Robert Favart Quotes

Lebel Excuse me, but it has just occurred to me that we have forty-eight hours in which to find this Jackal.

Lebel Am I right in assuming that the President has no engagements outside the Elysee Palace today, tomorrow and Saturday?

Minister None.

Lebel And what is Sunday, August the twenty-fifth?

Minister Of course! Liberation Day!

Lebel That's what he's been waiting for.

Minister We must have been blind.

Minister Commissioner Berthier, any suggestions?

Berthier We're in trouble on this one. Our agents inside the OAS can't pin him down, since not even the OAS knows who he is. Action Service can't destroy him; they don't know who to destroy. The gendarmes, all forty-eight thousand of them, can't pursue him; they don't know who to pursue. The police can't arrest him. How can they? They don't know who to arrest. Without a name, all other proposals are meaningless. The first task, then, is to find it. We get a name, we get a passport and a face. And with a face, we get an arrest. But to find his name, and to do it in secret, is a job of pure detective work.

Minister Commissioner, who is the best detective on the force?

Berthier The best detective is my own deputy commissioner, Claude Lebel.