Elise Kraft Quotes in The Siege (1998)

Elise Kraft: In this game, the most committed wins.

Elise Kraft: It's easy to tell the difference between right and wrong. What's hard is choosing the wrong that's more right.

Elise Kraft: It's never the question that's indiscreet, just the answer.

Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: You will go to prison...

Agent Frank Haddad: You know what happens to women in prison?

Elise Kraft: Mmmmm... yummm!

Elise Kraft: [to Hubbard] I tend to be suspicious of all true believers. Present company included.

[the team is listening in on the three suspected bus 87 bombers]

Elise Kraft: They're discussing how hard it is to find a decent cup of coffee over here.

[hands headset to Frank]

Elise Kraft: I make out three voices. What do you have on the infrared?

FBI Agent Mike Johanssen: Sounds like three.

Agent Frank Haddad: If we had microwave we'd know for sure. The CIA's got microwave. How come we don't have microwave?

[Hubbard is talking to the landlord]

Landlord: ...There are three of them. All day long they watch TV, and eat pizza. Nothing but pizza. Pizza, pizza, pizza...

[cuts to Agent Danny Sussman, disguised as a pizza deliveryman, carrying a pizza box that contains a bomb up the stairs, followed by the FBI's HRT team members, who advance with their weapons ready. Danny knocks on the door]

Danny Sussman: Pizza!

[knocks again, this time more urgently]

Danny Sussman: Pizza!

[a young Arab opens the door and hands him a small wad of money]

Danny Sussman: You want change or not?

Arab: No. Put it on the floor.

[Danny complies]

Danny Sussman: [sighs] Have you heard? Crime is down 7% in this city.

[the agents observe and capture Samir]

Agent Frank Haddad: His name's Samir Nazhde. Teaches Arab Studies at Brooklyn College. He sponsored Ail Waziri's student visa. And dig this - his brother blew up a movie theatre in Tel Aviv.

Elise Kraft: You might consider leaving him alone.

Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: Why would I consider doing that?

Elise Kraft: Play him like a cop and haul him in now and get your arrest, or tag him and let him lead you to the really big fish.

Agent Frank Haddad: [curses in Arabic] You're fishing and he's getting visas for bombers.

Elise Kraft: You ever heard of catch and release?

Agent Frank Haddad: Yes, and he's on the next plane for Tunis.

[Samir is now leaving a cafe]

Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: Take him down.

Agent Frank Haddad: [keys his radio] Go.

[Three agents take Samir, and lead them to Hub's car]

Agent Frank Haddad: Samir Nazhde, my name is Frank Haddad, I'm a Federal Agent. We have reason to believe you are an accessory to the bombing of Bus 87.

Samir Nazhde: Are you crazy?

Agent Frank Haddad: You are an associate of Ali Waziri.

Samir Nazhde: Who? I know no one by that name.

Agent Frank Haddad: You got him a student visa.

Samir Nazhde: I sign these applications as a matter of course, hundreds of them. Everyone wants to come to the land of opportunity and Baywatch.

Agent Frank Haddad: You spent two years in Israeli jails during the Intifada.

Samir Nazhde: The only ones who didn't were women like you.

[Frank backhands Samir across the mouth]

Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: Frank...

Agent Frank Haddad: Sorry, personal matter.

[to Samir]

Agent Frank Haddad: You're going downtown, my friend.

Samir Nazhde: You cannot hold me. I know my rights! I watch American television!

Agent Frank Haddad: Defrauding the INS is a federal offense.

[hands him off to the agents]

Agent Frank Haddad: Reservation for one, please.

[Hubbard approaches Elise at the warehouse where Bus 4199 is being stored]

Elise Kraft: Hi there.

Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: I'm Anthony Hubbard. I'm the Assistant Special Agent in Charge.

Elise Kraft: Oh, shit! I've been trying to liaise with you all day. I'm Elise Kraft, National Security Council.

[shakes hands with Hubbard]

Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: Pleasure. You been trying to liaise with me all day? Have you checked the phone book? We've got fourteen lines, not including the unlisted ones.

[pause]

Elise Kraft: Hi, I'm Elise Kraft, National Security Council.

Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: How ya doin'? I'm Colin Powell. Whaddaya people want with my bus?