Catchphrase: "Half now, half on delivery" is the Jackal's standard form of payment.Preston even calls him such as he's listening to the transcript's recording and hears that it has the address.ĭeputy Director Carter Preston: Whiterspoon, you by-the-book asshole! Even after he was explicitly ordered by his superior to not put the address of Isabella and her family on the case's documentation in fear of what may happen if The Mole gets his hands on it, Whiterspoon does it anyway and the Jackal ends up killing all of the agents on the house, including Koslova. By-the-Book Cop: FBI Agent Whiterspoon, played for tragedy.Bury Your Gays: The DC bureaucrat that Jackal had 'befriended' at the gay bar.Lamont guesses correctly that the support will be used for a BFG of some kind, The Jackal is mighty intimidating (and not hard to guess is a killer for hire just from the way he talks), and the Jackal asks Lamont for a well-isolated area to test said gun and for him to come along. Blackmail Backfire: Lamont tries to swindle more money out of The Jackal after he completes the radio-controlled support.Black Blood: Lampshaded by the Jackal after he shoots Koslova through the liver.
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the FSB (through old KGB files) and FBI having enough of a dossier to immediately finger Mulqueen as a someone who may have met him once. Also compare the French knowing absolutely jack about the Jackal in the beginning vs. On this film, Murad's group never seems to have money issues at all (Murad just makes a quip about the Jackal being expensive before laughing it off and agreeing with a toast when the Jackal says his price) and the Russian police just happened to luck into catching some random member of the group that had somehow overheard Murad talking about the Jackal.