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Nick Kudrow: I asked you not to handle the wine, please!
Art Jeffries: You know, it's good to see you've got your priorities in order.
[takes a slug from another bottle]
Art Jeffries: That's better. You're not worried about murdering a nine year-old boy but you're worried about this fuckin' wine!
[he breaks another bottle and Kudrow winces]
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Nick Kudrow: You know, my wife says my people skills are like my cooking skills: quick and tasteless.
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Guest at Party: Nick, I can't believe you look so good for someone so old. How do you do that?
Nick Kudrow: Drugs, my dear. Massive doses of drugs.
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Art Jeffries: [after smahing all of his wine bottles] Happy Birthday, Nick!
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[repeated line]
Simon Lynch: You are a stranger.
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Simon Lynch: Mummy, Simon is home.
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[last lines]
Art Jeffries: Hey, Simon. Look at me. Look at me, Simon. Look at my eyes. Look at my eyes. It's me, Art.
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[first lines]
FBI Supervisor Hartley: Let's go down.
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Tommy B. Jordan: Look, it's my ass if you take that.
Art Jeffries: Then don't tell anyone.
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Lomax: [to Jeffries] Sometimes you got something... just magic, and then it goes away. You had it, but the magic's gone.
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Nick Kudrow: You know what I think, Mr. Jeffries? I think you've seen too many of those four wheel drive commercials on TV.
[Art laughs and claps his hands]
Nick Kudrow: The ones where you get to drive fast and be a renegade? Let's talk about the real world for a moment, shall we, where you're not some wonderful, lone wolf hero, but you're part of a team, and you play your position, because that's what America is, Mr. Jeffries. It's one big team. Now this might be difficult for you to grasp, but I am a patriot. And a patriot is one who makes the right moral choice. Sometimes it takes a strong man to make that choice. One boy cannot survive on his own. One of nature's mistakes weighed against the lives of thousands of our people. Think about it. You worked undercover. How many of our agents will be put in harm's way if this code is compromised? Members of your team. Men like Rashid Halabi, an Iraqi-American, and a great patriot. A man who as we speak is undercover in Saddam's Republican Guard. A man who has not seen his family...
[Art kicks him in the stomach]
Art Jeffries: That's for Simon's parents, you piece of shit!
Mercury Rising Quotes
Extended Reading
