History Quotes / Blackmail

You see, [[WhamLine that was my wife]] [[CurseCutShort who you decided to]]-

->''"Blackmail. If the First Child was really in that kind of condition, there's no way she could have put up a fight against the Third Angel. She was trotted out in front of you deliberately. 'Get in the fucking robot, Shinji. Or we'll send this cripple out to die'."

->Contacts. Who needs contacts? This is Russia! You don't ask people to help you. You tell them. In 1961, the commissar who lives two doors down is arrested for keeping a rent boy in a dacha on the river; the boy had lived there for ten years, [[TimeTravelForFunAndProfit so lives there now]]! In 1971, a grave is uncovered in the bottom of the butcher's garden - the wife who "vanished" in 1949, he had no idea where. In three years' time, the commissioner of police is going to be arrested on the testimony of his deputy, who need a bigger house because his wife is pregnant again from her affair with her sergeant lover... [[GroundhogDayLoop Nothing changes]]. You don't need contacts – what you need is money and dirt.

->''We have a host of employees. I can't know every one of them by name. I do, however, know that you are not one of them. These "encoded transmissions" you've been sending back to your little club... It's been educational. You forgot [[MegaCorp who owns the networks]], [[EvilGenius who created the cryptography]]. You are trespassing. You are in violation of contracts signed in blood. You are breaking binding agreements made in Venice. [[FictionalUnitedNations The Council]] tends to frown upon such things... As do I. And I am both less forgiving than the Council, and [[CorporateWarfare much better armed]]. But... I'm also a reasonable man. It doesn't have to become ugly. Shall I continue?''
-->--'''Orochi Director''' AKA [[spoiler: Samael]], ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''

-->--''Film/BatmanReturns''

->The very first time, fifteen years ago, they had entered [[DenOfIniquity this very room]] as David spent himself [[TooManyMouths in one of the mouths]] of some ruined, cadaverous [[FantasticUnderclass Remade]] girl. [[SecretPolice The suited men]] had shown him their camera. They had told him they would send their pictures to the newspapers and the journals and the university. They had offered him a choice. [[TheStoolPigeon They paid well]].

->The book suggests that an MP has in their possession a photograph of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piggate the act]]. If they had such a photo they’d have the blackmail potential so powerful they’d never have to work again. They could be parachuted into a constituency, ignore their constituents and simply use the Commons as a luncheon club. Which narrows down the suspect to just a couple of hundred Tories.
-->--'''Creator/FrankieBoyle''', "[[https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/frankie-boyle-on-piggate-not-even-in-the-top-ten-worst-things-cameron-has-done/ Frankie Boyle on #PigGate - Not even in the top ten worst things Cameron has done]]"

->We have a host of employees. I can't know every one of them by name. I do, however, know that you are not one of them. These "encoded transmissions" you've been sending back to your little club... It's been educational. You forgot [[MegaCorp who owns the networks]], [[EvilGenius who created the cryptography]]. You are trespassing. You are in violation of contracts signed in blood. You are breaking binding agreements made in Venice. [[FictionalUnitedNations The Council]] tends to frown upon such things... As do I. And I am both less forgiving than the Council, and [[CorporateWarfare much better armed]]. But... I'm also a reasonable man. It doesn't have to become ugly. Shall I continue?

->I don't need you - I'll send you back to the farm, worse off than you were, because you'll have seen the Sierra Madre, and had to let it ''all'' go. I could have gotten any leggy dame out of Hollywood to get out here and [[HoneyTrap play Sinclair's heartstrings.]] You just happened to be the one I caught, and it was really your own fault, a little too much into the chems and meds, and... Aw, shhh, don't cry. Look, I'm not trying to hurt ''you.'' Just one last little job, a little less dirty, a little less messy. He trusts you, Vera. And so do ''I.'' After this, [[BlatantLies I promise you, all those other Holotapes, they'll go away.]]

->Yeah, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zidovudine AZT]]. I want my own private stash, Martin. Of serious, honest-Abe medicine that I control, here in the room with me. No placebos, I'm no good at tests, Martin, [[CardCarryingVillain I'd rather cheat]]. So, send me my pills with a get-well bouquet, ''pronto,'' or I'm gonna ring up CBS and sing Mike Wallace a song: the ballad of adorable Ollie North and his secret Contra slush fund. ''({{beat}})'' Oh, you only ''think'' you know all I know. ''I'' don't even know what all I know. Half the time I just make it up and it ''still'' turns out to be true! We learned that trick [[RedScare in the fifties]]. Tomorrow, you two-bit scumsucking shitheel flypaper insignificant dried-out little turd! A nice big box of drugs for Uncle Roy - or there'll be seven different kinds of hell to pay!

->I don't need you - I'll send you back to the farm, worse off than you were, because you'll have seen the Sierra Madre, and had to let it ''all'' go. I could have gotten any leggy dame out of Hollywood to get out here and play Sinclair's heartstrings. You just happened to be the one I caught, and it was really your own fault, a little too much into the chems and meds, and... Aw, shhh, don't cry. Look, I'm not trying to hurt ''you.'' Just one last little job, a little less dirty, a little less messy. He trusts you, Vera. And so do ''I.'' After this, [[BlatantLies I promise you, all those other Holotapes, they'll go away.]]

->The very first time, fifteen years ago, they had entered [[DenOfIniquity this very room]] as David spent himself [[TooManyMouths in one of the mouths]] of some ruined, cadaverous [[FantasticUnderclass Remade]] girl. The suited men had shown him their camera. They had told him they would send their pictures to the newspapers and the journals and the university. They had offered him a choice. [[TheStoolPigeon They paid well]].

'''[[ComicBook/TheRiddler Enigma]]:''' Stop what? Cleaning up the streets? Ensuring the [[DirtyCop GCPD]] actually does its job? Removing corruption from the system? Was it one of those in particular you took issue with, or all of them?\\

'''Enigma:''' So? It gets the job done. And it's certainly kinder than the beatings [[TerrorHero you]]'re so fond of doling out. Think on that.

->I don't need you - I'll send you back to the farm, worse off than you were, because you'll have seen the Sierra Madre, and had to let it ''all'' go. I could have gotten any leggy dame out of Hollywood to get out here and play Sinclair's heart strings. You just happened to be the one I caught, and it was really your own fault, a little too much into the chems and meds, and... Aw, shhh, don't cry. Look, I'm not trying to hurt ''you.'' Just one last little job, a little less dirty, a little less messy. He trusts you, Vera. And so do ''I.'' After this, [[BlatantLies I promise you, all those other Holotapes, they'll go away.]]

'''ComicBook/ThePenguin:''' Well... let's start. [''he's handed a Christmas stocking with Max's name on it''] Oh, what have we here? Let's see... [''he pulls out a thermos and opens it''] A batch of toxic waste from your "clean" textile plant! ['' he pours out some glowing green goo, and it burns a hole in the table in front of him''] There's a whole lagoon of this crud in the back!\\

''"Nobody's clean; everyone's got a little dirt on them. You just gotta know how to use it to make them squirm."''