Sneakers

Dick Gordon: Before we begin, something we need to clear up. Most firms of this kind are staffed with ex-law enforcement types, but your team, it's... Martin Bishop: [laughs] I know, kind of different. Buddy Wallace: Yes, you are. [opens file] Darryl Roscow, also known as "Mother." Eighteen months at Dannemora for breaking and entering. Bishop: Yeah, he was framed. But he's got the best hands in the business. Wallace: [opens another file] Carl Arbogast, age 19. Caught breaking into the Oakland City School District computer to change his grades. Bishop: I know, we're the ones who caught him. Wallace: [another file] Erwin Emory, also known as "Whistler." Bishop: Yeah, yeah, I know, he had a little trouble with the phone company... Wallace: Sixty-two counts? Bishop: All right, you want law enforcement? What about Donald Crease? Twenty-two year veteran of the CIA- Buddy Wallace: Terminated, 1987. Why was that? Bishop: I don't know, I think maybe a personality conflict. Who are you guys? Go

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Bishop: The probable level of security is very low. But if you guys don't want to take that chance just to keep me out of jail, fine, I understand, I'll do it. Whistler: Well, Bish, I can't speak for the other guys, but I'm in it for the money, I don't care if you go to jail. Carl: Me neither. I'm in. Mother: Uh... could we maybe just go back to the "they might kill us" part? Bishop: Mother, if I thought that was likely to happen, I wouldn't bring this to you. But there is a risk. Whistler: And it pays $175,000! Mother: I'm in. Crease: You guys will be chalk outlines without me. All right, what do we need?

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Bishop: Carl? Carl: [breathing from helium] I'd like to have a deep relationship with a beautiful woman who melts from the very first time our eyes meet. Bishop: We're not getting paid that much, Carl. Carl: Well, you know, someone like Liz. Bishop: We're definitely not getting paid that much.

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Liz: [upon seeing the data for the Air Traffic Control System] Oh, my God. Mother: How is this possible? Whistler: Cryptography systems are based on mathematical problems so complex they cannot be solved without a key. Liz: Jannek must have figured out a way to solve those problems without the key and he hard-wired it into that chip. Crease: Turn it off. Whistler: Anybody want to crash some passenger jets? Crease: I said turn it off. Bishop: Turn it off! [shuts down computer] Carl: [contemplates] So, it's a code-breaker. Bishop: No, it's The code-breaker. No more secrets. [leaves]

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Crease: Don't tell me you can't do it because I know you can. And don't tell me you won't do it because I've got to have it. I need to know, and I need to know now. Mother: Guys, that federal building's been scheduled for demolition since August. Housed the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Agriculture. Been vacant for a month. Carl: [checks out the Yellow Pages] The NSA never had an office in San Francisco. Their West Coast operations are out of Los Angeles. Crease: [shocked] Oh, God. Yeah, thanks. [hangs up] Jannek's grant is from the NSA. [throws phone in disgust; to Marty] How could you be so goddamn stupid?!? Two guys show up, say they're government, and you just buy it. Whistler: They probably were government [everybody looks at him] - just not ours. Bishop: Everybody pack up whatever you can. This place isn't safe. [gets revolver] Mother: What are you doing? Bishop: I'm going to a concert.

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Crease: Now what are you saying, the NSA killed Kennedy? Mother: No, they shot him but they didn't kill him. He's still alive.

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