The Manchurian Candidate

Eleanor: I will do whatever is necessary to protect America from anyone who opposes her. I can't... am I the only person in this room who's been reading these NSA reports? Healy: I've read them. Eleanor: All right, then. You know... you know we are on the brink of another cataclysm, probably nuclear, on our own soil. Becket: Oh, Ellie. That's a bit extreme. Eleanor: And it's not from random terrorists, but from covert alliances of disaffected nations who've all been made bold by this kind of Jordan one-worlder who believes that human beings are essentially good and that our powers are somehow, I don't know, shameful or evil and never to be used. Make no mistake. The American people are terrified. They know something's coming. They can feel it. And we can either shovel them the same old shit and call it sugar or we can arm them. We can arm them with a young, vibrant Vice President. We can give them heat, energy! Give them a war hero with heart, forged by enemy fire in the desert! In the

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Hello, Captain. Do you remember me?

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Raymond: I served under him. He was a good man. Eleanor: Well, that's what the neighbors always say about serial killers.

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Eleanor: Sergeant Shaw. Raymond: [abruptly] What...? Eleanor: Sergeant Raymond Shaw. Raymond: Mother, I... Eleanor: Raymond Prentiss Shaw. Raymond: Yes. Eleanor: Listen.

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Oh, God! Where all the men anymore? My father, Tyler Prentiss, never asked, "Is this okay? Is this okay?" You know what I'm saying, Mark? He just did what needed to be done.

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Raymond: Are we friends, Ben? I want to believe we were friends. Ben: We are connected and that's somthing nobody can take from us. You could have me locked up, but you didn't. That's proof that there's something deep inside. There's a part that they can't get to. And it's deep of us. And that's where the truth is.

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