[to Selina] Remind me, you said what? Your response needs to be what?
"Robust."
"Robust." [to SecDef Maddox] And you said?
"Aggressive."
You see the problem?
No, I don't.
They're different words! Yeah, and saying different words means what? It means, we're not on the same...
...diet?
Page!
Oh! I thought you were gonna say "diet," Ben! I don't like your tone.
And I don't have to answer to you, Ben. Or to Lara Croft here for that matter.
Yeah, perhaps not. But we all work for the President.
Oh, where is the Great and Powerful Oz, by the way??
Listen, we all know the White House would work so much better if there wasn't a President but there is. So, we work around that. And we do that by sticking to the same fucking words.
And it's your job to coordinate that, maestro!
That's right. So from now on the words are "calculated response."
"Calculated?" That sounds so...
...calculated?
Pussy-ass! That's what I was gonna say.
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