The Day of the Jackal (1973)

Max Faulkner: Special Branch Detective

Quotes 

• Insp. Thomas : [after Special Branch Detective finds Charles Calthrop's passport in his apartment]  What's this?

  Special Branch Detective : His passport.

  Insp. Thomas : Oh?

  Special Branch Detective : We checked it. It's him, all right. Look. The Dominican visa. There's no exit stamp, though. He must have got out on the sly.

  Insp. Thomas : You haven't grasped it yet, have you? Oh, yes, this is our man, all right. Definitely. But hasn't it occurred to you that we're holding his passport in our hands? If he is out of the country, what's he travelling on? Eh?

• Insp. Thomas : [to his squad]  He may be abroad, traveling on a false passport. What you're going to do now is to go down to the Passport Office. Get a complete list of every passport application for the last three months.

  Special Branch Detective : But, sir...

  Insp. Thomas : I don't care who's closed, wake the buggers up! Then take all those papers down to Somerset House, get started on checking the applicants' names against death certificates. Not birth certificates, mind you. If you find a passport filed by someone who died as a child, the one who filed it might be our man. If you don't find anything in the first three months, go back another three, and another three if you have to. Right, off you go!

• Special Branch Detective : Hughes here, sir. Paul Oliver Duggan: born April the 3rd 1929 in Sambourne Fishley, applied for a passport on July the 14th of this year; passport mailed July the 17th to an address in Paddington. That'll probably turn out to be an accommodation address. Why? Because Duggan died at the age of two and a half on November the 8th, 1931.