Notorious1946

Alicia:
What's the matter? Don't look so tense. Troubles? Well handsome, I think you'd better tell Mama what's going on. All this secrecy's going to ruin my little dinner. Come on, Mr. D., what is darkening your brow?

Devlin:
After dinner.

Alicia:
No, now! Look, I'll make it easy for you. The time has come when you must tell me that you have a wife and two adorable children and this madness between us can't go on any longer.

Devlin:
I'll bet you've heard that line often enough.

Alicia:
Right below the belt every time. Oh, that isn't fair, Dev.

Devlin:
Skip it. We have other things to talk about. We've got a job.

Alicia:
Oh. So there is a job.

Devlin:
You, uh, you remember a man named Sebastian?

Alicia:
Alex Sebastian?

Devlin:
Yes.

Alicia:
One of my father's friends, yes.

Devlin:
He had quite a crush on you.

Alicia:
I wasn't very responsive.

Devlin:
Well, he's here. The head of a large German business concern.

Alicia:
His family always had money.

Devlin:
He's part of the combine that built up the German war machine and hopes to keep on going.

Alicia:
Something big?

Devlin:
It has all the earmarks of being something big. We have to contact him.

Alicia:
Go on, let's have all of it.

Devlin:
We're meeting him tomorrow. The rest is up to you. You've got to work on him and land him.

Alicia:
Mata Hari. She makes love for the papers.

Devlin:
There are no papers. You land him. Find out what's going on inside his house, what the group around him is up to, and report to us.

Alicia:
I suppose you knew about this pretty little job of mine all the time.

Devlin:
No. I only just found out about it.