Right Arm is the tertiary antagonist in The Fifth Element. It's his job to do those things that Zorg needs done. He also coordinates Zorg's brute squad.
Biography[]
Right Arm works as a henchman for corrupt industrialist Jean-Baptiste Zorg and aids him in his search for the Four Elements (which Zorg must acquire for his master, Mr. Shadow). Right Arm is the one who captures Father Vito Cornelius and brings him to Zorg at his headquarters. Later he sends a remote control cockroach (with a miniature radio antenna on its back) to President Lindberg's office to discover where the Stones are. Zorg then sends him undercover as part of a plan to recover the stones. Posing as a man named "Korben Dallas" who won a radio contest and tickets for a luxury cruise through space, Right Arm attempts to get on board the craft. However, he realizes that the real Korben Dallas has already boarded the cruiser, and he is therefore denied entry.
Right Arm phones his boss at a payphone and informs him of his failure, to which Zorg admits that he's very disappointed. When Right Arm states that it will never happen again, Zorg replies "I know" before detonating the payphone by entering a digital kill code from his headquarters. Right Arm is killed by the ensuing explosion.
Trivia[]
- In the original script and novelization, Right Arm was also going to serve as Zorg's second-in-command at the office rather than Left Arm, and he was going to be the one to ask Zorg whether they should fire 500,000 employees to restore economic stability.