Mark Sheppard credited as playing...
Jim Sterling
- Jim Sterling: You know your entire plan depended on me being a self-serving utter bastard.
- Nathan Ford: Mm, yeah, that's a stretch.
- Nathan Ford: Here's how it's gonna go, Sterling.
- Jim Sterling: I'm all ears.
- Ian Blackpoole: No, you talk to me, not to him. You talk to me.
- Nathan Ford: [ignoring him] Every single painting will be returned to IYS the moment Ian Blackpoole is stripped of his position and all his assets in the company. Also, his policy of denying every claim, that ends.
- Jim Sterling: Extortion.
- Nathan Ford: I prefer to call it oversight.
- [he picks up a tape recorder and plays the recording, and the scene flashes back]
- Ian Blackpoole: Last time I saw you, you were selling me something.
- Nathan Ford: I got out of sales.
- Ian Blackpoole: So what are you in now?
- Nathan Ford: Uh, theft. Yeah, I'm going to rob, uh, the two Davids exhibit on opening day. Well, aren't you going to call the police?
- Ian Blackpoole: Of course not.
- Nathan Ford: [the scene returns to the present; Nate tosses the recorder to Sterling] When the owners of these paintings realize that Ian knew there was gonna be a theft but didn't call the police, well, they're gonna sue the hell out of him, aren't they?
- Jim Sterling: But if the company, in good faith, returns their paintings?
- Nathan Ford: They might not fire you, if you give them Blackpoole.