Billion Dollar Brain (1967)
Karl Malden: Leo Newbigen
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Quotes
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[Harry is shown a terminal of the Brain]
Harry Palmer : What does it do, tell fortunes?
Leo Newbigen : It *makes* fortunes: ours! Just a little toy, but it puts the MI5 and the CIA back into the Stone Age.
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Harry Palmer : Okay Leo, what's the job?
Leo Newbigen : The usual. Only more money.
Harry Palmer : What's the catch?
Leo Newbigen : No catch.
Harry Palmer : Who gets killed?
Leo Newbigen : Nobody. I'll take care of you.
Harry Palmer : No catch and nobody gets killed?
Leo Newbigen : That's right.
Harry Palmer : I'd still like to know more about it.
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Leo Newbigen : [Nude in the sauna with Anya] Harry hey, what do you think, huh? Isn't she something?
Harry Palmer : Yeah, she's great. How's the wife and kids, Leo?
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Harry Palmer : What exactly have you been saying we do in Latvia?
Leo Newbigen : I told the brain exactly what it wanted to hear.
Harry Palmer : Oh, yes? What would that be, Leo?
Leo Newbigen : I told it we had three hundred agents in Latvia dismantling missile sites and professional saboteurs ready for armed insurrection.
Harry Palmer : Er, or political assassination.
Leo Newbigen : Um, hmn. Mass uprisings...
Harry Palmer : Overthrowing governments.
Leo Newbigen : Yeah, overthrowing anything at all.
Harry Palmer : Three hundred agents? How much a week?
Leo Newbigen : Thirty thousand dollars.
Harry Palmer : Thirty thousand dollars a week?
Leo Newbegin : Plus expenses and from now on, you're in on half.
Harry Palmer : Oh, thank you, Leo. But I would like to stay alive to spend it. That lunatic is about to invade Soviet territory.
Leo Newbigen : And we're not going to be around when he does.
Harry Palmer : When he gets within five miles of the Latvian border, every alarm in the whole world will blow and four minutes later, nobody is going to be around.
Leo Newbigen : You want your money, don't you?
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Harry Palmer : [as they're all sitting in a steamy Finnish sauna] Leo, you look great... better than the last time I saw you.
Leo Newbigen : Yeah, In Prague. I haven't forgotten.
Leo Newbigen : [to Anya] That guy there saved my life. Fished me out of the Moldau.
Harry Palmer : I had to. He had the car... keys in his pocket.
Anya : Well, we must have a celebration. What do you think? Champagne? Brandy? Whisky? Vodka? What do you like?
Harry Palmer : I wouldn't mind a cup of tea...
Anya : [Bursts out laughing] How beautiful! It's so beautiful, for the Englishman to have his tea!
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Leo Newbigen : [Offering Palmer a cigarette] Cigarette?
Harry Palmer : [accepting it] Half-a-million thanks.
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Harry Palmer : It's a bit warm in here for me, Leo.
Leo Newbigen : Well, don't be shy. Take your clothes off. Come on, don't be so British. It's good for you. Come on.
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Leo Newbigen : I missed you this morning. You know that, baby?
Anya : You sentimental Yankee boy.
Leo Newbigen : Your Yankee Doodle Dandy, huh?
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Leo Newbigen : Are they what we wanted?
Dr. Eiwort : Of course they are. Enough to infect an entire army. Look, they're multiplying like little rabbits.
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Harry Palmer : What are you doing, Leo?
Leo Newbigen : A little "brain" surgery.