Masquerade (TV Series)

Pilot (1983)

Robert Sterling: Jacques Marchand

Quotes 

• Jacques Marchand : It's not like the old days. We no sooner get a new agent trained, and they've got him cross-indexed in that damn computer and marked for execution.

  Mr. Lavender : New times require new methods. We've got to find people who have no previous record in intelligence work.

  Jacques Marchand : Untrained agents running around the world? I hope we never get that desperate.

• Mr. Lavender : [Shouldering their way through a crowd of tourists in the Washington D.C. airport]  Marchand, I believe I've seen the light. Just think of it - tourists! We've got them all over the world.

  Jacques Marchand : A dreadful specter.

  Mr. Lavender : A wonderful opportunity. Good, hardy American stock, and specialists in just about anything you can think of.

  Jacques Marchand : Lavender, you would no more send a...

  Mr. Lavender : Oh, yes, I would! Who could you find more loyal? And just think of it: every one of them would do anything for a chance at a little adventure.

  Jacques Marchand : How would you do it? How would you find them?

  Mr. Lavender : Exactly the same way the Russians find all our agents - with computers. Jacques, go back to Paris.

  Jacques Marchand : Well, what are we going to call this little operation when Paris starts asking me what I'm up to?

  Mr. Lavender : We'll call it Operation: Masquerade.