CYPHER

Credits

Synopsis

Wav Files and Photos

Links

Credits

Directed by Vincenzo Natali
Written by Brian King

Jeremy Northam Morgan Sullivan
Lucy Liu Rita Foster
Nigel Bennett Ed Finster
Timothy Webber Callaway
David Hewlett Virgil C. Dunn
Kari Matchett Diane
Kristina Nicoll Amy

Synopsis

Morgan Sullivan is an out of work accountant who is stuck in an unhappy life in the subrurbs, a miserable marriage and dreams of one day sailing away to a life of freedom and excitement. Seeking an escape from his lackluster existence and his overbearing wife, he decides to join the multinational corporation Digicorp to become a company spy.

Adopting a new identity, he is sent to spy on various trade conventions where he secretly records the proceedings and transmits the information to Ed Finster, his ruthless and intimidating corporate boss.

While carrying out his aasignments, Morgan encounters an elsuive and beautiful woman, Rita, who reveals to him that his Digicorp activities have been a ruse to brainwash him and others like him. With some hesitation, Morgan accepts heroffer of anti-brainwashing drugs and is ultimately forced to work for Frank Calloway, a seemingly friendly agent from a rival company - Sunways. Calloway's congenial demeanor masks his ruthless motives.

As a double agent, Morgan's survival lies dep in his mind and actions, but he's having difficulties distinguishing reality from the visions that plague him. Morgan's wrold has become a quagmire where the lines are blurred, where charades and dreams become truths.

Morgan knows he must escape his nightmarish situation. His only hope is Sebastian Rooks, an enigmatic deep cover operative who is Rita's boss. To be saved by Rooks, Morgan muct complete a final assignment. Morgan steals a data file from a secur network, almost getting killed in the process. He then discovers the truth behind his mission, Rita's motives and Rooks' identity.

Wav Files and Photos

All photos and wav files copyright 2002 Miramax Films
Click on the thumbnails to view the larger image.

Download all wav files as a zip file (812 KB)

cypher01.wav
Finster: "This is a technology firm, Mr. Sullivan. If we choose to employ you as an agent of Digicorp you will spy on other corporations, inform us of their business plans, research programs and counter-intelligence operations."

cypher02.wav
Finster: "Thus far, your determination has been very impressive."

cypher03.wav
Finster: "Your personal records are fine. You've passed our neurograph five times."

cypher04.wav
Finster: "You've been married four years; you live a respectable neighborhood,. You've always had steady jobs. You have an excellent credit history. No drug habits. No drinking problems. You don't smoke. No other vices to speak of."

cypher05.wav
Finster: "Is there anything else we should know about you?"

cypher06.wav
Finster: "The stakes in this line of work are very high."

cypher07.wav
Finster: "It'll be like nothing you've ever done before."

 

cypher08.wav
Finster: "You will be sent to conventions across the country. You will record the speeches."

cypher09.wav
Finster: "You will have to deceive other people about what you do for a living. Even your own wife. You don't mind lying to your wife?"

cypher10.wav
Finster: "The speeches are not your concern, Mr. Sullivan. Just do your job, follow our instructions, nothing else. Do you understand?"

cypher11.wav
Finster: "That's what you'll be called from now on. As far as Dgicopr is concerened, Morgan Sullivan doesn't exist. You never met him, you never will."

cypher12.wav
Finster: "He's whoever you want him to be."

 

cypher13.wav
Finster: "You don't have to pretend to be Thrusby. I know you're not brainwashed. I know Sunways has been using you as a double agent against Digicorp."

cypher14.wav
Finster: "Not if you return your loyalties to me, instead of Sebastian Rooks."

cypher15.wav
Finster: "Oh, yeah. I know that you work for him. As a matter of fact, we both do. I'm Rooks' inside source at Digicorp."

 

cypher16.wav
Finster: "He paid me to hire you so you could be his pawn once you were sent off to Sunways."

cypher17.wav
Finster: "Well, you didn't think I hired you because I was impressed by you, did you?"

 

cypher18.wav
Finster: "it's a good plan, really. Rooks knew that you'd end up here in Kansas on your way to the Sunways vault. He knew he could convince you to switch their disk with his. That was his scheme from the very start."

cypher19.wav
Finster: "Rooks' disk contains a saerch program that will penetrate the vault's secure network and quietly steal a data file without triggering any alarms."

cypher20.wav
Finster: "Who knows? But if Rooks has gone to all this trouble to get it, it must be extremely valuable."

cypher21.wav
Finster: "The plan was foolproof. But the one factor he failed to consider: me."

cypher22.wav
Finster: "When you come out of the vault, deliver the disk to me, not Rooks. I've been loyal to Digicorp all along. "

cypher23.wav
Finster: "Because we'll let you live and Rooks won't. It's as simple as that. No one sees his face and lives to tell about it."

cypher24.wav
Finster: "He's a deep cover operative, a Yuri in cyberspace. He's a phantom. Nobody's hired him without actually knowing who he is. If they did, they'd kill him."

cypher25.wav
Finster: "The moment you give that disk to Rooks is the moment he eliminates you."

 

cypher26.wav
Finster: "There's only one person Rooks trusts with his identity - Rita Foster, his lover."

cypher27.wav
Finster: "She's completely loyal to him. No one else."

cypher28.wav
Finster: "I'm the only person you can trust now."

cypher29.wav
Finster: "I'll be nearby when you come out. Just in case we get separated."

cypher30.wav
Finster: "No charge for the ride."

 

cypher31.wav
Finster: "Are you following me, Calloway?"
Calloway: "I'm here for Rooks, not you."
Finster: "That's who I'm here for."

 

cypher32.wav
Finster: "Just Morgan Sulliva, our pawn."

 

 

cypher33.wav
Finster: "Jesus, he's Rooks."

Links

Official Web Site

Go to Film Vault

Return to Index

This page last updated September 1, 2005