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-Michael: (voice-over) Eavesdropping and fieldwork go hand-in-hand. You wanna know what your target is saying, what he's typing into his computer. But technology can't work miracles: bugs don't plant themselves. Fact is, even the fanciest equipment usually needs help from a good old-fashioned crowbar.
-Michael: (voice-over) You can't choose your intelligence sources. Might be a heroin smuggler, a dictator... or your mom.
-Madeline: I told them that you were the perfect son. That you always wrote me, you called me all the time, and that the most important thing to you was family. I told them that. And they wrote it down.
-Michael: Why did you tell them that?
-Madeline: I don't know, Michael. Just seemed nicer than the truth.
-Michael: (voice-over) You've been in the business way too long when you recognize the sound of a .45 caliber over a phone.
-Sam: Wiring crap into a car is not an art. It's about as subtle as hitting someone with a brick.
-Fiona: Hitting someone with a brick takes a lot of skill.
-Michael: (voice-over) Truth is, identity theft isn't hard. A number and an ID is all you need to drain a bank account and return some money to some very surprised retirees. But why stop there? As long as your stealing someone's identity why not use it to contact some known terrorist organizations on unsecured phone lines? Why not use it to threaten federal judges and insult the local drug cartel? (grinning) Most fun I've had in Miami.
-Michael: Fiona, you were supposed to stop the car not blow it into the Everglades! What happened to shorting the ignition?
-Fiona: You said disable, it's not going anywhere.
-Michael: (voice-over) There's a reason spies don't have a lot of parties. Everybody's got a history with everyone else.
-Michael: (voice-over) A hitman is like a plumber, a dentist or a mechanic. Everybody is always looking for a good one.
-Bruce: You have no idea who you're dealing with...
-Michael: No, I read the article. Most of it anyway. Scary guys, drugs, guns... Did I miss something?
-Michael: (voice-over) I love commuters. Anybody who drives the same route to work everyday, it's like they're doing all the work for you... and a punctual commuter, a guy who's in the same place every morning at the eight thirty-six am, it's almost too easy.
-Michael: If they had any brains at all, they would put the word out there. You show up and someone makes a phone call.
-Sophie: You really think they would use kids at my school?! Are you serious?
-Michael: Yea. That's what I would do.
-Michael: (voice-over) Threaten any serious criminal organization and they're going to do one of two things: they'll send someone to make a deal... or they'll send someone to make a corpse. Either way you've got something to work with.
-Michael: (voice-over) Convincing a bully to back down is usually a matter of showing them you're not afraid of them. Of course, some bullies have guys with three fifty-seven magnums... then you change tactics.
-Sophie: So we're supposed to stay in here, in the garage and do nothing?
-Michael: Pretty much. It's not so bad as safe houses go. You got a TV at least. I once spent three days in Riyadh storage facility with nothing but a flashlight and an Arabic celebrity magazine.
-Sophie: (to Michael) What are we supposed to do in Buffalo?
-Michael: Same thing you do here, there are malls... and clothing stores.
-Michael: (voice-over) Asking my mom for anything is a lot like getting a favour from a Russian mob boss. He'll give you what you want with a smile, but believe me, you'll pay for it.
-Michael: (voice-over) Basic rule of bodyguarding, never fight with the protectee around, mostly because if they catch a stray bullet, you're out of the job.
-Michael: (voice-over) But in the end, sometimes making an escape is just about being willing to do what the guy chasing you won't. Like jump off a building.
-Michael: (to Sam) Well, I'll tell you what, if there's a situation that requires showing off your upper body and boozy flirting, you're my guy.
-Sophie: It's a freaking garage. I'd rather be killed than live here.
-Michael: Well, those are your two options.
(Michael is attempting to console Sophie)
-Sophie: So you're saying that if we're meant to be together that we'll find each other.
-Michael: Sure.
-Sophie: You're really bad at this.
-Michael: Yeah.
-Fiona: Michael would change his identity and disappear to get out of a parking ticket.
-Michael: (voice-over) Spies go to bars for the same reason people go to libraries, full of information. If you know how to ask.
-Nate: I can protect myself.
-Michael: Yea... Blocking punches with your face. Real effective...
-Michael: (voice-over) Some situations just come down to probabilities. The chance that an assassin can hit you with a handgun at 50 yards, the number of shots he can get off. You might have a one in five chance of taking a bullet maybe a one in ten chance of dying. Or a 100 percent chance of getting blown away by a shotgun wired to a door.
-Fiona: Every third guy at a bar'll tell you he's a modeling scout.
-Sam: Hey, I've used worse lines. And succeeded.
-Fiona: Do you think I could convince your Czech assassin to switch targets? I mean Sam is bigger, slower... easier to hit.
-Michael: (voice-over) You can learn good self-defense fighting with students in a class, but great self-defense you pick up fighting with your family.
-Sam: I don't want to do anything to compromise my pension. If I don't have it, you'll have to take care of me when I'm 95 and drooling into my pillow.
-Michael: Don't worry I'll smother you with my pillow before that happens.
-Sam: Thanks you're such a good friend. |
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