The Red Machine (2009)

Lee Perkins: F. Ellis Coburn

Quotes 

• F. Ellis Coburn : It's a capital offense, you know.

  Eddie Doyle : What?

  F. Ellis Coburn : What we're doing. It's espionage. If they catch us, the Japanese have every right to ship us back to Tokyo and have us executed.

  Eddie Doyle : You never told me that.

  F. Ellis Coburn : Didn't I?

  Eddie Doyle : No. I would have remembered that.

  F. Ellis Coburn : It's true.

  Eddie Doyle : You're just saying that to try and cheer me up.

  F. Ellis Coburn : It might not make the Denver Post, but it's one hell of an accomplishment.

• F. Ellis Coburn : The night of the mission, sir, we need Shimada out.

  Admiral Byron McAdams : A diversion.

  F. Ellis Coburn : Yes, sir.

  Admiral Byron McAdams : [to Petrie]  Arrange a dinner, my place.

  [to Coburn] 

  Admiral Byron McAdams : Thursday, you said?

  F. Ellis Coburn : Yes, sir, it's the Chu...

  Harrison Llewelyn Petrie : [interrupting]  It is the Chugen holiday, sir.

  F. Ellis Coburn : That's correct, sir. Shimada would feel obligated to attend.

  Admiral Byron McAdams : Petrie, make it happen. Invitations...

  Harrison Llewelyn Petrie : Yes, sir. Embossed, sir?

  Admiral Byron McAdams : No. Crayons. What do you think we are, the goddamned Army? Of course, embossed! Gold leaf, the whole bit.

  Harrison Llewelyn Petrie : Aye-aye, sir!