Duplicity Page #6

- SECURITY:
Glad to hear it;

I'm hoping you could help me out;

I need to take a look at your room keys;

Well, this is interesting;

SECURITY:
Yeah, it is interesting;

A maid just found a whole bunch

of crazy stuff in a couple of rooms upstairs;

So here's what we're going to do;

The drinks are comped;

(CLEARS THROAT)

We're gonna have to take a walk;

And I mean now;

SECURITY:
Hey, hey, hey; Get him!

FETYOV:
Get off of me;

(GLASS BREAKING)

This is so heavy;

Who do you think he is?

It's gotta be this thing;

This new thing, right?

Makes sense;

What else could it be?

(EXHALES DEEPLY)

- Hey, I was getting worried;

- I got off the plane,

- I thought for a minute I was being tailed;

- By who?

I don't know;

I was probably just being paranoid;

Well, that's crazy; Nobody knows we're here;

I know; I know, but I didn't know

what else to do; I had to run it out;

I've been driving in circles for two hours;

I just; ; ; I didn't know what else to do;

I wanted to call, and I just thought, "My God,

we've got everything on the line here;"

I didn't want to start off sloppy;

- God, you smell good;

- Please, I smell like a rental car;

Wow; This is amazing;

- I upgraded;

- This is more than an upgrade;

We're celebrating; I've got some good news;

Well, actually, it's more than good news;

- I nailed it;

- Nailed what?

We're in; I got it; The answer; The key;

The master plan; I nailed it!

You're kidding;

- Come here; Sit down; Just sit down;

- Okay;

How much money do you think was spent

on frozen pizza last year?

- What?

- Frozen pizza; How big is the market?

$1 billion; One billion; That's just the pizza;

I'm not talking enchiladas, blintzes,

macaroni and cheese;

Just pizza; Master plan, right?

Objective one, huge market; Got it;

Objective two, conflict, right?

Find a market where the competitors

hate each other so much,

they'll do anything to win;

We get involved, we lead the charge;

When the price is right, we ditch;

All we gotta do is find an angle;

Maybe we flip sides,

maybe we shop the intel,

buy stock, sell it, whatever;

There's a hundred ways to go;

There's this company

called Butter Mills, okay;

Now, about two months ago,

the CEO, Mr; Butter Mills, sitting at home,

watching TV with his granddaughter;

There's this ad

comes on in the morning cartoons

for something called Double Crust Pizza;

This guy's been working on

double-crust pizza for five years,

got $50 million invested,

major new product for him;

Trouble is, he hasn't rolled it out yet;

The ad he's watching

is for Flakey Fresh Double Crust;

They stole his concept, his formula,

his packaging and his ad campaign;

So Mr; Butter Mills is out for blood;

They're taking off the gloves;

They're bringing out the check book;

Here's the best part; ; ;

Guess who they like

for Director of Intel Operations?

I took a job yesterday;

- What?

- That's why I was paranoid;

What do you mean, you took a job?

It's not like I could call and tell you;

I don't believe this;

What happened to doing it together?

- Well, it was just too good; ; ;

- No, we had a plan;

You know, we agreed;

We said we'd go over everything;

We go over it; We do it together;

We said nobody moves alone;

- Ray, please;

- Well, can you get out of it?

Well, of course you can;

You haven't even started yet; Claire; ; ;

Claire, look, I know that we said

that we're gonna go out there,

get two jobs

and see which one comes up best,

but with this, the pizza,

I mean, we can push up the whole timetable;

It's perfect;

And we can be together;

Look, I take the job,

you start working out the exit strategy;

You know, you build up our ID, you set up

the banks, offshore trading accounts;

Whatever we need, you get it

up and running and then I bring you in, see;

I'm gonna need to staff up;

You'll apply, we'll meet;

We'll like each other, hate each other,

whatever works best;

Who'd you take the job with?

Equikrom;

- Local?

- New York;

It's two jobs actually;

Equikrom wants to hire me under the table,

and then get me a job

on the counterintelligence desk

for Burkett% Randle;

They want you to be a mole?

Equikrom?

In New York?

Where's the pizza thing?

Cleveland;

You said they offered you the job;

Of course they did; They love me;

- You took it on the spot;

- What, like you?

Nothing was formalized;

CLAIRE:
Look, seriously,

I don't have to take it;

Oh, yeah, that makes sense;

CLAIRE:
How are we ever

gonna see each other?

RAY:
Very, very carefully;

CLAIRE:
This is what we wanted, right?

RAY:
I think so;

CLAIRE:
Come here;

Ms; Stenwick?

HOWARD:
Someone made fire;

Someone was first;

I don't mean the idiot who found

a burning stick and kept it going;

I mean the fellow who could make fire;

And until that knowledge was stolen,

that fellow was the most powerful person

on the planet;

And it means something to be first;

To be most;

It means a great deal;

It means you have an opportunity

to reproduce with the highest frequency

and with the most desirable partners;

It means your offspring

have the greatest chance of survival

and a better opportunity

to make their own fire;

I personally believe that human evolution

has run its course;

We live in a world where the people

who can make fire

have a tendency to wear condoms,

sit in casinos

and drink themselves into a stupor;

I believe that individual evolution

has been replaced by something else;

By a shared evolution;

A communal contest, if you will;

I believe, Ms; Stenwick,

in corporate evolution;

I believe that the corporation that is first,

that is the most,

has an opportunity to manufacture

with the highest frequency

and in the most desirable markets,

and that its shareholders, by extension,

have the greatest chance of survival

and reinvestment;

I don't imagine you're quite aware

of the service

you and Mr; Bauer

provided this corporation last night;

We were just doing our job, sir;

Mr; Partiz may appear a fool,

(LAUGHING)

But he is anything but;

He has given Burkett% Randle a gift

that will change our business,

our lives, forever;

So the question, Ms; Stenwick,

is whether you can continue to do the job

we so desperately need you to do

without knowing the stakes involved;

Can you really do your job without knowing

what it is that you're protecting?

What I need to know is,

can I share my fire with you?

DUKE:
Little trouble out there

in the field, Ray?

RAY:
What do you mean?

DUKE:
Well, I just got

a back channel message from Claire,

she wants to meet Garsik;

RAY:
That's a terrible idea;

DUKE:
Yeah, that's what I told him;

But now he wants direct contact;

RAY:
Forget it;

- It's his dime;

- Yeah, and she's my agent;

I told you when I came on board;

Once she's mine, I run her my way;

Yeah, well the question's been raised, Ray,

is it just her you're running?

You'd better explain that to me;

RAY O VER PHONE; American Consulate,

Dubai, you and me, Fourth of July, 2003;

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