Three Days of the Condor 1975 quotes

Atwood

What is this? What’s going on?

Turner

Who are you? Who are you?

Atwood

What are you doing here?

Turner

I’m Condor. Sit down. What do you do for a living?

Atwood

Don't be ridiculous.

Turner

What do you do...exactly?

Atwood

Deputy Director of Operations.

Turner

What section?

Atwood

Middle East.

Turner

What are you working on? What are you doing? What's the secret worth murdering everybody at the A.L.H.S. house?

Atwood

There's no secret.

Turner

Wicks showed you my report.

Atwood

What report? [Turner slams his chair] Yes.

Turner

It was your network I turned up. Doing what? Doing what? What does Operations care about a bunch of goddamn books? A book in Dutch. A book out of Venezuela. Mystery stories in Arabic.

Atwood

Wait!

Turner

What the hell is so important about... [He stops as he sees the connection] Oil fields. Oil. That's it, isn't it? This whole damn thing was about oil! Wasn't it? Wasn't it?

Atwood

Yes, it was.

Atwood

That includes Condor, of course.

Joubert

Yes. I owe you Condor.

Atwood

Otherwise--

Joubert

Otherwise does not exist.

Atwood

Will Condor take long?

Joubert

Do you want an estimate?

Atwood

There is a time factor.

Joubert

Always with you people. Condor is an amateur. He's lost, unpredictable...perhaps even sentimental. He could fool a professional. Not deliberately, but precisely because he is lost. Doesn't know what to do, unlike Wicks who has always been entirely predictable. The man Condor killed in the alley?

Atwood

Some friend of his.

Joubert

Close friend?

Atwood

I suppose. Why?

Joubert

It interests me. What was his name?

Atwood

I don't know. He was nobody.

Joubert

Right.

Atwood

What about Wicks?

Joubert

You want the firm to question him? They will, you know.

Atwood

We don't want that.

Joubert

Cost you nothing. I was careless with Condor. Wicks will be done for nothing.

Fowler

Somebody took out one of your sections.

Wicks

What?

Fowler

9/17.

Wicks

That's New York. Somebody got mugged maybe.

Fowler

They were hit.

Wicks

They're bookworms.

Higgins

Hello, Condor.

Turner

Who is this?

Higgins

Deputy Director Higgins, New York Center. I'm controlling now, Condor. Where are you?

Turner

How come I need a code name, and you don't?

Higgins

Where are you, Turner?

Turner

Here.

Higgins

You all right?

Turner

Are you insane? Everybody's dead.

Higgins

Take it easy. Just take it easy, and we'll bring you home. Here's how we'll do it. Do you know the Ansonia Hotel?

Turner

Broadway and, uh...74th st.

Higgins

Broadway and 73rd. There's an alley behind the hotel. One hour from now at exactly 1520, enter that alley from the 73rd Street side.

Turner

Will you be there?

Higgins

The head of your department just came from D.C. He'll bring you home.

Turner

I've never met him.

Higgins

Don't worry. He's studying your photos now. Turner?...Turner!

Turner

I don't know you, either.

Higgins

We'll meet. He'll be carrying a Wall Street Journal in his left hand.

Turner

There were two guys at my house.

Higgins

What were you doing there? You were told not to go there!

Turner

I was homesick. Who were they?

Higgins

They were ours.

Turner

What were they doing in my house? I'm not going into any alley. **** the Wall Street Journal!

Higgins

It's been a long day. You've been under--

Turner

Damn right I've been under.

Higgins

All right, Turner. We'll bring along a familiar face, somebody you know.

Turner

Who's left?

Higgins

Got a friend in statistics named Sam Barber.

Turner

Sam. You guys are something.

Higgins

Will he do?

Turner

Yes, Sam will do.

Higgins

All right, Turner. Stay well for 60 minutes, and you're home.

Turner

Can I ask a question?

Higgins

Sure.

Turner

What is happening?

Higgins

I'll talk to you in 60 minutes.

Higgins

Turner. Why'd you call so late? We were worried about you.

Turner

Likewise. The car for me?

Higgins

It's all right. It's safe. You'll have a few hours of debriefing.

Turner

Hey, Higgins? Let's say, for the purposes of argument, I had a .45 in one of my pockets, and I wanted you to take a walk with me, you'd do it, right?

Higgins

Which way?

Joubert

Would you move from the window, please?

Janice

Pardon me? ...I won't scream.

Joubert

I know.

Kathy

Do you trust him?

Turner

Trust.

Kathy

Does he trust you?

Turner

He's in the suspicion business. He can't trust anybody.

Kathy

How could anybody fool them?

Turner

Maybe nobody did.

Kathy

Then--

Turner

Maybe there's another CIA...inside the CIA.

Kathy

Tentrex Industries.

Turner

It's a cover. I work for the CIA.

Kathy

Oh, Jesus. Your assignment for today was to go out and kidnap a girl.

Turner

Look it up. Look it up. Tentrex Industries. Then look up the number for the CIA.

Kathy

They're listed, like my Aunt Gladys?

Turner

Under " U.S. Government Agencies." Go on. So is this what you do? This photography?

Kathy

O.K., uh--It's the same number. You could have had the card made--

Turner

Yes, I could have, but I didn't.

Kathy

I'm scared!

Turner

So am I!

Kathy

Why? You've got the gun!

Turner

Yes! Yeah, and it's not enough. Listen. I work for the CIA. I'm not a spy. I just read books. We read everything that's published in the world, and we-- we feed the plots-- dirty tricks, codes into a computer, and the computer checks against actual CIA plans and operations. I look for leaks, new ideas. We read adventures and novels and journals. I-- I can-Who'd invent a job like that? I-- Listen! People are trying to kill me!

Kathy

Who?

Turner

I don't know, but there's a reason. There is a reason! And I just need some safe, quiet time to pull things together.

Kathy

Here.

Turner

Here.

Kathy

That's only fair.

Kathy

Ow! You're hurting me. Wait a minute. You-- Oh! You bully! Don't tie me up! Come on, please! This is... unfair!

Turner

I know.

Kathy

Sometimes, I— I take a picture that… isn't like me, but I took it, so it is like me. It has to be. I put those pictures away.

Turner

I'd like to see those pictures.

Kathy

We don't know each other that that well.

Turner

Do you know anybody that well?

Kathy

I don't think I want to know you very well. I don't think you're gonna live much longer.

Turner

Well, I may… surprise you. Anyway, you're not telling the truth.

Kathy

What do you mean?

Turner

You'd rather be with somebody who's not going to live much longer, at least somebody who would be on his way.

Kathy

I'm not--

Turner

You take pictures. Beautiful pictures, but of empty streets and trees with no leaves--November. Why haven't you asked me to untie your hands?

Kathy

H-How much doyou want...

Turner

I just...want to stop it. For a few hours. For the rest of the night. And then I'll go.

Kathy

What did you do to those people?

Turner

What people? I don't know who they are. I file a report. A guy in Washington reads it. He's supposed to-- He's my section chief. He comes to New York to shoot me.

Kathy

Did you know him?

Turner

No.

Kathy

Did you know the mailman?

Turner

No, but the guy in Washington did.

Kathy

You won't know the next one.

Turner

I'm not waiting for the next one.

Kathy

You didn't sleep well.

Turner

You didn't?

Kathy

No, you didn't. You're up early.

Turner

Oh, I had--I had some thoughts. I've got a plan. I don't know if it'll work or not, but...I'll need your help.

Kathy

Have I ever denied you anything?

Turner

Hey.

Kathy

Well, when things quiet down...you're really a very sweet man to be with. You had bad dreams. Talked in your sleep.

Turner

What did I say?

Kathy

Who's Janice? Well, was she a volunteer or a draftee like me?

Turner

She was...a friend. She's dead.

Kathy

Do I have permission to take a shower?

Turner

You don't have to help, you know?

Kathy

Oh no, I'll help. You can always depend on the ol' spy-****er.

Turner

OK

Kathy

I'm sorry.

Turner

No.

Kathy

No, I didn't mean… I didn't mean to say that. I'm really sorry. I'd like to help you.

Kathy

You're not entitled to personal questions! That gun gives you the right to rough me up; it doesn't give you the right to ask me...

Turner

Wh- wh- Rough you up? Have I roughed you up?

Kathy

Yes! What are you doing in my house?

Turner

Have I? Have I?

Kathy

Going through all my stuff? Force...

Turner

Have I raped you?

Kathy

The night is young.

Turner

You don't believe anything I've said.

Kathy

I believe you're in trouble...danger...but I don't know what kind, and I'm not sure how much of it is made up. Real, but, uh...

Turner

Doesn't make any difference--doesn't matter.

Kathy

Wait a minute. Will you--

Turner

Forget it.

Kathy

I'm trying to understand!

This is the Major.

Turner

This is Joe Turner.

Identification.

Turner

What?

Identification.

Turner

My name's Turner. I work for you.

Identify yourself.

Turner

I-- I don't--

What is your designation?

Turner

Uh, Condor. Section 9, Department 17. The section's been hit.

What level?

Turner

What level?

Level of damage.

Turner

Everybody. Dr. Lappe, Janice, Ray, Harold. Harold was in the, uh--

Are you on a company line?

Turner

No, I'm in a phone booth. I'm in the street.

You're in violation of secure communication procedures, Condor.

Turner

Listen, you son of a bitch! I came back with lunch. The house was murdered. Everybody is dead.

Has the incident been discovered by anyone outside the company?

Turner

I don't-- I don't know. I don't think so.

Are you damaged?

Turner

Damaged? No.

Are you armed?

Turner

I don't-- I have Mrs., uh-- I can't remember her code name. Nightingale. She kept a gun in her desk. I've got the gun.

Identify the armament.

Turner

It's a .38 automatic. Will you bring me in, please? I'm not a field agent. I just read books.

Leave the area.

Turner

All right. Well-- Do I come in to headquarters now?

Negative. Find a secure location.

Turner

Where?

Avoid any place you're known. Do not go home. Do not go home. Surface again in two hours. And call the Major. That'll be 1430 your time.

Turner

Wait-- Wait a minute. All right. 2:30 right?

Walk away from the phone. Don't hang it up.

Turner

Don't--
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