Carter Preston quotes from The Jackal (1997)

What - no kickbacks this week?

Valentina Koslova

Major Koslova, MVD.

: Nice to meet you. [pulls a stack of bills out of his coat] This damn market economy... here, is this enough?

Valentina Koslova

Ghazzi Murad, you are under arrest for the murder of Mayor Nikolai Semankho.

Blow me, darling! You don't have any witnesses. Nothing.

Carter Preston

: Your blood is our witness. You left your DNA at the scene of the crime.

DNA? [switches to English] What is this... an American? Who the **** are you?

Carter Preston

Deputy Director Carter Preston, FBI.

FBI. [looks over at Koslova] You **** Americans now, you ugly Militia whore. [to Preston] And you, go **** yourself. This is not Chicago. This is Russia. So take your bitch and get the **** out of here. [looking around the room] You think I'm afraid of the MVD? [laughs] I swear, I kill you and your **** whore mothers, if you don't --

Valentina Koslova

I repeat, you --

**** you! **** YOU, you scar-faced ****! **** you!

Carter Preston

Alright, that's enough!

Carter Preston

It's not easy taking a life, but you saved one too - mine.

Declan Mulqueen

I can identify him by his face, given the opportunity... but more importantly, by his methods. So you can leave Isabella out of this.

Carter Preston

Did you work with him?

Declan Mulqueen

With him? No. No way.

Carter Preston

Do you have a problem with this man?

Declan Mulqueen

That's between him and me.

Carter Preston

Isabella Zancona is the only confirmed contact we have... and we will find her. With or without your help.

Declan Mulqueen

Okay, okay... I want three things. One, get me out of here. I'm no use to you sitting here on my arse.

Carter Preston

What's to keep you from taking off?

Declan Mulqueen

Nothing.... except I give you my word. [Preston snorts] Two, I go with you to meet Isabella.

Carter Preston

Why?

Declan Mulqueen

I want to see her, is all.

Carter Preston

And the third thing?

Declan Mulqueen

A decent razor.

Declan Mulqueen

A man like this doesn't make mistakes.

Valentina Koslova

No? They always make one somewhere. Isn't that how you were caught?

Carter Preston

Ouch.

Carter Preston

Major Koslova ends the debate about women in combat as far as I'm concerned.

Declan Mulqueen

How's that?

Carter Preston

When she saved my life and took out Terek's brother, she did it knowing she'd be drawing a death sentence down on her neck. But when we offered to set her up some place else when this is over, you know what she said? "The good guys don't hide."

Declan Mulqueen

Fierce woman.

Carter Preston

In that country, under that system... staggering.

Declan Mulqueen

Preston, what about letting me have a gun?

Carter Preston

Are you kidding? If the right people knew I was letting you walk around without cuffs, I'd get forced retirement!

Carter Preston

This is a manhunt, not your cause. Don't make it personal.

Declan Mulqueen

What do you **** know?

Carter Preston

All right! I'll tell you what I know. I know the Jackal set you up in that arms deal in Libya. I know that Isabella was wounded when you walked into the trap. I also know that it was the life you had chosen for...
'Declan Mulqueen: Did you also know that Isabella was pregnant when she got shot... That our child didn't survive? Don't tell me this isn't personal, Mr. Preston!

Carter Preston

I can't risk letting you jeopardize us in a vendetta!

Declan Mulqueen

There's no vendetta. All I hope for now is a fresh start.

Carter Preston

Maybe it will happen.

Carter Preston

I wonder if we'll ever know who the hell he really was.

Declan Mulqueen

We know all we need to. He was evil, he's dead, and he's gone. Nothing more matters.