A scene from North by Northwest 1959
Leonard

You surely would have suspected. Why else would you have decided not to tell Miss Kendall why our little treasure here has a belly full of microfilm?

Vandamm

You seem to be trying to fill mine with rotten apples.

Leonard

Sometimes the truth does taste like a mouthful of worms.

Vandamm

Truth? I've heard nothing but innuendos.

Leonard

Call it my woman's intuition, if you will, but I've never trusted neatness. Neatness is always the result of deliberate planning.

Vandamm

She shot him in a moment of fear and anger. You were there yourself. You saw it. You know what I think? I think you're jealous. No, I mean it. I'm very touched, very.

Leonard

[Leonard pushes Vandamm and fires Eve's gun at him...that is loaded with blanks]

It's an old Gestapo trick. Shoot one of your own people to show that you're not one of them. They've just freshened it up a bit with blank cartridges.
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Leonard

You're not taking her on the plane with you?

Vandamm

Of course I am. Like our friends, I too believe in neatness, Leonard.This matter is best disposed of from a great height - over water.

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