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Breach · 2007 — 第 7 / 20 章 · 2'14" · B2

Kate Explains Why They Picked Eric, Explained：work miracles

Eric finally asks the question he's been carrying: "Did you pick me because I was Catholic?" Kate's answer is colder and simpler — the Bureau wanted his computer skills. The rest of the conversation turns that answer into an assignment: help search Hanssen's car, and find a way to keep him away from his desk.

あらすじ

Hanssen invites Eric to St. Catherine's on Sunday for a Latin service and a big family lunch. Later, Eric asks Kate Burroughs whether he was chosen because he is Catholic; she says no, it was his computer skills, and tells him the plan: agents will search Hanssen's car, and Eric has to keep him out of the office. Eric admits he may be wrong for the job.

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注目の表現

work miraclesgive someone a callpage someonefacility with computers

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このシーンの表現

work miracles

produce amazing results

Hanssen invites O'Neill to church and jokes that his wife Bonnie can work miracles.

A little patience can work miracles.

このシーンの他の表現

  • give someone a call

    phone someone

  • page someone

    send someone a pager message

  • facility with computers

    a natural skill with something

  • got his hands on

    managed to obtain something

  • the right guy for

    the suitable person for a role

このシーンのメモ一覧

32 行のセリフに 20 件のメモ

表現 · B1attend a church/service

go to church

We attend St. Catherine's on Sundays.
表現 · B2a traditional ... service

an old-style church service

It's a traditional Latin service, then a big family lunch after.
発音a big family lunch

Stress big and lunch to make the family meal the point.

It's a traditional Latin service, then a big family lunch after.
表現 · A2give something a try

try something

Then let's give it a try. This weekend.
表現 · B2work miracles

produce amazing results

Hanssen invites O'Neill to church and jokes that his wife Bonnie can work miracles.

My Bonnie's been known to work miracles.
表現 · B1no one else

nobody else

No one else even has this number.
表現 · A2give someone a call

phone someone

O'Neill suggests Hanssen call his wife back, but Hanssen waves it off as unimportant.

Well, perhaps you should give her a call. It might be important.
表現 · B2page someone

send someone a pager message

Hanssen makes it clear that when he pages O'Neill, he expects business, not small talk.

You know, when I page you, it isn't to discuss what's on Oprah.
発音isn't to

The t in isn't often disappears before to.

You know, when I page you, it isn't to discuss what's on Oprah.
スラング · B1Jesus

an exclamation of exasperation — A mild oath for frustration, best avoided at work or around strangers.

Jesus, Eric.
表現 · B2facility with something

a natural skill with something

Hanssen denies the religious motive and credits O'Neill's knack for computers instead.

We picked you because of your facility with computers.
発音because of your

Because of your runs together, with a weak of.

We picked you because of your facility with computers.
文法 · B2you've been pushing

relative clause: The clause describes the proposal he has been handing around, with that left out.

We also thought he might like that 50-page proposal you've been pushing all over the Bureau.
スラング · B2the Bureau

the FBI — Insider shorthand for the FBI, common in crime and spy stories.

We also thought he might like that 50-page proposal you've been pushing all over the Bureau.
表現 · B2get one's hands on something

managed to obtain something

Hanssen asks whether the target already got his hands on O'Neill's proposal.

I understand he got his hands on a copy, right?
表現 · B2keep someone out of something

keep someone away

It'll involve you keeping him out of the office for a few hours.
文法 · B2you keeping him out of the office

gerund clause: After involve, the object plus an -ing verb names the action someone must do.

It'll involve you keeping him out of the office for a few hours.
表現 · B1the right person for something

the suitable person

Agent Burroughs, I'm starting to think I might not be the right guy for this job.
表現 · B2be put on a ... detail

a sex-crime assignment

Nobody ever put me on a perversion detail before.
表現 · B1be hard on someone

too harsh on someone

Think we're being too hard on him?

「Kate Explains Why They Picked Eric」を読み解く

What's really going on

Eric's question is the whole scene in miniature: he wants to know whether he was chosen as a person or as a tool. "Did you pick me because I was Catholic?" he asks, and the answer — "We picked you because of your facility with computers." — is meant to reassure him but doesn't. Kate's job is to keep him in place, so she flatters the proposal he has been pushing and then hands him the real task: stay close to the target and keep him out of the office while agents search his car. Eric's reply, that he may not be the right guy for this job, is the first honest thing he says. Until then he has been treated as equipment, not as an agent.

Theme

TrustEric learns he was chosen for his skills, not his faith, and that everyone around him is being managed like a piece on a board.
DeceptionThe Bureau's reassurance is really a cover for using Eric as bait against a man he is told to befriend.

このチャプターで学べること

  • He asks the dangerous question before anyone else can.
  • Hanssen answers faith with competence and moves on.
  • Every compliment here is doing a second job.
  • The final scene tests whether he can hold his nerve.

発音のポイント

  • a big family lunch — Stress big and lunch to make the family meal the point.
  • isn't to — The t in isn't often disappears before to.
  • because of your — Because of your runs together, with a weak of.
Did you pick me because I was Catholic?

Eric's real question is whether he was hired as a person or as bait; he suspects his faith was part of the Bureau's calculation.

We picked you because of your facility with computers.

Kate's official reason: the Bureau wanted Eric's technical skill to get close to Hanssen, not his religion.

It's a traditional Latin service, then a big family lunch after.

Hanssen's description of his Sunday routine, offered as an invitation into a warm, ordered family world.

You know, when I page you, it isn't to discuss what's on Oprah.

A sharp reminder that a page is an order, not a chat, delivered with the impatience of someone used to being obeyed.

Nobody ever put me on a perversion detail before.

Eric's complaint about the assignment: he is used to intelligence or terrorism cases, not watching a suspected sex offender.

Agent Burroughs, I'm starting to think I might not be the right guy for this job.

Eric's first open admission of doubt, telling his handler he may be unsuited to the role she is asking him to play.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Eric ask if he was picked because he was Catholic?

He suspects the Bureau chose him for what he has in common with Hanssen, not for his skills. It's his way of asking whether he's a person or a tool in their plan.

Why was Eric actually chosen for the assignment?

Kate says it was his expertise with computers, plus a long proposal he had been pushing around the Bureau. They hoped those things would make Hanssen take an interest in him.

What does "work miracles" mean in this scene?

It's an idiom meaning to produce surprisingly good results. Hanssen uses it about his wife Bonnie, suggesting she could help smooth over whatever is troubling Eric's marriage.

What does the Bureau want Eric to do to Hanssen?

They plan to search Hanssen's car and need Eric to keep him out of the office for a few hours. So he has to win the man's trust while secretly working against him.

Why does Eric say he might not be right for the job?

Because the assignment feels beneath his training. He expected intelligence or terrorism work, not surveillance of a colleague, and the lie he has to live makes him doubt he can do it.

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次のチャプター · 第 8 章play the gameHanssen Invites Eric to His Home
第 1 章riding the deskEric Is Assigned to Watch Hanssen第 2 章keep an eye onKate Recruits Eric to Spy on Hanssen第 3 章lapsedHanssen Interrogates His New Assistant第 4 章wipe off the mapHanssen Explains Why He Stayed第 5 章turf protectionEric Gets Debriefed on Turf Protection第 6 章the varsityHanssen Lectures Eric on God and Empire再生中 · 第 7 章work miraclesKate Explains Why They Picked Eric第 8 章play the gameHanssen Invites Eric to His Home第 9 章shoot his mouth offKate Reveals Hanssen Is a Traitor第 10 章caught in the actEric Learns the Real Story第 11 章be read inKate Reveals the Mole Was Hanssen第 12 章insanely loyalHanssen's Letter to the KGB第 13 章boundariesJuliana Confronts Eric About Hanssen第 14 章put on yourselfEric Asks His Father About Quitting第 15 章come out firingHanssen's DIA Meeting Cut Short第 16 章power playHanssen Dumps His Tail第 17 章sure as hellEric Confesses He Lied to Hanssen第 18 章keep 'em straightJuliana Reads Herself Into the Case第 19 章keep your head on straightEric Questions If It's Worth It第 20 章at the end of the dayHanssen Pulls a Gun on Eric
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