The Interpreter (2005) Poster

Sean Penn: Tobin Keller

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  • Silvia Broome : Any leads?

    Tobin Keller : Maybe one. Come on down to Mexico.

    [hands her a picture of a rally, her face can be seen among the crowd] 

    Tobin Keller : Is that you? Can you tell me what somebody like you, who uses the word "diplomacy", like she's chastising me, is doing at a rebel rally?

    Silvia Broome : A peace rally.

    Tobin Keller : I don't want to do this again!

    Silvia Broome : That's exactly what it is. What I am doing is listening.

    Tobin Keller : After that, after you listen.

    Silvia Broome : You're asking the wrong question.

    Tobin Keller : I'm asking you the question you don't want to answer.

    Silvia Broome : Why would somebody take a picture and type the names of everyone in it on the back. This is a death list. The question you should be asking is "who gave me this?" and "why?"

  • Silvia Broome : [When Silvia has been hooked up to the polygraph machine]  When will I know the results?

    Tobin Keller : Straight away. You know when you're lying don't you?

  • Silvia Broome : Listen, I'm scared, and my protector is some one who doesn't believe me.

    Tobin Keller : You don't look scared...

    Silvia Broome : People handle fear in different ways, Mr. Keller. It turns some people into stand up comedians. You don't know me at all. Maybe I should talk to someone else about assigning someone to look after me who's better suited to the job.

    Tobin Keller : My job is not to look after you, it's to look after the man who's been threatened, if there was a threat. My job, as it concerns you, is to investigate you.

    Silvia Broome : So you're not here to offer me any protection whatsoever?

    Tobin Keller : No, Ma'am.

    Silvia Broome : [handing him back his card]  And we were getting along so well.

  • Silvia Broome : What do you do when you can't sleep?

    Tobin Keller : I stay awake

  • Silvia Broome : Do you think I'm making it up? Why would I report a threat I didn't hear?

    Tobin Keller : People do.

    Silvia Broome : I don't.

    Tobin Keller : Some people like attention.

    Silvia Broome : I don't!

    Tobin Keller : Maybe you don't want Zuwanie at the U.N.

    Silvia Broome : I didn't make it up.

    Tobin Keller : How do you feel about him?

    Silvia Broome : I don't care for him.

    Tobin Keller : Wouldn't mind if he were dead?

    Silvia Broome : I wouldn't mind if he were gone.

    Tobin Keller : Same thing.

    Silvia Broome : No, it isn't. If I interpreted gone as dead I'd be out of a job, if dead and gone were the same thing there'd be no UN.

    Tobin Keller : Your profession is playing with words Ms. Broome.

    Silvia Broome : I don't play with words.

    Tobin Keller : You're doing it right now.

    Silvia Broome : No, you are. If I wanted him dead, I wouldn't have reported it. I would sit back and let it happen. That's not what I want, that's not why I'm here.

  • Tobin Keller : You think that not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth.

  • Tobin Keller : I'd rather make the mistake of believing her, than the bigger one of not.

  • Dot Woods : Secret Service.

    UN Security Guard : Just a moment please.

    Dot Woods : We're with Foreign Dignitary Protection. It's a branch of the United States government

    Tobin Keller : Dot.

    UN Security Guard : You're not in the United States, this is international territory. I need you to wait for an escort.

  • Tobin Keller : You lose somebody, you lose somebody. I don't wanna lose two somebodies.

  • Tobin Keller : But not just dead. Dead in front of the delegates of a hundred and ninety one countries, and every news service with a camera. Dead in front of the world.

    Jonathan Williams : Nobody needs to be that dead.

  • Silvia Broome : We're "kepéla". It means standing on opposite sides of the river.

    Tobin Keller : You've got to give me a reason to get to the other side.

  • Tobin Keller : Do you think you can identify the voice you heard if you heard it again?

    Silvia Broome : Well, I'd say yes, if it were... It was almost a whisper. Whispers disguise the quality of a voice. You, I imagine, study faces. You know, I'm not really a dignitary.

    Tobin Keller : I know. How'd you happen to be up there after hours?

    Silvia Broome : We had an evacuation. I'd left some things in the sound booth. I had to go back for them.

    Tobin Keller : And at that moment, there happened to be a couple fellas talking about an assassination in a language that you and maybe eight other people understand, in a room full of microphones.

  • Tobin Keller : What were you doing on that bus?

    Silvia Broome : Thank you for bringing me home.

    Tobin Keller : Hey. Hey! I lost a man today. A kid. How do you know Kuman?

    Silvia Broome : I don't. I never met him before.

    Tobin Keller : You're lying to me again.

  • Silvia Broome : I'm not lying. I went to him for help.

    Tobin Keller : With what?

    Silvia Broome : I can't tell you. Someone might get hurt.

    Tobin Keller : "Someone might get hurt". There's a bus full of dead people! "Someone might get hurt?". Who? Someone you know? Someone who's mixed up in all this?

  • [last lines] 

    Silvia Broome : What was her name?

    Tobin Keller : Laurie. Keller. Killed in an auto accident in Santa Fe. Twenty-three days ago.

    [Sylvia says something in Ku] 

    Tobin Keller : Rest in peace?

    Silvia Broome : Close enough.

  • Tobin Keller : Tell me about the Interpreter.

  • Jay Pettigrew : Are you sure you're ready to come back?

    Tobin Keller : I'm better working.

    Jay Pettigrew : We got a credible threat?

    Tobin Keller : We should assume so.

    Jay Pettigrew : As popular as we are in the rest of the world these days, the last thing we can afford is to have some foreign leader get popped on our soil, particularly a guy like this that we don't like. So state wants you to know, N.S.A., C.I.A., F.B.I., whatever you need to keep this maniac's heart beating till he makes his speech and gets the hell out, it's yours.

  • Tobin Keller : What are you not telling me?

    Silvia Broome : What are you accusing me of?

    Tobin Keller : How do you feel about Zuwanie, never mind "I don't care for him"?

    Silvia Broome : I feel disappointment.

    Tobin Keller : That's a lover's word. What about rage? Of all the people that I've looked into since this thing started, the one with the darkest Zuwanie history is you. It was his landmines that killed your...

    Silvia Broome : Shh!

  • Tobin Keller : Who was that in the park?

    Silvia Broome : It's personal.

    Tobin Keller : No, no, no, no, no. We're past that. What's his name?

    Silvia Broome : It's not your business.

    Tobin Keller : Is he the one you e-mailed the night before you decided to report the threat? "Where are you? I'm worried about you. Write me"..."Please. I need to know you're Okay?". Worried why? Because he's involved? Is that him, here, now, in my country, making threats? That is my business.

    Silvia Broome : You're wrong. It's got nothing to do with you.

  • Silvia Broome : Are you going to be there until morning?

    Tobin Keller : It almost is morning. Yeah, I'll be here.

  • Charlie Russell : [on the phone]  Shit! She just got on the bus with Kuman.

    Tobin Keller : [on the phone]  What the hell is she doing?

  • Tobin Keller : [on the phone]  Guys, get with me here. We got a situation.

  • Tobin Keller : [on the phone]  No. Just get off that bus. Get everybody off that bus right now!

  • Tobin Keller : [on the phone]  Come on, guys. Talk to me. What's going on?

  • Tobin Keller : Xola's dead. Kuman's dead. Who do you work for?

    Charlie Russell : Don't touch.

    Tobin Keller : Those things'll kill you. Russell!

  • Jay Pettigrew : Keller? Go home and get some sleep.

    Tobin Keller : I'm gonna stay here and wait for her.

    Jay Pettigrew : Like hell you are. I need you awake tomorrow morning. Woods?

    Dot Woods : Hold on.

    Jay Pettigrew : Get him home.

  • Tobin Keller : He's here. He's in the building. I just saw him. Broadcast that description.

  • Tobin Keller : [to Sylvia]  You can't do that. You cannot do that. How the hell am I supposed to protect you if I don't know where you are?

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