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Did you see me?

You're blown, Felix. They're on to you. No, the idiots thought there was a

message at the board. I'm frightened.

There's no time to fear now. Not me.

My daughter.

Mr. Shinsky, will you die to protect her?

I want to help.

Yeah?

Please, the council is available and if... Not available.

Come in here.

Did he know me?

Let's see what he'll do now.

Hey, you.

Hey, you move your electricity out of here. Go on.

Go on, you're filling the world with electricity.

Every radar, all point at you. You think very clever. Go on, go. You're taking

all my juices, all my natural juices. You're filling the world with

That's what you're doing, you bums. You're bums. Everybody bums with your

electricity. You get away from me with your radar, eh? You get out of here,

You fill the world with electricity, too. You get out. Hey, you, you, you get

out. Cool your electricity. Everybody get out. Fill the world with

Get out of here. Get out of here. Get out of here.

You get out. You get out.

Get away.

Get away. Go and help them call me later. Get everybody.

No, Roger, Irina.

A little more, oh, a little more precision, a little more action, a

everything, eh?

Your daughter's a fine dancer.

Oh, only cool.

Out of the shadows. Out of the past, Felix, out of the past. Yesterday was

foolishness.

Stupid foolishness.

Could have been disaster.

Why the hell did you contact me? I saw someone at the council.

A face I recognized from Vienna.

KGB big shot McCall.

You're blown, Felix. They're on to you. No, no. The idiots thought there was a

message in the board. When they found nothing, they actually apologized.

Felix, I have retired. I told you that.

And when I left, I closed down my network. That means you're retired as

The information I gave in the past was trivial. I always knew that. But this is

something big.

There's no point in arguing about it now, is there?

All right, you know what to do. You know the procedures just as well as I do.

If your mail starts arriving late, if you get wrong numbers in the middle of

night, if you get a new secretary suddenly, anything at all unusual that

happens, all right, you call me. But, Cole, I worked for you for 15 years.

See, Lick, that is history.

What I'm interested in is the future.

Now, if you do not betray yourself, all right, I can help you.

Privately.

In 15 years, she's made a life for herself here.

She knows nothing of the work I've done with you.

Nicole, she's just a child.

She'll have to grow up fast, won't she?

A little while, perhaps I'll get to meet her.

And then I can tell her what a brave, resourceful man her father is.

In the meantime, remember, Felix, what I have just told you.

Don't betray yourself now.

Yes, Jinsky is a clerk to a trade attache, an insignificant little man.

Dzerzhinsky, my dear counsel, the highly trained spy who has been passing

classified information to the Americans for 15 years.

Right under your nose.

Radek, I assure you, security procedures here are very tight. Tight enough to

fool you.

For a year now, I've been transmitting coded instructions to our operatives

through this consulate.

I send them through harmless economic statistics.

Ingenious, isn't it?

Only the code was broken as soon as I started using it. It couldn't be

Dzerzhinsky.

All right.

Perhaps I am wrong about him. Perhaps it is someone else.

Perhaps the entire consulate has been compromised.

Will this be a black mark against me? You certainly won't get the Lenin Peace

Prize this year.

But you can redeem yourself.

What do you want me to do?

Get Dzerzhinsky in here.

Tell him he's being sent back to the Soviet Union for a trade conference.

It could seem like a vacation, a bonus for his loyal service all these years.

Dzerzhinsky.

Play your part well.

You never know, one day you might want to live the diplomatic life and become

actor.

Be calm, Billy. Be calm.

Yes. Yes, but you always told me.

Are you followed?

At first, yes, but use your method. They are gone.

But? Because they want me to go back to USSR.

That's not good.

The consul himself, he said it was for a trade conference. He said I could even

take Irina.

But he trembled. He couldn't look at me. Felix, why are they so concerned about

you? My clumsy, blundering way. I stumbled onto something big.

Now, I wish I never had.

Here, tell me.

Face. door. No, no, it's more.

I put it all together. You see, we have numbered accounts in Switzerland for our

transactions.

Last month, I came across one I had never seen before.

A secret account, Nicole.

I couldn't trace the number.

Felix, I think it is time you crossed over.

I'm frightened.

There's no time to fear now. Not me.

My daughter. What will they do to my daughter? Don't worry about your

I'll take care of her. I promise you.

It's my man Felix.

Trade attaché.

Control, he has to defect.

I want you to run a crossover for him. A crossover?

In New York City for a minor league operative who's not even on our books

anymore. I'll never clear it.

Don't even bother to try.

Take it out of petty cash.

Look, McCall, McCall.

A defector is like a rare phonograph record. You bring him home and he plays

beautiful music. You bring Felix home.

And all you get is static. Our people will be angry. The other side will

retaliate. For what?

An unimportant little man who peddled Class D economic data.

That little man risked his life for us. Really? For us?

You're a private citizen.

You resigned from the service.

I gave my word.

All right. All right. Look, I am going to give you bare minimum backup.

So you better make it smooth.

Mr. Stock?

The legendary Robert McCall.

I presume you have been briefed?

Thoroughly. God save us from little men with big ambitions. Well, just think of

it as a training exercise.

Look as though you could do with one.

Look, this guy has given us a lot of trouble for nothing.

What you mean is that he will not advance your career in the intelligence

service? Hmm?

What a naughty man.

What shall we do? Forget him? I didn't say that.

Listen, young man.

Felix is being followed by these two men.

I know them. Just a little diversion, that's all I need. My people will take

care of it easy. Good.

Let's see how well you do this easy job.

Shot down in Ohio.

Miami and San Francisco.

Boston and LA.

Detroit, the big most city.

Houston, Mississippi.

LA, New York City.

Everybody come on, let's move.

I'm surprised to see you here, McCall.

Thought you were retired.

Yeah, that's what I thought.

Apparently the rest of the world doesn't agree.

What went down here?

Why do you say there will be an explanation?

Polite telephone call to your people?

The hell with polite phone calls.

I don't like people playing poke and dagger games in my sector.

An innocent person could have been killed in that crossfire. An innocent

was killed.

Look, McCall, you can't hide behind that security clearance anymore.

He's just a private citizen now.

There's a thing called the Constitution that I can hide behind now, isn't there?

Do you have any further questions, Jefferson?

We will talk about this, McCall. Yes, why don't we do that? Why don't we do

that? You hung me up to dry on this. I told you, minimum backup. Minimum? I

didn't get any backup.

You're a fair -haired young man. Cut and ran the minute the noise started.

He was operating according to my instructions. Your instructions to him

bungle the crossover?

He was instructed to minimize his exposure. I wasn't going to blow his

the cover of any other East Coast operative for a worthless defector.

Stop!

There's your worthless one!

You have any complaints about me, McCall?

Mr. McCall.

You are just a common garden variety coward. You're not even worth the little

cutting. I was acting under orders. Yes, orders.

The famous excuse for brutality and cowardice.

You call me a coward once... Stop! Stop!

You go walk it off, all right?

Go on.

Go on, walk it off.

You are not even on the payroll and you are causing me as much trouble as you

ever did.

Radek.

The man Felix saw.

It was Radek.

Radek? Radek's in war, I thought.

No, no, no, no.

No, no, no. He's here. He's got to be here.

You remember what we used to call Radek?

Radek the Avenger. Avenger, yeah.

Radek the Patriot.

Someone steals a paperclip from the Kremlin, we say Radek will follow you to

ends of the earth.

It is Radek.

I'll tell you what it is.

It is an unsolved street shooting, officially.

And there's nothing you can do about it.

Yeah, of course.

I'm a retired civil servant.

I should keep my nose out of agency business, isn't it? There is nothing you

do about it.

Why do we do this dirty job?

I don't know. I'm not a philosopher.

Well, we want to help you.

Some of us.

I know I did.

And that is why I resigned.

I felt that I'd become trapped in some dirty little game that nobody ever

won.

And so I went into private life.

But still, Phoenix died.

McCall, I am sorry.

How many times, old friend, have you and I been sorry?

McCall, I'm not a coward.

Who is it?

My name is Robert McCall.

How can you come here?

Go away.

Irina, it may not appear, but I was a friend of your father. Oh, yes, they

me. A good friend.

A friend who got him killed.

Go away.

Irina, please, please, let me talk to you. I can't help you.

living in this neighborhood for a month these dudes just won't leave me alone

they've been beating up on me every day outside of school last two days i ain't

even gone because well i'm afraid they're gonna kill me look somebody's

do something

My name is Larry Kelly.

555 -7100.

Are you telephoning? Robert McCall.

Equalizer?

Oh, man.

You were possibly expecting Clint Eastwood.

Yeah, well, how are you going to help me deal with those dudes?

What are you going to do?

Will you tell me what the problem is? Nothing.

going, snitch? It ain't six o 'clock yet, man. I'm going. You ain't going

nowhere.

Come on. Come on.

If you please.

We are outnumbered. We retreat.

Hey, you got a bodyguard now, man?

Is he going to sleep in your house with you too, huh?

Man, how do you make it work?

They were smoking in the bathroom, man.

know nothing about it. But a second after I get in there, two security

came in and they busted him. They think I snitched. And now I got to stay in the

restaurant until six o 'clock every night until school's over.

So why didn't you tell your father?

You know what he'd say?

He'd say, Spider, don't take nothing from nobody.

He'd beat me worse than Indio if he knew I ran away.

I ain't afraid of getting hurt.

Well, I'm sure you're not afraid of getting hurt. Perhaps you're afraid of

venting. But you know, you're going to have to learn to deal with people like

Indio, because if you don't, they will never let you alone.

And so every army has to fight its war in its own particular way.

Now your way, give me a hand.

That's a good strong hand. Now your way has to be with speed and pride.

Now I will give you a crash court in self -defense.

Okay,

that's better.

Irina!

You didn't have to come back today. Oh, no, I know. I was meeting someone. I

forgot, okay?

Yeah, I just should maybe call them.

Now,

in the hands. Stop, stop, stop the hands and breathe.

All right.

Thank you for today. See you tomorrow.

See you tomorrow.

Yes, tomorrow.

Come on, run!

That's the old Russian saying.

are possible.

Perhaps I should leave you alone for a while.

He used to cook great Russian meals.

Just for the two of us.

I always wondered why he had no other friends.

No others to love him as much as I do.

I led a very lonely life, Irina.

Why?

Why?

I could tell you that he hated tyranny, wanted a better world for his child.

But your father was a very loyal and most courageous man, Irina.

And that is the only real answer I can give you.

My father.

Then

I'll

have to find them for you.

Perhaps you can find the door without help.

My friend, sorry for the inconvenience, but I need some more information.

Mr. Radek, please.

No Radek here.

Oh, yes, yes, of course, of course.

Where do you keep your hidden cameras, hmm?

Radek!

It's me, Robert McCall. Excuse me, sir, but there is no Radek here. What are you

calling yourself these days, Basharov?

Hmm?

Polonsky, hmm? They do have telephones in America.

Don't they, McCall?

My old friend.

Such a lot of noise over such a little girl. Well, you seem to be very

interested. I don't know why.

Better to ask why the agency is suddenly doing good deeds.

I'm not with the agency any longer.

Oh, yes.

That fiction.

They say you are helping the helpless now.

This is the one soul.

You won't save my girl.

Why, Radek?

Her father was a minor operative, you know that.

She's a Soviet citizen.

You have no right.

What if she were to defect?

If she defects, I'll hunt her down and punish her.

her that much about this girl.

What do you want?

You were a highly ranked American intelligence operative for over 20

Spend an hour with me.

Just one hour answering some questions.

And the girl is free.

Radek, you are in a very playful mood today.

You want to betray your country for this girl? Fine.

Will you die to protect her?

Feeling better, gentlemen?

Better call our two Americans.

I have another job for them.

Hey, where you going, you dirty rat?

Hey, stall man.

I told you once, Mitch.

You don't get out of that store till six o 'clock. That's right.

Look at you, man. I'm late for dinner. My dad's gonna kill me.

He can't kill you if you're already dead.

That's right, right.

That's what's going to happen if you don't get back in that store.

Yeah.

And y 'all going home.

You going back in that store is where you going.

Yo, man, let me go home.

You want to go home, man?

What happened, Larry?

What did it look like, Captain Man?

Well, it looks as though you didn't do what I told you. No, no, no. I did what

you told me, but it didn't work.

You made me look like a fool.

No.

It's a lie.

I couldn't do anything.

Couldn't get my arm over my head.

I just stood there and let him beat on me till they came out of the store and

made him stop.

Well, come on, I'll take you home. No, I can't go home. My father sees me like

this, he'll kill me. He'll say I have no heart, man, and that's what I'll say.

What are you going to do, walk around the town all night?

Where you been, huh?

Where you been?

What happened? Nothing happened.

Who are

you?

Oh, I'm just a fellow your son called on for help because he was afraid to talk

to you.

He's been terrorized by a gang.

Of boys of school.

He was frightened you might think he was a coward.

Where are they? I'll straighten them out. Mr. Kelly, really, that is not the

way.

It's his fight.

He has to prove himself, to himself and to you.

Yes, what do you want?

Irina Jurzynski?

Yeah?

Lieutenant Burnett sent us over. We're here to put you in protective custody.

Mr. McCall didn't say anything about that.

He's on his way down to headquarters.

He gave us the address.

If you just wait a moment, I'll get my boots.

Take your time.

All right, there's nothing on him.

So we will have to create something.

We can't concoct a major operation against this man for the sake of one

ballerina. Control, you owe me a favor.

Now, I put Radek on the map. You didn't even know he was here. All right, all

right, I owe you a favor, but not this way.

I thought I told you no phone calls.

All right, no, we won't.

Sit down.

What is it?

It's over. Radek's got the girl.

What are you talking about? That's impossible.

She's at my house. She was at your house, Radek. Got her out. No, no, it

couldn't happen.

Nobody outside this office knows where I live.

Well, maybe you were careless.

I wasn't careless.

Maybe somebody here was careless.

Either that or Ruddick is running a mole out of your office.

There are no traitors in this organization.

The case is closed.

So stay out of it. You stay out of it.

No, I haven't got time for lengthy soul -searching, so why don't you just come

in, make your threat, and then get out?

No threat.

I know you're going after Roddick.

I want to come along.

No, thank you.

At best, you are a coward. At worst, you are a traitor.

And I do not want you standing behind my back at any time. McCall, I did not

want this to happen. It's not the way I work, believe me.

Too many loose ends.

One little man with big ambitions.

I want to help.

I have to help.

Control doesn't know that you're here, does he?

Doesn't matter.

Know who I am.

And you know, I do not make threats, I make promises.

And I promise you that I will break your neck if you do not tell me where Radek

has taken the girl. Give me your face.

Or we'll have a double funeral, won't we?

I thought you were supposed to be upstairs. Go.

When she wakes up, give her something to eat.

Then put her under again.

Right.

Tomorrow, we'll move her back to the consulate.

By then, my call will be of the scent.

There's one upstairs.

Right.

Radek and the girl are under the back.

Now, when the trouble starts, Radek will run.

So, diversion at the front, and Flack Raddick and the girl out at the back.

got it? Got it. We go.

my new singing discovery.

Roddy has orchestrated everything.

Voice needs a little work, but the lyrics are beautiful.

War really is so uncomfortable, isn't it?

You have nothing on me but go.

Well, now, we do have that Nightingale number.

You have been stashing money away in a secret Swiss bank account.

What do you want?

Well, you've been a successful agent for the past 20 years. One hour of your

time?

No?

Thought not.

In that case, I'll take the girl.

Magus! Irina!

No need for that.

Oh, no.

We've won.

This girl must mean a lot to you.

You're not her lover by any chance?

Oh, you flatter me, you really flatter me. May I suggest to you that whilst

you're still in New York, while you have a little time left, you kitsch yourself

out with some really warm winter clothing.

It gets very cold in Siberia at this time of year.

Look at you, man. I don't want to fight you. Just leave me alone. Oh, leave me

alone. I caught a bee because of this last night, okay?

Oh, boy.

Oh, please, man.

Hit him more, please. Come on, hit him.

Please. Wait, look at you. You want money?

Yeah. I want money. Give him the money. Why don't we all give him the money?

Come on, give him the money. Come on, give him the money, man. Dig deep now.

Dig deep.

All right, it's yours.

All right. All right.

Yo, what are you going to do now?

Let me go, Larry. No, I don't think so.

Hit him.

Let me go, man. Please.

Please. I can't hear you. Come on.

Please. Please. I can't hear you, Indio.

Hit him. Indio. Please. Please.

Get up.

Oh, man.