The investigation of Monzer al-Kassar is a watershed case. The Drug Enforcement Administration has been pursuing Kassar for three decades. He has a record in weapons trafficking, drug trafficking and ties with terrorists. ibid.
Your entire education comes from Classic Car magazine. And you dress like you’re on a condom run for the Mob. Ripley’s Game 2002 starring John Malkovich & Dougray Scott & Ray Winstone & Lena Headey & Chiara Caselli & Sam Blitz & Paolo Paoloni & Lutz Winde et al, director Liliana Cavani, opening scene
You take him out and decent people will call you a fucking saint. ibid. Reeves
This ain’t a game. This is my fucking livelihood. ibid.
I’m a creation. I’m a gifted improviser. I lack your conscience. ibid. Ripley
Max Ehrmann: Go placidly amid the noise and haste and remember there may be peace in silence … Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright 2010 starring Andy Garcia & Aidan Quinn & Mario von Peebles & Jordan Belfi & Corbin Bernsen & Luke Goss & Gary Daniels & Raymond J Barry & Danny Pinoet al, director R Ellis Frazier, caption
This is the story of failure. Of my failure. And how all that is good is not me. They say that in the end life all comes down to a few fleeting moments. Then when we draw our last breathe only a few things will have mattered. ibid. bloke’s commentary
Charlie Wright is charged in a ten-billion dollar Ponzi scheme. ibid. Agent Hobbs
I’ve had an epiphany: I know for sure now, I’m positive: there’s a God, he’s alive, he’s real, because He brought me you. ibid.
If he can find the goodness somewhere, if there is a chance to find some kind of redemption before we leave this Earth then life’s moments will have mattered. This is the story of failure. My failure. For all of the failures of this life. Of my life. Fade to nothing. Just fleeting moments. ibid. Garcia
You’re just floating through your entire existence. The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman 2013 starring Shia LaBeouf & Evan Rachel Wood & Mads Mikkelsen & Til Schweiger & Rupert Grint & Aubrey Plaza & James Buckley & Ion Caramitru & Vincent D'Onofrio & Melissa Leon et al, director Fredrik Bond, mother to son
I die for love. Pretty fucking cool way to go. ibid. son to mother
The world is in chaos. The economic crisis continues as an oil crisis looms. War rages everywhere. It is a time of revolution, assassination and covert operations. It is 1980. Killer Elite 2011 starring Robert De Niro & Jason Statham & Clive Owen & Yvonne Strahovski & Lachy Hulme & Dominic Purcell & Aden Young et al, director Gary McKendry, caption
I’m done with this. I’m finished. I can’t do this any more. ibid. Statham
Killing is easy; living with it is the hard part. ibid. Statham
In 1991 Ranulph Fiennes published The Feather Men, the non-fiction book upon which this film is based. It was greeted with huge controversy and official government denial. To this day the full involvement of the SAS in the Oman war remains highly classified under Britain’s official secrets act. The fate of Danny Bryce and the other covert operatives remains unknown or undisclosed. ibid.
All the great philanthropists of our time are businessmen. They’re entrepreneurs. Innovators. My safe haven project for refugees which began in ’98 is the true expression in my belief to a commitment to the wider world. Because my good fortune means nothing if it doesn’t lift up my fellow man. Thank you. The Night Manager I, novel John Le Carre, starring Tom Hiddleston & Hugh Laurie & Olivia Colman & Tom Hollander & Elizabeth Debicki & Alistair Petrie & Natasha Little & Douglas Hodge & David Harewood & Tobias Menzies & Antonio de la Toree et al, director Susanne Bier, opening remarks of Roper, BBC 2016
January 2011: The hotel is absolutely the safest place for you to be at the moment [bomb drops]. ibid. Jonathan to guest
Rex, Richard Roper is selling arms to the youngest Hamed brother in the heart of Cairo in the middle of what we hope is the Arab Spring. Isn’t that what we’re looking for? ibid. Angela
Apparently, there are political reasons why an inquiry into the Cairo Papers would not be productive at this time. ibid. Rob to Angela
Just get her out, Mr Pine. Her life is at risk. ibid. Angela
Can I speak to Angela Burr, please. My name is Jonathan Pine. ibid. dog-n-bone
So why did you do it? Why does Jonathan Pine, respected hotelier, risk a career stitching up his guests, first in Cairo and then here? ibid.
If there’s a man selling a private arsenal to an Egyptian crook and he’s English, and you’re English, and those weapons could cause a lot of pain to a lot of people then you just do it. Anyone would do it. ibid. Jonathan
Nobody move! Nobody move! Get down! Get down! … Put the guns on the floor … Are you rich? … Jewellery, wallets, in the bag … We contact you. You bring the money to us, we give you the boy … Everybody on the ground … or the boy dies! The Night Manager II
So just a little air-brushing and you’d be clean? Do you handle cash in that hotel of yours? Suppose you stole some of it or all of it, would anyone notice straightaway? ibid.
I want to make you an offer. Come and work for me and after when it’s all over I’ll look after you, new settlement, new name, new identity. New life … To bring down Richard Roper. I’ve spent ten years of my life going after that man … ibid.
Still alone are we? We’re going to take care of you. ibid.
Come and tell us why you think this one’s a bad apple, Corky. The Night Manager III, Roper with Jonathan
They call it the Citadel. And there’s one key. And he hides it. He says it’s full of peppermint. Plus, there’s an alarm. They test it every day at eleven. ibid. Roper’s son to Jonathan
Children grow up thinking the adult world is ordered, rational, fit for purpose. Crap. Becoming a man is realising it’s all rotten. ibid. Roper to Jonathan
It’s a straw man operation. You are the straw man. No offence. The Night Manager IV, Roper to Jonathan
Don’t ever go near that girl again. ibid. Corky to Jonathan
Richard Roper is buying arms under the counter from British and American arms companies. People on the inside are aiding and abetting. And they’re getting paid to do so. Sit down, Harry. ibid. Angela
Everyone’s attracted to you. Who are you? ibid. Jem
When a continent enters into chaos, that’s when opportunities open up … For a small surcharge we can even send in teams of our own to deal with specific targets: assassinations, fake terror plots, even the odd coup. The Night Manager V
Jonathan, if you want to get out now, I can get you out. There’s still time left. But I don’t have an organisation any more. I’ve got no recourse to troops. No international enforcement support. Jonathan, if things go wrong, I can’t guarantee I can get you out. The Night Manager VI, Angela to Jonathan
Oh, Jemima. You let someone break in and steal from me. The question is, Who? Please don’t tell me it was Corky because I might not believe you. ibid. Roper
The Balkans – war-ravaged, impoverished and traumatised – were about to be transformed into a smuggling and criminal machine that had few, if any, parallels in history. While the world wrung its hands and fretted over the terrible nationalist urges of the Yugoslav peoples and their leaderships, the Balkan mafias started putting aside their ethnic differences to engage in a breathtaking criminal collaboration. Misha Glenny, McMafia
Anyone with any serious political ambitions had no choice but to get mobbed up. ibid.
Throughout most of the 1990s Djukanovic’s country, Montenegro, with a population of just 600,000 (regarded by the rest of the Balkans as a legendary indolent people), was the focal point of a multi-billion-dollar criminal industry that generated income from America through the Middle East, Central Asia, the Maghreb, the Balkans and Western Europe. ibid.
Week after week, several tons of illegal cigarette shipments would land at the country’s two main airports. ibid.
The Balkan cigarette trade was linked to the money-laundering of Colombian drugs money. ibid.
Washington was now telling him that if he wanted closer relations with NATO and the EU, it was time to get out of the cigarette business. ibid.
The region in southern Fujian is called Da Shan (Big Mountain) and it is home to some of the biggest and more lucrative counterfeit factories in the world. These facilities, built deep into the mountain, produce millions of cigarettes a day. ibid.
Tung’s cigarette-smuggling enterprise alone ships between 20 and 50 40-foot container loads of international brand-name cigarettes each month ... Tung owns or controls three container ships, as many as seven ocean-going tankers, and an unknown number of other vehicles. ibid.
The collapse of the Soviet Union is the single most important cause of the exponential growth in organised crime that we have seen around the world in the last two decades. ibid.
Across the world the trade in narcotics was one of the most profitable criminal activities. All the major criminal groups in the former Soviet Union had built up extensive business interests in the manufacture of amphetamines and Ecstasy, in the importation of cocaine into Europe and, above all, in the distribution and sale of heroin from Central Asia into Eastern and Western Europe and the USA. ibid.
There are two basic types of criminal syndicate: the commodity traders and the protection racketeers. The former kind is divided into three principle groups: producers, wholesale traders and retailers. ibid.