- [last lines]
- James Phelps: And while you're sitting in your cell waiting to die, I want you to think about something. If your father really was innocent, who would have been more likely to wanna frame him? The United States government or his best friend, who also happened to be an enemy agent... even then.
- David Redding: I'm in charge of the project you're investigating for the Federal Security Department
- James Phelps: But you're an American.
- David Redding: So was my father, Jason Redding. Jason Redding, nuclear physicist- tried, convicted, executed, for passing America's precious secrets on to the enemy.
- Cinnamon Carter: And, like father like son.
- David Redding: Wrong. Unlike my father, I am a traitor. You see, my father was absolutely loyal to this country. He loved it. He loved it enough to build a bomb he despised. So much so that when he was accused, he answered every question put to him honestly. He was even naive enough to admit that he had many friends, men he had known all his life, who were communists. That made him a spy.
- [first lines]
- Person on Tape: [voice on tape] Good morning, Mr. Phelps. The man you are looking at is David Redding, one of the top photographers in the country. He is also the contact for a spy apparatus that has secretly brought 150 agents into the United States over the past few months. Yesterday, one of the agents was picked up. We have not been able to get any information from him, except that they carry deadly pneumonic plague bacillus, which is to be released on our population within 72 hours. We have dozens of coded messages in and out of Redding's headquarters which we are certain locate and identify the agents. However, we have so far been unable to break Redding's code. Your mission, should you decided to accept it, is to get the key to the code so we can pick up those agents before it's too late. As always, if you or any of your IM Force should be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This recording will self-destruct in five seconds. Good luck, Jim.
- Cinnamon Carter: What you've written, in fact, is a kind of wonderful combination of turpentine and oatmeal.