Quotes From the Long Drop
Guthrie: [answers phone] Guthrie. Tell him I'll be right in. You wait for me outside.

Man2: I think you'd better focus on what's going on here, Guthrie. People want to know how you managed to bring this company to the brink of ruins.

Guthrie: Look at them own there. All the media crying fire and none of them understand the first thing about whats going on. I've received some interesting information. The low reading on our stock this morning was a false reading. Sabotaged by a computer hacker.

Man2: If you think that theory will help save your job--

Guthrie: Oh, it'll save more than my job. You see, what I believe in happened to our stock was an attempt on somebodies part, possibly somebody on this board, to pick up a few cheap shares and get control of this company.

Man2: That is absurd. Your contempt for this board will not help your situation any.
Guthrie: No, but my proof will. You see, this guy came to me and he showed me the whole deal. Somebody manipulated the main computer at the finance news network, forcing it to give false readings on our stock. The network reported it and the fun started. Everybody was short selling us right off the board. And, you know, this man showed me all of this just by putting his hand  on top of the computer. Now, he's just outside here in the lobby. I'll go and get him.
Man2: That won't be necessary.


Man2: I'll take care of him.

Dent: Finally...Thorber.

Thorber: Dent.

Black News Reporter: As for the final chapter in the McCarty's International saga, only time will tell. For World Financial News this is Swick Davis. Okay, Chris we've got that one. Let's wrap it up and take the tape down, okay?

Police Officer: Okay, thats enough, management wants you off the property.

PO: Call for backup!

Man on TV: Another successful mission should further the space program.
Laura: I was watching that.
E: Sorry. They just seem to be talking about nothing.
L: How do you do that?
E: I don't know. I suppose as soon as I lose interest in a show the channel changes.
L: As soon as I think I know all of your tricks you come up with new ones.
E: How am I supposed to keep you entertained.
L: How did you do that?
E: Oh, lots of concentration, years of self denial...
L: Okay, where's the remote?
E: And a little physical contact with the remote.
L: You were touching it?
E: Yes, we have bonded.
L: Well, get interested with channel five.
E: Okay, channel five.
L: Thank you....Ethaniel!
E: I just let my mind wander.
L: Well, wander back to channel five.
Swick Davis [black TV reporter]: It appears that Albert Guthrie, CFO of McCarty International, has just committed suicide by jumping from his office on the 30th floor of the McCarty's building.
Thorber: He didn't jump. He was pushed.
L: What?
E: That was my brother!
L: Ethaniel!

Man2: The evidence is all cleared out. How could you let Thorber escape?
D: That diving exhibition you staged didn't help any. There were police everywhere.
Man2: That is no excuse.
D: It was sloppy killing Guthrie in the public, Mr. Banning will not be happy.
M2: He will be happy when I deliver his company to him.

Policeman: Hey, what's going on here?
M2: [turns around] He's seen me.

M2: Cover it, I have a plane to catch.

Policeman1: Hey, hey, what the hell.
D[as Laura]: Sorry boys.

Policeman2: Officer down. Suspect heading down on elevator.  Female, White, mid-20's, blond hair.

P: Where in position now.
D [as Policeman]: Hey, easy guys.
PL: Where's the girl?
D [as P]: I got on a the 12th, it was empty.
Police Lieutenant: Okay, seal it up!

P3: Hey! Get back behind that tape.
E: I'm looking for my brother.
P3: We've had a couple of murders here...it can wait.
E: It can't wait!
PL: Hey, you! This is a crime scene!
E: I'm looking for my brother.
PL: Get this idiot out of here.
E: Please, just let me find my brother.
PL: Drop it, right now!
E: I saw my brother on television. He was the one that said he pushed the man. I need to find him.
PL: So you assault my officer-
E: That's not what I intended to do.
LP: Yeah, well, we're looking for him too cause he may be our only witness. Maybe you can help us help you but you better shave that attitude. There are enough hot heads around here. You know, we lost a brother today too. Cop got killed. Ethaniel Waterman. Who's this brother of yours?
E: His name is Thorber, he's a scientist.
LP: A scientist-what the hell is he doing around here?
E: That's what I'm trying to find out too. Let me just take a quick look around the building.
LP: Uh uh, this building is of limits.
E: Look, you got two bodies down, one of them is a cop. I might be able to help you  identify the killer.
LP: Hoag, take him around the building. When you get back I've got some questions for you.

Hoag: He's not in here. Next room.
E: Wait.
H: I said he's not in here. Let's go. Now!
E: Just wait a minute.

Hoag: You know, when I'm off duty I would like to take you on, one-on-one. Just fists.
E: No you wouldn't.
H: Fair fight?
E: It wouldn't be.

L: Excuse me, I'm looking for somebody.
LP: Everybody is looking for somebody, miss. Back behind the yellow line.
L: There he is.
H: That's her! Hold her.
LP: I don't think so, Hoag, she come from across the street.
H: That's her! The suspect, I saw her!
E: She's with me.
LP: Hey, wait, miss.
H: She was right there when I found officer Clay. I don't know how I changed her clothes so fast, but I'd recognize her anywhere.
LP: Hoag, she came from across the street.
H: It was her.
L: I'm sorry, I don't know what you're talking about.
H: So why'd you run?
E: She's with me-she doesn't have anything to do with this.
H: She's the one I saw, definitely.
E: Something very bad has happened here but you have the wrong idea.
H: I know what I saw.
E: She wouldn't hurt anybody.
LP: Okay, let's go, both of you.
E: What, that's it? You're through with your investigation.
L: Ethaniel, calm down.
LP: I think we got what we came for-lets go!
L: Ethaniel, wait!

L: It'll make it worse.
E: They want to arrest us.
L: Now they'll want to arrest us more.

L: Let's tell the truth!
E: Not a good idea, Laura. The truth is very strange.

H: Right there. Where'd you think you were going?
E: I didn't think you'd miss us so much.
LP: You are under arrest. Get them out of here.

H: What'd you do to the computer?
E: Nothing. Just read it, that's all.
H: I saw you touch it. What did you do? Activate something?

H: Hey, what are you waiting for?

L: Oh, my God.
D: [to Ethaniel] Just you.
E: [whispering to Laura] Stay low.
D: So...where's your brother?
E: I'm not going to help you. Once you get what you want from my brother you'll kill him.
D: Better him than you, no, or the girl? She's certainly disposable.
E: You won't touch her.
D: She will not leave here alive unless you tell us something.
E: As long as you need me to lead you to him, you won't kill us.
D: There's a lot we can do short of killing. [He's making a reference to rape/torture]
D: Take the girl out of the car.
E: I can't let that happen.
D: [to Laura] Get out of the car.

D: [Dent gets up and sees the two are gone, he aims his gun at nothing but air where Ethaniel and Laura would have been]  Uuugghhh...


Byder: Man, where have you guys been? They want you for pushing Albert Guthrie out of his window, killing one cop, and now disappearing.

B: Look at that, police sketches?
L: Not very flattering.
E: Is that supposed to be me?
B: I recognized it. How'd you two get involved in this corporate mess?
L: He saw his brother.
E: Thorber...he was trying to warn the police that Guthrie had been pushed.
B: That's your brother? I've got his picture. I taped the news, footage and I made the stills off the tape.
E: That's him. This'll help.
L: Help what?
E: Help me find him.
L: [to Byder] What do you know about this?
B: It's Borchers.
L: Who is he?
B: I don't know but I think your brother knew and that's why they wanna kill him. Borchers has served on the executive board of three companies. Each one had to do with silicon-based companies, each one had a sudden stock dive that led to the company being bought out for peanuts.  Looks to me, cause I can add and subtract, that he's working for Banning.

L: What are you doing?
E: I think that we should have a little talk with Borchers.
B: Yeah, just walk up to him and say-
E: Where's my brother?
B: That's not smart. He's working with Banning, he's bound to know who you are.
E: Then Banning can tell him how I am when I get upset.
B: This, this doesn't sound like a great plan.
E: It's the plan. It's my first lead,...I can't just ignore it.
B: You can't just-talk to him!
L: Ethaniel: guns, cops, police sketches, remember?
B: You can't reach Borchers anyway, the cops have been looking for him to question him and they haven't had any luck.
E: I can find him.
B: What makes you so sure?
E: Because I have to!
B: There are people looking for you.
E: As usual.
B: Well, you got some ideas?
E: yes, I accessed the computer in the boardroom. Borchers just e-mailed a registration for two at a hotel in Niagara falls.
L: I guess you better put a 'Just Married' sign on the car.
E: Why?
L: Niagara falls is for couples. You want to blend in don't you?

B: She's got a point.
E: Your right There's a lot of couples.
L: Honeymooners.
E: Honey what?
L: Honeymooners. When people get married the first thing they do is go on a honeymoon. It's time for them to be together.
E: The whole marriage is time for them to be together.
L: It's romantic.
E: Oh...
L: It's in the air. Can't you feel it?
E: Oh, yeah, sure.
L: Love.
E: Ah, yeah, right. Like, between a man and a women...[whispers] Sex.
L: Sex may be part of it.
E: May be part of it?
L: Okay, 'often' is part of it but there's more.
E: What?
L: It's wanting to be with someone, enjoying their company.
E: I enjoy your company.
L: Very sweetly put. There's someone in Borchers room. She's beautiful.
E: She sure is...I was just agreeing with you.
L: You don't have to agree with me. You can have your own opinion.
E: I said I agree. I wonder who she is.
L: Maybe Borchers is having a fling.
E: A fling?
L: It's like a honeymoon...only less romantic. You're thinking about your brother, aren't you.
E: I don't know, I suppose so.
L: I keep getting the feeling there's more to your relationship than your telling me.
E: He's a brilliant man. All my people respect him, I respect him. He was chosen for Banning's mission and I wasn't.
L: Are you jealous of him?
E: No! I don't blame anybody but myself, they required a scientist, not a soldier. Soldiers are interchangeable.
L: Thorber might be a great scientist but right now he needs a soldier. Maybe not right now�Look-
E: Laura, it's my brother.
L: Will he even recognize you?
E: My brother hasn't seen me in this form but we're brothers.

Dent: You're done for. Good.

E: [to Laura] Nice one. [To Lady] You alright? What happened?
Lady: I just flunked the loyalty test.
E: Loyalty test?
Lady: He wanted information from me.
E: So the guy you were kissing on the balcony became the one on the floor, right?
Lady: Yes, don't ask me how.
E: I don't have to. The man you thought you were kissing-
Lady: Mike.
E: Mike...where'd he go?
Lady:  I don't know. You're after him too....you're as strong as he is.
E: He's my brother.
Lady: You don't look anything like him.
E: There's a time when I did.
Laura: He's telling the truth.
Lady: I don't know what to believe anymore.
E: I understand.
Lady: So that makes you Ethaniel.
E: You know about me?
Lady: Yeah, he talked about you He said you're the bravest man he ever knew.
Laura: Just a soldier?
E: Tell me about him.
Lady: I work for a man, a very rich man, I live well.
E: Borchers. What do you do for him?
Lady: How do I explain?
E: Please, try.
Lady: When he has a business rival he sends me in to sidetrack the rival.
E: Sidetrack? How?
Lady: Attract, seduce, and feed lies.
E: And that's how you met my brother.
W: Borchers was involved in some illegal stock manipulation. Mike was on to him. I met Mike in a bar. Mike thought it was an easy pickup. We started spending time together, a lot of time, I fell for him. He has such a wonderful mind.
E: Yeah, he's a brilliant man.
Lady: I didn't understand everything but I knew that Mike was somebody that Borchers and his people were scared of, somebody they wanted information on, somebody they wanted to kill. I told Mike about Borchers, the whole thing. I started feeding Borchers false information-
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