Little Nikita (1988)

River Phoenix: Jeff Grant

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• Jeff Grant : Shove this up your bladder Boris.

• Jeff Grant : What the hell kind of investigation is this, anyway? Are you going to tell me or aren't you?

  Roy Parmenter : You're asking all the right questions, Jeff. Something big is coming down.

• Elizabeth Grant : What time will you be home?

  Jeff Grant : 5, 6... something like that.

  Elizabeth Grant : Could you be a little more specific? I get tired of cooking dinner twice.

• Roy Parmenter : You gotta' be crazy to bring a child into this ugly world.

  Jeff Grant : What's so hard about it?

  Roy Parmenter : Making a buck. Raising a family. Keeping it all together takes talent. Love.

• Jeff Grant : Spy on my parents? You gotta be kidding me! You want me to help you put'em away? Never!

• Jeff Grant : Look Mr. F.B.I man, if you're so sure and if you're so right, why don't you just arrest them?

  Roy Parmenter : Well, because... they haven't done anything yet.

  Jeff Grant : You manipulating son of a bitch!

• Jeff Grant : Don't give me that crap! You're out for yourself! The big caller, the major bust, the two-bit g-man, well shove it up you're ass! You're not my father. You're not even my friend.

• Jeff Grant : What's my name? Come on dad, what could the head of the grandfamily have to hide from his first and oldest and only son?

  Richard Grant : [pause]  Nika.

  Jeff Grant : J. Nicholas Grant. Nick.

  Richard Grant : [shakes head]  Nikita.

• Roy Parmenter : Jeffrey Nicholas Grant.

  Jeff Grant : Well, that sounds official.

  Roy Parmenter : Your parents are Russian spies. Your parents are KGB agents. "Sleepers," they're called.

  Roy Parmenter : Deep cover. They blend with the country they're assigned to. Own homes, hold jobs, raise families. They sleep for years. But when they awake, they're lethal.

  Jeff Grant : Let's go back to your Air Force Academy investigation. What happened to that?

  Roy Parmenter : What about it?

  Jeff Grant : What happened to your investigation?

  Roy Parmenter : There wasn't any.

  Roy Parmenter : Richard and Elizabeth Grant entered this country through Canada. Took their IDs off headstones in the Spokane Cemetery. Three years later, you were born. Wanna' see your birth certificate?

  Jeff Grant : No, thanks.

  Roy Parmenter : Sure you don't want some chips? I exist on corn chips and jalapeños. Not too swift around a stove.

• Jeff Grant : [walks in on his high school guidance counselor and Roy in bed]  Ms. McLaughlin! Is this work experience?

  Roy Parmenter : Go out in the yard! I'll be out in a minute.

  Roy Parmenter : [to Verna, sheepishly]  Life's little surprises...

  Verna McLaughlin : No problem. I'll just go topless for the rest of the student body.

• Jeff Grant : Do you have another cigarette, Konstantin?

  Konstantin Karpov : You smoke, Nikita? What would the Surgeon General say?

  Konstantin Karpov : [continues]  Russian cigarettes. You will acquire the taste, Nikita. As you will for all things Russian.

  Jeff Grant : I once had some Popov Vodka.

  Konstantin Karpov : Did you? Bully for you, Nikita! What a guy!