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I’m not paid for that.

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Well, when I find out who it was, I’m gonna pay him back in spades.

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Go ahead and shoot, dammit.

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What did happen to you that day? Only one agent reacted to the gunfire, and you were closer to Kennedy than he was. You must have looked up at the window of the Texas Book Depository, but you didn’t react. Late at night, when the demons come, do you see the rifle coming out of that window, or do you see Kennedy’s head being blown apart? If you’d reacted to that first shot, could you have gotten there in time to stop the big bullet? And if you had – that could’ve been your head being blown apart. Do you wish you’d succeeded, Frank? Or is life too precious?

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Sorry. What were to happen if I, uh, gave up my job for you?

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Because Booth had flair, panache – a leap to the stage after he shot Lincoln.

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I told you to get into shape.

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You did, or you’re not the adversary I’d hoped for.

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I’m glad, Frank. Friends should be able to call each other by name.

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Maybe you were different.

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Do you want to save me, Frank?

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Okay, who’s the joker?

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What do you know about the guy?

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It’s a gift. Let’s face it, half the things we do are window dressing. Take running alongside that limousine: it’d take an anti-tank missile to put a dent in that damn thing. There we are, out for show, trying to make the President look more presidential.

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Just one thing: aim high.

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So pop him, show me I’m an asshole.

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To assassinate the president.

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You slit your friend’s throat.

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The President was humiliated.

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I want you to thank me first, Frank.

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Oh, I’d love to, but I think the less you know about me the better.

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Well, time flies when you’re being annoyed.

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I was worried about you with the motorcade today. You looked like you were going to faint. You really should get into shape for that type of job.

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Well, if none of this means anything…why kill the President?

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Huh – not to be recognized in this lifetime.

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Well, maybe I vowed to never again let my career come between me and a woman.

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It may not have been a joke, you were looking kind of peaked out there.

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Leary, don’t FUCKING move!

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They made you into a real monster, right?

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I’m just a business man.

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You’re gonna shoot me Frank after I saved your life? The only way to save the president is to shoot me. Are you willing to trade your life for his or is life too precious?

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Window dressing. About 125 out of a little over 2,000. They have you all around so that the President can look good to his feminist voters.

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I saw a picture of, uh, your friend lying on the floor with his throat cut.

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But he left you because you wouldn’t quit your job. You were broken-hearted.

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Shooters, stand by to fire. Wait for my command.

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Frank, blow your nose. Here.

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Because I’m planning to kill the President.

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Lilly’s an agent, Frank.

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Have you gotten to know them yet?

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Nicely put, Frank, but I don’t want to leave this miserable world alone.

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How do you know?

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Well, that’s the least he could do.

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You’re also maybe a genius.

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I saw the photos.

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Leary’s what we’d call a Wetboy.

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Heh, now why didn’t I think of that?

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I know who you are – Leary.

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I know things about pigeons, Lilly.

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Do you believe in the nobility of suicide?

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Well, d’you see this wheelchair? Mitch bought it for me. Cost over $1,000. See this?

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You’re looking at a living legend, Lilly. The only active agent who ever lost a president.

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Shit, that’s light! What’s it made of?

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What are you looking at?

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There’s no fuckin’ irony, Mitch.

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How do you know? This is the longest conversation we’ve ever had.

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Now, that’s not true. His chief of staff, though, that was a different story. I remember one time, he wanted me to go out and get rid of some anti-war protestors. I said no, talking about the Bill of Rights and so on. And he says, look when I’m talking to you I am the President. I said The President? That’s funny you look more like a sack of shit in a cheap suit to me sir!

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You vowed never again to ever let a man come between you and your career.

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I’ve seen what you do to friends.

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Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, Frank, thank God. Thank God. I’m dead. I’m dead. I’m dead. I’m dead.

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Good, I love public transportation.

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Sleep well, my friend.

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Take my hand, Frank. Take it, if you don’t you’ll die.

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Frank, The President sent his limo for you.

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This a just a big joke to you, Horrigan?

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That was different. He was different.

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In his case, that’s putting it too gently. He’s more like a predator.

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Except…now you’re in love with me, and it screws your little head up.

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Well, because I hate desk work and I’m too old to go running along the limousines, and thanks to you people plastering my picture up everywhere I’m no good for undercover work.

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You know, for years now I’ve listened to all these idiots on barstools, with their pet theories on Dallas. How it was the Cubans, or the CIA, or the white supremacists, or the Mob. About whether there was one weapon, or whether there was five. None of that’s meant much to me. But Leary…he questioned whether I had the guts to take that fatal bullet.

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He’s alive, isn’t he?

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I dunno…but the phone number’s U-K-E-L-E-L-E.

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And the field agents get older and older.

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Frank, you of all people, I want you to understand because we both USED to think this country was a very special place…

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No, YOU’RE a joke to me, Harry! You have no idea what we do around here!

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How’s the First Lady? She ask about me?

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Uh, the address? Come on, Frank. I’ll keep you in the game, but I’m not going to throw it for you.

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So you had an affair with an agent, and it came out badly.

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He wasn’t an agent.

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Do you know how easily I could kill you, Frank? Do you know how many times I watched you go in and out of that apartment? You are still alive because I have allowed you to live so you show me some GODDAMN RESPECT!

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Forget it, Frank. I am willing to trade my life for his. I am smart, and I am willing, and that is all it takes. That president is coming home from California in a box.

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I mean it all right. John F. Kennedy said all someone needs is a willingness to trade his life for the President’s, right?

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Just how does it work?

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Why not call me Booth?

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Was that you shooting?

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That is great! That is really really great! You wouldn’t want to sell it would you?

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Now what do you want to do that for, mister?

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You talked to Coppinger, Frank?

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Really? I had to look it up.

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What makes you think it was a him?

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Trying to trace me, Frank?

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No, I’m not okay. I’m sick, I’m tired, and I’m armed too, so be careful.

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Well, Abe? Damn…wish I could have been there for you, pal.

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Oh, now you shouldn’t have gone and said that. It’s a federal offense to threaten the President. You could go to jail, even if you don’t mean it.

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The clock’s ticking, Frank.

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No, I need it.

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I’ve never worked with a female agent before. How many are there?

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Well, I normally prefer not to get to know the people I’m protecting.

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That’s how I remember it, you know, 7 numbers, 7 letters? You just push U-K-E-L-E-L-E. Easy.

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Why’d you kill that bird, asshole?

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Shut up and shoot.

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Did you delouse? The man’s a professional liar.

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Mm, I know what it means.

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Look, you came to me remember?

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I’ll bet you that brown pigeon down there flies off before the white one.

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Make sure the body doesn’t wash up on shore.

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No, you saw what he wanted you to see, Frank.

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Mm. Pure window dressing.

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What do you think I ought to do here, Frank?

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Yeah, well, we’re here to safeguard his dignity as well.

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This is in case he ever comes back.

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Now, why would a man like you want to risk his life to kill a man like that?

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I was just wondering where you hide your firearm. Don’t tell me, let me guess.

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Oh, yeah? Why’s that?

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No. But if you wanna blow your goddamn head off, go ahead, be my guest.

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I knew that. I just wanted to see if she had a sense of humor.

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Uh, wait a minute, isn’t ukulele spelled U-K-U-?

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I left him, Frank, because I wouldn’t quit my job for him. And it did break my heart.

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Whoa, whoa, take it easy now…

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I want you to pop him for me, ok? See I think maybe you’re with him.

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I know things about people.

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You don’t know what I used to think!

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Yeah, it means flamboyance.

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I don’t put a lot of stock in them.

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Take my hand. If you don’t, you’ll die.

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I heard you and Nixon didn’t get along.

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What makes you think he’ll call again?

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Hello, Frank. By the time you hear this, it’ll be over. The President is most likely dead, and so am I. I wonder, Frank, did you kill me? Who won our game? Not that it really matters, for among friends like you and me, it’s not whether you win or lose but how you play the game, and now the game is done and it’s time to get on with your life. But I worry, Frank, that you have no life to get on with. You’re a good man, and good men like you and me are destined to walk a lonely road. Goodbye, and good luck.

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Why would you do that?

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There’s no cause left worth fighting for, Frank. All we have is the game. I’m on offense, you’re on defense.

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Well, when do we start playing the game?

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What about the time Kennedy’s girlfriend was caught in the White House and you said she was with you?

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You’re a good man, Al. You’ll make a good agent.

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Frank, Wilder told me the whole story. About how you were suspended a month without pay. I’d say that was safeguarding his dignity.

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Why are you retiring from the Secret Service?

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By God, if you call me Harry once more, you’ll be busting counterfeiters in Alaska!

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Leary’s an assassin.

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So pop him. And let’s do some business.

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Well, the secretaries get prettier and prettier.

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I think you broke my damn ribs.

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That’s not going to happen. I’m onto you.

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If she looks back, it means she’s interested. Come on, give me a look back now. Just give me that smug expression and be on your way.

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You shouldn’t have been from Minneapolis.

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That’s a cool gun you got there. Could I see it?

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They can’t see inside. If they fire, you’ll be hit.

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Mind if I give it a little dance?

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Don’t you have a psychological profile on me yet?

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Why don’t we get together and have a drink? We could talk about that.

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Watching the President, I – I couldn’t help wondering why a man like you would risk his life to save a man like that. You have such a strange job – I can’t decide if it’s heroic or absurd.

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What’s that supposed to mean?

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Well, I like the sir. It’s a classy touch.

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The number of that San Diego office?

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Do you have what it takes to take a bullet, or is life too precious?

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Don’t you go believing every rumor someone tells you.

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Sorry, I wasn’t aiming at you.

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I don’t know, maybe I’m…maybe I’m just wrong for the job.

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I was different. The whole damn country was different. Everything would be different right now too if I’d been half as a paranoid as I am today. Fuck.

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What you didn’t see, Frank, what you couldn’t possibly know, is: they sent my best friend – my comrade in arms – to my home to kill me!

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What to do you see when you’re in the dark, and the demons come?

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I see you, Frank. I see you standing over the grave of another dead president.

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Oh, but you know about me? Do you have any idea what I’ve done for God and country? Some pretty FUCKING HORRIBLE things! I don’t even remember who I was before they sunk their claws into me!

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That’s right and now they want to destroy me because we can’t have monsters roaming the quiet countryside, now can we?

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Well I’ll be thinkin’ about that when I’m pissin’ on your grave.

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The world can be a cruel place to an honest man, Frank.

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I have a rendezvous with death, and so does the President, and so do you if you get too close.

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You have a rendezvous with my ass, motherfucker!

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What’s kept you in the game all these years?

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Oh, he’ll call again. He’s got, uh, panache.

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Do you make an effort to be obnoxious, or is it a gift?

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Well, you never know. You might decide they’re not worth taking a bullet for.

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To be frank and honest with you, no. But it’s my job.

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Nor do I. A man’s actions don’t equal the sum of his psychological parts. Doesn’t work that way.

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It doesn’t work, Frank. God doesn’t punish the wicked and reward the righteous. Everyone dies. Some die because they deserve to; others die simply because they come from Minneapolis. It’s random and it’s meaningless.

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To punctuate the dreariness.

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The irony is so thick you could choke on it.

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Think, Frank. Think. The same government that trained me to kill trained you to protect. Yet now you want to kill me while up on that roof I protected you. They’re gonna write books about us, Frank.

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