Yaskov Quotes in Hopscotch (1980)

[first lines]

Kendig: Hey Yaskov, how are ya?

Yaskov: Kendig. What as unexpected pleasure.

Kendig: May I have it please?

Yaskov: Have what?

Kendig: I got it all on film, Yaskov. You don't want to deal with the West Germans, they don't like Russian Intelligence, you know that. Just give it to me, and we'll forget all about it.

Yaskov: I could make a run for it, you know.

Kendig: Come on, Yaskov. You running, me chasing? We'd look like Laurel and Hardy.

Yaskov: We're having our picture taken.

Kendig: That's Follett. He's an idiot. Probably no film in the camera.

Yaskov: [about Kendig] I do like him, you know. One can't help it...

Yaskov: I'm offering to put you right back into the game.

Kendig: Yaskov, Yaskov. I'd make a useless double agent.

Yaskov: Of course you would.

Kendig: Double agents must be drab little people. Colorless.

Yaskov: No, that would never do for you. Listen, I want to run you in the field... as my own agent. We'd make it worth your while, of course. There is plenty of money.

Kendig: No. Money is too expensive to be earned that way, Yaskov.

Yaskov: Look. The human species has been on this planet... for, um, millions of years. Except for the tiniest fraction of the time... we all lived as hunters. Hunting: it's the only natural way of life. It was *your* way of life until you walked away from it. I'm offering to return it to you.