- Auggie Anderson: [on radio] When are you gonna realize I know everything?
- Annie Walker: I don't know whether to be scared or oddly comforted by that.
- Annie Walker: [to interrogator Max] This is a terrible mistake. We're just hikers. I've never met a spy, but I imagine they look nothing like us.
- Max Kupala: So, what's it like to work for the CIA?
- Annie Walker: I wouldn't know. I work in a travel book store in Toronto.
- Max Kupala: But for being an American hiker, you know a lot about this country, huh?
- Annie Walker: I'm not American.
- Max Kupala: Ah, sorry,
- [laughs]
- Max Kupala: a Canadian.
- Annie Walker: I wanted to visit your country for a long time. I admire the Belarusian people very much.
- Max Kupala: We are organized, hard-working... very kind to foreigners.
- Annie Walker: Your country has been sold, stolen, borrowed, occupied and destroyed by everyone from the Vikings to Stalin. Even now you only exist because Russia allows you to.
- Max Kupala: Uh. You learned all that in a travel book store.
- Annie Walker: I like to read about the places I'm gonna visit.
- Max Kupala: Is that also where you learned to speak Russian... like a schoolgirl from Minsk?
- Annie Walker: I like research.
- Max Kupala: Research? This is not research.
- [with growing distaste:]
- Max Kupala: You didn't read a guide book about my home country. You read the CIA files. And they are pretty good in analyzing the vulnerabilities of a people, right? Huh? I just wish you... could appreciate us for more than... just our... resilience. We make, uh, world-class motorcycle.
- Annie Walker: [snaps] After being held against my will... I think I'll buy a Harley!
- Max Kupala: Then watch your pretty mouth. I work for my government just like you work for yours. We both have a job to do. Huh? Yours is to come here uninvited, and mine is to use your presence to help my country.
- Annie Walker: You're not giving it to your country. The money you get will go directly to the Secret Police. And you'll get what, fifteen percent?
- Max Kupala: Ten.
- [Annie smirks]
- Max Kupala: We both work for our agencies. We have to work very hard to prove our worth, to separate ourselves from our colleagues, right?
- Annie Walker: I like working with my colleagues.
- Max Kupala: I have a family, and to support them, I have to prove myself all the time. I hope your agency understands the simplicity of that.
- Annie Walker: Like I said, I don't have an agency.
- Max Kupala: Then you will not stay here for much longer... in this cosy little house.
- [turns to leave]
- Max Kupala: You have a good night.