The Jackal: What about the French documents? The Forger: French identity card's all right. The other one, I don't think I've ever seen what they look like, let alone copy it. I'll have to get a colleague of mine in France to pick someone's pocket so ...
[only words] Wolenski: [tortured] Jac... kal.
Caron: [on phone] Yes, Washington, I know it's seven o'clock there, it's midnight here!
[first lines] Commentator: August 1962 was a stormy time for France. Many people felt that President Charles de Gaulle had betrayed the country by giving independence to Algeria. Extremists, mostly from the Army, swore to kill him in revenge. They ba...
Minister: The President must be told.
Minister: [to Lebel] Remember, Commissioner, you have full powers in this investigation, and the resources of every department represented here are entirely at your disposal. My instructions are simply: no publicity, and do not fail.
Insp. Thomas: [answers phone] Thomas... Yes, that's right... Is this some sort of bloody joke?... What, now? Personally? Oh, yes, I'll... [cut to Thomas arriving at 10 Downing Street, the residence of the British Prime Minister]
The Jackal: [disguised as Per Lundquist] Goodbye, Mr. Duggan. [heaves a suitcase with his clothes and false papers off a bridge]
Lebel: [interrogating hotel staff] But you did say that Madame de Montpelier's bed was slept in by two people? Hotel Maid: Yes sir, definitely. You can always tell.
Lawyer: For heaven's sake, man, don't you realize you are going to be shot! Bastien-Thiry: You don't understand. No French soldier will raise his rifle against me. [He is shot by a firing squad the next day]
Colette de Montpelier: Why, I don't know what you're talking about. Lebel: Madam, be in no doubt as to the seriousness of your position. [Colette stands and moves uneasily to another chair]
Insp. Thomas: [after Special Branch Detective finds Charles Calthrop's passport in his apartment] What's this? Special Branch Detective: His passport. Insp. Thomas: Oh? Special Branch Detective: We checked it. It's him, all right. Look. The Dominican...
Lebel: Excuse me, but it has just occurred to me that we have forty-eight hours in which to find this Jackal [There is a chorus of "What?" and "How do you know?" from the committee members] Lebel: Am I right in assuming that the President has no enga...
[arriving in St Clair's home] Denise: Are you home already...? [discovers St Clair's body and a bottle of pills]
Casson: No wonder our people are giving up, they've lost faith! Montclair: We've failed them every single time! Col. Rodin: We won't fail them again! Casson: What can we do? We're paralyzed! Montclair: Every cop in France has memorized our faces! Inf...
[bidding farewell within earshot of Wolenski] Col. Rodin: A pleasant journey home, Mister... Mister Jackal.
The Forger: I knew you didn't come to Geneva for a driver's license. Anyone in London could've done that.
Colonel Rolland: "Jackal." I thought Wolenski used it as a swearword, but it doesn't sound like him.
