- V: You said you wanted to live without fear. I wish there'd been an easier way, but there wasn't.
- Evey: Oh, my God!
- V: I know you may never forgive me, but nor will you ever understand how hard it was for me to do what I did. Every day, I saw in myself everything you see in me now. Every day, I wanted to end it. But each time you refused to give in, I knew I couldn't.
- Evey: You're sick! You're evil!
- V: You could have ended it, Evey. You could have given in, but you didn't. Why?
- Evey: Leave me alone! I hate you!
- V: That's it! See, at first, I thought it was hate too. Hate was all I knew. It built my world, imprisoned me, taught me how to eat, how to drink, how to breathe. I thought I'd die with all the hate in my veins. But then something happened. It happened to me, just as it happened to you.
- Evey: Shut up! I don't want to hear your lies!
- V: Your own father said that artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie, but because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.
- Evey: No...
- V: What was true in that cell is just as true now. What you felt in there has nothing to do with me.
- Evey: I CAN'T FEEL ANYTHING ANYMORE!
- V: Don't run from it, Evey. You've been running all your life.
- Evey: [gasping] I can't... can't breathe... Asthma... When I was little... [collapses while V catches her]
- V: Listen to me, Evey. This may be the most important moment of your life. Commit to it. They took your parents from you. They took your brother from you. They put you in a cell and took everything they could take except your life. And you believed that was all there was, didn't you? The only thing you had left was your life, but it wasn't, was it?
- Creedy: Take off your mask.
- V: No.
- [Creedy nods and two Fingermen approach V; one tries to remove his mask, but V kills them both]
- Creedy: Defiant until the end, huh? You won't cry like him, will you? You're not afraid of death. You're like me.
- V: The only thing you and I have in common, Mr. Creedy, is that we are both about to die.
- Creedy: How do you imagine that'll happen?
- V: With my hands around your neck.
- Creedy: Bollocks. We've swept this whole place. You've got nothing. Nothing but your bloody knives and your fancy karate gimmicks. We have guns.
- V: No. What you have are bullets and the hope that when your guns are empty I'm no longer standing, because if I am, you'll all be dead before you've reloaded.
- Creedy: That's impossible. Kill him!
- [Creedy's men open fire on V, who remains standing after their guns are empty, with many rounds fired]
- V: My turn.
- [V keeps his word and slays all of Creedy's men, while Creedy frantically reloads his revolver]
- Creedy: (starts shooting the approaching V) Die! Die! Why won't you die? (his gun clicks empty) Why won't you die?
- V: Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof.
- Finch: Who was he?
- Evey: He was Edmond Dantes, and he was my father..and my mother..my brother..my friend..he was you, and me..he was all of us
The fifth of November,
The gunpowder treason and plot.
I know of no reason
Why the gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.