The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)

William Holden: Eric Erickson

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• Eric Erickson : How does a person get to be so cold-blooded?

  Collins : Watching German planes bomb London helps *enormously*!

• Eric Erickson : I'm curious. Ever since I met you, I've wondered what they have on you. The Allies, I mean. They've told me if I don't work for them, I lose my business.

  Marianne Möllendorf : Oh, I see. Yes, I have something to lose too. If I don't help them I lose my self-respect. Well, haven't *you* ever opposed anything for the simple reason that it's wrong? Morally wrong?

• Eric Erickson : Suddenly, he becomes your brother.

• Eric Erickson : When other people hate you it's unfortunate. But when you hate yourself, it's unbearable.

• Eric Erickson : My conscience has always been like a well trained dog. You could tell it to go sit in a corner and be quiet and it would. Since I've known you it hasn't been quite so obedient. It keeps shouting for me to do the very thing that your conscience won't permit.

• Marianne Möllendorf : In case one of us should get arrested and questioned, I think we ought to know a few intimate details about each other. Now, for your information, I have a scar, appendicitis, right here.

  [Points to right lower abdomen] 

  Marianne Möllendorf : , and, um, a birthmark there

  [points under her right breast] 

  Marianne Möllendorf : wine-colored.

  Eric Erickson : White or red?

  Marianne Möllendorf : Vin rose.

• Eric Erickson : That, i think, was the loneliest moment of my life.