The Equalizer (TV Series)
The Defector (1985)
Robert Lansing: Control
Quotes
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Control : [to McCall] You are not even on the payroll and you are causing me as much trouble as you ever did.
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Robert McCall : [Irate] You hung me out to dry on this.
Control : I told you minimum backup.
Robert McCall : Minimum? I didn't get any backup. Your fair haired young man, cut and ran as soon as the noise started.
Control : He was operating to my instructions.
Robert McCall : Your instructions to him were to bungle the cross over?
Control : He was instructed to minimise his exposure. I wasn't going to blow his cover or the cover of any East Coast operative for a worthless defector.
Robert McCall : Worthless?
Robert McCall : [Stock enters the room] Stock! There's your worthless one.
Jacob Stock : You have any complaints about me McCall?
Robert McCall : Mister!... McCall. You are just a common garden variety coward, you're not even worth discussing.
Jacob Stock : I was acting under orders.
Robert McCall : Yes, orders. The famous excuse for brutality and cowardice.
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Robert McCall : I'm a retired civil servant. I should keep my nose out of agency business, is that it?
Control : There is nothing you can do about it.
Robert McCall : Why do we do with this dirty job?
Control : I don't know Robert, I'm not a philosopher.
Robert McCall : Well we want to help people. Some of us. I know I did. And that is why I resigned. I felt that I'd become trapped in some dirty little game that no body ever really won. And so I went into private life. That's a laugh.
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Control : Look McCall - a defector is like a rare phonograph record. You bring him home and he plays beautiful music. You bring Felix home and all you get is static.
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Robert McCall : Why do we do this dirty job?
Control : I don't know - I'm not a philosopher.
Robert McCall : Oh, we want to help people. Some of us. I know I did. And that is why I resigned. I felt that I had become trapped, in some dirty little game, that nobody every really won. And so I went into 'private life.' That's a laugh.
Control : McCall, I AM sorry.
Robert McCall : How many times old friend have you and I been sorry?