The Americans (TV Series)
Tchaikovsky (2018)
Keri Russell: Elizabeth Jennings
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Quotes
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Paige Jennings : Do our people ever use... sex to get information?
Elizabeth Jennings : What?
Paige Jennings : I'm reading a book about the organization, and it says that sex is one of the techniques.
Elizabeth Jennings : There's a lot of bullshit out there, Paige.
Paige Jennings : Doesn't sound like bullshit.
Elizabeth Jennings : Well, they can make anything sound believable. That's what sells books.
Paige Jennings : So that never happens?
Elizabeth Jennings : No.
[they walk a few steps in silence]
Elizabeth Jennings : Look, I can't speak for every officer, but those relationships could turn into something different. You get very close to people, get to know them very well, and in certain circumstances, if the information's critical enough... people may cross lines sometimes. And then that gets twisted by whoever wrote that book.
Paige Jennings : Have you heard stories of this happening?
Elizabeth Jennings : I'm cut off from everyone else. I don't hear stories. Where'd you find this book?
Paige Jennings : A used bookstore on Capitol Hill. I-I bought other books on espionage and war, so it just looks like I'm doing research. I paid with cash.
Elizabeth Jennings : Don't ever go to the library for that sort of thing.
Paige Jennings : Obviously.
Elizabeth Jennings : It's easy to see things as very black and white. But the world's complicated. And the more that you get that, the better off you'll be.
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Glenn Haskard : She's suffering. She can't go on like this. She doesn't want to.
Elizabeth Jennings : I know people who have done it.
[Glenn exhales deeply]
Elizabeth Jennings : What are you planning to use?
Glenn Haskard : We don't need to talk about this.
Elizabeth Jennings : It can go wrong, if you don't do it the right way, that can be worse.
Glenn Haskard : [pause] I've been keeping a little bit of morphine each time we throw away a bottle. I figure by early next month...
Elizabeth Jennings : That's not good. It could just put her into a coma. Or leave her braindead.
[pause]
Elizabeth Jennings : I could help you.
Glenn Haskard : I could never ask you to do that.
Elizabeth Jennings : [pause] You didn't ask.