Twenty years in the same room. Jesus Christ, I’d would have lost my mind. Oldboy 2013 starring Josh Brolin & Grey Damon & Elizabeth Olsen & Sharlto Copley & Erik Gersovitz & Samuel L Jackson & Michael Imperioli & Brett Lapeyrouse & Linda Emond & James Ransone & Max Casella et al, director Spike Lee
By decent people you mean people who can afford a decent life. Death Wish 1974 starring Charles Bronson & Jeff Goldblum & Hope Lange & Vincent Gardenia & William Redfield & Steven Keats & Stuart Margolin & Stephen Elliott & Christopher Guest et al, director Michael Winner, Bronson to boss
Are you getting the most out of life? Are you satisfied, fulfilled, happy? Our bank has helped many to a better future. ibid. tele advert
Untie me now. I will only take revenge on your friend here. I will not repeat the offer. Spotless s1e8: True Love Weighs, Nelson, Canal+ 2015
Lady Diana Spencer was just 19 when she became engaged to the 32-year-old Prince of Wales. It was her first serious relationship. After more than a decade in a suffocating marriage the Princess was desperate to speak out. And in 1995 the Princess began a serious of clandestine meetings with BBC journalist Martin Bashir. His attempts to secure an interview with Diana are now the subject of fresh allegations by her brother Earl Spencer. Here, the man accused of helping Bashir speaks on camera. The Diana Interview: Revenge of a Princess s1e1, ITV 2020
Charles had been in a relationship with Camilla Parker-Bowles for several years. But she had had a series of boyfriends and was deemed an unsuitable match for the heir of the throne. ibid.
Prince Charles was simply unable to give Diana the emotional security she so badly desired. ibid.
Back then, Diana probably believed she could win Charles’ love and make him forget Camilla. Charles himself was also trapped by circumstance. ibid.
‘I couldn’t believe that a man with a newborn baby was gonna leg it and play some daft game of Polo. Doing something like that to a wife with a newborn baby [Harry] was atrocious. If he thought he could treat his wife like that, he was in deep trouble.’ ibid. Ken Lennox, press photographer
On 20th June 1994 Charles attempted to hit back at Diana’s growing popularity. As well as rehabilitating his reputation – there was Camillagate – by giving an exclusive interview for Jonathan Dimbleby on ITV. ibid.
Diana’s BBC Man and Fake Bank Statements: Documents were falsified before Royal Interview. ibid. Daily Mail headline
‘This was an interview that went to the absolute dark heart of English establishment and the monarchy.’ The Diana Interview: Revenge of a Princess s1e2, Andrew Morton
‘She [Camilla] won’t go quietly. That’s the problem. I’ll fight till the end. Because I believe I have a role to fulfil.’ ibid.
The interview had been done without the knowledge of [Marmaduke] Hussey or the Board of Governors. ibid.
Eventually, Diana received £17 million but lost her HRH title as part of the settlement. ibid.
In the weeks before he secured his global scoop with Princess Diana, Martin Bashir asked his friend and colleague at Panorama, a BBC graphic designer, to do a job for him late one evening … ‘I am this guy that’s remembered for forging the document. And I want to clear my name … Martin asked me to make up a couple of bank statements about people being paid to do surveillance that he needed the following day. And he did say that they were just going to be used as copies.’ ibid. Matthias Wiessler, BBC graphic designer 1986-1995
The first hunter team: codenamed Baker the team reported to the SAS, a top secret group working for British Intelligence. Its mission: to avenge Nazi atrocities against British personnel and secret agents. Master Spies s1e3: The Deadly Game, Discovery
Eric Harris’s House 28 April 1998 ... A 17-year-old’s murderous fantasy is beginning to take shape. He and a friend, known as Vodka or V, intend to commit an act so violent that it will secure their place in history. One year later on April 20th 1999 Eric Harris and another Columbine student Dylan Klebold committed the worst high school massacre in American history. They killed twelve students and one teacher, injured twenty-three others and then turned the guns on themselves. Massacre at Columbine High, History 2004
They both seemed hell-bent on revenge on the school itself. ibid.
Eric and Dylan have arrived with a huge arsenal of weapons. ibid.
Perhaps the answer is there is no single cause. ibid.
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold die from self-inflicted gunshot wounds to the head. ibid.
Vengeance is easy, justice is hard. If we allow ourselves to be ruled by vengeance, by emotion, by anger, we shall make mistakes and justice will not be served. The Gold s1e4: Vengeance is Easy, Justice is Hard
Revenge: How about marrying them, having a baby with them, letting them fall in love with that baby, then murdering that baby in cold blood? True Crime Recaps: Ronald Shanabarger, Youtube 13.58, 2022
This is the very real story of Ronald Shanabarger, his wife Amy Parsons, and his seven-month-old son Tyler. ibid.
Ronald’s father passed away … Amy refused to cut the trip short and Ronald could go home and grieve after their vacation. From that day on he resented her. ibid.
While Amy was at work he entered Baby Tyler’s room with a piece of plastic wrap and suffocated the seven-month-old child. ibid.
Several more oddities emerged over the next 48 hours … There’s the insurance policy … ibid.
This is a state security operation, officer. Kleo s1e1: Big Eden, two men in a jam-jar, Netflix 2022
A murder in the Big Eden. And who witnessed it? I did. ibid. Sven to missus
Ms Straub, you are accused of betraying state secrets. ibid. interrogator
In accordance with paragraphs 96 and 97 of the Penal Code of the German Democratic Republic, the accused, Kleo Jennifer Straub, born on September the 2nd 1964 is sentenced to life imprisonment for high treason and espionage. ibid. nasty panel lady
Comrade, Agent Granddaughter has been deactivated. ibid. phone call
The Eden file. The case has been dropped. ibid. rozzer boss Bottger to Sven
Kleo: Why, grandpa? What for?
Grandpa: There wasn’t any other option available. ibid.
Kleo: Who’s responsible for this?
Andi: Comrade Colonel. Kleo s1e2: The Reunion
Rozzer boss Bottger: Special problems. What kind of special problems?
Sven: This woman was a Stasi assassin who had the job of bumping people off in West Berlin. ibid.
The Comrade Colonel will see what a devoted agent I am. Kleo s1e3: Snow in Snoller, Kelo to Andi
What is your mission, comrade? ibid. Belov to Kleo
I’m telling you, the capitalists will overrun us. ibid. Uwe to Sven
They will pay for it all. ibid. Kleo to Sven
Because now you’re pursuing a vendetta against everyone who did this to you. ibid.
I will hunt you. And I will put you in prison for it. ibid. Sven to Kleo
I have never come across a woman like her. Kleo s1e4: The Minister, Sven to boss
I’m a full-time unofficial employee of the Ministry of State Security, Main Directorate of Reconaissance, Division 18, minister’s task force. Well, I was. ibid. Kleo to Thilo
[Sven]: The guy from the Big Eden was likely an East German. Stasi or foreign intelligence service, no idea. Anyway, he was seen on that day with a red suitecase which he didn’t let out of his sight. Kleo s1e5: Uwe
You were right about Wieczorek, Blum and Mielke. You were also right about them putting me in prison. And I don’t know why. And the key might lie here because I know it must have something to do with some kind of conspiracy, something that involved the Stasi, West German Intelligence, and probably the CIA. And this thing is so big that to this day they’ve needed to stop it coming out. ibid. Kleo to Sven