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You know

something?

I'm gonna have all the paranoia and nasty temper necessary to make an ace

foreign correspondent.

I think you're still trying to con me.

But flattery will get you everywhere.

Yeah, well, it's always worked for me before.

Damn, I forgot to bring a copy of the paper. Oh, we'll get one after the game.

No, no, no, no, no. They might be sold on you. Just go and get it. Well, they

were really going to be... Damn it, Jenny, can't you just do what I say?

Please. Is something the matter?

No, no, no, nothing is the matter. Just go and get it.

Go, go, go. Okay, sure.

Just go.

Scott. Dad.

You startled me.

The feeling was mutual, I do assure you, Scott.

Oh.

Why didn't you tell me you were coming?

It was really just sort of an impulse, sorry.

I mean, you weren't really home anyway.

You wouldn't have gotten my call.

Ah, no, no, well.

Anyway, how have you been?

You are looking very well.

Oh, yeah, great.

A mountaineer.

Played for Salzburg.

Huh? And banged up my knee climbing, but it's okay now.

Well, it wasn't your elbow.

Difficult to play the violin with one hand.

And how was Salzburg? I wish I could have seen you.

Oh, terrific, great.

Too bad you missed it. Yeah, I know, I know.

Last pressure of business, as usual, but I'll be there next term.

Oh, somehow I doubt that.

Even if you did get the chance, you'd probably just forget the schedule.

Like you did the last time.

Why are you angry with me?

Have I done something wrong?

Don't you remember anything about me?

Aren't you wondering why I'm here now?

When the new term started four weeks ago?

Oh, gee.

I'm sorry.

Mm -hmm.

You haven't quit, have you? No.

Don't worry about that.

I didn't have to.

They kicked me out.

Why?

I got into a beef with one of the conductors about how to attack music.

making bad choices, Dad. Cheap ones.

Kick me out six weeks ago, right after Salzburg. Six weeks?

Why didn't you tell anyone?

I did. People I knew.

Well, you didn't tell me. Aren't I people you know?

You really want to know the truth?

You. You seem so distant from me. Sometimes I feel closer to you when I

you a letter than when I'm standing here in person.

Telephone. This is Robert McCall. If you will leave your name and number, I will

return your call as soon as possible.

This is Jenny Alden.

Oh, please, you've got to help me.

There's a man following me and I... Hello? Hello.

I'm Robert McCall here. Oh, thank God you're here.

The police won't help me. I don't know what to do.

I'm sure he's going to do something horrible.

Calm down, calm down. Oh, please, can you come?

Yes, with the address.

Give me the address.

try and be with you as soon as I can, all right?

Try and not to worry.

Bye.

I'm going to Mom's. I'll get my stuff out of here. No.

Why don't you come with me, hmm? It shouldn't take very long.

And then we can talk.

Is she, um... Is she in no trouble?

Miss Alden?

It's open.

Hello.

I'm Robert McCall. You telephone me?

Miss Alden, if you are being threatened by a man, you really ought to lock your

door, you know.

Yes, I know.

Uh -oh.

But you're the man.

Uh, I'm sorry, I don't understand this. Who are you? The name is Jenny Morrow.

That was my father they kidnapped this afternoon, and I know you work for them.

And you're going to give him back to me.

Morrow.

Frank Morrow? You are Frank Morrow's daughter?

I'm sorry, I don't understand.

The hell you don't!

Oh, shoot, I will!

I don't think you will.

Come on, I'm not going to hurt you. Come on, give it to me.

Here, see?

Some automatics will fire when the hammer is in battle.

This particular weapon is not one of them.

Oh, please, don't. Don't what? I'm not going to hurt you. I told you that.

All right.

I'm a comforter.

I will do all I can to help you and your father. But first of all, I have to

know what happened.

Don't you know?

Don't you still work for General Estes?

I have never been employed.

By General Astiz.

You were the agency's point man for his coup when he took over the country.

You ran it.

Oh, now, where do you get the right to accuse my father of anything? All right,

Scott, all right.

I did know her father. He was a foreign correspondent, Latin America.

I met him when I was... working down there.

You know, my father thought it was very funny how there were these rumors going

around that you were here doing some sort of idealistic equalizer thing for

people when he knew who you really were.

And I just hope that since you were for hire in New York that maybe the as

-teeth people hired you.

I don't know why they would kidnap your father.

Not now, not here.

Didn't you see this week's paper?

It's right here.

See, my father knew that things were getting worse.

Aunt T's people were killing families in the squatter camps, killing students,

killing up to a thousand people a month.

So he went back.

See, that article is just the first. He's writing a... He is supposed to be

writing a whole series.

But, um... It

is the death squad, isn't it?

I mean, that's how they do it, right?

Now, listen. Just listen to me.

Your father must have had a great deal of help gathering this information.

So?

So, the overseas government is frightened. It's frightened it's losing

control.

Now, it's obvious from this article that your father not only knew the names of

the opposition leaders, but he knew exactly where they could be found.

where they were.

Us, these, would need that information very badly.

So badly that he'd go to any lengths to get it.

Does that mean my father's being tortured?

Not necessarily.

But what it does mean is that your father is certainly alive.

Do you know where he is? I mean, you at least owe it to him to try to help him.

Jenny, I do not know where he is.

But I will find him.

Your father is a good man.

He's a strong man.

And they will not be able to break him.

Anyway, they'll have to get him out of the country as soon as possible.

Pack some things, put them in a bag.

Also, if you find any of your father's papers and notes, gather them together.

You're not safe here. We're leaving. Go on, hurry.

Go. Do you have to go tonight?

No. Thank you for being with her. All right.

Dad?

Did you really run that coup?

Nobody ran it.

That was the trouble. It was out of control from the start.

You want to blow our cover?

Oh, no, no, no.

I mean, who would suspect a closed van parked over a telephone junction

box all night would be doing anything other than delivering orange juice?

Right. The budget cutters are running amok at the agency, McCall. They

even fund a rotating surveillance.

Nothing changes, does it?

Well, you're tapping now.

All these television set -ups. Special friend of the Hungarian, it's my shame.

What are you looking for, Robert?

Who am I looking for?

I don't know, but it might be Urgate, Strossner, and Captain Vincente at a

guess. Not friends of mine.

I know that.

But you did spend more time down there with them than I did.

And you did escort the North occasionally for various training

You planning on recruiting them as clients?

No, but I could be, couldn't I?

For those who didn't know me better.

Tell me, how far has the agency spread the news of my resignation?

Well, you know what the agency's like about embarrassments.

It covers them up, but it never fesses up.

Right, so help me.

Where would I find these men tonight?

Quickly.

Assuming that they have hurt somebody badly enough that they now feel like

macho men, where would they go?

I got one shot.

Where?

Try the Paradise.

That's it. Right, it's brand new, it's low -light, and the drinks go for $5 a

pop.

You know I didn't stay down there by choice.

Of course I know.

I know I leaked the one.

See ya.

Yeah.

Jenny?

What really happened down there?

Oh, it doesn't matter.

No, I really'd like to know what my father did.

I mean, you know everything about yours, but I'm not so sure I really know one

thing about mine.

Hey, Vicente.

Scotch. Scotch. Straight up? With water.

my job so well, they were able to cut their budget.

So here I am.

What are you doing now?

How do you say, uh, Relaciones Publicas?

Public relations. Yes, yes. Journalistic affairs.

And you?

Oh, a little bit of this, a little bit of that.

Import, export.

Many varieties.

Here.

Run a tab.

Thank you.

This isn't just a lucky meeting, is it?

Well... I mean, that depends on the final

outcome, doesn't it?

I heard on the radio today...

that Frank Morrow had disappeared.

And how does it concern you?

Well, I was thinking, whoever did it, I can find him a very stubborn man.

Too stubborn to crack here.

He'd rather die first, so they'd need to ship him home, where he can be put into

a prison hospital.

Now it is going to be damn difficult for them to ship him home, but I could do

it.

I mean, I have the experience.

My charges are not quite reasonable.

You might be right, McCraw.

Possibly. I'll tell you what.

No promises.

But come see me tomorrow.

Bogota will pick you up outside here at 9 a .m.

Okay?

Tomorrow.

I appreciate it.

Did you see my father?

No.

But I do know that he's alive.

And I will probably be able to get to him tomorrow.

Jenny's told me what they do.

I can't believe it. They trusted you?

Scott, I never meant to work for people like them. Not intentionally.

All right, listen to me.

When I started out in this business, I was full of idealism.

We were being pressed by our...

It seemed that they were crossing all borders.

And they are.

Korea, Berlin, Cuba, Vietnam.

You know, somewhere in the world today, there are

helicopters dropping toys mined so the little rebel

children blow their hands off.

Will you help murderers like our teeth?

Sometimes, in order to stop a fire, you have to create what we call a backfire.

So we created fires.

And a lot of people were burned.

Millions and millions of innocent people were burned.

And finally, I couldn't take it anymore, so do you know what I did? I resigned.

Because I was bound by a very firm contract.

But you still carry a gun, don't you?

You still throw people up against the wall.

Are you sure you quit?

Or have you just found new excuses for the same old kicks?

What do you know about...

to even attempt to judge me.

Good morning, Robert.

Come in.

I take it that tomorrow is still being uncooperative?

Well, you will see for yourself.

The opposition leaders

Where?

McCall, this is what you worked so hard for, huh?

How do you like it?

How soon can you move him? Within the hour.

I have space available on a very secure cargo plane.

All right, we're getting ready.

This would make our hosts happier anyway.

Even they get nervous these days.

Hosts?

Are you telling me the agency has sanctioned this?

In a manner of speaking.

What are you doing here, McCall? Collecting for your favorite charity?

He's providing cargo services your agency couldn't guarantee.

Cargo services? That's very good, Vincente.

What's the matter? You the guy they pinned the kick -me sign on in school?

Haven't you heard?

McCall's trying to become a legend in his own time.

He's a renegade.

Why don't you give me your gun, McCall?

Very slowly and left -handed. I want to see if it's really loaded with silver

bullets.

As you wish, Eric.

I should have. It would improve my annual performance evaluation.

How the hell did you get into this?

I'm trying to say a man called Frank Morrow. Do you know him?

Is your section sponsoring this?

This is a special assistance group that reports directly to Southern Control.

Eric is the new liaison to us teams.

What the hell? He shouldn't be up here in the first place. You're trying to say

that Eric shouldn't have come north without permission. You're right. But

is an agency problem, Robert. This will be solved by the agency intern.

Yes.

I'll back them up and cover up.

Noro was warned.

Look, you were the one who authorized a seasoned man to expel him during the

coup. I know that.

But there is a difference.

between offering a man a hot meal and a ticket home and doing what they are

doing to him now.

Look, he shouldn't have gone back in. He knew the risks. Look, if they had

caught him down there, they would have handled it the same way. This is a

nunc pro tonc.

They're trying to stabilize, Robert. I mean, human rights are on the agenda,

it's going to take a little time.

Nunc pro tonc.

Now as though then.

Are you trying... to justify all this by quoting a little law latin to me how is

that what you whisper to yourself at night in order to get yourself asleep

Set your meeting.

The agency cannot afford another

embarrassment, not this year.

Stola will be there. He will not be leading a negotiating team.

Oh, I know Stola will be there.

He was there the last time I met him.

I really don't have a choice, do I?

Yes, you have a choice. You do. You can back off and run.

I can't do that.

I created the blasted monster in the first place.

By engineering nothing cool.

So I've got to see it through to the end.

One way or the other.

You can do me a favor.

Name any of my friends in town.

Stark, Alec.

Crossman.

You warn them of me. Tell them to keep away.

No point in everybody getting caught in the crossfire.

Dad,

what's happened? Lock the door.

Have you seen my father yet?

Yes. He's all right.

I may be able to get him out.

There's a chance.

You did bring your father's papers, Jenny?

Dad, we talked about that.

Jenny, we would like to know what you're going to do with them.

They are a damn sight less valuable than her father's life, aren't they?

Right, certain things you have to know, Scott.

This is a list of friends you can trust and safe houses.

These are the keys.

Take them.

Take them.

No.

Take them.

No. Damn it, Scott. Will you take them?

Now, this is where my money is.

What's going on? Oh, damn it, Scott. Will you take it?

It's reasonably clean.

The agents, as good as I was, command very high fees.

And, of course, the smart ones parley them in the marketplace when they smell

crisis brewing.

So, you see, there is quite a lot of money.

Jenny, get your father's papers, will you?

You don't think you're coming back?

Dad?

Stay here for another hour.

If you haven't heard from me by then, run.

Keep your wits about you, Scotty.

And forget all the nonsense we bickered about.

I've always been very proud of you.

And I've always cared for you very deeply.

Just remember that.

Thank you.

Oh, no. Dad!

I have to go.

I feel like we're in a trap.

Do you know how to use all those guns?

Not really.

So, I never really wanted to learn.

Scott, do you think that I can really trust your father?

Or do you think that he might try to make some kind of deal?

We're friends of your father.

My name is Stock.

What's happened to your dad?

That's far enough, McCall.

In fact, I think most of us would agree that you've come much too far already.

Now, don't be hasty, Stoler.

I'm here to deal.

With what?

We want the girl.

Morrow's notes and contacts in exchange for the girl's life.

And mine.

No deal, McCall.

Come on, come on, Stella.

That'd be unreasonable.

I mean, what do you want with a girl anyway?

I mean, she can't prove or disprove anything.

The girl, McCall.

And you can walk.

No, no, no, you're asking too much.

That's too bad, McCall.

Because that was my last offer.

What the hell, anyway?

Dress and the key.

All I ask is that you leave my son out of this.

I take him.

There is a God.

No deal, McGon.

Where's Alex?

Securing the others.

Why don't you step outside for a minute, Robert? I'll get your answer for you.

I learned an interesting little Spitznaz technique in Afghanistan.

No. Just a little tit for tat.

No!

Call.

We couldn't move him.

The agency wouldn't give us another safe house.

I think that's where your father is. You better call the police and the press.

It's imperative they get there on time, otherwise there is nothing to prevent it

from happening again.

Where are y 'all, man?

Don't worry, they can handle McCall. No.

It's time for leg today.

Well, pass.

Unante! Hey!

No.

Kill him!

All the way.

You're under arrest. Wait, wait, wait. You can't do this.

You know who I work for? I got a pretty good idea who you work for, and yes, I

can. You're under arrest for kidnapping and attempted murder.

We can't beat the whole agency, McCall.

They'll never live to talk about it.

I doubt that, Eric. I really do doubt that.

Dad! Jenny!

and assessment from outside of Eric's section.

Really?

What grade are you going to give him?

I think it's an F.

You shot the moon, Robert.

Yes, I did, didn't I?

Well, sometimes things do work out with a little help from one's friends.

The orders to Doc and Alex... To avoid me was given rather quickly, wasn't it?

Sometimes... Naturally, they came straight round to my apartment, didn't

You know, sometimes it's just hard to keep those independent contractors in

mind.

Robert, look, the agency won't dare hit you now, not with their hands caught in

this ringer, but in a few months, you watch your back, all right?

Memories are long.

Yeah.

And usually bitter.

You know, Dad, whenever we get together, you start off on the wrong foot.

And today, when I thought I might not see you again,

I got to thinking about everything I said to you.

I'm sorry.

I was wrong.

I really don't know anything about what you must have gone through.

I never really gave you the chance to get to know me anyway, did I, Scott?

I just hope there's still time.

Just a little time.

Don't worry, Dad, they're in.

Plenty of time.

Plenty of time.