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Thomas Devoe: Doctor, you can run your charts and your theories all you want. In the field, this is how it works: the good guys - that's us - we chase the bad guys. And they don't wear black hats. They are, however, all alike: they demand power, and respect, and they're willing to pay top dollar to get it. And that is our highly motivated buyer.
Julia Kelly: What about other motivations?
Devoe: Not important to me.
Kelly: Whether it's important to you or not, there are people out there who don't care about money, and who don't give a damn about respect. People who believe the killing of innocent men and women is justified. For them it is about rage, frustration, hatred... they feel pain and they're determined to share it with the world.
Devoe: Okay, that does me no good. Now let's deal with the facts at hand. 23 hours ago, General Aleksander Kodoroff stole ten nuclear warheads.
Kelly: He's just a delivery boy. I'm not afraid of the man who wants ten nuclear weapons, Colonel. I'm terrified of the man who only wants one.

Dimitri Vertikoff: Kodoroff's generation of officers grew up in a crumbling system. Those pictures in your head of Russia; bread lines, shitty little apartments, ancient cars... Kodoroff and his friends made sure that it never applied to them. But now, even that system is crumbling.

Aleksandr Kodoroff: I don't care what bitch gave birth to them; Muslim, Serb. I don't hate them for who they are. I hate them because they are poor.

Dusan Gavrich: I am a Serb. I am a Croat. I am a Muslim. You will look at what I have done and say, "Of course. Why not? They are all animals. They have slaughtered each other for centuries." But the truth is, I'm not a monster - I'm a human man. I'm just like you, whether you like it or not. For years, we have tried to live together, until a war was waged on us, on all of us: a war waged by our own leaders. And who supplied the Serb cluster bombs, the Croatian tanks, the Muslim artillery shells - that killed our sons and daughters? It was the governments of the West who drew the boundaries of our countries - sometimes in ink, sometimes in blood - the blood of our people. And now you dispatch your "peacekeepers" to write our destiny again. We can never accept this peace that leaves us with nothing but pain, pain the peacemakers must be made to feel. Their wives, their children, their houses and churches. So now you know, now you must understand. Leave us to find our own destiny. May God have mercy on us all.

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