Gene Hackman credited as playing...
David Brice
- Defense Secretary David Brice: [as he strangles Susan] You tell me who it is!
- Susan Atwell: He's not a PIG like you!
- [Brice punches Susan in the face making her scream and fall to her death]
- [Scott Pritchard has committed suicide and Major Donavan has just stormed into Brice's office]
- Defense Secretary David Brice: Your search is over, Major!
- Maj. Donovan: [looking at Scott's corpse] Is that...?
- Defense Secretary David Brice: He shot himself!
- Defense Secretary David Brice: [Panicking and throwing papers at scott] This is insane, It's out of control. Your cover story's not going to hold water.
- Scott Pritchard: Yes, it will, but you have to have more moral courage.
- Defense Secretary David Brice: [Tom, discovering Susan's dead suddenly needs to leave Brice's office] Cmdr Farrell, are we boring you?
- Defense Secretary David Brice: [to Farrell] As my assistant you will function as liaison under Scott's supervision between this office and the Intelligence Community.
- [laughs]
- Defense Secretary David Brice: Calling that collection of piranhas a community is one of life's ironies.
- Defense Secretary David Brice: It's a House of Cards. There is no Yuri.
- Scott Pritchard: It doesn't matter. All the intelligence agencies believe that there's a mole in the Defense Department. You know the theory: that Yuri was sent here by the KGB while he was still in his teens. For all intents and purposes, he can pass as an American.
- Defense Secretary David Brice: Scott, they've been talking about that for four years. It's the CIA's wet dream. There's never been a shred of evidence.
- Scott Pritchard: But, now, there is. He was the man who spent the weekend with Susan. He was the man who killed her.
- Defense Secretary David Brice: [to Scott, who's arrived late] Order some breakfast! It's the most important meal of the day. You should take better care of yourself.
- David Brice: You don't approve of Susan, do you?
- Scott Pritchard: Sir?
- David Brice: She's a very bright and exciting woman. Can't you understand that?
- Scott Pritchard: Not exactly, I guess.
- David Brice: All right. I'm a pain in the ass. But this one can do things for me like no other woman I've ever met.
- Senator Duvall: I pride myself on being a man of forbearance and conciliation; but, if you fuck me on this, I'll crucify you!
- David Brice: I am not your rubber stamp!