Le Bureau des Légendes #5.10

Nadia: When you're released, will we live together?
Malotru: Would you want to?
Nadia: I would. Even if it scares me a bit.
Malotru: Just a bit?

Nadia: Without terrorist attacks, bombs... snipers, hostages... How will we manage, Guillaume?
Malotru: Like everyone else. Like normal people.
Nadia: "Normal" as in "ordinary"? We'll have a lot to learn, and it won't always be glamourous. Like waking up every day next to each other. Putting up with each other's moods and habits. Remembering what hurts the other, or makes them sad. Remembering birthdays... And at the end of each God-given day, we can't forget to look at each other as we undress, to get into bed together.

Malotru: We live with our enemies. We spend time with them. We even like them. That's what our job is. I've been doing this forever. At first, it's exciting. You feel powerful, in control, smart, on an adrenaline high... But befriending bastards turns you into one yourself.
Camille: You think you're a bastard?
Malotru: I destroyed a man's life.
Camille: Did you betray him?
Malotru: Yes. That's not the problem.
Camille: What is, then?
Malotru: Fear. When you destroy a man's life, what usually follows? He gets revenge. Usually. That's what I'd do.

Jonas: When an undercover sleeps with someone, can't they still have feelings?
Marina: Sure... They can. In fact, it's better if they do. If not, there's no sex.
Jonas: Did you ever have any?
Marina: ...... Yes, I did. And I really hurt that person.

Camille: Your conviction that Kennedy's death puts you in danger again...
Malotru: There is some logic to this. Isn't that what logic does? Create certainty?
Camille: No, that would be fantasy. It's a defense mechanism. You've replaced an uncontrollable, unclear fear with one you're more familiar with. A fear you can identify. Kennedy. It's easier than focusing on what awaits you. A life with no legend. A simple life, one where you use your real name. I understand how scary that must seem.
Malotru: That's what Nadia says, too.
Camille: Really? Then it must be a conspiracy... of well-wishers.

Marie-Jeanne: It looks like this beauty contest is between you and me now.
Benjamin: They should end the suspense and just flip a coin. With a little bonus for gender parity perhaps.
Marie-Jeanne: You think there's a quota policy? Ouch, my ego.
Benjamin: It's a sign of the times. Even in here.

Michel: Your mission statement is very clear. But strangely, one aspect is missing. You didn't mention the Bureau. What do you intend to do with it?
Marie-Jeanne: You want the long or the short answer?
Michel: Short, if you don't mind.
Marie-Jeanne: It should be dissolved.
Michel: In that case, give me the long version.

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Le Bureau des Légendes #5.9

Malotru: Freud? Lacan? Jung?
Camille: My training was Lacanian. But I've moved on.
Malotru: I've never seen such an athletic therapist.
Camille: I was athletic before I was a therapist.
Malotru: They sent you here to watch me?
Camille: No, to help you. Are you surprised they're concernedabout your mental state? If they'd have asked,you'd have refused. If I'd introduced myself as "Camille the shrink", you have kicked me out.
Malotru: True...
Camille: This way, things developed organically.We got to know each other.
Malotru: I still had to search your things...
Camille: It wasn't exactly hard. But I wasn't about to draw arrows on the walls. Does this mean we're done wrestling?
Malotru: No. It's about to get more interesting.

Gaingouin: Gentlemen, it's time. We need to choose candidates to run Intelligence, replacing Michel, who is leaving us to go trout-fishing in Normandy. This time, I only want two names. I'll pick one and submit my choice to the President. The Defense Minister will pick the other candidate. It's just like the Miss France pageant. Last time, we won. So, this time, we're not the favorites.

Gaingouin: So, what do I want from you?
— To tear each other apart.
Gaingouin: Exactly. Pick who you like and blast them. Skin them alive. Demolish them bit by bit. If they survive, they're a good candidate.

Gaingouin: As you now, a good candidate is skilled in all areas. Cybersecurity, fieldwork... geopolitics, strategy and management. Good with people. A model of resistance to stress. Someone who says "no" to his men and his bosses.

Gaingouin: Marie-Jeanne? You haven't said much.
Marie-Jeanne: No, I haven't.
Gaingouin: You have a name?
Marie-Jeanne: Sorry, I can't be part of this...
Bertrand: What is she doing?
Michel: She wants to be a candidate.

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Le Bureau des Légendes #5.8

JJA: Do you know of any mission involving Guillaume Debailly that failed?
Sylvain: No.

Sisteron: You're leaving?
JJA: Michel dismissed me. "Terminated", as they say. Can you imagine? ... He thinks I'm crazy. It was useful for a while, but lately, I've probably gone too far.
Sisteron: At least you recognize it...
JJA: That means it's time to quit while I'm ahead.

JJA: Whatever the outcome of the Kennedy mission, it's over for me. Either I end on a high note, a true success. If Kennedy is recruited, it'll go down in history. Or I leave on a failure, like many others, who tried and failed. But, I've lost much more than the others. I made quite a few sacrifices for this operation. My integrity, in particular.

Karlov: I'll call you with my decision.
Malotru: Do you have a choice?
Karlov: One always has a choice.

Marina: Here, we call that the "burial form". There's a question in the form: "Do you want to become an undercover agent." Next to it, there's a box to tick. Ticking that box means that you'll spend at least the next 12 to 18 months here at HQ. If you hope to be undercover one day, you can't be visible during the down time between missions. You can't travel or be in the field. We keep you here, nice and warm. While others run around the world, living exciting experiences, we do our utmost to protect your virginity. Basically, we bury you. So that one day, you may become the DGSE's pilot fish.

Marina: Those whose mission will be to spot potential traitors abroad. Being an undercover agent means spending several years abroad under an "FI", a fake identity. We also use the term "legend".
     You go abroad, to practice your profession: literature professor, seismologist, IT equipment smuggler... But your real job is to observe. To search for weaknesses, flaws and angles of attack so that the desk officers can recruit those we call "sources". Most of the time, they too are using an FI, so the sources never really know who they're dealing with.
     Your real job will be to destroy the lives of people who aren't necessarily bad. They're just foreigners in the service of their country, and who have access to intel that is crucial to our safety. People we call "bastards", just because they live across the border, and are aware of things their government is obsessed with hiding from us.

JJA: Goodbye.

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Le Bureau des Légendes #5.7

Malotru: How long have you used this place?
JJA: This is the first time. We opened the real estate agency ten years ago. It had been running normally ever since. It's like a fine wine. We were waiting for the right occasion.

Malotru: If you came to judge me, you're too late. I've already been sentenced and executed.
JJA: And resurrected...

Malotru: She had no illusions about me. She accepted me for what I am.
Nadia: Which is?
Malotru: I'd tell you, but I'm not allowed. All I can say is it's more complicated than in Damascus.
Nadia: I tried to move on. I'm fine with a simple life, but only if you're dead. If you're alive, I don't want simple.

Mille Sabord: I didn't know him. Why would anyone talk to me about him?
Marina: When you started asking questions, after you saw the article, why didn't someone just say, "lt's not true; he's not dead"?
Mille Sabord: I don't know.
Marina: That's what I would have done. I'd have said, "There's no official confirmation, but between us, he's alive. He's on a mission. So, stop hassling everyone."
Mille Sabord: Why didn't they say that?
Marina: Because it's true. He's not dead. And he is on a mission. So... stop hassling everyone or you'll compromise this mission.
Mille Sabord: You know this for a fact?
Marina: If I knew, I couldn't tell you.

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Le Bureau des Légendes #5.6

Sisteron: He wants to come home.
Sylvain: You're getting good at programming language.

Sisteron: He's fine. His level of paranoia is "normal". He won't harm the house.
Liz Bernstein: That's supposed to satisfy me?
Sisteron: That's as far as I'll go. He's borderline, but he's often right.
Liz Bernstein: You won't go any further?
Sisteron: No. I can't spy on my superior while working with him. It's not compatible.

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Le Bureau des Légendes #5.5

Nadia: Do you like it there?
Malotru: I don't know. I don't ask myself that anymore. Once, I thought I knew what I liked. It didn't work out.

Karlov: How did it go?
Malotru: Why do you want to know?
Karlov: Just curious. What happens when you see the woman who drove you to treason three times and landed you twice in captivity?

Nadia: Who is this guy?
Malotru: My boss.
Nadia: Your boss is an art collector?
Malotru: No, but he knows collectors. He knows lots of people.
Nadia: Who is he, Putin?
Malotru: Almost.

Karlov: To Franco-Russian friendship.
Malotru: To Franco-Russian friendship.

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Le Bureau des Légendes #5.4

Mille Sabord: You're undercover? What's your code name?
Marina: I can't tell you.
Mille Sabord: Paul Lefebvre was called "Pain in the Ass", right?
Marina: "Pain in the Ass"? Where'd you get that?
Mille Sabord: I can't tell you.

Sisteron: We're not a family, Marina. We're an intelligence...

La Mule: ..............
Mille Sabord: I like chatting with you. It's relaxing.
La Mule: Thanks.
Mille Sabord: Want to be my driver? We'd make a good team.
La Mule: The only Black people there are Mauritanian slaves or American Marines.
Mille Sabord: Aren't you itching to work in the field?
La Mule: I am in the field.

Mille Sabord: I'm curious to know if it's was ugly or not.
JJA: "Ugly"? What exactly does that mean? It's hard to define. An illegitimate action? An immoral one? An action driven by personal gain? You think there's room for personal gain in our decision-making process? If so, it would be destructive. Absolutely. It's been known to happen, but it's a rare occurrence. It's always discovered in time and sanctioned, often severely. You're not cleared to know, Andréa. That won't change. You may have questions. That's legitimate and human. But if you do, I can't send you back... I'll give you the definition of "ugly". Letting an agent return to the field when he's not operational. That's an ugly thing to do. Stop trying to find out. Stop, or don't leave.

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Le Bureau des Légendes #5.3

Marie-Jeanne: Are you scanning me?
Sisteron: Was it you?
Marie-Jeanne: It's not me. They did something ugly. That doesn't mean I'd do the same to them.
Sisteron: You're either sincere or very good.
Marie-Jeanne: I'm very good.

César: So, we had no reason to come after him?
Laurent: If you could see the fallout in Paris, you'd know this wasn't in our interest.
César: Why, because it leaked to the press?
Laurent: It leaked because it's not true. If it were true, no one would ever have found out.

Laurent: Sylvain... We don't kill our own agents. Only in the highly exceptional event of operational necessity.

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Le Bureau des Légendes #5.2

Sylvain: No explanation? You're leaving me in the dark?

Karlov: I'm speaking Russian because from now on, it's your native language. And Russia is your new motherland.

Sylvain: That's the optimistic theory.
Sisteron: I'm an eternal optimist.
Sylvain: You used to be the king of worst-case scenarios. Not anymore?
Sisteron: Not since JJA came on the scene.

Emmanuelle: Type #DGSE on Twitter. It's enlightening. Now they're killing each other... They support the Donbass fascists... They get the CIA to do their dirty work. Russian trolls?
JJA: We have homegrown idiots. Who needs Russian trolls?

Liz Bernstein: The good thing about dating someone from the office is that you can go to work together. Make the pleasure last longer.

Sisteron: Am I on the list?
Sylvain: Do you have ties to Russia?
Sisteron: My ex-wife and I had a Russian neighbor... A psychologist. We were friends.
Sylvain: Then you're on it.

Karlov: Relax. Take a breather. You call me when you're ready.
Malotru: Ready for what?
Karlov: Revenge.

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Le Bureau des Légendes #5.1

Sisteron: Shit.
Mony: Your wife?
Sisteron: No, work... You said you were a state employee. I lied. I'm a surgeon. I operate on children. I save their lives. Tiny babies. Every day. I'm a hero, but I'm modest. I don't talk about it.
Emmanuelle: What's going on? During a crisis, you usually come home late. You're leaving early this time.
JJA: This isn't a usual crisis. This time, you'll hear about it...

Marina: That's the official version?
Sisteron: It's the truth.
Marina: That's what you'll tell everyone?
Sisteron: Those with "need to know" status.
Marina: It's bullshit.

Mille Sabord: "Pain in the Ass" is Paul Lefebvre, right?
JJA: Yes.
Mille Sabord: Is he really dead?
JJA: Yes.
Mille Sabord: Who was he, really?
JJA: You don't need to know.

Michel: Sorting good guys from bad?
JJA: You know everyone is a bad guy in my eyes.

Liz Bernstein: Don't date someone outside of the Bureau. It never works out.
Sisteron: You've never tried?
Liz Bernstein: I have. And guess what? I'm still single.

Marie-Jeanne: This may sound like a cliché...
JJA: Go on...
Marie-Jeanne: You'll have his death on your conscience.

JJA: There's better way to benefit from this situation...

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Le Bureau des Légendes #4.10

Jean-Paul: It's time, buddy. Almost dying together creates a bond.

Jonas: I'm getting an earache. I am. I know I am. I'm getting an earache. I am. I know I am. I'm getting an earache. I am. I know I am—
Jean-Paul: What are you doing?
Jonas: Praying.

Jonas: You think we're different? We're the same. I'm afraid of women, like you. They scare me to death. When one's in the room, I... I can't breathe. I get stomach cramps.
     Have you ever seen a woman climax? It's frightening. It never ends. It's horrible. The first time I saw it, I was floored. For us, it's over before it starts. But with women, it never ends. It's unbelievable. Puts us in our place, huh? As the pathetic, insignificant beings we are...
     So, I avoid them. A true coward. But it's hard. They're everywhere. That's why I understand you. You veil them from head to foot. They're not as scary. We live and work with them. They're in the street, on the bus... We're not allowed to be scared. We must be brave. But I can't.

Jonas: We have something else in common. You and I both know we have no purpose on earth. We're here, living, eating... But we serve no purpose whatsoever. None. Doesn't that flip you out? We're totally useless. Random... Why am I here on Earth? No reason. What am I to do? Who knows. It's unbearable. So, we establish strict rules because it's impossible to live in such chaos. I have rules and rituals. Without them, I panic. When I think about it, I get... I'm getting an earache. I know I am. I'm sorry. That's my ritual.
     When I think of chaos, I must repeat 21 times: "I'm getting an earache. I am. I know I am." If not, I throw up.

Jonas: You and I are the same, afraid of two things. Women and chaos. We'll do anything to avoid them. But to avoid them, you went to greater lengths than me. You tried to build a world, sheltered from women and chaos. I totally respect that...
     Why did you fail? Us cowards, we were counting on you. Why did you fail?

Marina: You're not really free, are you?
Malotru: No.
Marina: Why did they send you? Do you trust them?
Malotru: I see evil everywhere.

Marina: Did I mean nothing to you when I was in Iran? Was I simply disposable?
Malotru: No.
Marina: What about the mission you sacrificed me for?
Malotru: I can't discuss it.
Marina: How did it feel to betray me again?
Malotru: Each mission is separate. If I had to betray you a third time, I would. Even if I thought it was very unfair, I'd do it.
Marina: You're loyalty personified.
Malotru: You wouldn't do the same?
Marina: I would.

Marie-Jeanne: He's working for us. In exchange, we assassinate him? We can't do that.
Michel: Here's the rule, the reasonable rule I find very fair. "We don't hunt, punish or kill." No, we don't kill. But when a disloyal agent is in trouble, we don't help him out. The least we can do is abandon him. Yes, we abandon him. That's the rule.
Marie-Jeanne: You're very keen to discuss the death of a man who works for us.
Michel: I said what I had to say. In some cases, we kill those who work for us. For example, if a source becomes dangerous, we get rid of them. There's no ethical question. The issue is strategic.

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Le Bureau des Légendes #4.9

Sisteron: I'm sorry. I'll say it again. Go to the border and you'll be arrested. Don't, and you'll go home.
Marina: You want me to go back to jail?
Sisteron: I don't want anything. That's how it is.

Malotru: So, what can you do for me?
La mule: Make tea. Sautéed chicken.

JJA: You see, something's not clear. They don't think we're morons, but you convinced them anyway. How?
Malotru: You'll figure it out. You taught me to convince people.
JJA: I'm not sure sarcasm is the right technique.
Malotru: You're the one who taught me that offense is the best defense.
JJA: What else do you remember?
Malotru: Everything. I've put it all into practice. It's second nature to me now.
JJA: I didn't teach you to betray us.
Malotru: No, I did that on my own.

Malotru: Why me?
Marie-Jeanne: It's risky. What's risky is complications with pro-Russian militias, and the Russians themselves.
Malotru: In the event of complications, better it be me than someone else.
Marie-Jeanne: It's been like this since the beginning.
Malotru: Like what?
Marie-Jeanne: You're a useful traitor.

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Le Bureau des Légendes #4.8

Malotru: Your apartment's cute.
Marie-Jeanne: We can talk about the weather too.

Marie-Jeanne: César's never late.
Clément: He has a new nickname since he returned from Russia. "Jon Snowden".
Sylvain: Don't you mean Edward Snowden?
Clément: Jon Snow? Game of Thrones? "Winter is coming"?

César: I bugged.
Marie-Jeanne: Meaning?
César: Kernel error. Blue screen.
Marie-Jeanne: Can you use words I understand?

Marie-Jeanne: You said it went well, in your debrief.
César: Leaving for 2 days or 2 years isn't the same.
Marie-Jeanne: You just figured this out?
César: I'm sorry. When you move from "dev" to "prod”, some bugs take time to surface. The Russians and I aren't bijective.

Marie-Jeanne: I asked him where he was at. "Beta version," he said.
Sisteron: That's good news.
Marie-Jeanne: It is?
Sisteron: The beta version of a program is virtually operational.
Marie-Jeanne: Why is that good news?
Sisteron: When there's a beta version, it means the software is ready for release.

Liz Bernstein: Robocop is my favorite movie. I was nine. My brother wanted to scare me. Instead, I was fascinated.
Sisteron: That explains a lot.

Malotru: Why would I be suspicious of her?
Duflot: Never let your guard down. Never! Get it into your head that no DGSE agent in charge of your mission and safety would behave that way. So, if one does, don't buy it. Unless that person is no longer with the DGSE.

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Le Bureau des Légendes #4.7

Malotru: I'm an immigrant. I like it.
César: You've become Russian.
Malotru: "When in Rome...
César: ...do as the Romans do."

César: I'm left-handed with a deformed thumb, I wear contacts and am flat-footed. I speak English, Italian and Hebrew. I get hay fever. I code in Python... You must know that.
Malotru: Keep talking.
César: Both my parents are alive. I'm straight and don't smoke. I can only drink one beer, and I take Atarax to sleep. I never sit first. It's an OCD thing. Sometimes, I breathe loudly so I know I'm breathing. I massage my carotid artery when my heart races because I'm afraid of heart attacks. I have vertigo and claustrophobia. I don't read novels, so don't bother with quotes. Same for movies, because I don't see any. But I'm unbeatable at Watchmen and a whiz at Wow.
Malotru: And you have Asperger's.
César: Did you tell them?
Malotru: Sorry, I had to. You know what it is?
César: I'll research online.
César: I was told to tell you this is a NF mission.
Malotru: NF?
César: Yeah.
Malotru: You know what that means?
César: No Fail mission.
Malotru: Agents can be sacrificed on this mission.
César: Who?
Malotru: Anyone. But not you.

Moustapha: I worked at the Tadmor jail. On the register. You understand?
Jonas: You managed the inmate register.
Moustapha: No, in Syria, it means something else. When a political prisoner arrives, the first thing they do is change his name. You have to make him remember his new name. And force the other prisoners to call him by the new name. If anyone disobeys... he's tortured. He is tortured until he forgets his old name. After a few months, if he's still alive, he transfers to a new jail and gets a new name again. Like that, he doesn't exist anymore.

Moustapha: What were French prisons called during the Dark Ages?
Jonas: "Oubliettes".
Moustapha: Oubliettes... That's a nice word. Here too, we have "oubliettes".

Moustapha: It's sheep's brain. Eat. It's very good.
Jonas: Thank you.
Moustapha: Why do you make a face? You eat frogs in France, don't you?

Malotru: When they asked if you were here to spy on them, I was afraid it might be true. You're not here to spy on them?
César: No.
Malotru: And the lie detector confirmed it.
César: ... It would have been the same if I had lied. A word can either be a variable or a constant. If it's a variable, it has no link to reality. I replied "no", as if it were a variable. Not a constant.

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Le Bureau des Légendes #4.6

Jean-Paul: What are they talking about?
Jonas: "I'll take the bearded guy. But what about the hippo? He can't run. He'll get us into trouble. He'll sprain his ankle. We don't have time for that."

Sisteron: Listen carefully. Your legend, all the stories you'll tell... It's like you actually you lived them. There's no other version. You understand?
César: No.
Sisteron: They're not stories. They're the truth. If you meet someone in Moscow, he'll ask questions. Your answers aren't fabricated. You really lived them.

Sisteron: Never let your guard down. Never, not with anyone. Not even your boss.

Sisteron: He's not ready.
Marie-Jeanne: Explain.
Sisteron: Two things still escape him. How vital it is to "live" his legend, to have it stuck to his skin... And he hasn't grasped what it means to be embedded. He falls into traps like an amateur. He needs practice.
Marie-Jeanne: It doesn't come naturally to anyone.

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Le Bureau des Légendes #4.5

Gaingouin: I don't usually quote Putin, but I will now. "Whoever leads in artificial intelligence will rule the world."

Jonas: Why the hell didn't I stay at the office?

La mule: What's Moscow like?
Marina: Who's asking? My friend or my taxi driver?
La mule: Your friend driving a taxi.
Marina: Don't get upset.
La mule: I'm not.

César: Why aren't you going?
Sylvain: Everything I can do, they can do too. But you...
César: I know lots of things they don't.
Sylvain: You'd blow them away.
César: Yeah.
Sylvain: Watch out, being me isn't always fun.

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Le Bureau des Légendes #4.4

Mag: What do you want to know?
Marie-Jeanne: I'm being made to doubt myself.
Mag: Who could possibly manage such a miracle?
Marie-Jeanne: I'm stubborn, but not dogmatic.
Mag: I was joking.

Mag: It's JJA. That's his method. He's a genius. He'll convince you you're harming the cause you've always defended. You know his father was a Communist leader? In the 1970s. When they blamed themselves of having bourgeois thoughts. Unbelievable...

Marie-Jeanne: What did he convince you of?
Mag: The real question is, are you still capable of making sound decisions. I realized I wasn't calm or rational when it came to Malotru. I felt guilty about him. Guilty of what he went through, and what he did to us. As a result, I made some poor decisions. It was time for me to go.

Marie-Jeanne: You are a French officer in the hands of a foreign service. Not a friendly country. You've told them you'll sell yourself. You're really a fake defector and your mission is to recruit a cyber officer within this foreign service. How would you go about it?
Jonas: Have I already sold them a lot?
Marie-Jeanne: I hope not.
Jonas: So, they're on their guard. Am I a cyber expert?.. So, I'm not in contact with cyber officers. First, I have to reel one in. I'm not particularly interesting because I know nothing. I don't know who to lure, nor what bait to use. Am I in contact with my service?
Marie-Jeanne: No, you're not. That would be too easy.
Jonas: It's impossible. Without external help, I'd never succeed.

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Le Bureau des Légendes #4.3

Prison Guard: Tell Rodion there are special instructions for this prisoner.
Zakhar: What are they?
Prison Guard: Don't kill him.

Rodion: Why are you here?
Malotru: Opposition.
Rodion: We're all here for "opposition"... As far as I'm concerned, until proven otherwise, you're a pedophile.

Jean-Paul: Relax.
Jonas: I'm totally relaxed.
Jean-Paul: A real Buddha.
Jonas: Buddha with a tie.

Jonas: He wears his watch on the right.
Jean-Paul: Maybe it's the Iraqi way.
Jonas: You know how you cross your fingers, so your promise won't count? It's called "taqiya". Denial. Same thing. A watch on the right means you turn your back to the left. To the West. To the infidels... You can say Allah doesn't exist and deny your faith. It doesn't count. Allah won't blame you.

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Le Bureau des Légendes #4.2

La mule: It's 7 am. You're either dumb or from DSec.
Liz Bernstein: What a choice.

Marie-Jeanne: Debailly won't surrender to the Russians.
César: Does he have a choice?
Marie-Jeanne: He'd rather die.
Ponte: Maybe the idea of a quiet life in a dacha appeals to him, in exchange for collaborating with the FSB.
César: The FSB rarely buys dachas. Pressure is much cheaper.
Marie-Jeanne: I doubt it'll work on Malotru. He was jailed by Isis.
César: I think the FSB may be worse than Isis.

Liz Bernstein: Working in security... means protecting people. I must uncover people's weaknesses, to see if someone could exploit them. I'd rather find their qualities, but I'm not in HR. I work for the DSec.
Sisteron: What's my weakness?
Liz Bernstein: It's also a quality. You empathize with people.

Karlov: I'm being pressured to arrest this Frenchman. I say he's on a mission. Right here, under our noses! The fox wants to come into the henhouse. And they want me to hold open the door.
Stepan: Are we the henhouse?

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Le Bureau des Légendes #4.1

Gaingouin: The real question is, if we catch him, what do we do with him? It's a legitimate question.
Mag: It's a question for our managing director.
Gaingouin: He won't answer me.
Mag: If he doesn't answer, you've got your answer.

Marie-Jeanne: Malotru isn't trying very hard to hide. Russia's a haven for him. It's very tricky for us to intervene. If we alert the authorities, who knows if they'll hand him over. Moscow... is where I'd go. It's huge. It's a beehive. I'd be invisible. All communication methods are possible. We basically have no chance of finding him. And he knows it. If we find him, he thinks we won't dare do anything... He ought to know me better.

Marie-Jeanne: Who's your real target?
JJA: If it were up to me, I'd fire everyone. But, I'll try to distinguish between those who were charmed, those who were sloppy... and those who were accomplices.And those who should leave us. Right away.

Sylvain: Let's say you want to rob a bank. You look carefully for an entrance. All flaws are human error. The world's best hacker still needs someone to click on the link. Or provide his login.

Marie-Jeanne: Making progress?
Sisteron: I dreamt a pointer's pointer was chasing me.
Marie-Jeanne: What's that?
Sisteron: A variable representing the address of another variable. That represents an address.
Marie-Jeanne: You've come that far?
Sisteron: I'm making progress.

Mag: Do you know what JJA stands for?
Marie-Jeanne: No.
Mag: It's a nickname we gave him. JJA: James Jesus Angleton. He ran the CIA's Soviet counterespionage unit in the fifties. He was obsessed with double agents. Fake KGB defectors. He was a genius. But his job made him go crazy. He ended up totally paranoid, dangerous and insane... Beware of him, Marie-Jeanne.

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