Timothy Hutton credited as playing...
Christopher Boyce
- [explaining why he didn't express his unhappiness with the CIA in a more acceptable manner]
- Christopher Boyce: It wouldn't have made a difference. I freely chose my response to this absurd world. If given the opportunity, I would have been more vigorous.
- [on the Russians]
- Christopher Boyce: They're just as paranoid and dangerous as we are. I don't know why I ever thought any differently.
- [to his politically conservative father, while watching the Watergate hearings]
- Christopher Boyce: Can't you admit that just once, I was right about something?
- Christopher Boyce: I know a few things about predatory behavior. And what was once a legitimate intelligence gathering agency is now being misused to prey on weaker governments.
- Larry Rogers: The Black World is a code name for a family of covert surveillance satellites - conceived by the Defense Department, manufactured and maintained by RTX, and used primarily by a company you may have heard of - in Langley, Virginia.
- Christopher Boyce: Central Intelligence.
- Christopher Boyce: I think somebody might've made a mistake. Is this the black vault?
- Laurie: No, but you're getting warm.
- Daulton Lee: How much are they paying you or is that a big secret?
- Christopher Boyce: Uh, 140 a week, before taxes.
- Daulton Lee: Do you know what I'm offering you? Do you know what I make?
- Christopher Boyce: Ten times that.
- Daulton Lee: Easy. It's about to double. I'm this far away from a truly amazing connection.
- Gene: Why didn't you tell me your old man was FBI?
- Christopher Boyce: Well, cause he isn't any more.
- Gene: Once FBI, always FBI.
- Mr. Charlie Boyce: My golly! Will you look at this! Where did you get this? You can't buy these in the United States. Where'd you get it son?
- Christopher Boyce: Peking!
- Mr. Charlie Boyce: Huh? Oh, come on!
- Christopher Boyce: Every day I get these misrouted cables - the CIA's secret mail. Details of covert action that have *nothing* to do with national security. Manipulations of foreign press, political parties, whole economies. I mean, it's incredible. I had no idea the extent of the lie, the level of deception.
- Alex: Christopher, we're not unalike, you and I. I, too, have had my doubts. I know what it does to a person. I know what you're feeling.
- Christopher Boyce: What are you talking about? I'm not a professional like you. This isn't a career for me. It was impulsive. I never expected it to go on as long as it has. I'm not like you. You have no idea what I'm feeling. You want a mole in the CIA, you find somebody else.
- Christopher Boyce: I've never been an agent for the KGB. I work for no one but myself. I belong to no political organisations other than the Democratic Party.
- F.B.I. Interrogator: You understand by turning over US secrets to the Soviet Union you're putting every man, woman, and child in this country in jeopardy.
- Christopher Boyce: They're already in jeopardy.
- Christopher Boyce: I appreciate fear. The chance to face it. There's nothing more exhilarating than confronting your fears.