Peter Quinn quotes from Homeland

Quinn

This is just the fucking beginning.

Max

Sweet hardware!

Virgil

Yup. CIA has the best shit.

Quinn

So, who are these guys?

Carrie

Uhm, the same guys who've already watched Brody for 300 hours. Who are you?

Quinn

The guy [who's] running things.

Carrie

[surprised] Is that right?

Saul

[resignedly] Yes. It is.

Quinn

And I don't like surprises.

Carrie

Err, I'm not crazy 'bout them, either.

Quinn

[mockingly] Crazy? Interesting word. --- [shaking hands with Carrie] Peter Quinn.

Carrie

Uh, Carrie.

Quinn

Mathison.

Carrie

Yes. I know.

Quinn

I like your work.

Carrie

[warily] Uh, Peter Quinn from where?

Quinn

Same place as you.

Carrie

Officer?

Quinn

Analyst.

Saul

Estes brought him in.

Carrie

Ah.

Quinn

So. Let's talk shop.

Carrie

[unwilling to take the information for granted] What... How many years?

Quinn

Six at Langley, four on the Venezuela desk.

Carrie

The cartels?

Quinn

Like that. --- Are we done with the meet and greet?

Saul

Yes. Moving on?

Quinn

So, we run a small team on Brody twenty four-seven. My team already hooked into the security cameras in the Rayburn building, tapping his home phone and cell. Anywhere else he goes, we have a man on him.

Virgil

And what team is that?

Quinn

You'll never see them.

Carrie

Saul and I already have a plan.

Quinn

[patronizing] Hold that thought --- Brody has a meeting this morning at the CIA, and we want to throw him a jolt. So we figured go for his Achilles heel. --- Which is you.

Carrie

So I'm in the building. I... I run into him?

Quinn

Let it drop you're back at the CIA. That should trigger his fear that your theory about him is now back in play. And that should send him to his handlers, where you guys... will be there with cameras.

Max

Roger that.

Carrie

Yeah, OK.

Quinn

So, you want to tell us your plan now?

Carrie

Uh, actually, it was the same.

Quinn

The same plan?

Carrie

Same plan. So...

Quinn

[ironically] So... I'm only half a moron.

Quinn

You were fucking him, huh?

Carrie

What?

Quinn

Brody.

Carrie

Who are you fucking?

Quinn

An ER nurse. I'm not that into her.

Carrie

You're pretty mouthy for an analyst.

Quinn

I'm just saying, if he did to me what he did to you, got me fired and made me think I was crazy when I wasn't, sent me off to get my brain zapped, I'd fucking rip his skin off.

Carrie

Well... that's the plan.

Quinn

So there's no threat to the nation. He'll never rise politically.

Estes

Are you suddenly an analyst, Quinn?

Quinn

No. I'm a guy who kills bad guys.

Quinn

The only reason to kill Brody now is for you. Cover your ass. And the collateral damage will be you wreck a woman you've already wrecked once before. And I ain't doing that.

Estes

Fine. If you're not up to the task...

Quinn

Nothing happens to Brody.

Estes

Or?

Quinn

Or you'll find me back in this bedroom one night. Right back in that chair. Because I'm a guy who kills bad guys.

Peter

She's on her own, Saul.

Saul

She's always been on her own.