- Colonel Alan DuPar: [interrogating the waiter who talked to Dr. Considine and Joe after Dr. Waldo left their hotel room] The two Americans, where did they go?
- Room Service Waiter: How should I know?
- Colonel Alan DuPar: [slaps the waiter] You're lying! We have information that you were the last person who in touch with them before they left that hotel. Now, where did you send them?
- Room Service Waiter: I brought them their lunch, that's all. I was their waiter.
- Colonel Alan DuPar: You mean their contact! Admit it!
- Room Service Waiter: I don't know what you're talking about. I'm a waiter, and that's all I am.
- Colonel Alan DuPar: When you're not working for the Victor Lucas movement! That's more like it, isn't it?
- [grabs the waiter by the shirt]
- Colonel Alan DuPar: You're working for it, the two Americans are working for it. They leave you, they meet others, and all of them viciously attack government forces. You're all in it together.
- Room Service Waiter: I don't know what you're talking about. I'm a waiter. I told you that before.
- Colonel Alan DuPar: Take him downstairs. Make him talk. I WANT TO KNOW WHERE VICTOR LUCAS IS HIDING!
- [one of DuPar's guards leaves with the waiter]
- Colonel Alan DuPar: The two Americans are connected with the movement. They must be.
- Dr. Ernestine Waldo: Yes, of course. But the vital question is, how? For what purpose?
- Colonel Alan DuPar: Well, we have means of knowing soon enough. He'll talk.
- Dr. Ernestine Waldo: Two of your best men lie dead in the morgue, a third critically wounded. I'm sure you're not simply waiting.
- Colonel Alan DuPar: Needless to say, a city-wide dragnet for the entire group is already underway.
- Dr. Ernestine Waldo: I would have thought nationwide.
- Colonel Alan DuPar: I'm extending it to that, of course.
- Dr. Myles Considine: [upon being told that he is going on a mission to perform surgery on a man who's in another country] And he told you I'd agree to this?
- Joe Mannix: That's the impression I got, yes.
- Dr. Myles Considine: [sighs] Well, he had absolutely no right to make such an assumption. It's... it's preposterous.
- Joe Mannix: He probably took it for granted you'd go for it, what with a man's life at stake.
- Dr. Myles Considine: A life at stake?
- [shows Joe a piece of paper]
- Dr. Myles Considine: Here are a dozen, waiting for their turns. And don't bother to tell me that your candidate is prominent. A publisher, a politician, one of the leading corporation lawyers in the country...
- Joe Mannix: You are selective, Doctor.
- Dr. Myles Considine: My work is exacting. And expensive.
- Joe Mannix: There's a problem there. I doubt if this job would have netted you much of a fee, if any at all.
- Dr. Myles Considine: It was my understanding that the man Lucas is at present in his own country, several thousand miles from here.
- Joe Mannix: That is correct.
- Dr. Myles Considine: In some secret hideout from a military government that apparently would much prefer him dead than alive.
- Joe Mannix: That is also correct.
- Dr. Myles Considine: In which case... they'd feel more or less the same about anybody who tried to keep him alive... wouldn't that also be correct?
- Joe Mannix: You might say that's one other reason to get the operation over and done with as quickly as possible.
- Dr. Myles Considine: And that isn't preposterous?
- [Joe doesn't respond]
- Dr. Myles Considine: I have patients whose lives are dependent on my life, and I involve myself in some... outlandish enterprise from which I might not return.
- Joe Mannix: I don't think you quite understand, Doctor. My job is to not only get you there, but to get you back. Alive.
- Dr. Myles Considine: I'm afraid that could hardly alter my decision, Mr. Mannix.
- Joe Mannix: Well, then, I'll, uh, forward your profound regrets. And I'm sure you must have regrets, Doctor, seeing you're the only man who might stand a chance of saving Victor Lucas.
- Dr. Myles Considine: Well, yes... of course I regret it.
- Joe Mannix: Not to mention the man himself. You must have some familiarity with him. What he's done, what he stands for.
- Dr. Myles Considine: I do occasionally read more than medical journals, Mr. Mannix. Of course, I know about him.
- Joe Mannix: And what's your opinion, Doctor? Wouldn't you say there aren't many men like him left on this earth?
- Dr. Myles Considine: Look, I don't see the point in pursuing this.
- Joe Mannix: It's just that in a week from now, maybe two weeks, when you're reading his obituary, I'd like you to think about what you might have done to keep him here a little longer.
- Dr. Myles Considine: No, the whole thing's quite impossible.
- Joe Mannix: Yes, you've told me that.
- Dr. Myles Considine: All right, go ahead, say it's a matter of nerve.
- Joe Mannix: You said that, Doctor, I didn't.
- Dr. Myles Considine: Say it's nerve, and I can tell you it takes more than nerve to plow into a man's chest, to lay his heart bare, to work with it as if it weren't his one, sole, pulsing hold on life.
- [sighs]
- Dr. Myles Considine: It takes a lot more nerve than most men ever know. But that's my field, this is my territory. You can't expect me to suddenly turn into some... superhero out of an Ian Fleming novel!
- Joe Mannix: They're only asking you to be a doctor... and save a man's life we both know is worth saving.