky: Irina, take a hike!
- Valentin Dmitrovitch Zukovsky: So why did you not kill me?
- James Bond: Call it professional courtesy.
- Valentin Dmitrovitch Zukovsky: [Drawing a gun] Then I should extend you the same courtesy.
- Valentin Dmitrovitch Zukovsky: So Mr. Bond, what is it that brings you to my neighborhood? Still working for MI6, or have you decided to join the 21st century? I hear the new M is a lady!
- Valentin Dmitrovitch Zukovsky: Another morning shot to hell. Free market economy. I swear it will be the end of me.