A scene from Notorious 1946
Alicia

What's the matter? Don't look so tense. Troubles? Well handsome, I think you'd better tell Mama what's going on. All this secrecy's going to ruin my little dinner. Come on, Mr. D., what is darkening your brow?

Devlin

After dinner.

Alicia

No, now! Look, I'll make it easy for you. The time has come when you must tell me that you have a wife and two adorable children and this madness between us can't go on any longer.

Devlin

I'll bet you've heard that line often enough.

Alicia

Right below the belt every time. Oh, that isn't fair, Dev.

Devlin

Skip it. We have other things to talk about. We've got a job.

Alicia

Oh. So there is a job.

Devlin

You, uh, you remember a man named Sebastian?

Alicia

Alex Sebastian?

Devlin

Yes.

Alicia

One of my father's friends, yes.

Devlin

He had quite a crush on you.

Alicia

I wasn't very responsive.

Devlin

Well, he's here. The head of a large German business concern.

Alicia

His family always had money.

Devlin

He's part of the combine that built up the German war machine and hopes to keep on going.

Alicia

Something big?

Devlin

It has all the earmarks of being something big. We have to contact him.

Alicia

Go on, let's have all of it.

Devlin

We're meeting him tomorrow. The rest is up to you. You've got to work on him and land him.

Alicia

Mata Hari. She makes love for the papers.

Devlin

There are no papers. You land him. Find out what's going on inside his house, what the group around him is up to, and report to us.

Alicia

I suppose you knew about this pretty little job of mine all the time.

Devlin

No. I only just found out about it.

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