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Technician: [Li being evaluated by the technician] Do you know what it feels like to fall in love?
Li Noor: Dangerous.
Technician: What does it feel like to kill a man?
Li Noor: Nothing.
Technician: Repeat after me. Green.
Li Noor: Green.
Technician: White.
Li Noor: White.
Technician: Are you an agents of the Israeli government?
Li Noor: No.
Technician: Are you an agent of the Pakistani government?
Li Noor: No.
Technician: Are you involved in acts of espionage against your own government?
Li Noor: Yes.
Technician: Do you possess the code to open the disc?
Li Noor: Yes.
Technician: Can we trust you?
Li Noor: Yes.
Technician: Romeo.
Li Noor: Romeo.
Technician: Juliet.
Li Noor: Juliet.
Technician: Where is that code?
Li Noor: In my mind.
Technician: If transported to the United States, will you open it?
Li Noor: ...Yes.
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Johnny Porter: [at briefing] Your job is not to predict tomorrow based on yesterday. That's what academics do. Your job is to prevent the end of tomorrow by using your brains and your imagination. If you don't find the caesium before it's too late, you will be held responsible for the single largest intelligence fumble since a flight instruction school in Florida failed to grasp the significance of a 19-year-old Al-Qaeda terrorist saying he didn't need to learn how to land.
Rick Perez
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