- Pol: Let me put it this way. There are two opposing armies drawn up on the field but there's a heavy fog- they can't see each other. Oh, they want to, of course, very much. You are in the gap between them. You can just see us, you can just see them. Your mission is to get near enough to see them, to signal their position to us so giving us the advantage. But if, in signaling their position to us, you inadvertently signal our position to them it is they who will gain a very considerable advantage. That's where you are, Quiller. In the gap.
- [Gibbs and Rushington, two high ranking officials with the British Secret Service, are having a high class lunch]
- Gibbs: Shame about KLJ.
- Rushington: [in agreement] Hmm.
- Gibbs: How was he killed?
- Rushington: [matter of factly] Shot.
- Gibbs: What gun?
- Rushington: Long shot in the spine, actually. Nine point three. Same at Metzler.
- Gibbs: Oh really.
- Gibbs: [pouring a glass of wine] Oh, how's your lunch?
- Rushington: [in a more animated tone] Rather good.
- Gibbs: What is it?
- Rushington: Pheasant.
- Gibbs: [looking at Rushington's plate of food with interest] It should be rather good. Is it?
- Rushington: It is rather. Yes.