Turks & Caicos (2014 TV Movie)

Christopher Walken: Curtis Pelissier

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• [first lines] 

  Curtis Pelissier : OK, here we are.

  Melanie Fall : Well, what a great evening. Thank you.

  Curtis Pelissier : If you want, I could come in, pour you a drink.

  Melanie Fall : Tell you the problem, I'm not thirsty. But I had a great time. Thank you.

  Curtis Pelissier : Good night.

• Curtis Pelissier : Nowadays, people will go anywhere to avoid paying tax. A quick visit to Lichtenstein, Monaco, maybe Jersey; empty the vaults of private wealth, and you could write off the world's debt. In a day, in an hour, in a minute. Three-quarters of the world's cash is hidden away in places exactly like this.

• Johnny Worricker : Whatever happened to the idea of shame?

  Curtis Pelissier : Shame... went the way of honour. Didn't it?

• Curtis Pelissier : It's been a fascinating few years, you could say, since 9-11. You know how many Americans now work in intelligence?

  Johnny Worricker : I don't know.

  Curtis Pelissier : Over two hundred thousand, in sixteen different agencies, with thirty thousand private contractors in a hundred and seventy countries, at a grand cost to the taxpayer of seventy-five *billion* dollars a year, and they still call it the intelligence community! I don't think so.

• [last lines] 

  Curtis Pelissier : Another?

  Frank Church : Thank you.

  Curtis Pelissier : [to the bartender]  Two more.

  Frank Church : Well?