We're in trouble on this one.
Our agents inside the OAS can't pin him down, since not even the OAS knows who he is.
Action Service can't destroy him; they don't know who to destroy.
The gendarmes, all forty-eight thousand of them, can't pursue him; they don't know who to pursue.
The police can't arrest him. How can they? They don't know who to arrest.
Without a name, all other proposals are meaningless. The first task, then, is to find it. We get a name, we get a passport and a face. And with a face, we get an arrest. But to find his name, and to do it in secret, is a job of pure detective work.
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I don't think I've ever heard of a political killer in this country. It's not our style, is it?
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We can't find him. He's vanished, just disappeared off the face of the earth. I don't think we really ever had any idea what kind of a man you've been pursuing for the last two weeks.
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There's no question of Her Majesty's Government ever conceding the fact that this Jackal was an Englishman. So far as one can see, there was a period when an Englishman came under suspicion, but he has now been cleared. Certainly, the Jackal masqueraded as an Englishman, but he also masqueraded as a Dane and as a Frenchman. So there's no way of proving his identity at all.
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But if the Jackal wasn't Calthrop, then who the hell was he?
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