Sneakers Page #2

The government's taken away my home.

Talk to him.

Well, if it isn't Robin Hood.

I could've joined the NSA, but

they found out my parents were married.

We're all friends here, right? Easy, easy.

- Want some coffee or something?

- No.

- Buddy, is that Janek's file?

- Yeah, Janek's file.

This is a mathematician

named Dr. Gunter Janek.

Works at a think tank called

the Coolidge Institute.

Specializes in large-number theory,

prime numbers, factoring.

- Cryptography.

- Very good.

Last month, the good doctor

gets a grant, $380,000.

Way out of profile for a guy like that.

It's our job to be curious, so we traced

the money. Guess where it comes from?

- I know you're not gonna say Russia.

- Yeah.

Give me a break.

We won, they lost.

It's been in a couple of papers.

We still spy on them. They still spy on us.

We intercepted a fax last week. Here.

He's making some kind of box,

a little black box.

The project's called Setec Astronomy.

We don't know what Setec stands for.

- Security technology...

- Sensor techniques, who knows?

It may be nothing or it may be something.

And we need to know.

Your job is to find that little black box.

Let us take a look at it.

No way.

Sorry, Marty.

We don't have a lot of choice here.

- Do it yourself.

- We can't.

By law, we're not allowed

to do this kind of operation.

Then get the FBI.

Yeah, right, the FBI.

The FBI can't work for us without approval

from a congressional committee.

- We don't have the time.

- So why me?

- Frankly, because we...

- Yeah, frankly.

Marty, sit down, please.

Frankly, because it's kind of illegal.

You've stayed underground more than 20

years. You know how not to get caught.

- We know you can keep your mouth shut.

- Job pays $175,000, payable on delivery.

You can distribute it among the poor,

if you like.

- Pass.

- We also clean up your record.

Quash the outstanding warrant

for your arrest.

Your pal Cosmo got 12 years.

That was without flight

to evade prosecution.

We all know what happened

to him in there.

If I say no?

Don't say no.

What good would you do anybody

in prison?

I don't believe this.

You lied to us all these years.

- Even lied to us about your name.

- Sorry, okay?

I'm sorry, but when you're wanted

by the feds, you don't go telling everybody.

We're not everybody, Martin,

we're your partners. You tell us.

Fine. Exactly why was it

you had to leave the CIA?

We all have our little secrets, don't we?

Look, you guys have a decision to make.

This is not a test.

The penetration is live,

the target is unaware.

Sneaking a foreign intelligence service

that might kill us is not what we do.

The probable level of security is very low.

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