Three Days of the Condor1975

Wabash:
[after the botched attempt to come in from the field] The question was, Mr. Higgins, is he qualified with a handgun?

Higgins:
No handgun, sir. M-1 rifle and carbine. Evidently, it was sheer luck. Or else--

Atwood:
Or else what, Mr. Higgins?

Higgins:
This Condor isn't the man his file says he is.

Atwood:
Where did he learn evasive moves?

Higgins:
He reads.

Atwood:
What the hell does that mean?

Higgins:
It means, sir, that he reads everything.

Atwood:
But I don't understand.

Wabash:
Yes. Very good. Has operations got anything?

Atwood:
Absolutely nothing, sir.

Wabash:
Extraordinary.

Atwood:
It was very well executed.

Wabash:
Which requires planning, communications, tracks. I'm not asking for footprints, but a blade of grass, a broken twig-- Something disturbed.

Atwood:
Yes, sir. Wicks seems to be all we've got.

Wabash:
Where do we have him?

Higgins:
We don't. They rushed him to Guvenor Emergency before we got word.

Atwood:
Maybe we should leak the name of the hospital, make Condor make his move.

Wabash:
Of course, Len, don't expect too many mistakes from this man. He does seem rather more interesting than just another of our reader/researchers. For example, has he gone into business for himself? Was he turned around? Does someone operate him? Homosexual? Broke? Vulnerable? Could he be a soldier of fortune? Did he arrange the hit? Is that why he's still in flight? Still, he... may be an innocent. But then, why didn't he come in gently with Mr. Wicks?