The Assignment Page #3

Synopsis: 1986. In his civilian clothes while on shore leave in Jerusalem, Lieutenant Commander Annibal Ramirez of the US Navy is captured and interrogated by who he eventually learns is Mossad in a case of mistaken identity. Because of the resemblance, they believed him to be Carlos the Jackal, one of if not the most wanted and dangerous terrorist in the world. Shortly following, Henry Fields, using the alias Jack Shaw, he the Paris deputy chief of CIA counter-terrorism whose primary mission for at least the past ten years has been to get rid of Carlos in any way possible, tries to recruit Ramirez to work on a covert CIA-Mossad operation to stop Carlos' terrorist activities with the ultimate goal of Carlos' capture or death. The plan is for Ramirez to impersonate Carlos, in the process discrediting Carlos in the eyes of his current KGB backers, and thus effectively ending his career as a terrorist, with nowhere he can longer hide. After an initial reluctance on Ramirez's part, Shaw is able to c
Director(s): Christian Duguay
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
 
IMDB:
6.9
Rotten Tomatoes:
60%
R
Year:
1997
115 min
255 Views


You belong to me.

Remember what Darth Vader said:

"Come over to the dark side."

Come over, Annibal. You have

no idea of the power we have.

I want nothing to do with you.

Get it through your thick skull.

Your country came to you requesting

help and you turned it down.

Not exactly promotion material.

Know what I mean?

Are you threatening me? The answer

is no, and that is the end of it.

Now get a life.

That pest won't leave me alone.

Jesus Christ!

- What do you want?

- What time is it?

It's 1:
15. Precisely.

It's for you.

Hello?

Who the..?

Yes, sir.

Your wife and kid go to the store.

Carlos has been there first.

He's planted a bomb.

The boy you're going to see lived.

You tell me if he was lucky.

- Dr. Shaw, is this the specialist?

- Yes, Dr. Ramirez.

Mr. and Mrs. Newcomb

are the parents of the wounded boy.

Will you do the surgery? They

tell us you're the best there is.

He's the only one.

Here's the boy's chart, Doctor.

One kidney has been destroyed.

The left lung has been perforated.

The spleen, the large intestine

and stomach lining are all torn.

There are over

100 individual pieces of shrapnel.

It's a trademark device of Carlos'.

Designed not to kill but to maim.

You're a sadistic son of a b*tch.

You used those poor people. You'd

use anything to get what you want.

To get what I want?

Let me show you what I want.

There's some photographs in there

of some of Carlos' victims.

Until you came along, all we could

do was take pictures of his victims.

I told them you were the only one.

It's true. We got a good doctor..

But you are the only one

who can get the Jackal.

I'm not the bad guy, Annibal.

Carlos is.

Go talk to him.

- Take care of your mother.

- Why do you have to go?

Because I finally got my chance

to go into subs.

Why can't somebody else's daddy

go into subs, and you can stay here?

Because I'm the one they chose.

And because your dad can do the job.

Listen to me, no whining, okay?

Bye, sweetie.

Are you going to miss me?

- Bye, sweetie.

- Take care.

This is an ad hoc operation set up

specifically for your mission.

From here on, your name is Miguel.

- Miguel?

- That's security.

So your name

isn't really Jack Shaw?

Of course it is.

Nice place.

Yes, there's a toilet in every room.

- Your mother is Irish-American?

- Yes, she is.

That's how come the blue eyes.

Something wrong, Miguel?

No.

Your father was in a Cuban prison.

Is that correct?

- That's correct, sir.

- Your mother took you to visit him.

I see

you've done your homework, sir.

Miguel, no one is supposed to know

you are anything but a student.

Don't call me sir. It's like a sign

on your forehead that says military.

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