The Good Shepherd (2006)

Michael Gambon: Dr. Fredericks

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• Edward Wilson : How do I know I can trust you?

  Dr. Fredericks : You won't. I mean I hope you're lucky enough to meet someone you trust. I regret to say, I haven't.

• Edward Wilson : And, yet, a certain word, a glance, a guise, will mirror, never show, reflecting not my gaze, but my uncertain question caught inside a shadow of our shifting eyes.

  Dr. Fredericks : That really is quite elegant, Mr. Wilson. Good order, very precise, feeling of the unknown. Fine poetry is the music of mathematics, numbers, singing. You have to look behind the words to understand their meaning.

• Dr. Fredericks : Get out while you can. While you still believe. While you still have a soul.

• Dr. Fredericks : The mental facility to detect conspiracies and betrayal are the same qualities most likely to corrode natural judgment. Everything that seems clear is bent. And everything that seems bent is clear. Trapped in reflections, you must learn to recognize when a lie masquerades as the truth, and then deal with it efficiently, dispassionately.

• Dr. Fredericks : The very qualities that make a good intelligence officer, a suspicious mind, a love of complexity and detail are the very qualities of someone you'll be observing. The mental facility to detect conspiracies and betrayal are the same qualities most likely to corrode natural judgement. Everything that seems clear is bent and everything that seems bent is clear. Trapped in reflections, you must learn to recognize when a lie masquerades as the truth and then deal with it efficiently, dispassionately.