- [first lines]
- Fernando Laroca: Metal work. Rather impressive, don't you think? And this is the sculptor, Carl. Rene Santoro.
- Carl Reid: Señor Santoro. A beautiful piece of work.
- Rene Santoro: I'm pleased that a Santoro original is to be taken to the United States, but, gentlemen, this base is wrong. It's clumsy. It flaws the work.
- Carl Reid: We don't agree. Why don't you show Señor Santoro how useful the base will be.
- Fernando Laroca: You're right. That's only fair.
- Person on Tape: [voice on tape] Good morning, Mr. Phelps. Carl Reid is the most important distributor of cocaine in the United States. Fernando Laroca is his chief supplier. These men have set up ingenious, in-detectable pickup and payoff locations, and conventional law enforcement agencies have been unable to stop the flow of this dangerous drug. We have learned that within the next 72 hours, Laroca will deliver to Reid the largest shipment of cocaine ever to be smuggled into the United States. Your mission, should you accept, is to locate and seize this shipment. This tape will self-destruct in five seconds. Good luck, Jim.
- Joseph Conrad: I can fix that pretty face of yours so that every time you look in the mirror, you scream.