“Okay, when do you leave?” – Jeffrey Pelt, The Hunt for Red October ... Movie Quotes Database

Jeffrey Pelt

Okay, when do you leave?

Jack Ryan

[laughing]

Wait a minute! The General was right. I am not field personnel, I am only an analyst.

Jeffrey Pelt

You're perfect. I can't ask any of these characters to go. One, they don't believe in it. Two, they'd never stake their reputation on a hunch. Whereas you...

Jack Ryan

...are expendable.

Jeffrey Pelt

Something like that.

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