Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)

Kevin Costner: Thomas Harper

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• Jack Ryan : [to Harper, while arguing with Cathy]  Can we have a... a-a-a minute, please ?

  William Harper : No, you can't.

  Cathy Muller : I would like to talk to Jack alone.

  William Harper : This is geopolitics. It's not couples therapy.

• William Harper : [to Jack]  You're not just an analyst anymore. You're operational now.

• William Harper : [waiting to see the president]  Any way you can get that boy-scout-on-a-field-trip look off your face?

  Jack Ryan : [big smile]  Not a chance.

  William Harper : That's what I like about you.

• William Harper : I want to send you back to school to finish your doctorate, then you'll join financial intelligence as an analyst. You'll work in a series of private banks on Wall Street while you'll use your position to uncover funding for terror groups.

  Jack Ryan : Covertly.

  William Harper : Yep. So, you have to keep it to yourself. Your employers won't know you work for us; the people you love won't know you do, either. It's gonna get lonely but... it's how we like to do things.

• Jack Ryan : Jesus, you weren't kidding. You *are* in the CIA.

  William Harper : Somebody has to be.

• Jack Ryan : You know, people don't like you guys very much these days. Waterboarding. Rendition.

  William Harper : Not my unit.

  Jack Ryan : Come on. You can do better than that.

  William Harper : I can. And I do. And so do the people in my unit.

  Jack Ryan : Which unit is that?

  William Harper : The one that makes sure we don't get hit again.

• William Harper : Why didn't you finish your Ph.D.?

  Jack Ryan : I joined the Marines.

  William Harper : And saved two of your men. You handled yourself like a hero. If you still want to serve your country, there's another way.

  Jack Ryan : You're not really in the CIA, are you? What are you? Treasury? Foreign Asset Control?

• William Harper : First person I ever killed, Jack, was innocent.

  Jack Ryan : What did he do?

  William Harper : She. She didn't do anything. She was a bystander. Somebody who just. - just came up behind me too quick.

  Jack Ryan : Jesus. How do you get over something like that?

  William Harper : If you're lucky, you get past it.

  Jack Ryan : That's not the same thing.

  William Harper : No, it isn't.

• Jack Ryan : If Cherevin touches her, I'll kill him.

  William Harper : It's just dinner, Jack. The most he can do is look. And to be honest, we need him to.

• Jack Ryan : He's in Pennsylvania.

  William Harper : Nobody blows up Pennsylvania, Jack.

• William Harper : We're not digging hard enough! Everybody goes somewhere.