The Operative: No One Lives Forever (2000 Video Game)

Kit Harris: Agent Cate Archer, Inge Wagner

Quotes 

• Tom Goodman : I can be subtle.

  Cate Archer : Then how do you explain that shirt?

• Berlin Contact : I seem to have lost my phone number. Can I borrow yours?

  Cate Archer : I'm in the book. Under "police department".

  Berlin Contact : Why must I be made to say such stupid things?

• [Cate and a henchman are free-falling after being blown out of a plane] 

  Cate Archer : Excuse me, do you mind if I borrow that parachute?

  HARM Agent : Get away from me!

• [Cate meets a series of contacts in Berlin, each of whom identifies themselves via a codephrase or phrases before providing information on her objective] 

  Berlin Contact #1 : Guten Abend Fraulein, do you make love to strangers?

  Cate Archer : Certainly not!

  Berlin Contact #1 : Then allow me to introduce myself.

  Cate Archer : Why not just introduce yourself to a police officer and spare me the trouble?

  Berlin Contact #1 : Who makes up these ghastly code phrases anyway?

  Cate Archer : Someone in the cryptography department - someone in need of a girlfriend apparently. What do you have for me?

  Berlin Contact #1 : Just this: 'The entrance is hidden'.

  Cate Archer : Thank you.

  Berlin Contact #1 : Good luck.

• Berlin Contact #2 : Are you free tonight, or will it cost me?

  Cate Archer : More than you can afford.

  Berlin Contact #2 : Why must I be made to say such idiotic things?

  Cate Archer : Never mind that, just tell me what you have.

  Berlin Contact #2 : I was told to say: 'In the basement'.

  Cate Archer : Thank you.

  Berlin Contact #2 : Tell the person who wrote the code phrase to grow up!

• Berlin Contact #3 : Want to come in for a game of twister?

  Cate Archer : I'd rather run over you with my car.

  Berlin Contact #3 : These code phrases have a somewhat confessional tone to them, don't you think?

  Cate Archer : Yeah, now that you mention it...

• Berlin Contact #4 : You are the most beautiful girl I have ever seen. Can you cook and clean too?

  Cate Archer : No, but I can put you in the hospital if you want, maybe you can find someone to take care of you there; maybe...

  Berlin Contact #4 : What kind of imbecile says things like this?

  Cate Archer : I'm afraid to find out.

  Berlin Contact #4 : By the way, I am supposed to tell you this: 'Behind the shelf'.

  Cate Archer : Thanks.

  Berlin Contact #4 : Please don't think that I enjoyed saying those things to you. Even though the words were not mine, I am so disgusted with myself that I must return home and wash myself with soap.

  Cate Archer : Don't worry about it.

  Berlin Contact #4 : You are a kind young woman, I wish you luck.

• [Cate has eluded HARM once again] 

  HARM Agent : She got away.

  Inge Wagner : What did you say? I don't think I heard you.

  HARM Agent : She, uh, well, I, uh...

  Inge Wagner : Say it!

  HARM Agent : She... got away.

  Inge Wagner : How is that possible? Perhaps you feel the odds were in her favour?

  HARM Agent : Nein, Fraulein Wagner.

  Inge Wagner : Then you're admitting that you failed?

  HARM Agent : Jawohl, Fraulein Wagner. I should be punished.

  Inge Wagner : My thoughts exactly, but *how* shall I punish you?

  HARM Agent : Electrocution would be painful, or perhaps a good beating, but I beg of you, please do not deprive me of the chance to hear you sing. I do not think I could take the pain.

  Inge Wagner : Is that so? Then you have just decided your punishment. You will prohibited from attending my motivational concerts for one week.

  HARM Agent : [whimpers] 

  Inge Wagner : For *two* weeks!

  HARM Agent : Please, be merciful!

  Inge Wagner : I do not find pleasure in hurting you this way. But without proper discipline, this organization would fall to ruin. Kaput!

  HARM Agent : I understand.

  [Inge walks away] 

  HARM Agent : No singing for two weeks, woohoo!

  [Inge, who is just around the corner, hears his cheering and returns] 

  Inge Wagner : On second thought, perhaps that punishment is too inhumane. Let's go with electrocution inistead, mmm?

  HARM Agent : [Sadly]  Jawohl, Fraulein Wagner.

• [Magnus Armstrong is in the galley of the ship, getting drunk] 

  Inge Wagner : [From down the hall]  Armstrong! Where are you?

  [Inge enters the galley] 

  Inge Wagner : I demand an explanation.

  Magnus Armstrong : [Slurred]  'splanation for what?

  Inge Wagner : Heinrich tells me the girl is still alive. Perhaps you did not understand my orders.

  Magnus Armstrong : Yer orders? Ha! You don't give me orders.

  Inge Wagner : She was to be liquidated! Why did you spare her?

  Magnus Armstrong : I'll not slay a countryman without a fair fight. The girl's just doing her job.

  Inge Wagner : She's a threat to our operation. I'm sure the Director would agree with me.

  Magnus Armstrong : Then, you kill her.

  Inge Wagner : Coward.

  Magnus Armstrong : Fatty.

  Inge Wagner : Drunk.

  Magnus Armstrong : ...Fatty!

  Inge Wagner : You disgust me!

  [a large explosion rocks the ship] 

  Inge Wagner : What was that?

  Magnus Armstrong : That's an explosion.

  Inge Wagner : [to a sailor]  Find out what's going on!

  Sailor : Jawohl Fraulein Wagner!

  Sailor : [Over intercom]  Abandon ship, abandon ship!

  Sailor #1 : Did he say 'ship', or 'sheep'?

  Sailor #2 : Ship I think, why?

  Sailor #1 : Uh, no reason.

• Magnus Armstrong : Well, let's go.

  Inge Wagner : What about the cargo?

  Magnus Armstrong : You're welcome to fetch it, fatty! As for me, I'm gettin' off this boat before she sinks.

  Inge Wagner : But, the operation!

  Magnus Armstrong : We can replace the cargo, but I'm one of a kind, if you take my meaning.

  Inge Wagner : The Director will not be pleased.

  Magnus Armstrong : Then stay here and show your devotion. I'll nail up a commemorative plaque for you in the ladies room of that wretched nightclub of yours.

  Inge Wagner : I can't help it if my beautiful cabaret is infested with beatniks. I've tried to get rid of them, but they're like roaches.

  Magnus Armstrong : Probably because they think you sing like that on purpose. Experimental jazz or some such shite.

  Inge Wagner : Cretin.

  Magnus Armstrong : Enough of this jabbering! Get out of my way, your hideous mass is blocking the bulkhead!

• Inge Wagner : [singing]  Send in the divers!

  Magnus Armstrong : Make sure you get the shipping manifest and the Captain's log. Oh, and if you see a half empty bottle of Lathroit floating about in my quarters, I'd be much obliged if you'd retrieve her for me.

  Sailor : Yes sir!

  Inge Wagner : You disgust me.

  Magnus Armstrong : So?

  Inge Wagner : You are a drunk and a coward.

  Magnus Armstrong : You can say what you please about my hobbies and my hygiene, but I swear if you ever cast aspersions on my manhood again, I'll pound you. I'm not a coward.

  Inge Wagner : Your threats don't frighten me.

  Magnus Armstrong : A good beating might knock some of that ugly out of you. Care to find out?

  Inge Wagner : I will be in my quarters rehearsing, I am not to be disturbed.

  Magnus Armstrong : That's right. It's the rest of us who'll be disturbed you bloody great banshee. I've heard cats in heat that sing prettier than you.

  Inge Wagner : Criticism is the refuge of those without the talent or discipline for the pursuit of art. I pity you.

  Magnus Armstrong : And well you should. You call that bellowing of yours art? Fart is more like it.

  Inge Wagner : Imbecile.

  Magnus Armstrong : [singing]  Fatty fatty fatty, fatitty fat, fatty fatty.

  Inge Wagner : Hmph!

• Tom Goodman : Head for the roof, they won't expect that.

  [Later, Cate escapes to the roof only to find groups of henchmen staking out the escape route] 

  Cate Archer : [sarcastically quoting Goodman]  "Head for the roof, they won't expect *that*".