Syriana (2005)

Tom McCarthy: Fred Franks

Quotes 

• Bob Barnes : I punched in "Prince Nasir Al-Subaai" and my computer gets seized. Where'd that job come from? Where did the Nasir job come from?

  Fred Franks : I'm advising you to drop it.

  Bob Barnes : Why am I being investigating? Why am I being investigating, Fred?

  Fred Franks : Goodbye, Bob.

• Bob Barnes : Intelligence work isn't training seminars and gold stars for attendance.

  Fred Franks : What do you think intelligence work is Bob?

  Bob Barnes : I think it's two people in a room and one of them's asking a favor that is a capital crime in every country on earth, a hanging crime.

  Fred Franks : No Bob, it's assessing the information gathered from that favor and then balancing it against all the other information gathered from all the other favors.

• Terry : Put some space between us and Bob. Bob has a long history of entrepeneurial operations. We haven't really had a handle on Bob for years. After 9/11, some people got leeway, let their emotions got the best of them. These are complex times. There's already an active investigation into Bob's activities in - help me out here.

  Fred Franks : Tehran, the Amiri brothers job.

  Terry : We're trying to find out who might have hired Bob for the Amiri brothers job. Could the same people be behind the Nasir job? A lot of people probably want this Nasir dead and Bob knows lots of people. Fill in the rest. Send me everything.