All right, here's a test.
You see the nerdy-looking kid
in the white shirt
playing against
the four guys at once?
CHARLIE: Yeah.
Which one of the guys do you
think is a strategic weapons
expert
with the CIA?
(SIGHING)
That was a trick question,
Charlie.
lt's the nerdy-looking kid
in the white shirt.
All right, no reason this
can't be fun, you know.
Mike!
Yeah, just a second.
Need you now, Mike.
Keep playing.
Mike Vickers, this is
Congressman Charles Wilson
of the Defense Appropriations
Subcommittee.
How are you, sir?
Fine, thank you.
How old are you?
l'll be 30 next week.
This is the CIA's weapons
expert?
One of them.
But he's the most senior.
GUS: Look...
MAN: Mike!
Yeah, bishop to queen's
knight 7.
See? He's playing
without even looking
at the board.
That's a useful skill
if Afghanistan's ever invaded
by Boris Spassky.
Did my office not make
it clear to Langley that
l'm in no mood
to be fucked around with?
Charlie...
You answer to me or
you answer to Jim Baker.
Which do you want?
All right, the guy's a fucking
Green Beret, Charlie.
He trained with the SEALs.
No one's trying to fuck
with you!
MAN: Mike?
Yeah, what was your move?
Knight to queen's bishop 5.
All right, queen to king's
rook 3.
Guy on the right, you don't
want to trade queens with me.
Shit.
All right, l apologize.
Okay.
Everybody friends?
As a former naval officer
myself, Mike, l should've
known better.
As a former naval officer,
l'd have been surprised
if you had.
Now, what the fuck?
Hey.
He said he was sorry.
Hey.
What can l do for you, sir?
All right, he wants
to make a recommendation
to his Subcommittee.
Now, the Swiss made Oerlikon
S.T.A. antiaircraft cannon,
that's what you'd use
to shoot down the Ml-24 Hind
gunship in the mountains,
right?
Well, the Oerlikon's
a good start,
but the Russians will
just start flying higher
altitude missions.
So what else do they need?
Same thing you give us.
AK-47s, AK-74s, AKMS.
The Soviets didn't
come into Afghanistan
on a Eurail Pass.
They came in T-55 tanks.
The fighters need
RPG-7 anti-tank
grenade launchers,
Katyusha 107mm rockets,
wire mines, plastic mines,
bicycle bombs, sniper rifles,
ammunition for
all the above
and frequency-hopping radios
and burst transmitters
so these guys aren't
so fucking easy to find.
Well, l've written it all
in a report you can read.
You'd be the first
one who did.
Send a copy of it to me
by secure courier right away.
l will. All right.
All right.
