Breach Page #7

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


Would you like to

hear some music, sir?

Yes, I'm in the mood

for some Andrews Sisters.

They got any in here?

Not to my knowledge, sir.

I didn't think so.

That's good.

You've got until 5:00.

AGENT:
Yes, sir.

Clear.

Jesus.

This guy could park

at the bottom of the Potomac

and come out firing.

MAN:
Yes, sir.

He just arrived.

Oh, I see.

Yes, sir, I understand.

Absolutely.

Yes, sir.

I've got some bad news,

Agent Hanssen.

We're gonna have to

cut this meeting short.

I don't understand.

That was my superior.

He's called me into

an emergency meeting.

I'm sorry.

Does he know that I'm here?

Yes, sir.

Does he know who I am?

I made that clear

to him, sir, yes.

He wants me to reschedule

at your convenience.

No, thanks.

Sir?

This visit

was a courtesy.

Let's go.

Maybe there's somebody else

who can show us around.

Get the car.

Boss, I'm sorry.

I was doing you a favor

bringing you along.

I know I spoke out of turn.

When somebody takes

a sh*t on you,

you don't reschedule.

He wasn't called in

to any meeting.

It's a power play.

I didn't see it

that way.

Well, that's why

you're still a clerk.

(ANNOYED)

What's he looking for?

(TRUNK DOOR SLAMS)

GUARD:
Okay.

(SIGHING)

Just take me back

to the office.

(PHONE RINGING)

Plesac

They're on their way back.

Uh-huh.

The meeting

only took 20 minutes.

They're on Wilson Boulevard,

heading back.

Sew it up.

Sir?

We're aborting. Sew it up.

How about that?

The Parkway's wide open.

I hate the Parkway.

Take E Street.

There's construction

on E Street. I heard that

on the radio this morning.

So take Constitution.

Sir, I'm SSG.

We tail people for a living.

The Parkway's faster.

Is that a fact?

MAN:
Let's go, let's go.

I just paged him.

Where are we?

I'm not sure yet.

Maybe screwed.

(HORNS BLARING)

Lmbecile.

I'm sorry.

Idiot.

I'm sorry.

Is this

what they teach you

in ghosting school?

No wonder the Bureau

can never find anyone.

(HONKING)

Hey, just relax.

Don't tell me to relax.

What are you doing?

I can sit here

for an hour.

Or I can walk two blocks,

get on the other side of

this bottleneck by myself,

and take a five-minute

cab ride back to the office.

Now, which do you think

would better serve

the needs of the Bureau?

It's just traffic.

Hello, Hanssen's on foot.

PLESAC:
Good God

I put him back at the office

in 10 minutes, best case.

Your boy's killing us.

He'll be fine.

Boss. You gotta get

back in the truck, sir.

Haven't you made

enough mistakes

for one day, Eric?

Now you want to throw in

a traffic violation?

Sir, you have to

get back in the truck.

Well, why should I?

Look, don't kill me, okay?

I did something stupid.

What a shock.

I lied to you, sir.

There isn't any construction

on E Street. I made that up.

What would you

do that for?

Because I need your help.

And I was afraid

to ask if we could

make an extra stop.

I wanted to go back

to the reading room, sir.

The Catholic

Information Center.

I sort of have to.

Why?

It's Juliana.

We've been fighting

all week.

About what?

To be honest, sir,

your church.

She didn't like it, boss.

She didn't get it.

So I wanted to go back

to the reading room.

I thought

there might be some books

I could get for her,

to help her

see things better.

I figured if we were

driving right past,

you might wanna pull in.

It was stupid,

I know.

But there it is.

You swear to God.

Excuse me?

Swear to God

that everything

you just told me is true.

No.

I'm not gonna do that.

I wouldn't lie

about my wife,

or the church.

If you don't know that

by now,

then I sure as hell wouldn't

take the Lord's name in vain

just to prove it to you.

You know something, sir?

You do test people too much.

And I've had it.

I was asking for your help.

Have a nice walk, sir.

I'll see you

back at the office.

(CAR HORN HONKING)

Maybe...

Maybe

I overstepped.

(CELL PHONE RINGING)

Yeah?

O'Neill just

talked him back in.

How'd he manage that?

Hard to say

From here it looks

like he may have

proposed marriage.

He talked him

back in the car.

(SIGHS)

This needs to be mailed.

You're not

coming in, sir?

I don't have to

account to you, do I?

No, sir.

(DOOR SLAMS)

(FOOTSTEPS FADING)

(KETTLE WHISTLING)

(WOMAN MOANING)

(COUPLE PANTING)

(DOOR OPENS)

Hey.

Hi.

What are you watching?

Nothing.

Just a training tape

on surveillance.

Hanssen wanted me to make sure

the transfer was okay.

Oh.

Would you mind getting

the rest of the groceries

for me, honey?

Just a few more bags

in the car.

How was school?

It was fine. I'm just tired.

Jule.

A training tape

on surveillance?

This is not

what it looks like.

What it looks like

is he's making

pornos of Bonnie,

except she doesn't

know about it.

Everybody told me,

when you marry the Bureau,

things get weird. The cases.

But they never told me

about this.

This has nothing

to do with a case.

Oh.

So you weren't just

steaming open his mail?

He gave it to you?

I gotta go.

Do you trust me?

(SIGHS)

Yes.

'Cause I think you've got

this idea somehow

that telling me

the truth about him

would mean

you were betraying

your country or something.

It wouldn't.

It's okay.

He's a creep.

I knew that already.

It's just...

He's been in our home.

We keep fighting about him.

I'd just like to know

what this is.

Can't you tell me?

Please?

I don't know

when I'll be back.

(DOOR CLOSING)

Juliana, are you okay?

I'm have gone into

a videotape fight with Eric.

Don't worry, Juliana,

everything's gonna be okay.

No! It's not okay, Vanna.

First of all,

i can't stand you.

So, where have you been, Jule?

Nothing, I have been

successed to Bonnie.

Is that right, Jule?

Nope, you didn't success

her anymore.

We can't be close to me.

Maybe i can.

I do.

No, it is not.

Yes, it is.

Let's start talking right now, Vanna, okay?

That's right.

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

I think my wife

just read herself

into the case.

That was a colossally

stupid thing to do!

You could jeopardize

this entire investigation!

Are you an idiot?

You know,

you're as much to blame

for this as anybody.

I'm telling

so many lies now,

I can't keep 'em

straight anymore.

You want to make

things easier?

The next time Hanssen

gives you a package,

and he tells you

to mail it,

you mail it.

That package was re-sealed

as you found it, right?

Yes.

There's no trace that

it had ever been opened?

Nothing that would

ever arouse suspicion

on the other end?

No, I posted it

from the Bureau

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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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