The Recruit Page #7

Synopsis: In an era when the country's first line of defense, intelligence, is more important than ever, this story opens the CIA's infamous closed doors and gives an insider's view into the Agency: how trainees are recruited, how they are prepared for the spy game, and what they learn to survive. James Clayton might not have the attitude of a typical recruit, but he is one of the smartest graduating seniors in the country - and he's just the person that Walter Burke wants in the Agency. James regards the CIA's mission as an intriguing alternative to an ordinary life, but before he becomes an Ops Officer, James has to survive the Agency's secret training ground, where green recruits are molded into seasoned veterans. As Burke teaches him the ropes and the rules of the game, James quickly rises through the ranks and falls for Layla, one of his fellow recruits. But just when James starts to question his role and his cat-and-mouse relationship with his mentor, Burke taps him for a special assignmen
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery
Director(s): Roger Donaldson
Production: Touchstone Pictures
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Metacritic:
56
Rotten Tomatoes:
43%
PG-13
Year:
2003
115 min
$52,724,557
Website
1,207 Views


"What am I to do?

"l do not believe in God

anymore.

What am I to do?"

You know what the pope said?

"Fake it."

I couldn't...fake it...

anymore.

So now I'm gone.

You get it?

And so are you if you don't

give me the computer.

Now. Now!

All right!

You want your computer?

It's over there

behind my coat,

under the stairs.

It's all yours. Take it.

Showtime. Went to Langley.

It's all over.

They've heard it all, Burke.

MAN:
Freeze!

Hold it there!

Well...

will you look at this?

in the spotlight, right?

What do you know?

What do we do now?

Come get my gun...

or you just want to hang me?

Hang the traitor.

You ready for that, Slayne?

Oh, I hear you.

"Why'd you sell us out, Burke?"

I sold you out.

No way!

Jesus Christ.

Sell you out?

Did I do my job?

I ask you -- you do your job?

I hand you the target.

I tell you who and where.

What do you do?

All you got to do is act.

What do you do?

Do you do your job? No!

I'm obsolete!

I'm irrelevant!

Me! Shame on you!

You yanked me home!

You shoved me out in the woods!

-Some lvy League prick...

-Jesus Christ.

who's afraid of having dinner

in D.C...

The target is Burke.

...because of street crime

is judging my worth,

shoving me in the f***ing...

Put it down, Walter.

They came for you.

Yeah.

The line to the ClA

was a fake.

You never told 'em.

No.

You did.

Nothing is what it seems.

God damn it, Walter.

You got me.

Hand in the cookie jar.

You got to give me one thing.

I'm a scary judge of talent.

Here goes nothing.

-No.

-Bye-bye.

-No!

No!

All right.

Clayton, you ride with me.

We're gonna need to

debrief you at Langley.

James?

SLAYNE:
Let's go, Clayton.

You all right, Clayton?

Yeah.

Forgot to turn

your cellphone off.

That's how we tracked you --

your cellphone.

I didn't forget.

I knew she'd do her job.

Well, I'll remember to team

you two up together next time.

Next time?

You were born to do this, James.

It's in your blood.

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