Geoffrey Rush credited as playing...
Ephraim
- Avner: If these people committed crimes we should have arrested them. Like Eichmann.
- Ephraim: If these guys live, Israelis die. Whatever doubts you have Avner, you know this is true.
- [Avner walks away]
- Ephraim: You did well but you're unhappy.
- Avner: I killed seven men.
- Ephraim: Not Salameh. We'll get him of course.
- [Avner continues to walk away]
- Ephraim: You think you were the only team? It's a big operation, you were only a part. Does that assuage your guilt?
- Avner: Did we accomplish anything at all? Every man we killed has been replaced by worse.
- Ephraim: Why cut my finger nails? They'll grow back.
- Avner: Did we kill to replace the terrorist leadership or the Palestinian leadership? You tell me what we've done!
- Ephraim: You killed them for the sake of a country you now choose to abandon. The country your mother and father built, that you were born into. You killed them for Munich, for the future, for peace.
- Avner: There's no peace at the end of this no matter what you believe. You know this is true.
- Ephraim: We deposit money from a fund that doesn't exist into a box we don't know about in a bank we've never set foot in. We can't help you because we never heard of you before.
- Ephraim: We have 11 Palestinian names. Each had a hand in planning Munich. You're going to kill them, 11 men, one by one. They're all in Europe now. You'll stay there as long as it takes. Europe only, not the Arab countries. That's for us, not you. And not Eastern Bloc. Don't upset the Russians. Who needs it? You'll have no contact with us.
- Avner: You're not going to give me any information?
- Ephraim: We deposit money from a fund that doesn't exist into a box we don't know about, in a bank we never set foot in. We can't help you because we never heard of you before. You'll do what the terrorists do. You think they report back to home base? They don't. We want them dead.
- Ephraim: First you resign from Mossad,
- [handing him a document]
- Ephraim: Your new contract. It says we do not employ you, offer you benefits or pensions or legal aid or medical assistance. It's a contract that there is no contract.
- Avner: Do I get a copy?
- Ephraim: You don't!
- [handing him a check]
- Ephraim: Your pension contribution refund! You're now officially unofficial, unemployed and uninsured.
- Ephraim: You think we'd hurt your family?
- Avner: I think anyone is capable of anything.
- Ephraim: I think you're losing your mind.
- Avner: Did I commit murder? I want you to give me proof that everyone we killed had a hand in Munich.
- Ephraim: I don't discuss such things with people who don't exist. You want to discuss, come back into existence. You want your daughter to grow up in exile?
- Avner: I want evidence!
- Ephraim: [discussing how the mission will be funded] We deposit money from a fund that doesn't exist into a box we don't know about in a bank we've never set foot in.