Kevin Costner credited as playing...
Thomas Harper
- 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: [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: 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.