Les Jones

The Usual Suspects > Arkash Kovosh's Lines in English

Spoilers ahead if you haven't seen the movie.

Arkash Kovash is the sole survivor of the Hungarian gang on the boat. He only speaks Hungarian, and an interpreter has to be brought in to assist in getting a police sketch of Keyser Soze.

In the movie, Kovash's rants are in his native language. In the script, his lines are in English.

25INT. HOSPITAL ROOM 25 (<< .. DENOTES LINES SPOKEN IN HUNGARIAN)+ Baer comes to an abrupt halt at the foot of a bed surrounded by a massive tangle of medical equipment. In the center of it all is the as yet unnamed ARKOSH KOVASH, mid-thirties. His body is nearly mummified in bandages and plaster from waist to chin.

BOLD IS OVERLAPPED:

KOVASHs
< police. He'll find out I'm here and
he'll kill me. I need the police. I
will tell them anything they want to
know. Please, I am going to be
killed.>>

BAER
will he die?

PLUMBER
There's a chance.

Baer walks over to Rovash and kneels down on the bed beside
him.

He looks closely at his battered and scalded face. He listens
to him far a moment. Kovash goes on incessantly.

KOVASH
< you idiot, I'm going to be killed,
You'll all be killed if he has to do
it. Help me, God. They're all stupid.
Get someone who understands me or
we're all going to die.>>

YELLOW 06/11/94

30A.
Baer pulls a cellular phone out of his jacket and dials.
BAER
Call hospital security and put a man on
the door until the police get here.

KOVASH
< you idiot? I'm not speaking English
am I? Wouldn't it make sense to find
someone who could talk to me so you
could find the person that set me on
fire, perhaps? He is the Devil.
You've never seen anyone like Keyser
Soze in all your miserable life you
idiot. Keyser Soze. Do you at least
understand that? Keyser Soze. The
Devil himself. Or are you American
policemen io stupid that you haven't
even heard of him. Keyser Soze, you
ridiculous man. KEYSER SOZE . >>

BODI
<>

Kovash smiles with relief when he hears his own language.

KOVASH
< one, but at least I can talk to you.>>

BODI
< F.B.I. He is here to help you. He wants
to know what happened in the harbor.>>

KOVASH
< back to Hungary.>>

YELLOW 06/11/94

57A.

BODI
He says they were buying It doesn't
make sense. I'm sorry, I'm a little
rusty. They were there to buy something.

BAER
Dope, we know.

KOVASH +
< help me, they are all idiots. s
(talking slowly) +
We were there to buy a man, you simple
boy. A witness. I don't know his name. A
witness who knew the Devil.>>

BODI
Not dope. Something else. Some what?.. He
doesn't knob what they were buying. But
not dope... people.

KOVASH
<< I'll tell you everything. I'll even say
it slow enough for you to understand it.
Just tell this man I want protection.
Real protection.>>

YELLOW 06/11/94

58.

METZHEISER
Your witness is whacked, Baer.

BODI
He says he'll tell us everything he knows
if we protect him.

.BAER
Tell him fine.

BODI
<>

KOVASH
< ridiculous man. I am going to be killed.
I have seen the Devil and looked him in
the eye.>>

BODI
No good. He needs guarantees. He says...
his life is in danger... He has seen the
Devil... looked him in the eye.

METZHEISER
I'11 be on my way.

Baer grabs Metzheiser by the arm.

BAER
(To Bodi)
Tell him to tell this man what he was
telling me before. Who is the Devil? Who
did he see?

BODI
< about?>>

KOVASH
Keyser Soze He was in the harbor
shooting everyone in sight.>>

Metzheiser is suddenly interested.

BODI
He says he saw him in the harbor. He was
shooting... Killing... Killing many men.

METZHEISER
Did he say Keyser Soze? He saw Keyser
Soze

YELLOW 06/11/94

58A.

BODI
He says he saw him in the harbor. He was
shooting... Killing... Killing many men.

METZHEISER
Did he say Keyser Soze? He saw Keyser
Soze.

KOVASH
< face. I see it when I close my eyes.>>