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In judgment today, Michael, believe me, I will not make another. There's a woman

who's going to die unless we help her. A lot of people don't like his politics.

He is marked down for assassination.

And so are you.

That's old news.

Get him.

Move.

You'll have me one.

Why don't you go back to your playpen? This is a game for adults only.

I thought she'd be gone by now.

Uh... I got my coat.

Look, I didn't mean to come back, all right? I know I shouldn't have seen you,

but...

No

problem.

Barry.

Why the urgency?

Something came.

What do you mean, something came? I'm no longer in the business.

then someone's not up to date.

leftist. It's hard to tell.

The place was jammed earlier.

Who's Carla?

Where? Texas,

I hear.

Damn.

I need somebody dependable. I don't know.

I'm available when?

Friday, 4pm.

Tomorrow.

I'm intrepid. Who's the opposition?

Michael Rosa.

Are you on?

Yeah. Who's calling?

A woman.

You cover my back. Just leave Michael to me.

You're taking a hell of a chance.

And here's where you drop off.

Keep on your toes.

Do you want me to go with you?

It's your meeting. Go on.

Let's take a walk.

Is saving Carla's life worth a 24 -hour truce between us?

So that's Michael Rosen.

In fact, until I got your message, for all I knew, she might be dead.

Carla's married to Vizay Holden.

Vizay Holden.

Well, yes, yes.

Yes, he'd be perfect for her.

Right amount of morality.

Correct level of integrity.

He's already written his Nobel acceptance speech, but he'll never

There's a contract out to kill him.

And her as well.

Somebody finds his dreams for constitutional independence a little too

constitutional for comfort.

And too much a product of her influence.

So the inspired must be killed along with the inspirer.

Who's the trigger?

Me.

Now, I wonder why that doesn't surprise me.

Don't you love the irony of it?

All right, why this meeting?

I accepted this job because if I hadn't, they would have just hired somebody

else. This way, with your help, we can save her.

Go on, I'm listening.

There's a backup.

You know and I know there's always a backup.

If I miss, if I'm aborted or neutralized, the backup is there to step

finish the job.

Who is the backup?

I don't know.

That's why I need your help.

You still love her?

No.

All happened to you a long time ago.

Everything's changed.

I've changed.

I presume she has.

You've changed most of all.

What happened?

You know what happened.

She vanished. You blamed me. I blamed you.

You turned into some sort of freelance killer.

And I stayed far too long.

She always said she couldn't choose between us.

Flip side to the same coin.

We can't let her die, Robert.

No matter what she did.

I want to hear the ring of truth.

And the second I fail to hear it, you are a dead man.

Hit him.

Move.

Is this your setup, or was yours?

It's control.

No shooting.

Go that way.

We're taking road nuts. Tell us, McCall.

You want to talk about it?

McCall's gone over. We're taking him out, too.

Can't be serious. They weren't about to do that.

Excuse me. They?

There is no they. I am the they.

McCall's teamed up with Rosa, the man assuming in the wrong suit.

What about control?

A hell of a control.

That's great. Great.

Five minutes and four people shot. There's a flag on one of us. It's got to

you. Who else knows your target? The Dutchman who paid me in the backup,

he is. I'll tell you something.

I made one error in judgment today, Michael. Believe me, I will not make

another. You always muddy your goals, McCall. I'm not the point unless you

to make it that.

There's a woman who's going to die unless we help her.

Because of what happened yesterday on the Intrepid, I'm going to have to go

under, way under.

I've got to find some way of getting hold of the Secret Service playbooks so

that I can get it in through the various cracks.

Good. That's just the kind of stuff I need from you.

Not time yet. Where are you going?

Inside, I've agreed.

I'll tell you something.

I'm going to try and talk to her. I am going to abort your mission.

You can't do that.

Think about what you're doing.

Robert?

Going up now.

Call him.

Call him?

My God.

Does it surprise you?

No, no, no.

He's a wonderful man, Robert.

Oh, sure he is.

And what he's trying to do will help us all.

A lot of people don't like his politics.

Or his goals.

He is marked down for assassination.

And so are you.

That's old news.

Leave the city.

I can't.

I wish we could.

This is the most dangerous city for him to be in right now.

There are at least four separate factions that want him dead.

But would they be satisfied if he just became invisible?

Well, he hides, they win.

Well, I have a heart to heart with him.

You know, we've had a problem meeting men like him.

Because he lacks ulterior motives.

I can read him.

I must admit, I don't completely understand him.

Especially nowadays, when martyrs have such a short shelf life.

I'll tell you what he would say.

No man can touch a river the same way... Carla, the assassin this time

is Michael.

What is he doing in this? The trip is just too important.

If you value your life, you'll leave him now.

I can't.

I love him.

You loved me once.

You walked away from me. Walk away from him.

Help us, Robert. Keep him alive.

Even if he makes it through this weekend.

If he gets out of New York City, it's only a matter of time. And if you are

him,

they'll get you too.

Robert, keep it safe for me, for us, for whatever reason you want.

Madam Holden, there you are.

I'm sorry.

I know she's charming, and I don't blame you at all that you're monopolizing our

guest of honor. Oh, I'm sorry.

We need you for photographs in a minute.

It was a pleasure meeting you.

I would like to continue this conversation, but tomorrow my day is

appointments.

And I did want to get some shopping done in the morning while I'm in the city. I

quite understand.

Goodbye. Goodbye.

The photographers insist they want you and Mr. Holden together.

Hi. Hi. I'm Sarah Claxton. I edit financial monthly.

And you are?

Oh, I'm leaving.

What's going on?

This is how you're going to help me.

I didn't say I'd help you, Mike.

Damn it, McCall.

So what is it?

Can I depend on you or what? I don't know.

Well, let's get out of here. Wait a minute.

What are you pulling now?

Just wait.

Just one more. Close together.

Great.

Watch. Watch.

I had to see the palace guards go through their moves.

I think I'm just a little underdressed.

Hey,

Mike.

Boy, did they scatter.

What a fire drill, huh?

They were mine.

I could have picked them off.

Cheer up, kid.

You're too tight.

These kids coming up, they take things so seriously, don't you think?

You did a hell of a job.

Count it.

What are your plans?

Well, I, uh... I heard about this gig in Rome in a couple weeks.

I know a guy you should talk to when you get there.

I'll write down his name.

You tell him to contact me.

I'll give you the best reference, because you did a hell of a job, kid.

Really.

It's how I stay alive, McCall.

Let's not confuse things here.

Two weeks from now, somebody will be paying him to take me out.

You want to help me drag him out of here?

You clean up your own mess.

got a problem, McCall.

Why, did you get the itinerary?

Yeah, I got the itinerary and the overlay for security, but the price we

on didn't include some grease I had to spread on the file clerk.

Usually I'd swallow it, but the lawyer I hired to keep me from getting eaten up

by the divorce is eating me up.

Eating you up? Yeah.

Bad.

There's no way that anybody would know that these copies are stolen? No, they

aren't coded.

Well, this should cover your extra expenses.

Her lawyer's the guy I should have got.

For a while, he had me convinced that I should take a third job to pay for her

aerobics class.

What time's the assassination due?

2 .15.

No, no, no, no. You want to enter from here?

That's optimum.

No, no.

That's not good enough.

In a game like this, the house always wins.

I'm always the house.

This time you are supposed to lose, not win.

We have to make the odds at least even.

How do you propose to do that?

I have to go and see Holden.

Why? To switch out the lights so that we can play the game in the dark.

We need to change the place by changing his schedule.

You're confident he'll see you?

Oh, yes, yes, you'll see me.

Among all the things I hate is your arrogance.

This assumption that you can simply walk in and people will bow and scrape.

That's not why you hate me, Michael.

Yes. Mr McCall is on his way.

Very well.

Please, sit down. No, no, thank you.

I really don't have time.

I do have one question.

Do you want to live?

I can try to save your life, but I would need a little help from you.

God let this, you think I have martyr's eyes.

That may be true, but I don't have a martyr's courage.

You're right when you think they're going to get me because as you know a

motivated a session is impossible to stop And a good job of it so far.

We've been lucky Yes, I Have to ask you to do certain things.

Tell me what you want.

I can't promise that I can do any of them Your itinerary has been

known for some time It's been distributed.

I want you to change it.

Oh you were Keep all your appointments, of course. Meet the people you have to

meet. But change the order. For instance, five becomes six, four becomes

one becomes three, and so on.

That would cause enormous confusion.

Exactly.

You must have mixed emotions about keeping me alive.

It would seem my death could benefit you.

I have no emotions at all when it comes to work.

And if you're talking about Carla, they're going to kill her, too.

I have lived with confusion for a long time.

I'll make the changes.

Thank you.

You look terrific.

Now, do you mind telling me what the hell is going on? We had this guy

like a plank, and now he's totally revised the schedule. I don't know how

plan for what he's going to do tomorrow. This is going to be loads of fun.

He turned everything inside out. There is no schedule.

How'd this happen?

Rosa thinks with his kneecap.

McCall. We know that for a fact?

That smells like McCall.

Redirection. Turn everything back on itself.

Somebody had to come up with a very elaborate plan to 86 this guy Holder.

And now what McCall has done, he's taken that plan, torn it up, and thrown it

into the wind. There's no time for any sophistication.

Nobody's got a whole card to neutralize anyone's advantage.

All right, run down Holden's revised schedule for me.

He's got followed by a tour of Wall Street and a visit to Battery Park.

And he's up at Sutton Place for a reception.

He gives a speech at St. John's, then meets with the Archbishop.

So, this is where it happens.

This is how.

The crowds will come all over here. There'll be barricades along here.

Security car will pull up first, followed by the limousine.

Carla and Holden will climb out of the limousine.

The guards will be wary as they go through the crowd, because that's where

they'll be most vulnerable.

Then they'll climb to the second level, where they'll turn and wave.

And that's where I'll shoot, but I'll miss.

So the backup will take over.

Bolden goes down.

And Carlo wins.

Always comes back to the question of the backup.

It could be anyone.

Bodyguard, policeman, reporter.

Any one of the people who's come here to meet Lizet.

Anyone in the crowd.

That's a hell of a jumble.

No, not really.

The actions of the backup, now they have to be purely instinctive.

They can't be choreographed.

Because he hasn't had time to prepare this location.

That's why you're always so damn good, Robert.

You always let logic get in the way.

I have to go now.

We have work to do.

Oh, indeed we do.

Thanks.

No, no games.

Come on.

Not much time.

We have a lot to talk about.

Don't curse, Michael.

I don't.

Why did you say that to me?

He hates you.

He's not here because he hates me. He's here because he loves you.

I've never been able to drive you from my mind.

Even though I had no choice when I left.

And I know you're wrong for me.

But when I saw you, it all came rushing back.

Will you leave a question?

Leave it all outside tonight.

And after tonight?

That I'll leave?

And go back to a man that I don't love?

And you'll help me keep him alive because he's better than we are.

He can accomplish what we only dream of doing.

And I'll stay with him.

But I'll always love you.

You're getting turned around on, then.

Nobody's getting turned around.

I saw McCall.

You don't just need Mia's backup.

You're going to need two more now.

What the hell's the matter with you?

Are you on something?

What do you think of me?

Do you love me?

Do you even like me?

This is weird!

You'll get your money.

We'll finish the job.

Everything's fine.

It went so simple.

And now you've made it so complicated.

Listen, do you mind explaining what the hell you think you're doing exactly?

We've been working on this for about six months now.

Hmm?

Where's Control?

Uh, well, Control's a memory.

Sorry.

Since when?

Yeah, he lost your hook there, I'm afraid. In fact, I don't think you have

friend left in the agency. It's a shame, really. Michael Rosa.

Where is he?

Well, you know all the answers, Jason. You're a very bright boy.

You know something? You're way over the top, McCall. We don't run the store like

some old mustache Pete anymore. It's under new management.

Do you understand what I'm saying to you?

You know, we had a long discussion all about you. You know what we come up

So what?

Really? I mean, nobody cares.

Well, there are a few people who think you're very dangerous, you know, and you

should be dealt with. But personally, I don't think you're worth a new shuffle.

It's time, McCall.

Your time was then, this is now, and as they say, then ain't now.

You know what you should do? You should go away.

Someplace warm, maybe. Lie down and fade.

I'm leaving now because I have some business to attend to.

But if I see you or any of your people, I shall come back and I

shall tear out your vicious little tongue.

So why don't you go back to your playpen and sit there? This is a game for

adults only.

Now, do you understand?

Get

out

of here, all right? Get out of here.

Michael, come on, come on. Where the hell are you? Where are you?

Come on, McCall. Think, think.

Come on, McCall. Who would be your choice as the backup?

Michael's not here.

Has he changed the plan?

No, he couldn't be.

Where are you, Danny? Where are you?

I'm with you.

There are some questions I would ask if I did not fear the answers.

You have nothing to fear.

You are my strength.

One more day, and we're home.

All right, he's with us. He's with us. Back off.

Back off. Back off.

A backup?

It wasn't a backup. It was you.

Why?

I wanted her to die.

And for you to see it.

Get out of here.

Go on, go.

You got what you wanted. You had Holden's wife. You got Michael.

But be happy and get the hell out of here.