Chief Inspector Jones Quotes in The Tourist (2010)

Chief Inspector Jones: Agent Ward, your suspension's lifted.

Elise: Thank you, sir.

Chief Inspector Jones: And your employment is terminated, immediately.

Elise: Thank you, sir.

The Englishman: [as he is restrained] I'm just a tourist. Just a tourist. He said I might get arrested at some point

Acheson: [taking the passport] What?

The Englishman: But then you'd have to let me go because you have nothing on me.

Chief Inspector Jones: Who?

The Englishman: The man that's been sending me these texts

[holding out his phone]

Acheson: [taking the phone] Texts?

The Englishman: And the money, of course.

Acheson: [looking through the texts in the phone] Let me get this straight, because I'm a little confused. You received money from a man you've never met before, who sends you text messages telling you just to show up somewhere?

The Englishman: [wistfully looking around Venice] Well, not just anywhere.

Chief Inspector Jones: [almost disdainfully] Alexander Pearce has seven hundred and forty four million in illegal assets that given he is a British subject we might seize. This operation so far has cost me eight million. If I thought there was more that a one in a hundred chance you could be success, it would be rational for me to continue this operation... I do not.