Name: Scorpio
Genre: Action, Thriller
Released: 1973-04-19
Duration: 114 min
Rating: 6.2
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Paul Scofield, John Colicos, Gayle Hunnicutt

Scorpio

Cemetery Conversations: Responsibility and Intentions

McLeod The hunter home from the hill.

[at Sarah's funeral]

Scorpio I'd buy a plot here soon, Mr. McLeod. It's a nice cemetery.

McLeod You think I'm responsible for this?

Scorpio Cross will.

McLeod And you think he'll come back?

Scorpio Don't you?

McLeod We have evidence that he's in Moscow.

Scorpio Then burn incense in front of it, McLeod. And pray.

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Scorpio

Betrayal and Redemption in a Dangerous Game

Cross You'll have to look me in the eye when you kill me, Jean.

Scorpio That won't bother me. Not this time.

Cross No, you're a one-talent man, Frenchman. You took this contract cause you wanted inside, you wanted my job, and you needed a McLeod to carry your sins for you.

Scorpio I was finished with you, Cross. I was going home tomorrow... With her. She was my way out.

Cross I'm sorry about the girl. Truly sorry. But I had no part of her plans. She was a Czech courier, and very good. A lot of hard work went into collecting this. Go ahead, Scorpio. It should be easy. You'd be doing both of us a favor, and there's an outside chance they might let you live. Two for one. There's a room just down the hall from McLeod's office, where grown men play a game. It's a bit like Monopoly, only more people get hurt. There's no good... And no bad. Jesus. The object is not to win, but not to lose, and the only rule is to stay in the game.

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Scorpio

Timing and Value in Decision Making

Cross You should have done it in Paris, Jean.

Scorpio The price wasn't right.

Cross And now it is?

Scorpio Yes, now it is.

Cross I could kill you, Jean.

Scorpio Take it, then, Cross. It won't come around again.

Cross Can we talk?

Scorpio Sure.

Cross McLeod name my sin?

Scorpio He said you sold and had more to sell.

Cross And you believe that?

Scorpio Is it true? I want to know.

Cross For your education? No, it isn't true.

Scorpio Zharkov.

Cross What about Zharkov?

Scorpio He is the opposition.

Cross I've known Zharkov for almost 30 years. As an ally, as an enemy and always as a friend. We're both premature antifascists, as they used to say in Washington. But Zharkov hasn't sold out and neither have I.

Scorpio Then why does McLeod want you dead?

Cross Why don't you ask him that?

Scorpio I'm asking you.

Cross You're looking for God's shining face, aren't you, Jean? Something to believe in. Like a young girl in a white Communion dress. But you've got the soul of a torturer, so your need is greater.

Scorpio You lied to me, Cross, and you used me. For that I'm going to kill you.

Cross I never lied to you, Jean. I used you, but I never lied to you.

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Scorpio

The Nature of Survival and Freedom

Cross You should let those cats out once in a while.

Scorpio Outside they couldn't survive. They were bred for degeneracy. Like a whore.

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Scorpio

Love and Memories Amidst Pain

Cross You still don't have any questions?

Zemetkin What answers could you have that would make any difference? I love you, Cross.

Cross And I you, Max. That's why I must tell you there could be pain in this.

Zemetkin I have been inoculated. You know, Cross, I used to think that the only music I would ever hear, no matter what I was really playing, was the music we played each morning when the others went out to work. Or the music for the selection, when the lucky ones went into the showers. Now I can hear Brahms... And not crying. But one image has never blurred. Cross, you coming through that gate and taking me home.

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Scorpio

Incredible Manhunt Unfolds

Taglines The most incredible manhunt of them all!

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Scorpio

Exchange of Information and Surveillance Tactics

Mitchell handing over a package] Everyone Cross used to know in Vienna.

Scorpio Everyone Cross used to know that you know.

Mitchell We're monitoring telephone calls to America, telegrams and radio telegrams.

Scorpio I want the tapes brought here.

Mitchell We've got a watch on all the embassies, but if Cross doesn't move, he'll be damn near invisible.

Scorpio He'll move. He'll try to get his wife out. He'll need funds and help.

Mitchell Not if he goes over.

Scorpio He won't.

Mitchell McLeod thinks he might.

Scorpio If he was going over, he'd be in Moscow, not Vienna. The trouble with McLeod is that he thinks like McLeod. You know what a ] is, Mitchell?

[[w:dybbuk|dybbuk]

Mitchell Some son of Jewish sprite or ghost.

Scorpio A spirit that invades another human form. I'm the dybbuk of Cross's labyrinth mind. I live inside him. He'll move.

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Scorpio

Generational Shift in Professional Identity

Zharkov Have you noticed, Cross, that we are being replaced by young men with bright, stupid faces, a sense of fashion, and a dedication to nothing more than efficiency? Keepers of machines, pushers of buttons, hardware men with highly complex toys, and, except for language, not an iota of difference between the American model and the Soviet model.

Cross Here's to dinosaurs.

[toasting]

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Scorpio

Code Name for a Killer

Taglines ...Code Name for a Killer!

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Scorpio

The Importance of Adaptability in Movement

Jean Scorpio Laurier Never stand still when you run and never run in a straight line. That's ithe first thing Cross taught me. Cross is an organizer. He plans down to the finest margin of error. You can't follow his mistakes, so you follow his skill.

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Scorpio

A Giant's Last Stand and Belief

Zharkov You see before you the last of a race of giants.

Zharkov No, no, no. I mean seriously.

Cross Seriously?

Zharkov I still believe. I'm still a communist.

Cross Communist? For Christ's sakes! After what you've seen? You've seen it turn brutal... inhuman.

Zharkov No, Cross. I've seen men use it badly.

Cross What about the trials? The purges?

Zharkov Trials, purges, they are words you have read somewhere, Cross. My trial was so grotesque, my hours of interrogation so terrible that I was numb. It was a kind of frontal lobotomy without anesthetic. And the labor camps, where men, good communists old fighters, men who believed in the dignity of man above all else, were used as drought animals to pull logs on frozen feet. That this could be the result of all I had committed my life to.

Cross But, baby, at that moment, didn't you realize what was happening?

Zharkov At that moment I tried to understand what had happened to me. Most of us there were communists, not Stalinists. That is why we were there. Nothing had happened to make me renounce myself. I was still a communist. Stalin couldn't take it away from me. And now the dull, gray stupidity that sends the tanks into Prague because it has no imagination, it can't take it from me either. I am still a communist.

Cross You're still an idiot. You still serve that dull, gray stupidity.

Zharkov And when they pull the wire on me, I'll deliver you to them, Cross.

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Scorpio

Counting the Dead in Conversation

Scorpio Do you ever count the dead, Cross?

Cross You're beautiful, Jean, but sometimes you have the bad breath of priests.

Scorpio Did you see the opposition?

Cross I saw him.

Scorpio What's Zharkov doing on the plane?

Cross How many times you been out with me?

Scorpio Six, maybe seven.

Cross You're good, Jean. Better than good. You're smart, you understand. But that still leaves you a contract button man, necessary only because the CIA doesn't hold with doing its own killing.

Scorpio

The Dangers of Knowledge and Power

Cross One more thing for your education. The more a man tells you, the more dangerous you become to him. And the more dangerous you become, the shorter the options on your future.

Scorpio

Desire for Access in a Complicated Situation

McLeod Now, your government would like more names.

Scorpio Your second mistake, McLeod. Cross gave me enough information on each operation we did together. Not conclusive, but enough to make a strange reading. You can't let me go into a public court.

McLeod What do you want?

Scorpio I want inside.

McLeod Where?

Scorpio Beirut.

McLeod You want Cross's job? If you get Cross, you get his posting.

Scorpio More.

McLeod More?

Scorpio $25,000.

McLeod Where's Cross?

Scorpio More.

McLeod You run it right to the edge, don't you? What?

Scorpio I want to know the reason.

McLeod Executive order. You don't question a directive in the Agency, Scorpio.

Scorpio I'm not in the Agency until I get Cross. The reason?

McLeod He's a face, a double agent. He sold to the opposition and he has a lot more to sell. Do you know where Cross is or don't you?

Scorpio I don't. But a man named Zharkov will.

Scorpio

No Escape from Scorpio's Pursuit

Taglines When Scorpio wants you... there is no place to hide!

Scorpio

Contractual Ethics in the Underworld

McLeod You were supposed to kill Cross at the Paris job.

Scorpio No contract.

McLeod You took the money. You left the money. Why?

Scorpio Cross had his contract in first. I don't play games when the rules are bent.

McLeod No one bends them faster than Cross.

Scorpio Never with me.

McLeod I want Cross. And I want him burned. You know him best. Find him.

Scorpio You make too many mistakes.

McLeod Like?

Scorpio You confuse what you want with what I want.

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