- Major Sylvester Pennington Sloane: May I have a word with you please Professor Pollock?
- David Pollock: Well... if it's about that small outstanding bill at the bookstore there is a simple explanation: Poverty.
- Major Sylvester Pennington Sloane: No, it's nothing like that.
- David Pollock: Oh, in that case, how do you do?
- David Pollock: I'll meet you in Knightsbridge at the Kelly Hotel. I'm registered there under the name of O'Malley.
- Yasmin Azir: [confused] 'O'Malley'?
- David Pollock: Yeah, there's a discount if you're Irish.
- Beshraavi: [Offering Pollock a small platter of dried dates] Take a date, Mr. Pollock, as a gesture of friendship. I'm a very Arabian Arab, I'm afraid.
- David Pollock: [Takes a date, then offers one to the falcon] Friends?
- Beshraavi: Flesh, Mr. Pollock. Hassan eats only flesh.
- David Pollock: I thought he looked at it wistfully.
- Beshraavi: It must have been your fingers.
- Yasmin Azir: You've got to listen to me!
- David Pollock: Boy, every time I try to listen to you someone either hits me over the head or tries to vaccinate me.
- David Pollock: Mrs. Ragheeb, I know this is a terrible time to trouble you, but I've got to know what that inscription means. I thought, perhaps, among your husband's notes... But he must have told you something. He must have mentioned where he got it, who gave it to him. We have to know.
- Ragheeb's Wife: "We"? Who's "we"?
- David Pollock: A girl. Her family's in great danger. Her mother and sisters, General Ali will kill them.
- Ragheeb's Wife: Is the girl named Yasmin Azir?
- David Pollock: Yes.
- Ragheeb's Wife: And she told you that her mother and her sisters are in danger?
- David Pollock: Yes.
- Ragheeb's Wife: Yasmin has no such family, Mr Pollock. There is only her father. General Ali would never harm him.
- David Pollock: Why not?
- Ragheeb's Wife: Because General Ali *is* her father.
- Yasmin Azir: [At the races, both dressed up posh] Well, if it isn't Mr. Dillingham.
- David Pollock: By Jove, it's actually Lady Hetherington-Cartwright.
- Yasmin Azir: Don't overdo it.
- David Pollock: I didn't know you could.
- Yasmin Azir: Are you burning it?
- David Pollock: That's how you detect invisible ink. Weren't you ever in the Boy Scouts?
- Yasmin Azir: I flunked - the physical.
- David Pollock: Should have tried my troop, we'd have waived it.
- David Pollock: Let us through! That man's about to be killed!
- Policeman: I hardly think so, sir. This is England!
- David Pollock: Those stairs must lead somewhere.
- Yasmin Azir: Are you sure?
- David Pollock: If they don't, watch out for the last one!
- Webster: That cipher, *where is it*?
- David Pollock: Ask me later alligator.
- Webster: *Where is it*?
- David Pollock: I left it at Beshraavi's. After all, it belongs to him.
- Yussef Kasim: Wrong again teach. He snatched it. Belongs to this cat right here. Now where is it?
- David Pollock: Miss Azir, after all we've been through together couldn't you find it in your heart to put in a small word on my behalf?
- Yasmin Azir: He told me he had it in his pocket.
- David Pollock: [shaking head] Tattle tale.
- David Pollock: [Giving instructions to the driver of a large truck which is blocking the road] All right, mate. Lots of room, lots of room. That's it. Keep on going. Lots of leeway back there.
- David Pollock: Bring her on back, mate. Okay, fine. Plenty of leeway. Plenty of leeway. Lots of room. Right on back. Good.
- [Rear end of truck smashes through a brick wall]
- Beshraavi: Before you came home, I received word that... Mr. Pollock had arrived safely in his rooms at Oxford.
- Yasmin Azir: A hearty race, the Americans.
- Beshraavi: I was also told that he was riding a bicycle... and singing a very strange song.
- Yasmin Azir: A hearty and fun-loving race.
- Beshraavi: Those slippers are absolutely beautiful, my darling. Are you wearing them for my benefit?
- Yasmin Azir: Of course, Nejim. Mr. Pollock does not have your exotic refinements. He prefers nighties.
- David Pollock: She said it, I didn't.
- Beshraavi: Mr. Pollock, some Bedouins are in the habit of saying to their guests, "All that I possess is yours"... I am not one of them.
- Beshraavi: Extraordinary sensation. Perhaps it was the way he looked at you?
- Yasmin Azir: Who?
- Beshraavi: Pollock!
- Yasmin Azir: Darling, if you start getting jealous over everyone who looks at me, it will do terrible things to your blood pressure. I don't think you have to worry about college professors.
- Beshraavi: Why not?
- Yasmin Azir: They're only interested in work.
- Beshraavi: They're the most dangerous kind, my love. They're such expert peekers.
- Yasmin Azir: Don't worry. If I were standing stark naked in front of Mr. Pollock, he'd probably yawn.
- Yasmin Azir: Yussef is not my boyfriend. I loathe him.
- David Pollock: Of course you do. You just do what he tells you because he's holding your family hostage back in the old country.
- Yasmin Azir: How did you know that?
- David Pollock: Oh, come on. I've seen that movie.
- Yasmin Azir: General Ali Ben Ali, the man he works for, threatened to kill my mother and sisters unless I cooperated with him.
- David Pollock: And Beshraavi, who's he got, your Uncle Max from Newark?
- Yasmin Azir: What do you mean?
- David Pollock: Forget it. If you want to live with Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, that's your business.
- Yasmin Azir: This is like a recurring dream I used to have.
- David Pollock: How did it end?
- Yasmin Azir: Don't ask!
- David Pollock: I have a vivid imagination... I must say... I never saw myself unpacking a prime minister!
- David Pollock: ...and dear Miss Azir. You know, for a poor subjugated Arab lady you lead one hell of an emancipated life. Mr. Beshraavi on the one hand and Mr. Yussef Kasim on the other. Do you get Sundays off?
- David Pollock: This isn't your house. This is my house, and you weren't invited, so go away!
- Yasmin Azir: I didn't even know if you were alive, but I came to warn you anyway.
- David Pollock: Warn me about what?
- Yasmin Azir: Nazim's men. They are on their way here to get the cipher back. You've got to get away.
- David Pollock: Now slow down a minute. Aren't you the same Miss Azir who just stood there while your friends tried to kill me?
- Yasmin Azir: Oh David! You don't think I enjoyed that?
- David Pollock: Oh! Well! So long as you didn't enjoy it!
- Yasmin Azir: Webster sold out to Nazim.
- David Pollock: It must be a popular indoor sport these days.
- Yasmin Azir: You're not including me I hope!
- David Pollock: Of course not. We're believing you today.
- Beshraavi: Oh - and if I don't hear from you by noon tomorrow - try and think of some remote corner of the world where I won't find you. I don't think you can - but try.
- Yasmin Azir: [At a construction site - after they've both lied about where they were going] David, you followed me, didn't you?
- David Pollock: No, I didn't! You went to the embassy, and I came here to my hotel.
- Beshraavi: You mustn't mind Hassan, Mr. Pollock.
- David Pollock: 'Hassan'?
- Beshraavi: He's a peregrine falcon. I've named him Hassan Jena after our beloved prime minister. They share so many sterling qualities. A sharp eye, a fierce dedication, and *very* sharp claws. Hassan won't harm you, Mr. Pollock, if you don't separate him from his master. He is excessively loyal.
- David Pollock: You keep him well fed, I trust.
- Beshraavi: Of course. Nobody's *that* loyal.
- Yasmin Azir: [Meeting Pollock for the first time] Hello.
- David Pollock: Hello. Hello! Hello-hello-hello.
- Yasmin Azir: What are you doing?
- David Pollock: Oh, well, these English crosswords are devilish, don't you think?
- Yasmin Azir: You're an American?
- David Pollock: Yes sir, indeedy-do, Ma'am.
- Beshraavi: What do you suppose happened to Mustafa? He hasn't come back yet.
- Yasmin Azir: Dead, I'm afraid.
- Beshraavi: And servants so hard to come by these days...
- Yasmin Azir: I saw several possible replacements at the zoo.
- Yasmin Azir: The police think you killed Webster. Have you seen the papers?
- David Pollock: I don't care what they say as long as they spell my name right.
- David Pollock: For generations the Pollocks have devoted themselves to uncovering the past. I think its probably about time that a Pollock involved himself in the future, for a change.
- Yasmin Azir: Why don't you tell them where the cipher is?
- David Pollock: Well, because I don't know where it is.
- Yasmin Azir: You told me you had it.
- David Pollock: You told me lots of things too. Looks like we're just a pair of pathological liars.
- Yasmin Azir: How come my recurring dream never ended this way?
- David Pollock: I don't know? Mine always did. I guess I just travel in better dreams.
- David Pollock: Now, then, Miss Azir, I wonder if you'd tell me what this is all about.
- Yasmin Azir: Call me Yasmin, at least while you're in my bathroom.
- Beshraavi: Mr. Pollock, very good of you to reonsider my proposal.
- David Pollock: I always try my best to cooperate with the very rich Mr. Beshraavi.
- Journalist: [Prime Minister has arrived, weather is quite rainy] What are your first impressions?
- Hassan Jena: We could use some of your English rain in our dry country. In our country, there's a great deal of oil and very little water. A highly inflammable situation.
- Yasmin Azir: [Addressing a uniformed Queen's Guardsman, under whose foot an important scrap of paper has lodged] Excuse me, soldier...
- David Pollock: [correcting her] He's a Guardsman.
- Yasmin Azir: Excuse me, Guardsman. I'm sorry to bother you. I know you're on duty, but... there is something under your foot that belongs to us.
- Major Sylvester Pennington Sloane: I'm only checking your glasses. You look as though I want to drill your teeth. Do sit down, Professor Ragheeb. That doesn't sound English. Are you English, Professor Ragheeb?
- Ragheeb: Why do you ask?
- Major Sylvester Pennington Sloane: Oh, small talk, merely small talk. The weather's too dull and politics too explosive. I certainly didn't mean to pry.
- Yussef Kasim: Skip the college talk, Teach. To the point, Daddy-o. Where is the cipher?
- David Pollock: The cipher?
- Yussef Kasim: Yeah, the cipher. Yeah, we know you've got it. So no point fooling. You're on a ride in the middle of nowhere. The Marines can't come and save you for democracy here!
- David Pollock: As long as you needed someone to sit down and work, I was your man. But the situation has changed somewhat. What you need now is someone with a Ph. D. in rough-house.
- Hassan Jena: I did warn you that it might become dangerous.
- David Pollock: Well, dangerous, sir, not lethal.
- David Pollock: Look, everyone's got problems, including me, so I'd just as soon not get mixed up in yours.
- Yasmin Azir: But you are mixed up in them, whether you like it or not.
- David Pollock: In this cynical old world, you have to believe in something. So, it might as well be you.
- Yasmin Azir: The candy! You are brilliant!
- David Pollock: The result of a clean mind and a healthy body.
- Hassan Jena: Mr. Pollock, what has happened?
- David Pollock: Mr. Jena, there's been some trouble. A man was killed at Ascot today.
- Hassan Jena: Yes, I heard. Have you also heard who it is they think killed him?
- David Pollock: Mrs. Pollock's idiot son, David, that's who. I need your help.
- Hassan Jena: I don't think there's anything I can do for you right now, besides suggesting you stay clear of the police.