Interview (2007)

Actors: Theo van Gogh (writer), Steve Buscemi (actor), Steve Buscemi (director), Steve Buscemi (writer), Robert L. Seigel (miscellaneous crew), James Franco (actor), Sienna Miller (actress), Danny Schechter (actor), Robert C. Yu (miscellaneous crew), Kyle Gilman (miscellaneous crew), Michael Buscemi (actor), Gijs van de Westelaken (producer), Nicolas Stiliadis (producer), Katja Schuurman (actress), Evan Lurie (composer),

Plot: Everyone wants a piece of a celebrity. Pierre is a political reporter, assigned to write a fluff piece on Katya, a blond who acts in slasher movies and a Fox show about single girls in the city. The interview, at a restaurant, goes badly: she's late, he's unprepared and rude. After leaving, he bangs his head in a fender bender and she takes him to her loft to clean the wound. Lubricated by alcohol and competitive natures, the interview resumes. She takes phone calls from her fiancé, Pierre reads her diary on her computer. They discuss wounds, he expresses concern, father-daughter feelings arise. Out come camcorders to tape their darkest secrets. Is friendship or more in the offing?

Keywords: absent-father, actress, argument, autograph, bad-behavior, bare-breasts, barefoot, betrayal, betrayal-of-trust, bickering
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: Everything you say can and will be used against you A journalist and a starlet take on media, truth and celebrity.

Quotes:

Katya: [angry] It's been very nice wasting time with you, Peter Peders.::[she leaves restaurant table]::Pierre Peders: [louder, so she could still hear him] You, too, Cunt-ya.

Katya: Do you like fishnet stockings, Pierre? Wait. Let me rephrase. Why do you think it is that men like fishnet stockings so much?::Pierre Peders: They look good on women.::Katya: Fishnet stockings are a net, and the woman is imprisoned in this net like a fish. Do you get it?::Pierre Peders: Yeah, and what about high heels?::Katya: Well, high heels make walking very, very difficult. So you see, nothing would be more attractive to a man than a woman wearing fishnet stockings and high heels because she has trouble walking and she's imprisoned within this net and therefore he thinks she's easy prey. I know everything.

Katya: [answering his question] What makes a man attractive? A scar.::Pierre Peders: Why?::Katya: Because... most women have one too.

Katya: Do you realize how many men would kill to be standing as close as you are now?::Pierre Peders: [takes out the recorder] How many?::Katya: Most.

Pierre Peders: I don't fuck celebrities.::Katya: Well, I don't fuck nobodies.

Pierre Peders: [she's laughing uncontrollably] What the hell is wrong with you? You on drugs or something?::Katya: You have to feel sorry for me. I mean, I probably have silicone for brains.::Pierre Peders: Yeah.::Katya: You know that bastard of a surgeon must have transferred some in there from my tits.

Pierre Peders: Do you want to be taken seriously as an actress? Is that why you had your breasts reduced?::Katya: You miss my tits, is that it?::Pierre Peders: Well, don't you?::Katya: They weren't even mine to begin with.

Pierre Peders: [to Katya] You are beautiful.

Katya: And in the end, he was a gentleman.

The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

Actors: Zeljko Ivanek (actor), Adam LeFevre (actor), Bruno Ganz (actor), Fab 5 Freddy (actor), Bill Irwin (actor), Darrell Larson (actor), Miguel Ferrer (actor), Jude Ciccolella (actor), Thomas Daniel (actor), Roger Corman (actor), Obba Babatundé (actor), John Aprea (actor), Al Franken (actor), Sidney Lumet (actor), Ted Levine (actor),

Plot: When his army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, then-Captain Ben Marco, was knocked unconscious. Brokering the incident for political capital, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, while Marco is haunted by dreams of what happened -- or didn't happen -- in Kuwait. As Marco (now a Major) investigates, the story begins to unravel, to the point where he questions if it happened at all. Is it possible the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed to believe Shaw is a war hero as part of a plot to seize the White House? Some very powerful people at Manchurian Global corporation appear desperate to stop him from finding out.

Keywords: admiral, african-american-protagonist, ambush, anti-republican, assassin, assassination-plot, bad-mother, based-on-novel, battle-hymn-of-the-republic, brain-implant
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller,
Taglines: Everything is under control. This summer everything is under control.

Quotes:

Eleanor Shaw: I will do whatever is necessary to protect America from anyone who opposes her. I can't... am I the only person in this room who's been reading these NSA reports?::Congressman Healy: I've read them.::Eleanor Shaw: All right, then. You know... you know we are on the brink of another cataclysm, probably nuclear, on our own soil.::Congresswoman Becket: Oh, Ellie, that's a bit extreme.::Eleanor Shaw: And it's not from random terrorists, but from covert alliances of disaffected nations who've all been made bold by this kind of Jordan one-worlder who believes that human beings are essentially good and that our powers are somehow, I don't know, shameful or evil and never to be used. Make no mistake. The American people are terrified. They know something's coming. They can feel it. And we can either shovel them the same old shit and call it sugar or we can arm them. We can arm them with a young, vibrant Vice President. We can give them heat, energy! Give them a war hero with heart, forged by enemy fire in the desert in the dark when American lives hung on the balance!

Noyle: Hello, Captain. Do you remember me?

Raymond Shaw: I served under him. He was a good man.::Eleanor Shaw: Well, that's what the neighbors always say about serial killers.

[manipulating Raymond]::Eleanor Shaw: Sergeant Shaw.::Raymond Shaw: [Abruptly] What...?::Eleanor Shaw: Sergeant Raymond Shaw.::Raymond Shaw: Mother, I...::Eleanor Shaw: Raymond Prentiss Shaw.::Raymond Shaw: Yes.::Eleanor Shaw: Listen.

Eleanor Shaw: Oh, God! Where are all the men anymore? My father, Tyler Prentiss, never asked, "Is this okay? Is this okay?" You know what I'm saying, Mark? He just did what needed to be done.

Raymond Shaw: Are we friends, Ben? I wanna believe we were friends.::Ben Marco: We are connected and that's something nobody can take from us. You coulda had me locked up, but you didn't. That's proof that there's something deep inside. There's a part that they can't get to. And it's deep inside of us. And that's where the truth is.

Eleanor Shaw: The assassin always dies, baby. It's necessary for the national healing.

Delp: I thought you said you lost this.::Ben Marco: I bit a guy. I found another one.

[last lines]::Noyle: [voiceover] Now, when you're rescued and returned with your patrol to command headquarters, what will be among the first of your duties that you'll undertake?::Ben Marco: I'll recommend Sergeant Shaw for the Medal of Honor, sir. He saved our lives. He terminated the enemy. Led us across the desert to safety.::Noyle: Excellent. And there were casualties?::Ben Marco: There's always casualties in war, sir.

Ben Marco: Somebody got into our heads with big steel-toe boots, cable cutters and a chainsaw and they went to town. Neurons got got got exposed and circuits got rewired. Our brain cells got obliterated, Raymond.

The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

Actors: Zeljko Ivanek (actor), Adam LeFevre (actor), Bruno Ganz (actor), Fab 5 Freddy (actor), Bill Irwin (actor), Darrell Larson (actor), Miguel Ferrer (actor), Jude Ciccolella (actor), Thomas Daniel (actor), Roger Corman (actor), Obba Babatundé (actor), John Aprea (actor), Al Franken (actor), Sidney Lumet (actor), Ted Levine (actor),

Plot: When his army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, then-Captain Ben Marco, was knocked unconscious. Brokering the incident for political capital, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, while Marco is haunted by dreams of what happened -- or didn't happen -- in Kuwait. As Marco (now a Major) investigates, the story begins to unravel, to the point where he questions if it happened at all. Is it possible the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed to believe Shaw is a war hero as part of a plot to seize the White House? Some very powerful people at Manchurian Global corporation appear desperate to stop him from finding out.

Keywords: admiral, african-american-protagonist, ambush, anti-republican, assassin, assassination-plot, bad-mother, based-on-novel, battle-hymn-of-the-republic, brain-implant
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller,
Taglines: Everything is under control. This summer everything is under control.

Quotes:

Eleanor Shaw: I will do whatever is necessary to protect America from anyone who opposes her. I can't... am I the only person in this room who's been reading these NSA reports?::Congressman Healy: I've read them.::Eleanor Shaw: All right, then. You know... you know we are on the brink of another cataclysm, probably nuclear, on our own soil.::Congresswoman Becket: Oh, Ellie, that's a bit extreme.::Eleanor Shaw: And it's not from random terrorists, but from covert alliances of disaffected nations who've all been made bold by this kind of Jordan one-worlder who believes that human beings are essentially good and that our powers are somehow, I don't know, shameful or evil and never to be used. Make no mistake. The American people are terrified. They know something's coming. They can feel it. And we can either shovel them the same old shit and call it sugar or we can arm them. We can arm them with a young, vibrant Vice President. We can give them heat, energy! Give them a war hero with heart, forged by enemy fire in the desert in the dark when American lives hung on the balance!

Noyle: Hello, Captain. Do you remember me?

Raymond Shaw: I served under him. He was a good man.::Eleanor Shaw: Well, that's what the neighbors always say about serial killers.

[manipulating Raymond]::Eleanor Shaw: Sergeant Shaw.::Raymond Shaw: [Abruptly] What...?::Eleanor Shaw: Sergeant Raymond Shaw.::Raymond Shaw: Mother, I...::Eleanor Shaw: Raymond Prentiss Shaw.::Raymond Shaw: Yes.::Eleanor Shaw: Listen.

Eleanor Shaw: Oh, God! Where are all the men anymore? My father, Tyler Prentiss, never asked, "Is this okay? Is this okay?" You know what I'm saying, Mark? He just did what needed to be done.

Raymond Shaw: Are we friends, Ben? I wanna believe we were friends.::Ben Marco: We are connected and that's something nobody can take from us. You coulda had me locked up, but you didn't. That's proof that there's something deep inside. There's a part that they can't get to. And it's deep inside of us. And that's where the truth is.

Eleanor Shaw: The assassin always dies, baby. It's necessary for the national healing.

Delp: I thought you said you lost this.::Ben Marco: I bit a guy. I found another one.

[last lines]::Noyle: [voiceover] Now, when you're rescued and returned with your patrol to command headquarters, what will be among the first of your duties that you'll undertake?::Ben Marco: I'll recommend Sergeant Shaw for the Medal of Honor, sir. He saved our lives. He terminated the enemy. Led us across the desert to safety.::Noyle: Excellent. And there were casualties?::Ben Marco: There's always casualties in war, sir.

Ben Marco: Somebody got into our heads with big steel-toe boots, cable cutters and a chainsaw and they went to town. Neurons got got got exposed and circuits got rewired. Our brain cells got obliterated, Raymond.

The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

Actors: Zeljko Ivanek (actor), Adam LeFevre (actor), Bruno Ganz (actor), Fab 5 Freddy (actor), Bill Irwin (actor), Darrell Larson (actor), Miguel Ferrer (actor), Jude Ciccolella (actor), Thomas Daniel (actor), Roger Corman (actor), Obba Babatundé (actor), John Aprea (actor), Al Franken (actor), Sidney Lumet (actor), Ted Levine (actor),

Plot: When his army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, then-Captain Ben Marco, was knocked unconscious. Brokering the incident for political capital, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, while Marco is haunted by dreams of what happened -- or didn't happen -- in Kuwait. As Marco (now a Major) investigates, the story begins to unravel, to the point where he questions if it happened at all. Is it possible the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed to believe Shaw is a war hero as part of a plot to seize the White House? Some very powerful people at Manchurian Global corporation appear desperate to stop him from finding out.

Keywords: admiral, african-american-protagonist, ambush, anti-republican, assassin, assassination-plot, bad-mother, based-on-novel, battle-hymn-of-the-republic, brain-implant
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller,
Taglines: Everything is under control. This summer everything is under control.

Quotes:

Eleanor Shaw: I will do whatever is necessary to protect America from anyone who opposes her. I can't... am I the only person in this room who's been reading these NSA reports?::Congressman Healy: I've read them.::Eleanor Shaw: All right, then. You know... you know we are on the brink of another cataclysm, probably nuclear, on our own soil.::Congresswoman Becket: Oh, Ellie, that's a bit extreme.::Eleanor Shaw: And it's not from random terrorists, but from covert alliances of disaffected nations who've all been made bold by this kind of Jordan one-worlder who believes that human beings are essentially good and that our powers are somehow, I don't know, shameful or evil and never to be used. Make no mistake. The American people are terrified. They know something's coming. They can feel it. And we can either shovel them the same old shit and call it sugar or we can arm them. We can arm them with a young, vibrant Vice President. We can give them heat, energy! Give them a war hero with heart, forged by enemy fire in the desert in the dark when American lives hung on the balance!

Noyle: Hello, Captain. Do you remember me?

Raymond Shaw: I served under him. He was a good man.::Eleanor Shaw: Well, that's what the neighbors always say about serial killers.

[manipulating Raymond]::Eleanor Shaw: Sergeant Shaw.::Raymond Shaw: [Abruptly] What...?::Eleanor Shaw: Sergeant Raymond Shaw.::Raymond Shaw: Mother, I...::Eleanor Shaw: Raymond Prentiss Shaw.::Raymond Shaw: Yes.::Eleanor Shaw: Listen.

Eleanor Shaw: Oh, God! Where are all the men anymore? My father, Tyler Prentiss, never asked, "Is this okay? Is this okay?" You know what I'm saying, Mark? He just did what needed to be done.

Raymond Shaw: Are we friends, Ben? I wanna believe we were friends.::Ben Marco: We are connected and that's something nobody can take from us. You coulda had me locked up, but you didn't. That's proof that there's something deep inside. There's a part that they can't get to. And it's deep inside of us. And that's where the truth is.

Eleanor Shaw: The assassin always dies, baby. It's necessary for the national healing.

Delp: I thought you said you lost this.::Ben Marco: I bit a guy. I found another one.

[last lines]::Noyle: [voiceover] Now, when you're rescued and returned with your patrol to command headquarters, what will be among the first of your duties that you'll undertake?::Ben Marco: I'll recommend Sergeant Shaw for the Medal of Honor, sir. He saved our lives. He terminated the enemy. Led us across the desert to safety.::Noyle: Excellent. And there were casualties?::Ben Marco: There's always casualties in war, sir.

Ben Marco: Somebody got into our heads with big steel-toe boots, cable cutters and a chainsaw and they went to town. Neurons got got got exposed and circuits got rewired. Our brain cells got obliterated, Raymond.

The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

Actors: Zeljko Ivanek (actor), Adam LeFevre (actor), Bruno Ganz (actor), Fab 5 Freddy (actor), Bill Irwin (actor), Darrell Larson (actor), Miguel Ferrer (actor), Jude Ciccolella (actor), Thomas Daniel (actor), Roger Corman (actor), Obba Babatundé (actor), John Aprea (actor), Al Franken (actor), Sidney Lumet (actor), Ted Levine (actor),

Plot: When his army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, then-Captain Ben Marco, was knocked unconscious. Brokering the incident for political capital, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, while Marco is haunted by dreams of what happened -- or didn't happen -- in Kuwait. As Marco (now a Major) investigates, the story begins to unravel, to the point where he questions if it happened at all. Is it possible the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed to believe Shaw is a war hero as part of a plot to seize the White House? Some very powerful people at Manchurian Global corporation appear desperate to stop him from finding out.

Keywords: admiral, african-american-protagonist, ambush, anti-republican, assassin, assassination-plot, bad-mother, based-on-novel, battle-hymn-of-the-republic, brain-implant
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller,
Taglines: Everything is under control. This summer everything is under control.

Quotes:

Eleanor Shaw: I will do whatever is necessary to protect America from anyone who opposes her. I can't... am I the only person in this room who's been reading these NSA reports?::Congressman Healy: I've read them.::Eleanor Shaw: All right, then. You know... you know we are on the brink of another cataclysm, probably nuclear, on our own soil.::Congresswoman Becket: Oh, Ellie, that's a bit extreme.::Eleanor Shaw: And it's not from random terrorists, but from covert alliances of disaffected nations who've all been made bold by this kind of Jordan one-worlder who believes that human beings are essentially good and that our powers are somehow, I don't know, shameful or evil and never to be used. Make no mistake. The American people are terrified. They know something's coming. They can feel it. And we can either shovel them the same old shit and call it sugar or we can arm them. We can arm them with a young, vibrant Vice President. We can give them heat, energy! Give them a war hero with heart, forged by enemy fire in the desert in the dark when American lives hung on the balance!

Noyle: Hello, Captain. Do you remember me?

Raymond Shaw: I served under him. He was a good man.::Eleanor Shaw: Well, that's what the neighbors always say about serial killers.

[manipulating Raymond]::Eleanor Shaw: Sergeant Shaw.::Raymond Shaw: [Abruptly] What...?::Eleanor Shaw: Sergeant Raymond Shaw.::Raymond Shaw: Mother, I...::Eleanor Shaw: Raymond Prentiss Shaw.::Raymond Shaw: Yes.::Eleanor Shaw: Listen.

Eleanor Shaw: Oh, God! Where are all the men anymore? My father, Tyler Prentiss, never asked, "Is this okay? Is this okay?" You know what I'm saying, Mark? He just did what needed to be done.

Raymond Shaw: Are we friends, Ben? I wanna believe we were friends.::Ben Marco: We are connected and that's something nobody can take from us. You coulda had me locked up, but you didn't. That's proof that there's something deep inside. There's a part that they can't get to. And it's deep inside of us. And that's where the truth is.

Eleanor Shaw: The assassin always dies, baby. It's necessary for the national healing.

Delp: I thought you said you lost this.::Ben Marco: I bit a guy. I found another one.

[last lines]::Noyle: [voiceover] Now, when you're rescued and returned with your patrol to command headquarters, what will be among the first of your duties that you'll undertake?::Ben Marco: I'll recommend Sergeant Shaw for the Medal of Honor, sir. He saved our lives. He terminated the enemy. Led us across the desert to safety.::Noyle: Excellent. And there were casualties?::Ben Marco: There's always casualties in war, sir.

Ben Marco: Somebody got into our heads with big steel-toe boots, cable cutters and a chainsaw and they went to town. Neurons got got got exposed and circuits got rewired. Our brain cells got obliterated, Raymond.

The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

Actors: Zeljko Ivanek (actor), Adam LeFevre (actor), Bruno Ganz (actor), Fab 5 Freddy (actor), Bill Irwin (actor), Darrell Larson (actor), Miguel Ferrer (actor), Jude Ciccolella (actor), Thomas Daniel (actor), Roger Corman (actor), Obba Babatundé (actor), John Aprea (actor), Al Franken (actor), Sidney Lumet (actor), Ted Levine (actor),

Plot: When his army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, then-Captain Ben Marco, was knocked unconscious. Brokering the incident for political capital, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, while Marco is haunted by dreams of what happened -- or didn't happen -- in Kuwait. As Marco (now a Major) investigates, the story begins to unravel, to the point where he questions if it happened at all. Is it possible the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed to believe Shaw is a war hero as part of a plot to seize the White House? Some very powerful people at Manchurian Global corporation appear desperate to stop him from finding out.

Keywords: admiral, african-american-protagonist, ambush, anti-republican, assassin, assassination-plot, bad-mother, based-on-novel, battle-hymn-of-the-republic, brain-implant
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller,
Taglines: Everything is under control. This summer everything is under control.

Quotes:

Eleanor Shaw: I will do whatever is necessary to protect America from anyone who opposes her. I can't... am I the only person in this room who's been reading these NSA reports?::Congressman Healy: I've read them.::Eleanor Shaw: All right, then. You know... you know we are on the brink of another cataclysm, probably nuclear, on our own soil.::Congresswoman Becket: Oh, Ellie, that's a bit extreme.::Eleanor Shaw: And it's not from random terrorists, but from covert alliances of disaffected nations who've all been made bold by this kind of Jordan one-worlder who believes that human beings are essentially good and that our powers are somehow, I don't know, shameful or evil and never to be used. Make no mistake. The American people are terrified. They know something's coming. They can feel it. And we can either shovel them the same old shit and call it sugar or we can arm them. We can arm them with a young, vibrant Vice President. We can give them heat, energy! Give them a war hero with heart, forged by enemy fire in the desert in the dark when American lives hung on the balance!

Noyle: Hello, Captain. Do you remember me?

Raymond Shaw: I served under him. He was a good man.::Eleanor Shaw: Well, that's what the neighbors always say about serial killers.

[manipulating Raymond]::Eleanor Shaw: Sergeant Shaw.::Raymond Shaw: [Abruptly] What...?::Eleanor Shaw: Sergeant Raymond Shaw.::Raymond Shaw: Mother, I...::Eleanor Shaw: Raymond Prentiss Shaw.::Raymond Shaw: Yes.::Eleanor Shaw: Listen.

Eleanor Shaw: Oh, God! Where are all the men anymore? My father, Tyler Prentiss, never asked, "Is this okay? Is this okay?" You know what I'm saying, Mark? He just did what needed to be done.

Raymond Shaw: Are we friends, Ben? I wanna believe we were friends.::Ben Marco: We are connected and that's something nobody can take from us. You coulda had me locked up, but you didn't. That's proof that there's something deep inside. There's a part that they can't get to. And it's deep inside of us. And that's where the truth is.

Eleanor Shaw: The assassin always dies, baby. It's necessary for the national healing.

Delp: I thought you said you lost this.::Ben Marco: I bit a guy. I found another one.

[last lines]::Noyle: [voiceover] Now, when you're rescued and returned with your patrol to command headquarters, what will be among the first of your duties that you'll undertake?::Ben Marco: I'll recommend Sergeant Shaw for the Medal of Honor, sir. He saved our lives. He terminated the enemy. Led us across the desert to safety.::Noyle: Excellent. And there were casualties?::Ben Marco: There's always casualties in war, sir.

Ben Marco: Somebody got into our heads with big steel-toe boots, cable cutters and a chainsaw and they went to town. Neurons got got got exposed and circuits got rewired. Our brain cells got obliterated, Raymond.

Majority Rule (1992)

Actors: Donald Moffat (actor), Charles Dennis (actor), Miguel Sandoval (actor), Nicholas Pryor (actor), Richard Herd (actor), James Handy (actor), Mitch Ryan (actor), Gregg Berger (actor), Robin Gammell (actor), John Getz (actor), Paul Gleason (actor), John Glover (actor), Michael Gregory (actor), Carlease Burke (actress), Blair Brown (actress),

Genres: Drama,

Defence of the Realm (1986)

Actors: Louise Frogley (costume designer), Denholm Elliott (actor), Greta Scacchi (actress), David Puttnam (producer), Derek Lyons (actor), Richard Harvey (composer), Bill Paterson (actor), Gabriel Byrne (actor), David Calder (actor), Danny Webb (actor), Oliver Ford Davies (actor), Robbie Coltrane (actor), Ian Bannen (actor), Michael Bradsell (editor), James Fleet (actor),

Plot: A reporter Mullen 'stumbles' on a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent. In fact it is also linked to a near Nuclear disaster involving a teenage runaway and an Americal USAF base. Has there been a Government cover-up,Mullen teams up with Vernon Bayliss, an old hack, and Nina Beckam the MP's assistant to find out the truth.

Keywords: air-base, air-force-base, apartment, bomb, bomb-victim, bomber-aircraft, british, british-parliament, call-girl, cold-war
Genres: Thriller,
Taglines: Just how far will a government go to hide the truth?

Quotes:

Vernon Bayliss: Vodka and Coca-Cola. Detente in a glass!

Ministry Man: You would agree, would you not, that certain things bearing on the defence of the realm are best left unsaid.::Nicholas 'Nick' Mullen: If you mean covered up, no, I wouldn't.

[Byrne pours his coffee into a potted plant]::Jack Macleod: Aw, Christ, what did that geranium ever do to you?

[Mullen shows Bayliss a group photograph in which Markham and Kleist are laughing together at a Prague conference]::Nicholas 'Nick' Mullen: You better take a look at that, Vernon.::Vernon Bayliss: Okay, so what does that prove?::Nicholas 'Nick' Mullen: It proves that your friend was lyin'. He said categorically that he'd never met Kleist before.::Vernon Bayliss: Well, isn't it possible that Kleist could just have been another face in the crowd? That Markham didn't know who he was?::Nicholas 'Nick' Mullen: Come on, Vernon! There's Markham, there's Kleist.::Vernon Bayliss: Well, that doesn't prove that Markham's a Russian spy. You can't use it, Nick, you'll be crucified.::Nicholas 'Nick' Mullen: All right. For four and a half years, this guy was Chairman of the Commons Select Committee on Defence, during which time he had access to our most important secrets. Right? No, let me finish. He shares his lover with a known KGB agent. Vernon, please let me finish! They then meet in Czechoslovakia and are seen laughing and talking at a conference. I mean, I've got to use it!::Vernon Bayliss: Dennis Markham is not a traitor.::Nicholas 'Nick' Mullen: Oh, I see. One old comrade sticking up for another, eh?::Vernon Bayliss: What?::Nicholas 'Nick' Mullen: You heard.::Vernon Bayliss: I left the Party in 1956, for God's sake!::Nicholas 'Nick' Mullen: Well, then you're in no bloody position to be objective!::Vernon Bayliss: Oh, objectivity being the hallmark of this great and honorable newspaper! Spare me the humbug, dear boy!::Nicholas 'Nick' Mullen: Give me a break, Vernon, you know how it is, it's a bloody good story!::Vernon Bayliss: Oh, well, don't let the truth get in the way of a good story.

[SPOILER]::Nicholas 'Nick' Mullen: [angrily] Where'd the tip-off come from?::Harry Champion: Look, you know perfectly well I've got to protect my sources.::Nicholas 'Nick' Mullen: Oh yeah? Well, from now on, nobody is protecting anybody.::Harry Champion: I'm sorry, I can't tell you.::Nicholas 'Nick' Mullen: I want to know who told you Kleist was KGB.::Harry Champion: I can't tell you!::Nicholas 'Nick' Mullen: It was the same source rang me up and gave me the Prague story, wasn't it?::Harry Champion: I've no idea.::Nicholas 'Nick' Mullen: [chuckles] Come on, Harry. Who was it?::Harry Champion: Look, he's in the Security Services. He's very, very high up. I used him for fifteen years and he's never been wrong. That's all I can tell you.::Nicholas 'Nick' Mullen: Yeah? Well, you better get yourself a new contact, Harry.::Harry Champion: Really.::Nicholas 'Nick' Mullen: Yeah. Kleist is no more KGB than Kim Philby was MI6. He's a British agent.::Harry Champion: [laughs incredulously] Oh, that's very good. Now, where did you get that from, John le Carré?::Nicholas 'Nick' Mullen: No. I got it from George Rydell. In black and white. Now, I want a name.

[last lines]::Nicholas 'Nick' Mullen: [smiling at Nina Beckman] Well?::[Shortly followed by news commentators reporting on what Nick and Nina have found]