The Double Page #4

Synopsis: Story kicks off with the mysterious murder of a senator bearing the marks of a Soviet assassin, who was long thought to be dead. To hunt down the killer, a retired CIA operative, who spent his career going toe-to-toe with his Soviet nemesis, is teamed with a young FBI agent.
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Michael Brandt
Production: Image Entertainment
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.9
Metacritic:
37
Rotten Tomatoes:
20%
PG-13
Year:
2011
98 min
$134,286
Website
439 Views


Because he was Iying.

I tried to kill him

once for a reason.

Yeah, but the wire

makes perfect sense.

It explains why the cuts

always start from the middle...

and then work their way up.

This opens up everything.

I gotta get in there

early tomorrow morning...

and compare the cuts with

other wire killings in Europe.

What do we got?

Cramping and

vomiting blood.

Okay, get him

into three.

Somebody get these

restraints off!

Excuse me.

Can I get a bowI?

BowI, please!

Got it.

Batteries.

Stay back!

All right, get me security!

You swallowed the

batteries, didn't you?

Easier to escape from a

hospital than a prison.

Geneva.

You were there,

weren't you?

I know

nothing about-

You were there.

It was you.

I never killed

anyone in Geneva.

You are a liar.

Who are you?

I'm the one who shot you in Salzburg.

I'm also the one who

trained you in Moscow.

Cassius?

I never... I never knew about

Geneva untiI after the fact.

They brought in someone

with-with no ties to you.

Yeah, the others

said that, too.

Did they tell you it was

someone from the Black Caucasus?

A soldier, I think.

We could find

him together.

We are from

the same place.

I've looked up

to you my whole life.

Agent Geary.

Agent Geary. We need to meet.

Oh.

You need to drop

this investigation.

How exactly am I supposed to drop it?

Cassius doesn't care

who he has to eliminate.

If he comes after me,

I'm prepared. Not you.

You've got a wife.

You have two kids.

Yeah. I think they understand

what I'm doing is important.

Have you thought about what

you're gonna do if you find him?

That is all

I think about.

And now that it's reaI, I want it more.

I want to know him.

I want to understand him.

And then?

And then I wanna put him away, for good.

Whoa. What is all this sh*t?

It's research.

Research.

Volks-Volkskrant-Volks.

De Volkskrant. It's a

daily newspaper in Holland.

The third page there's a

story about a wire killing.

Ten days before the Soviets

held their first open election.

Cassius?

Yeah. I think so.

You've gotta put in a word

to get me on this case.

Please. I'm up to my ass in

banking bullshit. I'm serious.

Agent Geary.

Where?

Once you're done getting

shots of the body...

really get the cut patterns.

I want close-ups of the neck.

And then he

came in here?

Yes, sir.

Hey, PauI.

Agent Geary. What do

you got? See you later.

Apparently Brutus swallowed the

batteries from the radio that we gave him.

I'm guessing he put out some

calls. Found a place to lay low.

Word got back

to Cassius.

He's never one

to allow loose ends.

Loose ends, meaning

he spoke to us.

Probably. Yeah.

Well, we should get

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Michael Brandt

Michael Brandt (born October 1, 1968) is an American writer and director. more…

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