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V for Vendetta · 2006 — 第 22 / 25 章 · 2'51" · B2

V Recruits Creedy to Kill Sutler, Explained：pinned like a butterfly

V slips into Creedy's house with an offer: help kill Sutler, or be the man Sutler sacrifices after Parliament falls. “What do I get out of this deal?” Creedy asks. “Me,” V answers. He leaves one condition — mark the front door with an X.

あらすじ

V enters Creedy's home and lays out the situation: Sutler no longer trusts him, and once Parliament is destroyed, the Chancellor will need someone to blame. That someone, V says, is Creedy — unless Creedy moves first. Elsewhere, Finch learns from a captain that William Rookwood has been dead for twenty years.

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注目の表現

a piece of meatbollocksget out of somethingcount on someone

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このシーンの表現

pinned like a butterfly

watched and trapped completely

At the station the police joke that they have had Creedy pinned for weeks with no result.

For three weeks the defense had the striker pinned like a butterfly.

このシーンの他の表現

  • a piece of meat

    someone used as a pawn

  • bollocks

    nonsense (British swear)

  • get out of something

    gain something from

  • count on someone

    rely on someone

  • a dental match

    a match by dental records

このシーンのメモ一覧

45 行のセリフに 25 件のメモ

スラング · B1Creepy Creedy

a mocking nickname for Creedy — A workplace nickname, said behind his back.

Creepy Creedy. Not sure I wanna know.
発音can he

The tag can he is light and rising.

Sutler can no longer trust you, can he, Mr. Creedy?
表現 · B1someone's only chance

his one shot

...his only chance will be to offer them someone else, some other piece of meat.
表現 · A2someone else

a different person

...his only chance will be to offer them someone else, some other piece of meat.
表現 · B1as + adjective + as someone

as clever as you

A man as smart as you has probably considered this.
表現 · A2no longer do something

not any more

That plan is the reason Sutler no longer trusts you.
文法 · B1there are

existential there: There are states that something exists in a place.

...why there are eyes and ears in every room of this house...
表現 · C1a tap on something

a wiretap on

-...and a tap on every phone. -Bollocks.
スラング · B2Bollocks

nonsense (British swear) — British and vulgar; fine among friends, never in formal talk.

-...and a tap on every phone. -Bollocks.
表現 · C1know otherwise

know it is not so

Oh, a man as smart as you, I think, knows otherwise.
表現 · B1this was coming

this was expected

Come, now, Mr. Creedy, you knew this was coming.
表現 · B1it will be X or Y

one or the other

You knew that one day it'd be you or him.
文法 · B2it'd be

future in the past: It'd be is would be, seen from a point in the past.

You knew that one day it'd be you or him.
発音it'd be

The d in it'd is almost swallowed.

You knew that one day it'd be you or him.
表現 · B1say the word

just give the order

...men that can be counted on. All you have to do is say the word.
発音have to

Have to sounds like hafta in fast speech.

...men that can be counted on. All you have to do is say the word.
表現 · B1get something out of something

gain something from

Creedy asks what he gains from the deal, and V answers with one word: Me.

-What do I get out of this deal? -Me.
表現 · B1the only way to do something

the sole method

Because it's the only way you're ever going to stop me.
表現 · C1pin someone like a butterfly

watched and trapped completely

At the station the police joke that they have had Creedy pinned for weeks with no result.

We got Creepy pinned like a butterfly for weeks.
表現 · C1a dental match

a match by dental records

On the phone Captain Clark says a dental record match finally identified the body.

I hooked him. Perfect dental match.
表現 · B2son of a bitch

a strong curse for a man

That son of a bitch sat there...
スラング · B2son of a bitch

a strong curse for a man — A heavy insult; keep it out of polite speech.

That son of a bitch sat there...
表現 · B1eat something up

believe it completely

...and spoon-fed me that bullshit, and I ate it up!
スラング · B2bullshit

nonsense, lies — Casual and crude; used to dismiss what someone said.

...and spoon-fed me that bullshit, and I ate it up!
文法 · C1should have been doing

past modal continuous: Should have been doing points at a duty that was neglected.

We do what we should have been doing.

「V Recruits Creedy to Kill Sutler」を読み解く

What's really going on

This is a scene about leverage. V never threatens Creedy directly; he simply describes the future and lets Creedy recognize himself in it. “Sutler can no longer trust you, can he, Mr. Creedy?” is a loaded question, not a question. V's offer works because both men understand the regime: when the day comes, someone will be fed to the public, and “it'd be you or him.” The deal costs V nothing but his own surrender, which is also his trap. In the parallel thread, Finch learns “William Rookwood is dead,” meaning the man he interrogated was a lie, and his anger turns into a new resolve.

Theme

PowerV exploits the regime's own logic, where a threatened leader will sacrifice anyone to survive, and turns Sutler's chief enforcer into an assassin.
BetrayalCreedy is invited to betray Sutler to save himself, and V's whole plan depends on the regime eating itself from inside.

このチャプターで学べること

  • A deal sounds friendlier when the trap is hidden.
  • Creedy's answer shows how power eats its own.
  • The phone call turns V's story into hard fact.
  • Twenty years late, the truth still lands like a blow.

発音のポイント

  • can he — The tag can he is light and rising.
  • it'd be — The d in it'd is almost swallowed.
  • have to — Have to sounds like hafta in fast speech.
Sutler can no longer trust you, can he, Mr. Creedy?

V opens by stating Creedy's weakness as fact: the Chancellor is already suspicious, so Creedy's loyalty no longer protects him.

You knew that one day it'd be you or him.

V frames the coming choice as inevitable: in this regime, only one of Sutler's men and the Chancellor can survive the crisis.

Because it's the only way you're ever going to stop me.

V answers “Why should I trust you?” with a promise that is also a guarantee: his surrender is real because it is the only path left to defeating him.

...and spoon-fed me that bullshit, and I ate it up!

Finch's fury at being manipulated: the man he questioned fed him a lie piece by piece, and he believed all of it.

We do what we should have been doing.

Finch's response to the news, turning humiliation into action: stop chasing false leads and do the work they should have done from the start.

We got Creepy pinned like a butterfly for weeks.

A vivid way of saying they had Creedy under total surveillance, fixed in place and unable to move unnoticed.

このシーンについての質問

Why does V want Creedy to kill Sutler?

It removes Sutler without V having to be there, and it makes the regime destroy itself. Creedy's men are already close to Sutler, so one word from Creedy can end him.

What does V get out of the deal with Creedy?

V offers himself as the payment: he will be there and unarmed, letting Creedy stop him. It looks like surrender, but it's the trap that brings Creedy and Sutler together for V's plan.

What does the X on the front door mean?

It's Creedy's signal that he accepts the deal. If he marks his door with an X, V knows the coup against Sutler is on.

Who was William Rookwood?

The dead man V impersonated. Finch thought Rookwood was a real informant, but a captain matches a twenty-year-old floater to his dental records, proving the identity was fabricated.

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