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Robert Redford as Joseph 'Joe' Turner (Condor).

However, as 'Condor' turns away, Higgins calls out 'How do you know?' 'They'll print it,' Turner defiantly replies. Turner points to The New York Times building and says he has 'told them a story.' Higgins is dismayed, asking Turner, 'What have you done?' He then tells Turner that he is about to become a very lonely man, and he questions whether Turner's whistleblowing will really be published. He defends the project, suggesting that when oil shortages cause a major economic crisis, Americans will demand that their comfortable lives be restored by any means necessary. Higgins describes the oilfield plan as a contingency 'game' that was planned within the CIA without approval from above. Turner rejects the suggestion but heeds Joubert's warning that the CIA will try to eliminate him as another embarrassment, possibly entrapping him through a trusted acquaintance.īack in New York, Turner has a rendezvous with Higgins near Times Square. Joubert suggests that the resourceful Turner leave the country and even become an assassin himself. Atwood's superiors had hired Joubert to stage the suicide of someone who was about to become an embarrassment, overriding Atwood's original contract for Joubert to kill Turner. Fearful of its disclosure, Atwood privately ordered Turner's section be eliminated.Īs Atwood confirms this, Joubert enters and unexpectedly kills the CIA deputy director. Turner confronts Atwood at the latter's Washington D.C.-area mansion, interrogates him at gunpoint, and learns that Turner's original report filed to CIA headquarters had provided links to a rogue operation to seize Middle Eastern oil fields. Turner also learns the name and address of Leonard Atwood, CIA Deputy Director of Operations for the Middle East. Army Signal Corps training to trace a phone call. Meanwhile, Turner discovers Joubert's location by utilizing his U.S. Back at his office, Higgins discovers that the 'mailman' who attacked Turner worked with Joubert on a previous operation. With Hale's help, Turner abducts Higgins, who identifies Joubert as a freelance assassin who has undertaken assignments for the CIA. No longer trusting anyone within 'the Company', Turner plays a cat-and-mouse game with Higgins, the deputy director of the CIA's New York division. The next morning a hitman disguised as a mailman arrives at Hale's apartment, but Turner manages to kill him. After Turner leaves the building Joubert tries to shoot him but Turner manages to blend into a small crowd. He visits Sam Barber's building and spends some tense moments in the elevator with Turner once the other passengers have left. However, Joubert, a European who led the massacre of Turner's co-workers, discovers Turner's hiding place. Hale slowly comes to trust Turner, and they become lovers. He holds Hale hostage while he attempts to figure out what is happening. Turner encounters a woman, Kathy Hale, and forces her to take him to her apartment. Later, an intruder eliminates Wicks by turning off his life support system.

Wicks kills Barber to eliminate a witness and, taken into hospital, blames Turner for both shootings. The rendezvous is a trap and Wicks attempts to kill Turner, who wounds his superior before escaping. Wicks brings Sam Barber, a college friend of Turner who is also a non-field CIA employee. Turner insists that Wicks bring somebody familiar, since 'Condor' has never met his departmental head. He contacts the CIA's New York headquarters in the World Trade Center from a phone booth and is given instructions to meet Wicks, his head of department, who will bring him to safety. Turner returns to find his coworkers dead frightened, he grabs a gun and exits the building. Armed men enter the office and murder the other six staffers. Turner leaves through a back door to get staff lunches. Turner files a report to CIA headquarters on a thriller novel with strange plot elements despite poor sales it has been translated into many languages. The seven staff members examine books, newspapers, and magazines from around the world and compare them to actual operations or to find ideas. He works at the American Literary Historical Society in New York City, which is actually a clandestine CIA office.

#Jumpcut acad code

Joe Turner is a bookish CIA analyst, code named 'Condor'.