The Killing Fields (1984)

Julian Sands: Jon Swain

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• [listening to BBC reporter Hugh Elder's broadcast on the radio] 

  Jon Swain : Where do they get this crap?

  Al Rockoff : That guy across the gate there. The little guy. Could we all not look at once, please? I have it on reliable sources that that's none other than Hugh Elder.

  Jon Swain : You're kidding...

  Al Rockoff : He's disguised, but I got a little suspicious about it, you know what I mean?

  Dith Pran : How does he get his copy out?

  Al Rockoff : How does he get his copy out? Specially trained hens. Yeah, the BBC has commissioned them to walk past the Khmer Rouge like they're regular fowl, and then they've been crossing the border into Thailand every day and every night.

• Jon Swain : If the going gets rough, I heard our best bet's the French embassy.

  Sydney Schanberg : Who told you that?

  Jon Swain : [faint chuckle]  The British embassy.

• Al Rockoff : Pran's not gonna last five minutes out there! The Khmer Rouge have killed every fuckin' journalist they've ever caught! Now does Syd know how serious this is!

  Jon Swain : [Panicking]  Of COURSE he bloody knows!