Quotes and Dialogue (TR1-6)

Notable Quotes from the Core Design Games:

Tomb Raider

• Larson: What's a man got to do to get that kinda attention from ya?
• Lara: It's hard to say, exactly, but you seem to be doing fine.
• Larson: Well, great. Though, truth is, it ain't me that wants ya.
• Lara: No?
• Larson: No. Miss Jacqueline Natla does, from Natla Technologies.You know, creator of all things bright and beautiful [he laughs]

[Natla appears on the screen of a laptop]

• Natla: Seal it, Larson.
• Larson: Ma'am...

[the screen shows money falling down]

• Natla: Feast your eyes on this, Lara. How does that make your wallet rumble?
• Lara: I'm sorry. I only play for sport.
• Natla: Then you'll like a big park- Peru. Vast mountain ranges to cover. Sheer walls of ice, rocky crag, savage winds. And there's this little trinket – an age old artefact of mystical powers buried in the unfound tomb of Qualopec. That's my interest. You could leave tomorrow. Are you busy tomorrow?

• Lara: Relocated now to St. Francis' Folly, new temptations torment me. (her voice is changed to a Monk's voice speaking)

• Monk: Rumour amongst my fellow brothers is that entombed beneath our monastery is the body of Tihocan, one of the three legendary rulers of the lost continent, Atlantis......and that with him lies his piece of the Atlantean Scion. The pendant divided and shared between the three rulers......which curbs tremendous powers. Power beyond the creator himself. My toes sweat at such possibilities lying so close to my mortal soul. Each night I beat myself rid of these fantasies, but it is indeed a test.

• Lara: Pierre. (Tsk) You litterbug.

• Lara: Well you have my total attention now, I'm not quite sure if I've got yours though. Hello?
• Larson: You and that drivelling piece of the Scion. You want to keep it so bad, I'll harness it right up yer...
• Lara: Wait. We're talking about the artefact here?
• Larson: Damn straight, we are. Right up...
• Lara: Hold on. I'm sorry. This piece you say...where's the rest?
• Larson: Miss Natla put Pierre DuPont on that trail.
• Lara: And where is that?
• Larson: Hah, you ain't fast enough for him.
• Lara: So you think all this talking is just holding me up?
• Larson: I don't know where his little jack-rabbit frog legs are running him to. You'll have to ask Miss Natla.

He tries to reach for his gun and Lara knocks him out with a kick]

• Lara: Thank you. I will.

• Kold/Bald Guy: You just pulled the tough end of a wishbone.
• Cowboy: Howdy.
• Lara: (politely) Afternoon.
• Natla: Left Larson sucking wind then, eh?
• Lara: If that is the phrase.
• Natla: Well, your little vacation riot’s over now. Time to give back what you’ve hijacked off me.
• Lara: Ow!
• Kold/Bald Guy: Let’s try the lunchbox.
• Natla: Well? Kill her!
• Cowboy: Hey!
• Natla: You morons!
• Natla: Let’s go.
• Kold/Bald Guy: What the heck was that?
• Kid: What?
• Kold/Bald Guy: That.
• Kid: Probably just a fish.
• Kold/Bald Guy: That’s some fish, kid.
• Kid: Man, you have got to learn to chill. I’m going back inside. You coming?
• Kid: Steady. Here she goes.
• Natla: You ready yet?

• Natla: (screams) You can’t do this!
• Qualopec: We condemn you, Natla of Atlantis, for your crimes. For your flagrant misuse of your powers and for robbing us of our…
• Natla: You can’t! I…
• Qualopec: Breaking the free bond of consent that our people are ruled and secured under, and invading Tihocan and myself with our own army. Our warriors emptied from our pyramid so that you could use the pyramid – its powers of creation – for your own mindless destruction.
• Natla: Mindless!? Look at you! Neither of you have one squirt of inventive juice in your heads. Wasters!
• Qualopec: (turns to Tihocan) Let’s just do it.
• Natla: (pleads) Tihocan!
• Tihocan: You used the sacramental place as a source for your individual pleasure, as some freak factory.
• Natla: They’re survivalists. A new generation.
• Tihocan: A slaughter heap now. And you. We’re going to lock you in limbo. Make your veins, heart, feet, and that diseased brain stick solid with frozen blood. Greet your eternal rest, Natla.
• Natla: You won’t rest either, or your damned continent of Atlantis!

• Natla: Back again?
• Lara: And you? For a grand re-opening I assume.
• Natla: Evolution's in a rut. Natural selection in an all time low. Shipping out fresh meat will incite territorial rages again…will strengthen and advance us. Even create new breeds.
• Lara: Kind of evolution on steroids then.
• Natla: A kick in the pants. Those runts Qualopec and Tihocan had no idea. The cataclysm of Atlantis struck a race of langering wimps. Plummeted them to the very basics of survival again.. it shouldn’t happen like that.
• Lara: Or like this
• Voice: Hatching commences in 15 seconds.
• Natla: To late for abortions now.
• Lara: Not without the heart of the operation.

[Lara holds her gun up to the Scion]

• Natla: No!!!!

[She jumps at Lara and they fall off the ledge and Natla falls into the lava pit below while Lara grabbed onto the edge blow and pulls herself up]

• Voice: 10....5,4,3,2,1....

Tomb Raider II

• Lara: Pardon me if that was just your way of trying the doors for me.
• Fiamma Nera member: [laughs] With a tommy gun on my keyring.
• Lara: Though not anymore, so after you.
• Fiamma Nera member: Somehow, you don't behave like you've got a monk's blood.
• Lara: I understand that "somehow" is in my favour. So indulge me about the dagger. I'd be indebted with your life.
• Fiamma Nera member: These doors are waiting for the right one. The right time to arrive. And then the dagger's blade will honour the hearts of those who believe. So, unless you pledge your loyalty as well...
• Lara: And which one is that?
• Fiamma Nera member: To the sins and fortunes of Marco Bartoli!

[He drinks some poison and dies]

• Lara: Perhaps not just yet then.

[looks into the laptop for information]

• Lara: Aha! Gianni Bartoli. Via Caravelli, Venice.

• Brother Chan: Oh, you are not one of them.
• Lara: But you are a monk?
• Brother Chan: Brother Chan, Barkhang. You have come for me. I saw bright lights around me.
• Lara: That was gunfire. I think it was them who got taken away by it.
• Brother Chan: But you are my guide. My path-beater to next incarnation. I have done my time here, haven't I?
• Lara: What are you doing here...with Marco Bartoli?
• Brother Chan: Nothing. I... I led righteous life, here for reasons rooted only a necessary evil, as my father was before me when he bombed Gianni's vessel deep into these waters. And now I am here...uh, was here, to prevent his son from salvaging the Seraph.
• Lara: The Seraph?
• Brother Chan: You not know my life's work well... You sure you not here for them?
• Lara: Their Jackanory days are well over.

[Lara begins changing into a wet suit while he speaks]

• Brother Chan: They want the Seraph to unlock a malignant treasure we contain in our monastery in Tibet. Since being stolen by imbecile vagabonds centuries ago, we been without key to it...relying solely on cleansing of our prayers to keep it subdued. Then the occultist Gianni B. acquired it. Trouble we knew. He breathed life back into ancient belief. One not to be stopped by any amount of head bowing. And now again it is here. Marco, infected with madness. He has violent mind, but not yet the power to satiate it. So, we reach for our weapons once more.
• Lara: The true Detox of evil.
• Brother Chan: Where can you be taking me? Thought this was my big break. Guess change is good at rest. [He sighs] I need one.

[From above a balcony Bartoli shoots the monk in the chest. Lara shoots at her enemy, but hears an alarm. She runs in the sub room and jumps into the water]

• Lara: Don't you think you've seen enough!? [picks up shotgun and fires]

Tomb Raider III

[Lara emerges from the caves to see a boat coming upstream]

• Willard: Hey!

[Lara grins as the boat pulls up to the bank]

• Willard: I didn't want to be mispresented by that retarded researcher you've just been with.
• Lara: Lara.
• Willard: I'm Dr. Willard, I've come to converse with Tony myself, but I saw that you were doing a more creditable job, I think. Indeed, I'm inspired, I'd like to offer you other work.
• Lara: What? Shoot the breeze with some of your other boys? No thanks.

• Lara: So, how did it end up here?
• Willard: Formed from the planets. Sculpted by Polynesians. Distributed by goons. Our excavations and investigations have led us to this. (hands her a large book) A sailor's diary from his voyage on Charles Darwin's expedition on the HMS Beagle.

• Lara: Hello?... Hello?

[Tony appears from inside a tent]

• Tony: What? What do you want from me now?!
• Lara: Nothing that taxing. Are you alright?
• Tony: If you'd all stop, I might be just fine. Just one hundred percent...just...
• Lara: "If you'd all stop?" Who are you talking about?
• Tony: All of you. Hundreds of you talking and chattering and breaking my brain up...
• Lara: Hmm. Well, I'm not quite sure where you're coming from, but I just want to know about the Infada artefact.

[Shows the ruins behind]

• Lara: In the temple up there.
• Tony: Voodoo magic and all, huh? I don't touch the stuff myself.
• Lara: It's not voodoo. Look, is there anyone else here with you?
• Tony: Yeah. Randy and Rory. Pheesh...
• Lara: Randy and Rory? Where? What are you all doing here?
• Tony: Well, they're staying put...in that temple. I told them not to. Warned them first. Not doing much now I doubt... under half a ton of mudslide. Me? I'm leaving. Next bus out. This jungle has rooted enough rot into me. I'd offer the same advice to you, but you don't seem like the type to take it...to care if I said you're gonna die in there. [laughs] Yeah...die...

[Tony jumps of a ledge and disappears]

• Lara: Not interrupting, am I?
• General: Not bleedin' are ya? Not about to use this place as a dunny?
• Lara: No and uh...no.
• General: Good, good.

[He shows Lara his badly wounded leg, missing from the knee down]

• General: Just don't want any fly-carrying visitors in here.
• Lara: Right, I understand. What happened?
• General: Woke up in the jungle with one of those little blokes snacking on my leg, didn't I?
• Lara: A tribesman? It isn't usual for them to eat right off the bone like that...
• General: Well, it was dark and I never got the bugger, so I can't be sure. Something spooky is in that jungle. Our air-carrier crashed up in the mountains. Every night, some of my men would vanish without a trace. Others fled in fear. Then this happened. [He points to his leg] So, I brought the men down to shore for safety only for us to be captured by this greedy mob. Some sort of sacrifice to their god who lives up in the hills. Though it seems I've not been invited to the barbie.
• Lara: Maybe you're the dessert. Ripe flesh can be a bit of a delicacy around here.
• General: For real?

[Nearby drum sounds are heard]

• Lara: Listen, we'd better get you out of here. Do you know how the tribes cross the swamp down there? Which stones they tread on?
• General: Yeah, but I'm stayin' put. With this wound, I'd be like a fill-up station for every diseased bug in the bush. I'd rather be the main course at the real feast. [He gives Lara a map] Hey, if you see any of my men alive in there direct them to the north shore, will ya? Away from here.
• Lara: Of course.

• Hired assassin: I mean, I could even be retired from you.
• Lara: Then you might like to mind...the bell.

[The assassin turns around, but is knocked off the ledge by the tower bell]

• Lara: [watches him fall down] Happy retirement.

• Sophia: Ah, Miss Croft. I take it you're ready to sign up.
• Lara: To what?
• Sophia: Well, my books. You see, with your lifestyle, you'd be the perfect campaign for my products. Just think, you wouldn't be needing those unsightly weapons anymore...
• Lara: No, but I'll probably have an unsightly face, judging by your past experiments.
• Sophia: My what?
• Lara: Oh, yes. They're all still alive. Very much so, in fact. All I want is the artefact.

[Lara reaches for it, but Sophia takes the artefact first]

• Sophia: [laughs] Right! In your next life!
• Lara: We'll see.

• Tribesman: 'Tis well fa you. Me fasting dis day. You make plenty good flesh-pot.
• Lara: You forget. I might be quite hungry myself. Famished actually.

The Last Revelation - Tomb Raider IV

• Werner: And so, we breach the sanctum of the ancients. The first foot falls in this tomb for centuries.
• Lara: This place gives me the creeps. After you.

[Lara dives in the water to look for artefacts, but comes back empty handed]

• Lara: Your average priceless seaweed.
• Werner: No prizes for you this time, Lara!

[Lara prepares to exit the temple, but hears Von Croy's voice nearby]

• Von Croy: Miss Croft!
• Lara: [with a cold tone] Von Croy...
• Von Croy: You sound concerned, my dear. Have you misplaced something?
• Lara: Nothing that I can't be retrieving at a later date, lieber.
• Von Croy: You know how I admire your perseverance, but I fear this time you may be taking it to the...how would you say? Maximum?
• Lara: Always griping, Werner. If it's the leg that's causing all this resentment, I seem to remember that being down to your affinity with pulling hazardous levers.
• Von Croy: Enough of this tedious banter, Miss Croft. It is time for you to realize...

[Werner hears Lara taking out her pistols]

• Von Croy: Miss Croft?

[He looks around the corner; Lara shoots at him, but misses]

• Von Croy: Now let us review your sprinting skills!

[He takes the Amulet and the temple door closes before Lara can escape]

• Lara: Your work force is about to be delayed.

• Werner: Take may hand! I can pull you to safety!
• Lara: Good to see you again, Werner.
• Werner: [shouting] I couldn't leave you!

Tomb Raider Chronicles

Main article: Tomb Raider Chronicles Story

The following is a list of key lines in Tomb Raider Chronicles. Full dialogues can be found in the Story of the game.

• "It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings." (Larson in the Operahouse)

Angel of Darkness - Tomb Raider VI

[At the beginning of the game]

• Narrator: There have been 17 reported murders so far in this latest outbreak of Monstrum killings. It would appear to be the work of a single highly psychotic perpetrator. The name of the latest victim was just released: professor Werner Von Croy. A female, described as Caucasian, brunette, and wearing a pony-tail was seen leaving the most recent crime-scene. Officers are advised to use extreme caution when apprehending the suspect. At present, nothing appears to link any of the individuals involved. There are no known survivors of these attacks, so far.

• Lara: Not alot of passing trade at this hour?
• Janice: It's early yet. Move along ma chère, you make the place look crowded.

• Pierre [from Cafe Metro]: That information is very dangerous.
• Lara: I'm a dangerous girl, and right now I'm losing patience!

• Lara: What happened to your man in the room out there, Bouchard?
• Bouchard: To Arnaud? You've got something to say about that?
• Lara: Maybe. It might be linked to what happened to a friend of mine.
• Bouchard: I doubt it. Get out of here.
• Lara: Do you know the name Eckhardt?
• Bouchard: Never heard of him.
• Lara: Ok. You helped a friend of mine a while back. Werner Von Croy.
• Bouchard: Names don't mean a lot here. Even real ones. What did he want?
• Lara: Maps and information, on the Louvre.
• Bouchard: I remember. Four weeks ago. Wanted to take a couch load of Japanese tourists to see the Mona Lisa.

[After being knocked over, Lara is found by Bouchard]

• Bouchard: You ok?
• Lara: Bouchard! What are you doing here?
• Bouchard: No time now. Quickly!
• Lara: Was anyone around when you got here?
• Bouchard: No. No one. Come on!
• Lara: Bouchard, I must get to Von Croy's apartment. There's something I have to check out there.
• Bouchard: Your friend's place. Of course. Where is it?
• Lara: Rue Valise. The Chantell building. Do you know it?
• Bouchard: My driver will. Get it.

[They both climb in the car]

• Lara: What were you doing at the Louvre?
• Bouchard: Trawling police short wave. You were attracting a lot of attention in there. I figured you might need help.
• Lara: Thanks.
• Bouchard: Wouldn't you prefer somewhere safer than your friend's apartment?
• Lara: I found some leads in the Louvre that may link to his death. I have to check is apartment.
• Bouchard: We're almost there.There's something you should know. The police bands were full of details of another Monstrum killing- in Prague.
• Lara: Prague!? Not a dealer named Vasiley? Mathias Vasiley
• Bouchard: Yes. You knew him?
• Lara: He's connected with what I need to find at Von Croy's apartment.

[Bouchard begins to sit up]

• Lara: I need to go in alone.
• Bouchard:Ok, I'll wait here.
• Lara: Appreciate it, Bouchard.

[After she leaves, Bouchard makes a phone call ]

• Bouchard: She's inside now. You can send in the cleaner.

• Bouchard [over the Cleaner's cellular phone]: Is she taken care of yet? Hello? Is she dead yet? We have to get back to Prague.
• Lara: No, Bouchard. She isn't. But your little friend is. I'll take care of you later.

[She throws away the cellular phone]

• Lara: It's time I visited Prague.

• Lara: If I had a coconut for every time some lunatic said something like that...

• Eckhardt: Congratulations Miss Croft, you are positively Amazonian. That Vault has defeated us for months.
• Lara: What do you want, Eckhardt?
• Eckhardt: I'm not interested in you or your friend, Miss Croft. Give me the Painting and you may both leave.
• Lara: What choice do I have?...

[Kurtis,unconscious, is pushed of the platform]

• Eckhardt: Gunderson, release Boaz. This old colleague of mine was once a human- before she displeased me.

[Muller follows Eckhardt as he begins to move away]

• Eckhardt: Not you Muller, you useless piece of dross! You failed me too!

[Muller is pushed of the platform and falls victim to Boaz.]

• Kurtis: Come on. I'll give you a boost.

[Lara jumps on the above platform]

• Lara: Kurtis, quick!
• Kurtis: Here! Take these two!

[He throws her the Shards]

• Lara: These are your speciality, Kurtis.
• Kurtis: Go on! You're wasting time! Don't worry about ugly here. I can take care of her.

• Eckhardt: Still alive, Miss Croft? You are resilient. But over the decades I've killed more mortals like you than I can remember.
• Lara: And stole their body parts like a cheap grave robber.
• Eckhardt: As I will now take yours.
• Lara: To wake this thing? You are grotesque!
• Eckhardt: Only my great arts can cause the higher race to flourish again.
• Lara: So, I guess it's up to me to stop you then?
• Eckhardt: I hunted down and killed the last of the Lux Veritatis. I am immortal!

[Lara holds one Shard in the air]

• Eckhardt: The Shards!
• Lara: Scary, huh? For you.
• Eckhardt: It is my destiny to breed Hell on earth. You are nothing to me.
• Lara: D'you know it's going to be a real pleasure to shut you up.

[Lara prepares to stab Eckhardt with the Shard, but is stopped]

• Lara: Karel?!
• Eckhardt: Go on! Kill her!

[Karel pauses and turns to stab Eckhardt]

• Karel: I knew you'd find the third Shard.
• Lara: But why? You worked for him.
• Karel: No, unknowingly he worked for me, but his usefulness was ended.
• Lara: Will you destroy his work?
• Karel: Of course not. The Great Work will be finished. I'm offering you the chance to become part of a benign new order in the world.
• Lara: You are kidding! Right!

[Karel's appearance begins to change, his face is covered with marks]

• Karel: We Nephilim have only ever been trying to survive.
• Lara: Too many people have died for me to trust you. Including a good friend, Von Croy.

[He keep switching appearances, looking like Bouchard, Luddick and then Kurtis]

• Karel: He was an unfortunate victim of history, Lara. Eckhardt was stupid to have killed him. I have helped you all along, both here and in Paris. You can trust me Lara Croft.

[Lara sees the mark on his right hand]

• Lara: You killed Von Croy!
• Karel: Stupid mortal. So be it!