125 EXT.
Nicholson and
Sandecker in
SANDECKER
Are you asking me or telling me?
NICHOLSON
Neither one. It’s already been
cleared between my director and
the Oval Office. Now you and I
have to work out the details.
SANDECKER
I can’t believe the President
passed on this thing.
NICHOLSON
Look, Jim . . . I know how important
the Sicilian Project is. But
that’s somewhere in the future.
This is now. Today. It’s real
and it’s pressing. You won’t keep
the KGB in the dark for long no
matter what you do. So we might
as well kill two birds with one stone.
SANDECKER
The Sicilian Project. That’s what
your gonna kill.
NICHOLSON
I don’t think so. But it’s a
chance we have to take. If this
works we’ll have leverage in the
been close to before. It’s a
chance to penetrate the Kremlin
at the very top level.
SANDECKER
I think it stinks.
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