A Most Wanted Man Quotes
Dieter Mohr: After 24 hours of questioning, Karpov confessed to taking part in attacks on gas pipelines, transport, infrastructure, police stations.
Irna Frey: After 24 hours of Russian questioning, any one of us would admit to anything.
Irna Frey: After 24 hours of Russian questioning, any one of us would admit to anything.
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G³nther Bachmann: [Puts a pen in Brue's pocket]It's just an ordinary pen. Looks like a pen, writes like a pen, and listens like a pen.
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G³nther Bachmann: You're looking at me, at us, but we don't exist, not legally, not officially, because German intelligence needs a job to be done that German law won't let it do, so me and my people, we stay small. We stay on the streets. We make the weather. Our sources don't come to us. We find them. We become their friends, their brothers, their fathers, their lovers if we have to. When they're ours, and only then, we direct them at bigger targets. It takes a minnow to catch a barracuda, a barracuda to catch a shark.
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Martha Sullivan: Men who trusted you died. And that stays with you always.
G³nther Bachmann: And all that damage we leave behind. All those lives. All those empty rooms. What were they in vain for? You have asked yourself that question? Why we do what we do?
Martha Sullivan: Mm-hmm, sometimes. But I always come up to same answer.
G³nther Bachmann: And what is it?
Martha Sullivan: To make the world safer place. Isn't that enough?
G³nther Bachmann: And all that damage we leave behind. All those lives. All those empty rooms. What were they in vain for? You have asked yourself that question? Why we do what we do?
Martha Sullivan: Mm-hmm, sometimes. But I always come up to same answer.
G³nther Bachmann: And what is it?
Martha Sullivan: To make the world safer place. Isn't that enough?
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Martha Sullivan: Maybe, if you could define for us, what you think the long term objective would be? What are we trying to achieve?
G³nther Bachmann: To make the world safer place. Isn't that enough?
G³nther Bachmann: To make the world safer place. Isn't that enough?
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G³nther Bachmann: You're too old for her, Tommy. We both are. See her. Love her. But, you'll never get her. Not even with all that black money you've got tucked away in your bank vaults.
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Tommy Brue: I am not doing this for you!
G³nther Bachmann: Whatever it takes, Tommy.
G³nther Bachmann: Whatever it takes, Tommy.
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G³nther Bachmann: Hamburg is one of the great ports of the world, Tommy. For centuries, it opened its arms to every foreigner who washed up on its shores. Now, since 9/11, the eyes of every dark skinned man - we see someone that wants to kill us. The problem is, some of them do. The question is whether Issa Karpov is one of them.
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Abdullah: Please tell me why you have decided to make this generous gift. Are you under duress?
Issa Karpov: No.
Abdullah: Look at me.
Issa Karpov: It is unclean money, sir. It belongs to a man who has done great evil. My father. I wish to be free of him.
Abdullah: Whose sins do you renounce by making this gift?
Issa Karpov: The sins of my father.
Abdullah: And your own sins? I believe you feel lost, without God or love. You must choose the path of Allah. Only then will you be truly free of this burden.
Issa Karpov: No.
Abdullah: Look at me.
Issa Karpov: It is unclean money, sir. It belongs to a man who has done great evil. My father. I wish to be free of him.
Abdullah: Whose sins do you renounce by making this gift?
Issa Karpov: The sins of my father.
Abdullah: And your own sins? I believe you feel lost, without God or love. You must choose the path of Allah. Only then will you be truly free of this burden.
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G³nther Bachmann: Hello Tommy.
Tommy Brue: And you are?
G³nther Bachmann: My name is Bachmann. I head an anti-terror unit. Not many people know about and even less like.
Tommy Brue: And you are?
G³nther Bachmann: My name is Bachmann. I head an anti-terror unit. Not many people know about and even less like.
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Martha Sullivan: Dr. Faisal Abdullah's everything we want him to be and a little bit more. He's tolerant, enlightened, engaged with the West. But, every good man has a little bit bad, doesn't he? And in Abdullah's case, that little bit just might kill you.
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Martha Sullivan: What happened in Beirut?
G³nther Bachmann: You know what happened in Beirut. My networks were blown.
Martha Sullivan: So, Hamburg's a punishment?
G³nther Bachmann: It depends on whether you like Hamburg.
G³nther Bachmann: You know what happened in Beirut. My networks were blown.
Martha Sullivan: So, Hamburg's a punishment?
G³nther Bachmann: It depends on whether you like Hamburg.
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Irna Frey: There is a difference between them and us. They want to hurt him. We want to help him. You see, Annabel, we're not your enemy. We're your solution.
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Jamal: You are forcing me to betray my own father?
G³nther Bachmann: You are not betraying him. You are saving him. That is an act of love.
G³nther Bachmann: You are not betraying him. You are saving him. That is an act of love.
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Jamal: I-I can't do this anymore. Someone's going to find out. I can feel it. I'm freightened. They are looking at me. All of them. I'm done. It's over. I'm not your spy. I am student. You cannot make me do this.
G³nther Bachmann: I never made you do anything, Jamal. And I never will. You know that. When we first met, you remember what we talked about? You remember that? Family. The future. Most of us don't get to choose. But, you did. You made the right choice. It's not easy. But, there's no going back - for any of us. We can't undo what's done.
G³nther Bachmann: I never made you do anything, Jamal. And I never will. You know that. When we first met, you remember what we talked about? You remember that? Family. The future. Most of us don't get to choose. But, you did. You made the right choice. It's not easy. But, there's no going back - for any of us. We can't undo what's done.
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Martha Sullivan: Please work with us on this one, Gunther.
G³nther Bachmann: I don't trust you.
Martha Sullivan: Old habits die hard.
G³nther Bachmann: That's what I'm worried about.
Martha Sullivan: I was talking about yours.
G³nther Bachmann: Have a nice day.
Martha Sullivan: [Icily]You too.
G³nther Bachmann: I don't trust you.
Martha Sullivan: Old habits die hard.
G³nther Bachmann: That's what I'm worried about.
Martha Sullivan: I was talking about yours.
G³nther Bachmann: Have a nice day.
Martha Sullivan: [Icily]You too.
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