Ronald Fleury: [seeing Schmidt almost vomiting] Schmidt, you all right?
Damon Schmidt: Yeah.
Ronald Fleury: You sure?
Damon Schmidt: Mmmhmmm.
Ronald Fleury: All right. Don't throw up on your tie.
Attorney General Gideon Young: [reading] Contrary to the State Department policy, the FBI has sent an investigative team to Saudi Arabia. In so doing, I have come before this committee with a painful admission. I have lost all confidence in the FBI. Especially its uppermost echelon.
Attorney General Gideon Young: [to Director Grace] That's you, baby.
Attorney General Gideon Young: [continues reading] Entrenched and outmoded, the leadership has show itself fearful of the pioneering thoughts this committee and I have tried to imbue. It is thus an agency at contretemps hindering our every effort.
Attorney General Gideon Young: [to Director Gates] And by "committee", I mean the fucking Senate Select
Committee on Terror.
FBI Director James Grace: So you're going before the Senate Select Committee and not to the President who appointed you. Why is that? I bet the President wasn't the audience you thought he'd be. I'll bet the President realized that you can't have voters asking why the second-longed serving FBI director got fired for doing his job. For sending agents to
Saudi Arabia just seven months before mid-term elections.
Attorney General Gideon Young: So you want to bet?
FBI Director James Grace: Mister Attorney General, I obviously already have. I bet my job.
Attorney General Gideon Young: I'm gonna bury you.
FBI Director James Grace: You know, Westmoreland made
all of us officers writer our own obituaries during Tet. When we thought the Cong were going to end it all right there. And once we clued into the fact that life is finite, the thought of losing it didn't scare us anymore. The end comes no matter what. The only thing that matters is how do you want to go out? On your feet or on your knees? I bring that lesson to this job. I act, knowing that
someday this job will end no matter what.
FBI Director James Grace: You should do the same.
General Al Abdulmalik: Colonel Al Ghazi, it appears you have problems within your department.
Colonel Faris Al Ghazi: It seems that we all have problems.
Attorney General Gideon Young: As far as the public's concerned, lets try to view this through FBI agents' eyes. Is that clear?
Ronald Fleury: Sir, how do you suppose this is viewed through FBI agents' eyes?
Attorney General Gideon Young: Pardon me?
Ronald Fleury: I said, in this situation, how do you suppose
this is viewed through our eyes?
Attorney General Gideon Young: It's a variation of vengeance. When one of your own is killed, agents lose their analytical skills.
Maddy Ripon: Saudis, like Americans, don't do manual labor.