Three Days Of The Condor Page #5

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- No, interviewed in Korea.

You served with

Colonel Donovan in the OSS?

I sailed the Adriatic

with a movie star at the helm.

It doesn't seem like

much of a war now, but it was.

I go even further back than that.

Ten years after the Great War,

as we used to call it

before we knew enough to number them.

Do you miss that kind of action?

- No.

I miss that kind of clarity.

Yes?

Thank you.

He's being held at New York Center.

Mr. Higgins, you do understand

the Company's position?

There's nothing in the way

of your doing this, is there?

What is this? What's going on?

Who are you?

What are you doing here?

I'm Condor.

Sit down.

What do you do for a living?

Don't be ridiculous.

What do you do...

...exactly?

Deputy Director of Operations.

What section?

- Middle East.

What are you working on?

What are you doing?

What's the secret worth murdering

everybody at the A.L.H.S.?

There's no secret.

- Wicks showed you my report.

Yes.

It was your network I turned up.

Doing what?

What does Operations care about

a bunch of books, a book in Dutch?

A book out of Venezuela...

Mystery stories in Arabic.

What is so important about...

...oil fields?

Oil...

That's it, isn't it?

This whole damn thing was about oil!

Wasn't it?

Yes, it was.

Don't turn around.

Put your thumb on the hammer.

Release it slowly.

Set down the gun on the desk.

Don't move.

You were quite good, until this.

This move was predictable.

What?

Did you touch anything else?

You're working for the Company again!

The desk? The lamp?

Jesus, they took you back!

Just for this. For Atwood.

He's with the Company! Why...?

I'm not interested in "why", more in

"when", sometimes "where".

Always "how much".

I suspect

he was becoming an embarassment.

As you are.

So you're not finished?

- Pardon?

Oh, no, I had no arrangement

with the Company concerning you.

They didn't know you would be here.

I knew you would.

Didn't you send the mailman?

That was a business

arrangement with Atwood.

But you see...

Come on.

Tell me about the girl.

What about the girl?

She was chosen... how?

By age? Her car? Appearance?

- At random.

Chance.

- Really...?

Can I drop you?

I'd like to go back to New York.

You have not much future there.

It will happen this way:

You may be walking,

maybe the first sunny day of spring.

And a car will slow beside you,

and a door will open

and someone you know, even trust,

will get out.

And he will smile. A becoming smile.

But he will leave open the car door

and offer to give you a lift.

You seem to understand it all so well.

What would you suggest?

Personally, I'd prefer Europe.

- Europe? - Yes.

The fact is,

what I do is not a bad occupation.

Someone is always willing to pay.

I would find it...

...tiring. - Oh, no, it's

quite restful. It's almost peaceful.

No need to believe in either side,

or any side.

There is no cause.

There's only yourself.

The belief is in your own precision.

I was born in the US, Joubert.

I miss it when I'm away too long.

A pity.

I don't think so.

Can you drop me at the station?

It would be my pleasure.

For that day.

Higgins!

Why do call so late?

We were worried. - Likewise.

Is the car for me? - Yeah, it's safe.

You have a few hours of debriefing.

Let's say for the purposes of

argument, I had a.45 in my pocket,

you'd take a walk with me, right?

Which way?

West. Slowly.

Stay in front of me 3 or 4 steps.

Where are we going?

Wave them on ahead.

Do we have plans

to invade the Middle East?

Are you crazy?

- Am I?

Do we have plans?

- No, absolutely not.

We have games. That's all.

We play games. What if?

How many men? What would it take?

How can we destabilize a regime?

That's what we're paid to do.

- Walk on.

Go on.

So Atwood just took the games too

seriously. He was really gonna do it.

Renegade operation. There was no way.

Not with the heat on the Company.

What if there hadn't been any heat?

What if I hadn't stumbled on the plan?

Different ball game.

There was nothing wrong with the plan.

The plan was alright.

The plan would've worked.

What is it with you people?

You think not getting caught lying

is the same as telling the truth?

No. It's simple economics.

Today, its oil.

In 10 or 15 years it'll be food,

plutonium. Maybe even sooner.

What do you think the people

will want us to do then?

Ask them.

- Not now, then.

Ask them when they're running out.

Ask them when there's no heating.

When their engines stop.

When people who've never

known hunger go hungry.

They won't want us to ask them,

they'll just want us to get it.

Boy...

...have you found a home!

- The Company didn't order it!

Atwood did.

And who is Atwood?

He's all you guys.

And you play f***ing games!

Right.

And the other side does too.

That's why we can't

let you stay outside.

Go on home.

Go on. They've got it.

Just look around.

That's where they ship from.

They've got all of it.

What did you do?

I told them a story.

You play games. I told them a story.

Oh, you poor dumb son of a b*tch!

You've done more damage than you know.

I hope so.

You'll be a very lonely man.

It didn't have to end this way.

- If course it did.

How do you know they'll print it?

You can take a walk

but how far if they don't print it?

They'll print it.

How do you know?

Susan Bahren

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