Bridge of Spies

& Abel: Visitors.

& James B. Donovan: Great. Everyone will hate me but at least I’ll lose.

& James B. Donovan: You don’t seem alarmed.
    Abel: Would it help?

& James B. Donovan: You’re Agent Hoffman, yeah?
    Hoffman: Yeah.
    James B. Donovan: German extraction.
    Hoffman: Yeah, so?
    James B. Donovan: My name’s Donovan. Irish. Both sides, mother and father. I’m Irish, you’re German. But what makes us both Americans? Just one thing. One, one, one. The rule book. We call it the Constitution and we agree to the rules, and that’s what makes us Americans. It’s all that makes us Americans. So don’t tell me there’s no rule book, and don’t nod at me like that, you son of a bitch.

& James B. Donovan: Do you never worry?
    Abel: Would it help?

& Agent Williams: What you know about the plane is as secret as the plane itself. If capture is a foregone conclusion, you go down with your plane.

& Agent Williams: If you ditch, you bring the dollar with you... All right, there’s a pin inside. You scratch your skin anywhere, it’s instantaneous. If you think you are about to be captured, you use it. Drivers, you understand me? Spend the dollar.

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& James B. Donovan: Yeah, yeah, yeah. What’s the next move when you don’t know what the game is?

& James B. Donovan: I’ve got no client, no wife, no country. Don’t know what I’m doing or when or who for.
    Allen Dulles: You’re doing it for your country, but your country doesn’t know that yet.

& James B. Donovan: Is there any outcome here where I’m not either detained or shot?

& Vogel: I’ve heard of Pryor, but he’s held by the German Democratic Republic, not by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
    James B. Donovan: Well, I’ll tell you the first problem. The names of your countries are too long.

& James B. Donovan: You don’t even like Powers. Everybody hates Powers. He didn’t kill himself and he let the commies parade him on television. He’s the most hated man in America. After Rudolf Abel, maybe. And me.

& Vogel: You treat us as stooges for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
    James B. Donovan: Can we just call them the Russians? It’ll save time.

& James B. Donovan: What do you think will happen when you get home?
    Abel: Uh, I think... I’ll have a vodka.

& James B. Donovan: But, Rudolf, is there not the possibility...
    Abel: That my people are going to shoot me?
    James B. Donovan: Yes. You’re not worried?
    Abel: Would it help?

& Abel: I acted honorably. I think they know that. But sometimes people think wrong. People are people. Let’s see how they greet me.
    James B. Donovan: What can I look for?
    Abel: If I’m embraced or just shown the back seat.

& Francis Gary Powers: I gave them nothing. I gave them nothing.
    James B. Donovan: It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter what people think. You know what you did.

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