“Here's the thing, Cooper: With age...comes a certain perspective. I'd...”

Frank

[Cooper is called by Frank. during their conversation, Frank's call is traced]

Here's the thing, Cooper: With age...comes a certain perspective. I'd be a liar if I said there wasn't a time when I was exactly like you. Blind ambition, misplaced trust.

Cooper

Why are you telling me this?

Frank

It may help me to decide what to do next.

Cooper

[Sees the technician tracing the call gesturing for Cooper to keep Frank talking]

Why? What are you thinking about?

Frank

Our business is a very hard one. But it was never the...the killing or the stress, the bad pay, that bothered me.

Cooper

Well, what was it, Frank?

Frank

It's how anything that you love...can be taken away from you. It taught me never to care, never to invest. Then I met this woman, Sarah. And now, you have her. Now, I can't think of anything more horrible than to know that your enemies can hurt someone you love. The feeling is almost indescribable.

Frank

[The trace is completed. Cooper gets the paper with the call's location. His look turns to horror.]

You still there, Cooper?

Cooper

...You're at my house!

Frank

[Frank's in Cooper's house, watching Cooper's wife and two children play outside, unaware of Frank watching them]

Almost indescribable, isn't it?

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