Director Orson Krennic quotes from Andor

Director Orson Krennic

No notes. No records. None of you were ever here. Nobody puts this in their calendar. All service and transport droids will be data-wiped once we're done. Your colleagues, superiors? If they're not in this room, they're not cleared for the project. Colonel Yularen, Governor Tarkin? All senior commanders will be notified by the Emperor at the time of his choosing. Now, the group in this room is, as of this moment, the tightest of closed circles. Any security violation will be brought to the Emperor's personal attention.

Director Orson Krennic

I doubt anyone here is unaware of the difficulties we've had making the Emperor's dream of energy independence a reality. Now, I hear the rumors. I know the stories. Delays. Setbacks. Groveling for Senate funding. I met with the Emperor yesterday. And he suggested, I remind you that the Energy Initiative remains the centerpiece of his agenda. Access to stable, unlimited power will transform the galactic economy and solidify Imperial authority. And it turns out, spiders are not the most unique thing in Ghorman. There's a mineral underground. Doctor?

Deep substrate foliated Kalkite.

Krennic

Kalkite! Synthetic Kalkite! Kalkite alternatives! Kalkite substitutes! I mean, the amount of time spent pondering this grubby little bit of rock is sadly astonishing. Now, we've promised delivery in three years. That delivery is dependent on some version of Ghorman Kalkite to coat the reactor lenses. Now... should we fail to find any alternatives, we will have to control Ghorman with a hand firm enough... to silence... any resistance, and you've been selected to help plan for that possibility.

We studied the Battle of Carmeen at the ISB Academy.

Mon Mothma

Well, it wasn't much of a battle, was it?

Krennic

Uh, no. How right you are. Insurgencies have a long history of puffing up their failures.

Mothma

We were taught it was a systematic execution.

Krennic

Well, that is exactly my point: criminals love to lie. After all, who wants to die for... lawless ineptitude?

Mothma

You seem fixated on defining people by their resistance to power.

Krennic

Words do still have meaning. As I'm sure we can still agree on that.

Mothma

What's the word for the people like the Carmeen who simply wish to be left alone?

"Vulnerable"?

Krennic

What's the word for people who skin trespassers alive?

Is that what they did?

It was a very long time ago.

Mothma

When they had their own code of conduct.

Krennic

Ah. "My Rebel is your terrorist", something like that? What a swell party this is...

Director Orson Krennic

When did you give him your code cert?

Dedra Meero

Excuse me? Jung? My clearances? Never. Why would I do that?

Krennic

I don't have time for "why." Your motivations are far less pressing than the extent of your betrayal.

Meero

If Jung had my cert, then he stole it.

Krennic

Who told you about Galen Erso?

Meero

Several intel bundles were forwarded to my office by mistake. I should have reported it.

Krennic

Ghorman Mining Schedules?

Meero

I have clearance for Ghorman.

Krennic

What about Orbital Progress Assessments? Eadu Research Journals? We found two years of Jedha Working Group printouts in your files.

Meero

I should have reported it...

Krennic

And I should've pegged you as a scavenger a long time ago.

Meero

I didn't read them all. Most of them I never opened.

Krennic

[walking to go behind Dedra as she tries to keep her composure] But you read enough, didn't you? You and your fringey friend, Supervisor Jung, spent three hours last night logged into [pokes finger onto her scalp] your account. [Dedra gets nervous as Krennic walks to her front] Now shall we take a guess... at what he might have told Luthen Rael? Hmm?

Meero

I was searching for Axis. That's all I was ever doing. And I found him. Yes, I'm a scavenger, but I've had to be. There's a Partisan spy mentioned in the Jedha read-outs. A valet for the local Moff. When questioned, he said that he had been recruited by a man with a Fondor Haulcraft full of antiquities. In classic fashion, your team tortured him to death, and that crucial piece of information, rather than being directed my way, was buried, and became something I had to "scavenge" for.

Krennic

How terribly perplexing. How does one balance such passionate competency with the mindless decision to confront Luthen Rael ON YOUR OWN?!?! If you're not a Rebel spy, you've missed your calling.

Meero

Rael's assistant. We think she's his daughter. She wasn't at the gallery. [door opens for ISB officer]

If you have a moment...

Krennic

We're done here.

Meero

Whatever Jung told Rael, she knows too. It may be days before he's well enough to be questioned, she needs to be found. We need agents at every transit point we can cover-

Krennic

[holds her face and forces her to sit down] We'll do our best to carry on without you. [leaves cell]

Director Orson Krennic

[referring to closeup hologram of Kleya] Supervisor Heert, you will put this image out as wide and deep and far as it takes until we find her. You'll search every comm and transit point. There will be no horizon to the scope of your inquiry, nor will there be any limit to your effort. Failure will earn you a place in the ever-lengthening ISB death march, are we clear?

[stammering nervously] The warrant. To be clear, what's the charge? Sedition? Or murder? All of the above?

She's diseased. She escaped the hospital with an infectious condition that threatens everyone with whom she may come in contact. She must be found before thousands die!

Krennic

[sarcastically in Heert's ear] There it is. What are you still doing here? [Heert scurries from the room, leaving Partagaz and Krennic alone. Partagaz chuckles to himself]

[scoffs] "Death Star". What a prescient turn of phrase.

Krennic

I can't protect you, Lio.

You were supposed to be ready by now.

Krennic

You sound like Tarkin.

It's a miracle we've kept it quiet this long!

Krennic

We're moments away! Days! A few more tests, we're there.

[rolls his eyes] Save the sermon for Palpatine.

Krennic

Indeed. You have a 'plague' to stop, and I was due at Scarif two hours ago. [moves to leave, but stops at the door and glances back at Partagaz]

Best of luck to us both. [Krennic nods and leaves]