Breach Page #3

Synopsis: In February, 2001, Robert Hanssen, a senior agent with 25 years in the FBI, is arrested for spying. Jump back two months: Eric O'Neill, a computer specialist who wants to be made an agent is assigned to clerk for Hanssen and to write down everything Hanssen does. O'Neill's told it's an investigation of Hanssen's sexual habits. Within weeks, the crusty Hanssen, a devout Catholic, has warmed to O'Neill, who grows to respect Hanssen. O'Neill's wife resents Hanssen's intrusiveness; the personal and professional stakes get higher. How they catch Hanssen and why he spies become the film's story. Can O'Neill help catch red-handed "the worst spy in history" and hold onto his personal life?
Original Story by: Pamela Dionne
Director(s): Billy Ray
Production: Universal Studios
  1 win & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Metacritic:
74
Rotten Tomatoes:
84%
PG-13
Year:
2007
110 min
$32,958,840
Website
446 Views


just to see

if I could do it.

Six-hundred twelve bits

of encryption,

completely unbreakable.

But you get the office

with the window.

Okay, help us.

What do we do?

First, we drop ACS,

which is a relic.

There's not nearly

enough bandwidth.

That's why

you've got agents

who still keep

sensitive information

in cardboard boxes.

You need to move

to an ATM system

instead of the WAN.

An OC-48

with a data rate

of 2.488 megabits.

Start with Linux A-B servers,

which puts us into Red Hat.

IP routers

throughout the building.

Dynamic IP addresses

to hide the system using

the Invicta prototype.

Would it be easier

if I sent this in a memo?

Yes, it would.

Fine. On your desk

in the morning.

You're gonna set up

meetings for me

with the appropriate

systems managers

at the CIA, DIA, NSA,

and the intel agencies

of each armed service.

Yes, sir.

They're all

ahead of us on IT.

We have to study them.

Would you mind if we

book those appointments

through me, Bob?

What for?

Just protocol.

Of course.

And then we switch

offices, right?

Sure.

This can't go on forever, i mean,

it wouldn't?

That is right, Agent Nece, you're somehow a thing.

Listen, Vanna, i trust you to exist a question.

Agent Nece?

What do you need, Lisa?

What the problem does that mean?

I mean the problem is something

to remember Hanssen.

Oh.

VANNA:
Juliana?

Yes.

Are you getting an inspiration?

No, Vanna. I can't.

I agree.

JULIANA:
Right.

Perfect.

We're fighting crime

with 19th-century technology,

and he's worried

about protocol.

Set up those meetings.

Leave it up to him,

they'll never happen.

Sir?

That was turf protection

you were just watching

in there.

Didn't you spot it?

Organizational arrogance.

"No, we don't want to learn

anything from the CIA.

"We want the CIA

answering to us."

You know what's going on

behind that door?

No, sir.

Analysts looking

for a spy inside the

intelligence community.

Highest clearance.

But there aren't any

CIA officers in there.

You know why?

Because it's a CIA officer

we're trying to build

a case against.

Now, could the mole be

someone from the Bureau

and not the CIA?

Of course.

Are we actively pursuing

that possibility?

Of course not.

'Cause we're the Bureau,

and the Bureau knows all.

Cooperation is

counter-operational.

And that's the mentality.

Of course, the enemies

of this country

aren't so picky.

They'll work with anyone

who shares their hatred of us.

Bureau hasn't learned

that lesson yet.

He keeps some paintings

in a conference room on 8.

I want you to get

one of them for me.

Sir?

It's two men on a boat.

I want it.

What? You mean Agent Garces?

These are his paintings.

Stop thinking

like a clerk.

They're sitting

in storage.

It's two guys on a boat.

BURROUGHS:
Okay.

Where was Hanssen

on March 7, 1991?

The file has him

making a drop at Ellis

at 6:
30 p.m.

He badged in at 8:27 a.m.

Badged out at 12:45.

Badged back in at 1:45,

and badged out again at 5:36.

Okay. Let's take a look

at August 12, 1993.

You know why the Soviet

Empire collapsed?

"Good morning"?

I made a career

studying them.

They were smarter

than us.

More devious,

more determined.

So why did they fail?

Godlessness.

Atheism.

I'm on my way

to morning Mass.

You do remember

what Mass is, yes?

The Jesuits at Gonzaga

taught you that much,

didn't they?

Sir, my grandfather

was a deacon.

Well, congratulations.

Now it's time

to join the varsity.

(PHONE RINGING)

VANNA:

This is Vanna.

BONNIE:

Do you have any pages?

VANNA:

I can't find them many!

BONNIE:

I'm been troubled for once,

don't you?

Bonnie, you got to be

stupid!

I told you you're not in

trouble no more!

Thank God, Vanna!

I gotta go!

Bonnie?

I'm gonna check on Addie.

I saw a woman from

Planned Parenthood

on television this morning.

A lesbian, naturally.

Defending gay marriage.

I almost ripped the cable

out of the wall.

Bet she was

wearing pants, huh?

Will your children

be Jesuit-taught,

as you were?

I don't know yet.

That conversation's

still a few years away.

It shouldn't be.

Sir, I'm GS-11.

We need a second salary

before we can start having...

What is money

compared with

the blessings of family?

Tell me.

My wife was the one...

Good to see you, Bob.

It was my wife

who first brought me here.

Bonnie.

I was a Lutheran when we met,

and not much of one.

She saved my life.

Come.

We attend St. Catherine's

on Sundays.

It's a traditional

Latin service,

then a big

family lunch after.

You think Juliana

might like that?

I don't know. Maybe.

Then let's give it a try.

This weekend.

My Bonnie's been known

to work miracles.

(PAGER BEEPING)

Shut that off.

Sorry.

Was that your wife?

No one else

even has this number.

Well, perhaps

you should give her a call.

It might be important.

No, it's okay.

It can wait.

Well, Juliana, i'm here!

i guess Vivian is laying on the

bed to rest.

Thanks for meeting here, Vanna.

You are welcome.

Unless, i'm okay.

Really, Vivian?

Yes, i'm resting for a while.

Hey.

Sorry, Juliana, i'm resting after my surgery.

That is not it!

I can't believe anybody

that we can't see it going!

VIVIAN:
I told you once, Vanna,

i bumped my head to the wall

after i had a fight

with John few weeks ago.

So, I confronted once to seize

the church before hiring the catholic!

So, is that so?

You say you are embarrasing, Vanna?

No, it isn't!

I cannot afford it to care when i got a

Palm Pilot to show how the thing

makes it up useless!

(SLAPS)

Ah!

BONNIE:
Juliana!

You know..

I am so in fury!

(VANNA SOBBING)

JULIANA:

Are you out of your mind

or something?

(RUNS OFF)

(DOOR SLAMS)

JULIANA:

I do not even know

where the things are.

I don't understand.

BURROUGHS:
You know,

when I page you,

it isn't to discuss

what's on Oprah

It means I need

to speak with you.

Did you pick me

because I was Catholic?

I'm sorry?

Did you think

he would trust me

because I was Catholic?

Jesus, Eric.

We picked you

because of your facility

with computers.

We thought it would

impress him.

Uh-huh.

We also thought

he might like

that 50-page proposal

you've been pushing

all over the Bureau.

I understand

he got his hands

on a copy, right?

So?

You got pages for me?

We're going to be

searching his car.

It'll involve you

keeping him out of the office

for a few hours.

Agent Burroughs, I'm starting

to think I might not be

the right guy for this job.

Oh, yeah?

I'm used to intel cases.

Terrorist cases.

Targets of value.

Nobody ever put me

on a perversion

detail before.

Think we're being

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Adam Mazer

Adam Mazer is an American screenwriter. He is the writer of HBO Film’s biopic, You Don't Know Jack, about the life of assisted-suicide advocate, Jack Kevorkian.Mazer was the co-writer of the 2007 Universal Pictures feature film, Breach, starring Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe and Laura Linney. Directed by Billy Ray, Breach is based on the true story of the FBI’s most notorious spy, Robert Hanssen. Adam and his former partner, Bill Rotko, optioned the rights of the young FBI aide who worked side-by-side with Robert Hanssen and played a vital role in his arrest. The movie was released in February, 2007. He’s recently finished the screenplay, The Sentry Keep; based on the true story of a 1982 New York City armored car company heist, that at the time, was the largest cash heist in U.S. history. Dito Montiel (A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, Fighting) is attached to direct. The movie is being produced by David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman of Mandeville Films. He’s also currently working on a one-hour TV pilot, Contingency, with the television production company, Reveille (The Office, Ugly Betty). Contingency is set in the early 1980s and explores the wild early days of a Personal Injury law firm. Additionally, he wrote the one-hour TV pilot, Ghosts, for the CW Network. The drama deals with the personal and professional lives of young undercover FBI Agents who work in an elite unit called the “Special Surveillances Group”. Prior, Adam sold the family comedy, Big Baby, (co-written with Gregg Lichtenstein) to Warner Brothers with Neal Moritz and Richard Suckle producing, and Raja Gosnell attached to direct. Adam was a founding partner of Point Blank Entertainment where he was an Associate Producer on the outrageous ensemble comedy, Super Troopers. The film was sold at the Sundance Film Festival and released in 2002 by Fox Searchlight. Adam’s other efforts include his screenplay, The Amateur which was set up with the Kennedy-Marshall Company. Based on true events, The Amateur tells the story of 19-year-old golfer Francis Ouimet’s remarkable underdog victory at the 1913 U.S. Open. He also wrote the police corruption drama, Officer Down, the comic book fantasy adventure, The Last Ride of Waterloo Clyde, and Shelter From the Storm – an adaptation of Stephen Miller’s southern mystery novel, A Woman in the Yard. Upon graduating from the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in 1989, Adam moved to Los Angeles and partnered with Bill Rotko (A&E’s recent The Beast) until 2005. They sold their first screenplay, Freeze – a harrowing Antarctic action-adventure – to Columbia Pictures and Mandalay Pictures. more…

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