The Living Daylights (1987)

John Rhys-Davies: General Leonid Pushkin

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• James Bond : [Bond is pointing a gun at him]  Get down on your knees. Put your hands behind your back.

  Leonid Pushkin : You are professional. You do not kill without reason.

  James Bond : 2 of our men are dead. Koskov's named you. Why should I disobey my orders?

  Leonid Pushkin : I am in the dark as much as you. It is a question of trust. Who do you believe? Koskov, or me?

  James Bond : If I trusted Koskov we wouldn't be talking. But as long as you're alive, we'll never know what he's up to.

  Leonid Pushkin : [Slowly]  Then I must die.

• Brad Whitaker : How do you like my personal pantheon of great commanders?

  Leonid Pushkin : Butchers.

  Brad Whitaker : Surgeons. They cut away society's dead flesh.

• Leonid Pushkin : [Bond gets the drop on Pushkin]  I take this is not a social call, 007.

  James Bond : Correct.

  [referring to flowers] 

  James Bond : You should have brought lilies.

  Leonid Pushkin : May I ask why?

  James Bond : Smiert Spionam.

  Leonid Pushkin : Smiert Spionam? Was a Beria operation, in Stalin's time. It was deactivated 20 years ago.

  James Bond : Two of our men are dead.

  Leonid Pushkin : My condolences. We had nothing to do with it.

• Leonid Pushkin : Put him on the next plane to Moscow...

  General Georgi Koskov : Oh, thank you General, thank you so much...

  Leonid Pushkin : ...in the diplomatic bag.