The Interpreter Page #3

always sound like cowboys?

I don't concentrate on faces in my job.

But you listen to voices.

Do you think you could identify the voice?

Well, I'd say yes, if it were...

It was almost a whisper.

Whispers disguise the quality of a voice.

You, I imagine, study faces.

- You know, I'm not really a dignitary.

- I know.

How'd you happen to be up there after hours?

We had an evacuation.

I'd left some things in the sound booth.

And there just happened to be some fellas

talking about an assassination

in a language that you and eight other people

understand, in a room full of microphones.

Do you think I'm making it up?

Why would I report a threat I didn't hear?

- People do.

- I don't.

- Some people like attention.

- I don't.

- You don't want Zuwanie here.

- I didn't make it up.

- How do you feel about him?

- I don't care for him.

- Wouldn't mind if he were dead?

- If he were gone.

- Same thing.

- No, it isn't.

If I interpreted "gone" as "dead", I'd be fired.

If they were the same, there'd be no UN.

- Your profession is playing with words.

- I don't play with words.

- You're doing it now.

- You are.

If I wanted him dead, I wouldn't have

reported it. It's not what I want.

- That's not why I'm here.

- Here?

Working at the UN, instead of standing

on a road somewhere with a machine-gun.

- You believe in diplomacy?

- I believe in this place.

- I believe in what it tries to accomplish.

- Well, you've had a tough year, lady.

Listen.

I'm scared, and my protector

is someone who doesn't believe me.

You don't look scared.

People handle fear in different ways, Mr. Keller.

It turns some people into stand-up comedians.

You don't know me at all.

Maybe I should see about assigning someone

to look after me who's better suited to the job.

I don't look after you,

I look after the man who's been

threatened, if there was a threat.

My job, as it concerns you,

is to investigate you.

So you're not here to offer me

any protection whatsoever?

No, ma'am.

And we were getting along so well.

- So what do you think?

- She's a liar.

Agent Keller? Morning.

Special Agent Lewis, FBI. This is Agent King.

We're on loan.

So they have to be returned

in the same condition, or no refund.

- Keller.

- Woods.

- Are you sure you're ready to come back?

- I'm better working.

- We got a credible threat?

- We should assume so.

As popular as we are in the rest of the world,

the last thing we need is to have

a foreign leader get popped here,

particularly a guy like this that we don't like.

So State wants you to know, NSA, CIA, FBI,

whatever you need to keep this maniac's

heart beating till he gets out, it's yours.

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