Mission: Impossible (TV Series)

The Code (1969)

Harold Gould: Vincente Bravo

Quotes 

• [Vincente and Janos are discussing El Lider of San Cristobal, Paris's disguise] 

  Vincente Bravo : What are we going to do about El Lider, huh?

  Janos : Perhaps... we should meet his demands.

  Vincente Bravo : Absolutely not. There will be no invasion if I am not President of both countries!

  Janos : All right. Eh... We could offer him a high ministerial position?

  Vincente Bravo : No, no. I don't want him in the government at all.

  Janos : We cannot afford to have him side with San Cristobal. I do not want to fight him, Vincente.

  Vincente Bravo : [outraged]  Are you suggesting that we give up the invasion?

  Janos : No, no, no. No. No... Perhaps money.

  Vincente Bravo : [laughs shortly]  Money. He will not accept it. He's not that kind of man. Nah. He does not seek wealth. He wants power.

  Janos : Perhaps he has changed.

  Vincente Bravo : That kind of man never changes.

  Janos : You changed. Every man has his price, Vincente. I will try to reason with him.

  Vincente Bravo : But what if he doesn't listen to reason?

  Janos : Then... we will kill him.

• [Vincente does not know that Janos offered El Lider millions of dollars and a high ministerial position] 

  Paris : I have decided to accept your offer.

  [Vincente is surprised, thinking that Janos has offered El Lider only some money] 

  Janos : Good! I knew that we could come to an agreement.

  Paris : [chuckling]  You look amazed, Vincente.

  Vincente Bravo : I am. I did not think you were a man who compromised.

  Paris : Heh, heh! Well, we all have to bend sometimes, huh? If it is to gain what we really want, huh? Now you will be contacted as to the details of the transaction. And if I could be driven to the airport.

  Vincente Bravo : [to a guard]  Arrange for a car.

  Paris : [walking away]  Ah, Senor Janos, a word with you, please... In private.

  Janos : Yes.

  Paris : After you have conquered San Cristobal, you will need a strong man to rule it. It will take a long time for it to be as easily controlled as Nueva Tierra.

  Janos : Mm-hm.

  Paris : Well, Vincente does not have the necessary strength.

  Janos : [smiling]  I see. Don't worry, El Lider. Your hat is still in the ring.

  [They both chuckle, while Vincente looks on nervously] 

• [the scene involves a conversation among Vincente Bravo, the dictator of Nueva Tierra, Janos, foreign Military Advisor of the United People's Republic, and Paris, assuming the persona "El Lider"] 

  Vincente Bravo : The presidency is out of the question ! Both countries must be united under one rule

  Paris : And under one ruler. However I was promised San Cristobal a long time before you were, Vicente

  Vincente Bravo : Promised by who ?

  Paris : By me ! I spent ten years in those jungles.

  Vincente Bravo : In that time, if you have not won that country, you would have no claim to it by now.

  Paris : I would have one that revolution a long time ago if I had been given the arms and money I wanted !

  Janos : Yes, but you did not want to negotiate

  Paris : Perhaps, I have made a mistake. Perhaps, I have changed my mind, and perhaps you should change yours about this invasion

  Janos : Why ?

  Paris : You do not need it. And after all you run the very dangerous risk of Western intervention. But not so with an internal revolution.

  Vincente Bravo : We are committed to an invasion ! It can not be called off now.

  Paris : Invasions unite countries. Even forces which have been opposed to each other find themselves united when faced with a common enemy

  Vincente Bravo : Are you saying that you would fight with San Cristobal against us ?

  Paris : I am only saying my forces are uncommitted .