The Best Movies You’ve Never Seen podcast – The Long Kiss Goodnight

Episode: The Long Kiss Goodnight

Podcast: Best Movies You’ve Never Seen

Date: 21 August 2026

Hosts: Stephen Fenech & Trevor Long

[00:01:44] Stephen Fenech: The Best Movies You’ve Never Seen. Hello, welcome to our podcast, a podcast where I pick a movie— my name is Stephen Fenech— a movie I know very well, and I show it to Trevor Long, who’s watching it for the very first time. Hence the title, The Best Movies Trevor’s Never Seen.

[00:02:00] Trevor Long: And welcome to our 250th, uh, there we go.

[00:02:03] Movie Audio: What a, what a land, what a milestone. 250. What’s that, 4 been doing this for 5 years.

[00:02:08] Trevor Long: I didn’t realize there was 250 movies.

[00:02:10] Movie Audio: Yeah, I think this is just 5 or 6 years.

[00:02:12] Trevor Long: It was a COVID creation, so 6 years old.

[00:02:15] Movie Audio: This is something incredible. Unbelievable. Uh, today we are— our movie we’re covering is The Long Kiss Goodnight. Now just a little warning, there is some explicit language in this one. Now this was directed by Renny Harlin, who I’ll tell you right up front is married to Geena Davis. Oh, Geena Davis, the star of the movie, and Renny Harlin, husband and wife.

[00:02:40] Trevor Long: Wow.

[00:02:40] Movie Audio: Okay, still, uh, yes, I believe so. I’m not sure. Okay, uh, but at the time they were. Samuel L. Jackson also starring. Released in 1996. Written by Shane Black. Now, as you correctly, uh, uh, in my millionaire question, Shane Black wrote Lethal Weapon. You chose that, being the movie aficionado that you are. You got that right.

[00:03:03] Trevor Long: Renny Harlin, did you say?

[00:03:04] Movie Audio: Renny Harlin.

[00:03:05] Movie Audio: Yeah.

[00:03:05] Movie Audio: Oh, okay.

[00:03:06] Trevor Long: That’s—

[00:03:06] Movie Audio: well, at the time they were, right? So this is the ’90s, we’re talking mid-’90s. The screenwriter Shane Black sold the script, uh, with the intention of having Renny Harlin direct it. Renny Harlin’s directed some big movies, right? Geena Davis starring in it. So he thought, hang on, you’re married to her, I want you to direct, I want her to star. So he pitched it, sold the script to them. Then Harlin told him, they— they— look, he said, mate, just letting you know We, uh, we’re under contract here. We need to make another movie before this one. Oh, the movie they made was called Cutthroat Island, pirate adventure film that has gone down as one of the biggest stinkers of all time. It was awful.

[00:03:51] Trevor Long: So it’s not on our list?

[00:03:52] Movie Audio: No.

[00:03:53] Trevor Long: Okay.

[00:03:53] Movie Audio: And because this was slated for after Cutthroat Island, which was a bomb, it was a like absolute disaster. Shane Black in later interviews said, you go, this could have been a much bigger film hadn’t it been— if it hadn’t been for Cutthroat Island, kind of, you know, from the people who brought you Cutthroat Island, this turkey, we’re going to make this movie now. So that was Shane Black thought, yeah, you know what, it probably affected the box office.

[00:04:20] Trevor Long: I think he’s full of it. Yeah, because people really go to movies based on, I guess, well, leaving aside Christopher Nolan and yeah, yeah, Tarantino, I think there’s some big names that— yeah, I don’t know that Renny Harlin has that much pull, mate.

[00:04:32] Movie Audio: At the time he was a big director. Okay, massive director.

[00:04:35] Trevor Long: I’ll take your word for it.

[00:04:36] Movie Audio: Yeah, Shane Black sold the script for $4 million. Jesus, can we write scripts please? Yeah, and he, uh, a lot of envy among other writers, uh, he was said, oh, you’re going commercial, you’re a sellout. And he voluntarily retired. He said, I’m going to take the next 10 years off. Wow, I’ve got $4 million to spend.

[00:04:57] Trevor Long: So yeah, why wouldn’t you?

[00:04:58] Movie Audio: Yeah, he just invested.

[00:05:00] Trevor Long: Just so you know, yeah.

[00:05:00] Movie Audio: Yeah, if I get 4 million, you want to see me? Is that enough for you?

[00:05:05] Movie Audio: 4 million?

[00:05:05] Trevor Long: What do I need any more than that for?

[00:05:06] Movie Audio: 4 million. But hang on a minute, you pay your house off and then you got 3 mil to play with. Yeah. Or how— sorry, 3.5 million.

[00:05:12] Trevor Long: No, it’s just 3.

[00:05:14] Movie Audio: Sorry, I’m not making assumptions.

[00:05:15] Trevor Long: I’ve said that before. Like, yeah, that’s enough to live off.

[00:05:20] Movie Audio: Yeah.

[00:05:20] Trevor Long: Okay, what are we talking about?

[00:05:22] Movie Audio: What, you just chuck that in your super and just live off the interest?

[00:05:24] Trevor Long: Yes.

[00:05:24] Movie Audio: Just get a— what is it called?

[00:05:28] Trevor Long: A term deposit.

[00:05:28] Trevor Long: Yeah. I mean, not financial advice, but I think— I don’t think you’ll see— listen, I don’t want to break it to you, if we get $4 million, this podcast is pretty much over.

[00:05:37] Movie Audio: Really?

[00:05:38] Trevor Long: Okay. Well, actually, no, we got to $250,000 at least. To be honest, this is— I’d probably keep doing this stuff.

[00:05:43] Movie Audio: Oh, that’s nice.

[00:05:44] Trevor Long: Yeah, as long as you keep making the audiographs.

[00:05:47] Movie Audio: Of course, mate.

[00:05:47] Movie Audio: Of course.

[00:05:48] Movie Audio: That’s my job.

[00:05:48] Trevor Long: I’ll watch the odd movie.

[00:05:50] Movie Audio: Good for you. All right. Now, get this. Samuel L. Jackson in a GQ interview. Yeah. Said that he read the script and really wanted the part, but the studio said it was written as a white character.

[00:06:03] Trevor Long: Oh my God. So get this, imagine saying that. Sorry.

[00:06:06] Movie Audio: Well, you know, look, I, I, at the time, we’re talking ’90s, I don’t know how it worked back then, but Jackson just happened to meet Geena Davis and Renny at a Christmas party, right, and said, you know, that script, I really want that part.

[00:06:21] Trevor Long: Wow.

[00:06:21] Movie Audio: And Renny Harlin says, you want to be in my film? Then you’ve got it. That’s it. Changed it. What an audition. Look, locked and loaded.

[00:06:30] Trevor Long: Brilliant.

[00:06:30] Trevor Long: Boom. So at what point of this— of the career is this for Samuel L. Jackson?

[00:06:34] Movie Audio: Samuel L. Jackson, this is, this is around— it’s not Pulp Fiction? Yeah, yeah, before, I think just before. I think Pulp Fiction— no, no, it’s actually this after. Oh, Pulp Fiction came out, I think, just before this.

[00:06:44] Trevor Long: You can see why he said you’re in.

[00:06:46] Movie Audio: So he said, yep, okay, let’s go.

[00:06:48] Trevor Long: Gotcha.

[00:06:49] Movie Audio: Uh, now you— we’ve done The Bourne Identity.

[00:06:52] Trevor Long: Yep.

[00:06:52] Movie Audio: So this is loosely based— well, at the time, The Bourne Identity hadn’t been made as a film yet. Yeah, so the plot was inspired because The Bourne Identity is based on the Robert Ludlum novel, which I’m sure you’ve read and heard about. So they’ve said, okay, would that make a good— the plot was loosely based on that.

[00:07:09] Trevor Long: Yeah.

[00:07:09] Movie Audio: And then of course later on they went on to make it, the actual Bourne Identity, into a movie. Yeah, Matt Damon, right? Which we’ve done. So it’s about—

[00:07:17] Trevor Long: this has the same basis, same basis.

[00:07:20] Movie Audio: A spy who hunts terrorists, gets shot, almost drowns, wakes up with amnesia, uses clues to patch their past together, links to a shadowy government agency. And you know Bryan Cox, right, who’s in this? Yeah, he’s in The Bourne Identity as well. Yeah.

[00:07:37] Trevor Long: Oh wow, remember him?

[00:07:38] Movie Audio: No.

[00:07:38] Movie Audio: Yeah, plays the sort of same role.

[00:07:40] Trevor Long: Oh my God.

[00:07:41] Movie Audio: Yeah, so he’s across it, mate.

[00:07:43] Trevor Long: That’s hilarious, right?

[00:07:44] Movie Audio: Oh, uh, any impressions of this? Did you know, know or hear about this beforehand, before I mentioned it last week? Or—

[00:07:51] Trevor Long: so I need to say, obviously I have now watched it there’s something weird here. I, I’ve heard of this movie. I don’t remember. I don’t remember watching it, right? I don’t know the plot, right? But when I watched the last scene on the bridge, there’s something familiar. Is there? I’m like, I’ve seen this.

[00:08:08] Movie Audio: Oh, so maybe you’ve got amnesia too.

[00:08:11] Trevor Long: Yeah, maybe, maybe one day I’ll wake up and remember all these movies I’ve watched.

[00:08:15] Movie Audio: But it might be Roger Ebert.

[00:08:17] Trevor Long: It’s like, but I don’t really scroll through TV and suddenly watch the end of movies, but that’s how it feels.

[00:08:21] Movie Audio: Oh, you might have caught it on TV.

[00:08:23] Trevor Long: So yeah, other than that, mate, I know nothing about it other than what you’ve told me.

[00:08:25] Movie Audio: Right, yeah, okay, fair All right, uh, Roger Ebert.

[00:08:30] Trevor Long: Oh yeah, let’s go. What’s Roger got?

[00:08:32] Movie Audio: 2.5 stars out of 4. 4, which I think is a little bit unfair. 2.5 out of—

[00:08:39] Trevor Long: I don’t know why Rog chose 4.

[00:08:40] Movie Audio: Yeah, I don’t know either.

[00:08:41] Trevor Long: It’s a horrible smell.

[00:08:42] Movie Audio: No, yeah, I don’t know.

[00:08:43] Trevor Long: You can’t double it to understand it’s out of 10 rating. It’s very hard.

[00:08:46] Movie Audio: Here’s what Roger Ebert had to say. This is the last bit of his review here. The movie is put together like a top 40 radio station. In which you get 10 minutes of hits and then have to listen to someone talking for 90 seconds. The dialogue serves only to separate and set up the action scenes.

[00:09:03] Trevor Long: That’s fair.

[00:09:03] Movie Audio: Sooner or later, they’re actually going to advertise one of these movies with the line, “Less talk and more action.” It’s the kind of film when the mother undergoes a personality change and decides she does love her little daughter after all. She shouts that information, “I love her!” over the noise of battle. Leave out those three words and the movie’s central human dilemma would be misplaced. Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson prove their game in this movie as they trade quips in the breaks between special effects sequences. And the action is what we expect— sensational, violent, and loud. Okay, kept my neighbors up. Yeah, the target audience is apparently 14-year-old boys and those who have not forgotten how to think like 14-year-old boys, a group that apparently includes millions of filmgoers who like to see stuff blowed up real good.

[00:09:53] Trevor Long: Blowed up real good.

[00:09:54] Movie Audio: I admired it as an example of craftsmanship, but what a lot of time and money to spend on something of no real substance.

[00:10:02] Trevor Long: Wow.

[00:10:03] Movie Audio: He still gave it 2.5.

[00:10:04] Trevor Long: I was gonna say, to get 2.5 after those words is a crowning glory.

[00:10:09] Movie Audio: Sort of a backhanded compliment.

[00:10:10] Trevor Long: Yes, yes. Yeah, it’s like he reconsidered his words and gave it a different rating.

[00:10:15] Movie Audio: I think so. This is your last exit before the freeway. We’re going to tape it We’re going to take a deep memory dive into The Long Kiss Goodnight. Uh, if you haven’t seen it, you can watch it through Fetch.

[00:10:26] Trevor Long: You know, Fetch Movie Store has over 11,000 movies to choose from. There’s something for everyone in the family to enjoy. Rent or buy your favorite movies on demand. You can browse them all on the Fetch website if you want as well. Uh, current titles include Disclosure Day, Supergirl, In the Grey. And then there’s the Movie Box with 30 free on-demand movies selected every month for subscribers. So you’re paying $3.99 a month for all the great Fetch features, and as a part of that, you get 30 50 on-demand pre-selected movies. So there’s basically a different movie every single day for you to watch, uh, including a lot of that we’ve done. Yeah, The Wedding Singer is currently there, Playing with Fire, John Cena, The War with Grandpa is there.

[00:11:04] Trevor Long: Haven’t done that.

[00:11:05] Trevor Long: Yeah, no, there’s a few to get there. Um, and there’s so many, so many great ways to enjoy your entertainment, including streaming platforms as well. Fetch is available right now at JB Hi-Fi, Harbin, on the Good Guys, many more retailers. You can get as a Telstra customer, or you can go to fetchtv.com.au.

[00:11:21] Movie Audio: Okay, you have now seen The Long Kiss Goodnight. Just give us your impressions after your first watch.

[00:11:28] Trevor Long: Um, it’s— I’m all in with Rog here. I think I would have gone with Rog. Rog and I would have got on really well. It’s just brutal battle, you know, like it’s just—

[00:11:38] Movie Audio: yeah.

[00:11:39] Trevor Long: And my biggest gripe is some of the effects, like Samuel L. Jackson flying out of a window on a chair and stuff. It’s I mean, it’s, you know, it’s midnight, a grenade exploding like a fuel canister. It’s, oh, okay, hold that thought. So, but I get it. I mean, I get it. This is the thing, you kind of need to go into this knowing it’s a sit back, relax, and be entertained by violence.

[00:12:04] Movie Audio: Let it wash over you. Yeah, yeah. You know what, I really— this was kind of a— I won’t call it guilty pleasure. I quite liked the movie. In fact, I’ll class this as a hidden gem. Really? I really rate this movie.

[00:12:16] Trevor Long: Yeah, I can see that.

[00:12:17] Movie Audio: And, and, but you know what, it was— it’s just like what Roger sort of implied, that, you know, if you like stuff blowed up real good—

[00:12:24] Trevor Long: blowed up, that’s a great line—

[00:12:26] Movie Audio: this is for you. Because my subwoofers, like, my, you know, my mother-in-law’s my neighbor, right? She was saying I couldn’t sleep because you had— you were playing a movie.

[00:12:33] Trevor Long: Oh, that’s hilarious.

[00:12:34] Movie Audio: That was what I was watching.

[00:12:35] Trevor Long: That’s gold.

[00:12:36] Movie Audio: All right, what is your social media post here?

[00:12:38] Trevor Long: Uh, there’s enough— there’s enough action in The Long Kiss Goodnight to keep you wide awake all the way through. Samuel L. Jackson and Geena Davis lead this fanciful story through some effects that are just as unbelievable but worth the watch. Cool.

[00:12:52] Movie Audio: I saw this at the movies, and as I said, a hidden gem. This is my hidden gem category. Yeah, I’ve re-watched it many times. The last time I saw this was on 4K, just got it on 4K.

[00:13:03] Trevor Long: Okay, so for those that don’t look and sound—

[00:13:06] Movie Audio: Dolby Atmos on this would nearly blew up my brain, and, uh, and the quality, awesome.

[00:13:11] Trevor Long: If you’re wondering about Steven’s credentials as the lead of this movie podcast, Steven has access to Fetch, he has access to every movie possible, he has access to streaming services, he has a library of movies on disc, but he still, when we go to London, we’ve been twice this year, he still goes to a store and buys as many movies as he can in 4K.

[00:13:33] Movie Audio: Yeah.

[00:13:35] Trevor Long: You’ve got a problem.

[00:13:36] Movie Audio: Well, I think it’s the best fuel for my system. Streaming it is compromising my system.

[00:13:41] Trevor Long: We respect it, we respect it.

[00:13:43] Movie Audio: Let’s talk about about the cast. Okay, Geena Davis plays Samantha/Charlie.

[00:13:48] Trevor Long: Yep.

[00:13:48] Movie Audio: She was in Thelma and Louise. You’ve heard of that?

[00:13:50] Trevor Long: I’ve heard of it. I have no idea what happened.

[00:13:52] Movie Audio: We’ll do it, we’ll do it.

[00:13:53] Trevor Long: Okay, so I really don’t know what happens.

[00:13:55] Movie Audio: Yeah, I, I’ll tell you, we’ll do it. A League of Their Own, it’s like a baseball movie. You love that? Yeah, we’re gonna do that. We will do that. Uh, she was also in The Accidental Tourist, in which she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar. Wow, Oscar winner, big deal. Samuel L. Jackson plays Mitch Hennessy.

[00:14:12] Trevor Long: Big fan.

[00:14:12] Movie Audio: Pulp Fiction, big fan.

[00:14:13] Trevor Long: Snakes on Plane?

[00:14:16] Trevor Long: We’re not so sure.

[00:14:17] Movie Audio: We’ll get to that.

[00:14:17] Trevor Long: That sounds like— so that sounds like we’ll get to it in 2033.

[00:14:22] Movie Audio: Well, you know, I reckon we’ll, we’ll like— I’m gonna try in the future theme months. Like, we’ll theme the so bad it’s good sort of movies.

[00:14:31] Trevor Long: Oh, I could get into that. I mean, you know, so that’s your challenge for—

[00:14:34] Movie Audio: yeah, like, don’t you reckon we did recently— remember Anaconda?

[00:14:36] Trevor Long: Yes, that was—

[00:14:37] Movie Audio: that’s in that class, so bad it’s good.

[00:14:39] Trevor Long: I don’t know about that.

[00:14:40] Movie Audio: Yeah, I, I enjoy watching that.

[00:14:42] Trevor Long: So bad it’s bad. What did I give that, I wonder?

[00:14:45] Movie Audio: I don’t remember.

[00:14:45] Trevor Long: It was pretty low score.

[00:14:45] Trevor Long: Yeah, he was Samuel L.

[00:14:48] Movie Audio: Jackson was also in The Hateful Eight, but also in the film, did you recognize, or you might not know, Craig— how much?

[00:14:55] Trevor Long: 5.5?

[00:14:56] Movie Audio: Jeez, you’re hard. Craig Berko is in it.

[00:15:00] Trevor Long: Berko?

[00:15:00] Movie Audio: Brian Cox, who you know from— yes, from what show?

[00:15:05] Trevor Long: Succession, which I only just watched.

[00:15:08] Movie Audio: Yeah, I know you’re a fan. After many years of me telling you to watch it, you finally listened to me.

[00:15:13] Trevor Long: Yeah.

[00:15:14] Movie Audio: David Morse. Do you remember what movie he was out on recently? Who are we talking about? Remember the bloke who was, um, with the— when he put us under the water?

[00:15:22] Trevor Long: Oh yeah, so I—

[00:15:24] Movie Audio: do you remember we did the movie recently?

[00:15:26] Trevor Long: I think he was in a, like, a picture when I was looking this up. Yeah, I’m like, oh, he’s in it. I don’t know what movie he was in.

[00:15:31] Movie Audio: Contact. Remember Jodie Foster’s dad?

[00:15:33] Trevor Long: Oh yes, he was true.

[00:15:36] Movie Audio: And the little girl, Yvonne Zima, she’s, she’s, uh, before— no, but we have seen her since. We haven’t done any movies with her in it, but she’s still acting to this day.

[00:15:46] Trevor Long: Oh yeah, that’s awesome.

[00:15:47] Movie Audio: Yeah, before we get to the top scenes in the run-through, let’s have a chat about Hisense. And you know what, Hisense are not only known for their great TVs and RGB Mini LED, but also they’ve got a great range of projectors. If you want to get the big picture, then check out the XR10. This is their brand new 4K, 6,000 lumens, triple laser projector. Now this, if you’ve got the room, you can have this. You can have a picture. If you’re at Trevor’s house, he’s got a massive joint, 300 inches.

[00:16:21] Trevor Long: I’ve told you before, you can only have a 300-inch picture if you’ve got a mezzanine.

[00:16:25] Movie Audio: Okay, well, I reckon, yeah, your house is pretty palatial. The— yeah, the XR10.

[00:16:31] Trevor Long: That is— but here’s the thing, right, with a home theater.

[00:16:34] Movie Audio: Yeah, okay, so let me tell you the great feature about this, right? It’s got optical— I’m reviewing this right now, as a matter of time of recording, I’ve got this set up in my theater.

[00:16:41] Movie Audio: Yeah.

[00:16:41] Movie Audio: Now the great thing about this, and anyone who owns a projector, to get a big image, you need to pull the projector away from the wall.

[00:16:47] Trevor Long: You move the projector further away from the wall.

[00:16:49] Movie Audio: Now this has an optical zoom, so you could, in a relatively small space, get up to 200 inches from up to 4 meters away, which is in the projector world blows your mind thinking, wow, that’s amazing. So, and that’s without compromising the picture quality too. So it’s 4K, has speakers built into, you know, so this is, this is not your typical home theater projector because it can be set up as an all-in-one system. And of course, then once, once it’s all connected, you’ve got all the, all the ports on the back, your inputs, and also has the Vida operating system. So you’ve got your Netflix and Disney Plus and all of those services as well. So if you want to get the really big screen experience, then check out the XR10. Now this is an investment, right? It’s a, it’s not as the TVs are cheaper. This is a, this can have a massive 200 up to 300-inch picture.

[00:17:38] Trevor Long: You can also move it from room to room if you need to.

[00:17:41] Movie Audio: Absolutely right. So it’s pretty versatile. You can’t do that with a 100-inch TV. Unless you’ve got a couple of mates around. Yeah, but anyway, check it out for yourself, hisense.com.au. All right, let’s start off here. It begins with small town life, and we see Samantha Kane— that’s Gina Davis’s character— she’s leading a quiet, picturesque life. Uh, she’s with her boyfriend Hal, and they got an 8-year-old daughter named Caitlin. Now here’s the backstory. 8 years earlier, Samantha was washed ashore on a New Jersey beach without any memory of her identity.

[00:18:17] Movie Audio: My name is Samantha Kane. At least I think it is. You might not believe it to look at me, but I was born only 8 years ago on a beach in New Jersey. I entered the world fully grown, wearing clothes I don’t remember buying. In the back pocket, a single key, filed blank and faceless. Fitting metaphor, but otherwise no help Whatsoever. None. Sometimes I stand naked in the mirror, try to guess my age. 35, maybe? I have lots of scars. They call my condition focal retrograde amnesia. It’s no picnic, but I’ve learned to live with it. Got a job I love. Been seeing someone. Nice guy. Good sense of humor. Her name is Caitlin, and when I woke up on that A long ago day I was 2 months pregnant with her. I don’t know who her father is— I mean never! I just know she’s mine.

[00:19:11] Movie Audio: So that kind of sets it up pretty good?

[00:19:14] Trevor Long: Yep.

[00:19:14] Movie Audio: She’s one of the main characters and then we meet the other main character Mitch Hennessy this low-rent private investigator and I love how you sort of meet him here he busts in on a married man in bed with a woman it’s a sting he knows the woman and ends up blackmailing the man.

[00:19:29] Movie Audio: Police no move! What the hell is this?!

[00:19:32] Movie Audio: Uh uh uh uh uh!

[00:19:34] Movie Audio: Don’t give me attitude! Copitude, sir. See, you’re assuming I won’t shoot your sorry ass, and everyone knows when you make an assumption, you make an ass out of you and umption. Now, I’m Sergeant Madigan Vice, and if you do copitude, jerk-off, I will see to it you spend the next 10 years in prison getting ass-fucked. And if the case is thrown out because my arrest was too violent, I will personally hire men to ass-fuck you for the next 10 years. So if you’re an ass-fucking fan, you go ahead and mouth off Meanwhile, you’re under arrest for the crime of prostitution. Officer Dunleavy, read him his rights.

[00:20:09] Trevor Long: What?

[00:20:10] Movie Audio: Yeah.

[00:20:10] Movie Audio: Rights?

[00:20:11] Trevor Long: That’s the moment I realized he wasn’t a cop.

[00:20:14] Movie Audio: You have the right to remain silent, and anything you say and do will be held against you in a court of law.

[00:20:20] Movie Audio: Hey, please, you gotta listen to me, man.

[00:20:22] Movie Audio: I got a wife.

[00:20:23] Movie Audio: This is— I never—

[00:20:23] Movie Audio: This is the first time I’ve ever done this.

[00:20:25] Movie Audio: Sir, sir, sir.

[00:20:25] Trevor Long: I swear to God.

[00:20:27] Movie Audio: Listen to me. I can see from your choice here you’re not a wealthy man. Now, in light of the damage—

[00:20:33] Trevor Long: that’s the greatest insult ever—

[00:20:34] Movie Audio: I, uh, think we might be able to make some kind of arrangement.

[00:20:38] Movie Audio: And the woman in bed with him is his partner.

[00:20:40] Trevor Long: Yeah, you realize, like, because— so it’s funny because you, you very quickly realize that guy’s not a cop, but the, the, the sidekick, which obviously makes it clear they’re all not cops.

[00:20:49] Movie Audio: Yeah.

[00:20:49] Trevor Long: Then when he says, I can see by your choice here, uh, no, that’s—

[00:20:52] Movie Audio: you’re not a wealthy man.

[00:20:53] Trevor Long: And the look on her face wasn’t enough to make you think she was insulted. Yeah, I was like, why was she not insulted? Well, it’s because she’s in on the gig.

[00:21:01] Movie Audio: Yeah, we also see he’s— we learned that he’s estranged from his wife and his son. Remember, he goes over with a present for his son and, you know, the wife goes, okay, time to come inside. And, and the son says, look, I can’t keep this, my mum won’t let me keep it.

[00:21:15] Trevor Long: I know, it’s really nice toy that he got in there.

[00:21:18] Movie Audio: That was a bit sad. Yeah, anyway, uh, there’s a parade on and while dressed as Mrs. Claus in the local town Christmas parade She’s shown on broadcast TV now driving home, uh, in a snowstorm. Did you see this bit with the old bloke? So a bit tipsy and they—

[00:21:34] Trevor Long: she, she goes—

[00:21:35] Movie Audio: yeah, they get off. Yeah, he— they get an accident. Deer’s in the middle of the road, she gets thrown clear, she suffers a bit of a concussion, but she sees the deer and breaks its neck.

[00:21:45] Trevor Long: Struggling.

[00:21:45] Movie Audio: Yeah, breaks. I don’t know, did that old guy die in the car? Did he die?

[00:21:50] Trevor Long: Clearly.

[00:21:50] Movie Audio: Yeah.

[00:21:51] Trevor Long: Well, no, there’s no concern for him.

[00:21:53] Movie Audio: Exactly right.

[00:21:54] Trevor Long: Okay, sorry.

[00:21:55] Movie Audio: So, uh, yeah, so that’s obviously something’s doing there. Um, now while recovering, because, you know, she had the accident, she’s recovering, and she suddenly demonstrates this amazing dexterity in the kitchen. Yeah, she’s chopping vegetables at lightning speed.

[00:22:10] Trevor Long: She’s like super excited about it.

[00:22:13] Movie Audio: And then, yeah, she throws a kitchen at the end as well.

[00:22:22] Trevor Long: I used to do this. I’m a chef. Yoo-hoo! Give me something else, quick.

[00:22:31] Movie Audio: Anything, anything.

[00:22:33] Movie Audio: Go, man, go!

[00:22:34] Trevor Long: Tomato, tomato, tomato! Look at this.

[00:22:40] Movie Audio: Go!

[00:22:41] Movie Audio: Okay, okay, fine.

[00:22:44] Trevor Long: So, every bit really got the freaked, but then in the The end’s a bit, uh, stretched.

[00:22:50] Movie Audio: Scallions, scallions!

[00:22:52] Movie Audio: Here, give her scallions.

[00:22:53] Trevor Long: Scallions!

[00:22:54] Movie Audio: One more tomato. Can you cut all this up?

[00:22:58] Trevor Long: Look at this, look at this woman, she’s amazing!

[00:23:04] Movie Audio: Yeah, chefs do that.

[00:23:06] Trevor Long: Chefs do that.

[00:23:07] Movie Audio: She says that a couple of times, which is funny. Yes, chefs do that. Remember, she throws a tomato and throws a knife and nails it to the kitchen cupboard. Yes. Yeah, chefs do that. Yeah, I like this bit here. There’s a little scene here where her daughter’s trying to learn how to skate. And remember, don’t forget she had the accident just before this, right? So I think it sort of stirred up—

[00:23:30] Trevor Long: yeah, because you know, you’ve seen that. I think it’s probably a Hollywood thing, but you see those things where someone’s like, look, blind or something, and they— and but then they have a crash and they get their sight back. So you’re thinking, okay, so she’s she’s gained some of her previous knowledge back.

[00:23:43] Movie Audio: Like she was, I remember she was like you previously, we saw her really loving and gentle with the daughter, but she’s trying to get her to skate and she’s a bit scared. She goes, toughen up, will ya? Remember she really was hard on her.

[00:23:53] Trevor Long: She gives her a solid lob.

[00:23:54] Movie Audio: And then she goes off and she actually breaks her arm and she’s complaining, goes, oh, come on. And she really had a go at her.

[00:23:59] Trevor Long: Yeah.

[00:24:00] Movie Audio: So we sort of got a glimpse of like a different Samantha. Meanwhile, do you remember how that the Christmas parade was broadcast on TV? Yes, there’s an escape. There’s a convict, One-Eyed Jack, sees her, recognizes her, he loses his mind, goes ballistic, right? But he ends up breaking into her home seeking revenge.

[00:24:19] Trevor Long: Yes, he’s got one of the strangest weapons, by the way.

[00:24:21] Movie Audio: Yeah, like a shotgun.

[00:24:23] Trevor Long: It’s a half shotgun, half grenade launcher or something, because he’s overkill. He has a couple of just shots and then he shoots this thing which knocks out the whole staircase and the wall.

[00:24:32] Movie Audio: Yeah.

[00:24:32] Movie Audio: And do you like— do you love what Samantha does?

[00:24:33] Trevor Long: She throws the door clear into the treehouse.

[00:24:35] Movie Audio: Yeah, that’s smart.

[00:24:36] Trevor Long: That’s where the fanciful nature of their stunts him.

[00:24:38] Movie Audio: That is pretty good. Now, um, we— you see here her lethal reflexes just take over. They override everything, and she fights back and ends up killing Jack barehanded on the kitchen floor.

[00:24:51] Trevor Long: Yeah.

[00:24:52] Movie Audio: And then what does she say again at the end of that?

[00:24:54] Trevor Long: Chefs do that. Chefs do that as well.

[00:24:56] Movie Audio: Yeah. Now, realizing she poses a bit of a danger to her family, she says, look, I’ve got to find out who I really am.

[00:25:03] Trevor Long: Yeah.

[00:25:03] Movie Audio: And so So that’s when we see her with Mitch Hennessy.

[00:25:07] Trevor Long: She re-engages because the Hennessy link had clearly existed before. They had her case on the boil kind of thing.

[00:25:14] Movie Audio: Yes.

[00:25:14] Trevor Long: So she’s obviously paid them previously to be essentially on retainer.

[00:25:17] Movie Audio: My interjections here are going to be called flashback.

[00:25:22] Trevor Long: Okay, that’s the simplest and best you’ve ever come up with.

[00:25:24] Movie Audio: Flashback.

[00:25:25] Movie Audio: Okay, the flashback here. Do you remember when she’s leaving, she writes the first 6 digits of her mobile number?

[00:25:30] Trevor Long: Yes.

[00:25:31] Movie Audio: And the 6 digits are 717.

[00:25:33] Trevor Long: Right, which area code is that? 854. You gotta tell us where it is.

[00:25:36] Movie Audio: It was Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

[00:25:38] Trevor Long: Is that where they meant?

[00:25:39] Movie Audio: That was in ’94 for the York area. So when this was filmed, the 717 area code was Honesdale, Pennsylvania, which is where Samantha, Caitlin, and Hal lived.

[00:25:50] Trevor Long: Okay. Yeah, I was just amazed it wasn’t a 555 number.

[00:25:53] Movie Audio: No, that’s right. Yeah, what have you rang that number?

[00:25:57] Trevor Long: Well, no, but they didn’t show the whole number.

[00:25:58] Movie Audio: No, they just said the first digits.

[00:26:00] Trevor Long: Yeah, you only need your 555 when you’ve shown the whole number.

[00:26:03] Movie Audio: Mitch Hennessy’s back in the picture. He’s hired by Sam to dig into her past after he turned up a suitcase stored at a train station locker. Now when they’re on the road, they stop at a hotel. They’ve got the suitcase. She discovers a false bottom containing a disassembled sniper rifle.

[00:26:22] Trevor Long: She didn’t notice that suitcase. Wait, yeah, she takes all the clothes out and goes to put the suitcase in the cupboard. It’s like, this is very heavy.

[00:26:28] Movie Audio: ‘What have you got in these bricks?’ ‘Cause there’s a disassembled weapon inside. Yeah, that’s right.

[00:26:32] Trevor Long: Yeah, that’s right. These are the moments that I realize this is not meant to be, uh, you know, based in any form of reality.

[00:26:39] Movie Audio: Yeah, that’s true. But you recognize what she did? She then suddenly starts putting it together in seconds. She knew. Muscle memory, mate.

[00:26:46] Trevor Long: And goes to shoot it.

[00:26:47] Movie Audio: And there was a, uh, contact note for a Dr. Nathan Waldman, who we discover is Brian Cox’s character.

[00:26:54] Trevor Long: Yeah.

[00:26:55] Movie Audio: So we hear Sam— Samantha now, so Scene at the— in the White House, Samantha is being discussed by the president, and he learns, uh, which— we learn which agency she used to be a part of.

[00:27:11] Movie Audio: Mr. Perkins, you lost one of your agents whose training included, among other things, counter-assassination, and now she turns up Bill of the Christmas parade.

[00:27:26] Movie Audio: Well, that information is, uh, 2 weeks old, Mr. President. To my knowledge, Charlene Baltimore died in my employ. Relic of the Cold War, the kind of violent operative that has since been eliminated from our ranks.

[00:27:40] Movie Audio: You recruited this woman for Chapter, sir, the late ’70s.

[00:27:47] Movie Audio: Her father was a friend of mine. I—

[00:27:48] Movie Audio: let’s Stop that. I don’t want to hear that stuff. Intelligence community, you people are unbelievable. You dump a mess like this in my lap and then you come whining to me and say, where is our funding? Well, I’ll tell you where it is. Can you say healthcare?

[00:28:06] Movie Audio: So inside the suitcase they find a number for Walt— Dr. Waldman.

[00:28:11] Trevor Long: Yep.

[00:28:12] Movie Audio: And they call him and they agree to meet. He goes, where are you?

[00:28:16] Trevor Long: He recognizes the voice very quickly.

[00:28:17] Movie Audio: Charlie, you there? And he says— so they agree to meet halfway, but unknown to them, the government have been tapping, and they, they, they know where she’s going. They lead a squad of heavily armed covert agents to the same location. Massive shootout.

[00:28:31] Trevor Long: Massive shootout. Another one of those great Hollywood moments where so many bullets are fired and absolutely no one—

[00:28:37] Movie Audio: none of them land. That’s right. Yeah, they’re as accurate as the Stormtroopers. Samantha operates on pure lethal instinct, takes down multiple operatives before she and Mitch escape With Waldman’s help— remember, Waldman goes, ‘Get in!’ And I love this, right? Remember when you’re in the car, what Samuel L. Jackson says?

[00:28:55] Trevor Long: Tell me.

[00:28:56] Movie Audio: We jumped out of a building!

[00:28:58] Movie Audio: Yes, it was very exciting. Tomorrow we go to the zoo.

[00:29:02] Movie Audio: You’re Waldman?

[00:29:03] Movie Audio: No, I’m the Hills Brothers bean buyer. Who else would I be? Hang on, look, if you want me to talk in front of him, you may be asked to kill him later.

[00:29:12] Movie Audio: What?

[00:29:12] Movie Audio: Works for me. Your call.

[00:29:13] Trevor Long: What?

[00:29:14] Trevor Long: Fire out the back if you have to.

[00:29:17] Movie Audio: Jesus, old man, how many of those things you got?

[00:29:19] Trevor Long: 3.

[00:29:20] Movie Audio: One shoulder, one hip, and one right here next to Mr. Wally. Well, most pat-downs never reveal it, as an agent’s often reluctant to feel up another man’s groin. Any other questions?

[00:29:28] Movie Audio: Yeah.

[00:29:28] Movie Audio: What’s the weather like on your planet?

[00:29:31] Movie Audio: Charlene, my darling.

[00:29:33] Movie Audio: My name is Samantha. Samantha Kane.

[00:29:35] Movie Audio: No, no, no, forget all that. Schoolteacher business. This was your cover. Do you hear me, Charlie? You hear what I’m saying? Your memory was gone. You got confused. You bought your own cover. It was a fantasy, for Christ’s sake! Samantha Kane never existed. You wrote the bloody thing.

[00:29:49] Trevor Long: No, it’s not a fantasy. I’m in the goddamn PTA. Then quit!

[00:29:55] Movie Audio: You’re an assassin working for the United States government. I ought to know. I trained you.

[00:30:01] Movie Audio: Babe.

[00:30:02] Movie Audio: Get the fuck out of here!

[00:30:04] Trevor Long: Sam Smith.

[00:30:06] Movie Audio: That made me want to—

[00:30:08] Trevor Long: Samuel L. Jackson’s greatest scenes.

[00:30:10] Movie Audio: It’s funny, it’s funny. Anyway, he reveals Samantha is actually Charlene Elizabeth, Charlie Baltimore, top-tier assassin for the black ops CIA division known as The Chapter. She vanished 8 years ago during a failed cover-up mission called Project Honeymoon, which we learn later what that is. Uh, now dis— that they, they stopped by the side of the road. They’re thinking, man, is Waldman— remember what they said now? Has— how do you— how do those people show up? We’re supposed to meet you. They, they suspect that Waldman is sort of maybe helping the—

[00:30:42] Trevor Long: they’re thinking now, hang on a minute, this bloke could be in on that whole thing.

[00:30:45] Movie Audio: So they jump him and take his car. They bolt. Samantha follows a lead to Luke, you know, David Morse’s character, whom she believes was her former—

[00:30:53] Trevor Long: because she’d seen a little postcard which she wrote to Uncle Max and said that I’ve found the love of my life and his name’s Luke and we’re going to get engaged.

[00:31:01] Movie Audio: Now Luke is actually Daedalus, a rogue agent and target of her original mission, because Uncle Max is the agency engagement, means he’s the target. So she was actually sending a covert note, and Waldman attempts to warn them, but he gets shot and killed before taking Samantha and Mitch captive. Now what Luke does, he ties Samantha to that— what do they call that— the water wheel. Wheel, water wheel.

[00:31:28] Trevor Long: Yep.

[00:31:29] Movie Audio: And then submerges her Um, so Waldman’s dead. When she goes underwater, she sees Waldman under— underwater.

[00:31:37] Movie Audio: Yeah.

[00:31:37] Movie Audio: So he— while he’s subjecting her to brutal torture, uh, to extract information, saying, what is your mission? Why are you here? But I think the trauma— this trauma, it triggers another memory recovery for her, and she takes back control. Now what she does— remember, she will— where does Waldman have her gun?

[00:31:58] Trevor Long: Right next to his willy.

[00:31:59] Movie Audio: Next to Mr. Wally. And she grabs it out of his crotch, and then as she comes out of the water, boom, boom, boom, lays him down and see you later.

[00:32:07] Trevor Long: Yeah, I don’t know how they think because they talk about putting her under there for 10 minutes or 5 minutes. I’m like, I’d be dead after 2.

[00:32:13] Movie Audio: Righto, here’s your flashback. Okay, Gina Davis and her then-husband Renny Harlin, they were— they tested how long she could hold her breath for that scene. They did this, they tested how long she could hold her breath in their bathtub at home. Just, I was just going to say, they said, we’re going to get real kinky. Yeah, they said, they said, we’ve got this scene in the movie.

[00:32:34] Trevor Long: I think Michael Hutchins tried some of that once too.

[00:32:36] Movie Audio: But anyway, you’ll need to hold your breath right now. The 3 times that she’s underwater in the film during the filming, one was 51 seconds, 81 seconds, and 55 seconds. Wow, she was holding her breath the whole time. Can you hold your breath that long underwater?

[00:32:53] Trevor Long: I reckon I could do a minute.

[00:32:54] Movie Audio: You reckon?

[00:32:54] Trevor Long: Yep.

[00:32:55] Movie Audio: Look, you want to test it out?

[00:32:56] Trevor Long: Not with you in a bath.

[00:32:57] Movie Audio: No.

[00:33:00] Movie Audio: The next scene, they go to Atlantic City and Charlie’s fully Charlie. She’s bleached her hair blonde.

[00:33:06] Trevor Long: She’s gone. This is it.

[00:33:07] Movie Audio: She’s gone back to her own identity and she’s preparing for war.

[00:33:12] Movie Audio: So Samantha, she, um, never really existed like Nathan said.

[00:33:18] Movie Audio: She was a total fabrication. I made her up.

[00:33:20] Movie Audio: So now she’s just, uh, gone forever and ever?

[00:33:25] Movie Audio: Thank God. Look at my inordinately large ass. Look what she did to me.

[00:33:30] Movie Audio: Pretty convincing act.

[00:33:33] Movie Audio: I guess.

[00:33:35] Movie Audio: You know, her, uh, personality had to come from somewhere. What do we do now?

[00:33:40] Movie Audio: I contact Chapter. I come in for debriefing, bury the last 8 years, get back to work.

[00:33:48] Movie Audio: Would you believe it, Harry? We got an appropriations review in 3 weeks, and now the president wants to know how I managed to lose an agent.

[00:33:56] Movie Audio: Yes, sir, you have a call on line 3, sir.

[00:33:58] Movie Audio: You gonna tell me who it is?

[00:33:59] Movie Audio: Charlie Baltimore, sir. We’re on trace.

[00:34:02] Movie Audio: This is Mr. Perkins.

[00:34:04] Movie Audio: Turn on the TV. Farmer, New Jersey, 7 dead.

[00:34:07] Movie Audio: Charlie! Good Lord, girl, we’ve been looking all over for you. I got a photo of you in a Christmas parade. What the hell is happening?

[00:34:16] Movie Audio: Don’t be stupid. I completed my assignment.

[00:34:20] Movie Audio: You mean Daedalus?

[00:34:21] Movie Audio: I shot him. He’s pretty much dead. Actually, I would have done it earlier, like say back in ’92, but I was baking. Don’t ask. I want to come in.

[00:34:31] Movie Audio: Let me direct you to a safe house.

[00:34:34] Movie Audio: Forget it. We play it my way. You want me back, then you stay away. I’ll call you. Those are the rules, understand?

[00:34:41] Movie Audio: So she’s not stupid. Yeah. Now Charlie, it appears, has taken over Sam in her.

[00:34:48] Trevor Long: Yeah, it’s like, it’s like she’s, she’s really zoned in on who she was.

[00:34:53] Movie Audio: But, and this is an interesting little scene here that we’re about to play where she makes a move on Mitch.

[00:34:57] Trevor Long: Yes.

[00:34:58] Movie Audio: But he calls her out. He’s, uh, he’s very hard to fool.

[00:35:03] Movie Audio: I haven’t had a date in 8 years, Mitch. Is this a fun date?

[00:35:14] Movie Audio: What’s going on?

[00:35:17] Trevor Long: True love. Shut the fuck up.

[00:35:24] Movie Audio: White ladies seducing and call it help.

[00:35:29] Movie Audio: Get real, sweetheart.

[00:35:30] Movie Audio: I ain’t handsome, I ain’t rich, and the last time I got blown, candy bars cost a nickel.

[00:35:37] Movie Audio: What’s going on?

[00:35:38] Trevor Long: Chemistry, my ass.

[00:35:44] Movie Audio: You know what I think? I think this is why you fucked me.

[00:35:49] Movie Audio: There’s a picture of her husband.

[00:35:50] Trevor Long: Yes.

[00:35:51] Movie Audio: Or her boyfriend.

[00:35:51] Trevor Long: She ripped herself He just helped out of the photo.

[00:35:53] Movie Audio: Yeah.

[00:35:54] Movie Audio: To bury her once and for all. I kind of like that schoolteacher. When she comes back, you give me a call, all right? Oh, and call your fucking kid. It’s 2 days to Christmas. She might be under the mistaken impression mommy gives a fuck.

[00:36:10] Movie Audio: I didn’t ask for the kid. Samantha had the kid, not me. Nobody asked me.

[00:36:19] Movie Audio: So real conflict there, huh?

[00:36:21] Trevor Long: Yeah.

[00:36:21] Movie Audio: And, uh, she leaves the room. And do you remember when she walks down the alleyway, she gets ambushed? Remember the people following her? She kills all of them. And Mitch was there. Mitch followed her out because he’s just trying to look out for her. Yeah. So what do they do? Charlie and Mitch return to her home. Remember she mentioned the key she had?

[00:36:37] Trevor Long: Yeah, because she gave the key to a kid.

[00:36:38] Movie Audio: The key that she—

[00:36:39] Trevor Long: yeah, the only thing she had when she was found 8 years ago.

[00:36:41] Trevor Long: Yes.

[00:36:42] Trevor Long: She gave it to a kid, put it around Perkins, who’s obviously—

[00:36:44] Movie Audio: because he was saying, look, I want to— I need to get passport, I need cash. And she goes, that key must have She’s sort of thinking that that key can open—

[00:36:51] Trevor Long: she remembers the number of the box and everything.

[00:36:53] Movie Audio: So she’s thinking, well, let’s go back and get it. But more people come after her and she dons the skates. Remember, she goes across the frozen lake, shoots them all. And Mitch sees all this in action thinking, well, she’s the real deal.

[00:37:05] Trevor Long: The best part of that is when he goes— because she just kills him— she goes, you could have hit them all on the shoulder, like you could have shot him in the shoulder. Yeah, but no, she just killed them.

[00:37:13] Movie Audio: All gone. Now Charlie receives a call from her former partner and lover Timothy. That’s Craig Berko. And Timothy reveals he’s kidnapped her daughter Caitlin. They hold up a phone company so they can run a trace when they contact Timothy again.

[00:37:32] Movie Audio: Holiday Inn, Jet speaking.

[00:37:34] Movie Audio: I’d like to page Charlene Baltimore, please.

[00:37:37] Movie Audio: Please hold.

[00:37:44] Trevor Long: Yeah.

[00:37:44] Movie Audio: Hi, it’s me.

[00:37:47] Movie Audio: No shit. Verify you have the kid.

[00:37:49] Movie Audio: How else would I get your cellular number? I got it off the cast on her right wrist.

[00:37:54] Trevor Long: That’s the identifier.

[00:37:55] Movie Audio: Right below “Mommy loves you.” I offer up a simple trade.

[00:38:00] Trevor Long: You for the girl.

[00:38:01] Movie Audio: I’ll tell you where and when. And Charlie, you fuck with me, I’ll blind the kid and shoot at her knees.

[00:38:18] Movie Audio: Give me an A&I trace. Do it.

[00:38:28] Movie Audio: How you know so much about this Timothy character?

[00:38:30] Trevor Long: But what do you think?

[00:38:32] Movie Audio: I bumped pelvises with him. He was a target, remember? Ma’am, that call was placed from Niagara Falls. Niagara Falls? Operation Honeymoon.

[00:38:49] Movie Audio: So we learned Niagara Falls, Timothy’s there, that’s where they’re going to take Caitlin. Project Honeymoon. So this was a false opera— a false flag operation organized by rogue CIA Director Perkins. Remember the guy who was on the phone with her?

[00:39:03] Trevor Long: Yep.

[00:39:03] Movie Audio: And Timothy.

[00:39:04] Movie Audio: Right.

[00:39:06] Movie Audio: Charlie and Mitch infiltrate the facility but are captured and learn about the CIA’s plans.

[00:39:14] Movie Audio: Budget cuts, is that what this is about?

[00:39:18] Trevor Long: Operation Honeymoon?

[00:39:21] Movie Audio: Fuck me, you’re running a fundraiser.

[00:39:24] Movie Audio: Fundraiser?

[00:39:27] Movie Audio: 1993, World Trade World Trade Center bombing, remember? During the trial, one of the bombers claimed the CIA had advanced knowledge. The diplomat who issued the terrorist visa was CIA. It’s not unthinkable they paved the way for the bombing, purely to justify a budget increase.

[00:39:49] Movie Audio: You’re telling me that you’re gonna fake some terrorist thing just to scare some money out of Congress?

[00:39:54] Movie Audio: Well, unfortunately, Mr. Tennessee. I have no idea how to fake killing 4,000 people, so we’re just gonna have to do it for real. Oh, blame it on the Muslims, naturally. Then I get my funding.

[00:40:07] Movie Audio: Now, wow, this is particularly haunting because this is years before 9/11.

[00:40:13] Trevor Long: Yeah.

[00:40:14] Movie Audio: And we’ve heard about conspiracy theorists say about that.

[00:40:18] Trevor Long: Don’t, don’t feed them.

[00:40:19] Movie Audio: We’re not going to go there.

[00:40:20] Trevor Long: Don’t feed them.

[00:40:21] Movie Audio: Now, Charlie Lay some information. So that what they plan to do is detonate a bomb in Niagara Falls.

[00:40:28] Trevor Long: Yes.

[00:40:28] Movie Audio: Frame a Middle Eastern terrorist to secure massive defense funding.

[00:40:32] Movie Audio: Yeah, right.

[00:40:34] Movie Audio: Charlie— so they’ve— she’s held captive. Charlie lays some information on Timothy, hoping for a shred of mercy. You’re just gonna be written off as some crazy mommy kidnapped her own kid. Died with her in a blizzard.

[00:40:51] Trevor Long: Goddamn you.

[00:40:53] Movie Audio: Look at her eyes.

[00:40:56] Movie Audio: Why exactly would I want to do that?

[00:40:57] Trevor Long: Because they’re yours. That night with you, I got pregnant. The little girl is your daughter.

[00:41:14] Movie Audio: That’s priceless.

[00:41:18] Movie Audio: Would you bring my little bitch in here?

[00:41:25] Trevor Long: Okay, princess.

[00:41:32] Movie Audio: This is where he looks at her. Get your fucking eyes Little sort of veil of recognition there, maybe.

[00:41:50] Trevor Long: We’re gonna take a nap together.

[00:41:53] Movie Audio: It would be like the bears in the winter.

[00:41:55] Movie Audio: Yeah, bears.

[00:41:56] Movie Audio: Okay, thank you.

[00:41:57] Movie Audio: Thank you.

[00:41:58] Movie Audio: So he’s pretty cold and heartless.

[00:42:00] Trevor Long: Yeah, I mean, he’s, he’s not engaged at all in that, in that child.

[00:42:04] Movie Audio: He remains indifferent.

[00:42:05] Trevor Long: He is.

[00:42:05] Movie Audio: Yes, he, uh, locks Charlie and Caitlin inside a cold storage freezer, walk-in freezer. While his— Mitch is taken out to be tortured. Charlie did— she uses these kerosene barrels to cause a little explosion inside the freezer door.

[00:42:19] Trevor Long: There’s a moment earlier where she’s, she’s down and she looks at the doll. You don’t see what happens, but what we’ve realized is she filled the doll with kerosene.

[00:42:26] Movie Audio: Yeah.

[00:42:27] Trevor Long: And then she used her daughter’s retainer to pour the kerosene under a door and let it roll out and set off an explosion, which in turn sent Mitch hurtling through the air, flying through windows.

[00:42:37] Movie Audio: Very strong.

[00:42:38] Trevor Long: Yeah.

[00:42:38] Movie Audio: And into the snow. So yeah, so Charlie, uh, Caitlin, she says go hide and she locks herself in the truck’s toolbox, the truck with the bomb on it. So it happens to be—

[00:42:48] Trevor Long: well, she doesn’t know that.

[00:42:49] Movie Audio: Yeah, well, okay, but the— this now there’s a pursuit and they initiate the bomb timer, so it’s all action. She pursues the truck amidst heavy gunfire and Charlie, she actually gets into the truck, um, she collides with Timothy on the bridge. Kaitlyn’s still in the toolbox, right?

[00:43:07] Movie Audio: Yes.

[00:43:08] Movie Audio: Timothy and Charlie engage in a bit of hand-to-hand combat. She knocks him into the river via a drain. Remember, he drops into the river.

[00:43:13] Trevor Long: Yeah.

[00:43:14] Movie Audio: An attack chopper pins Charlie down, but she picks them off and releases Kaitlyn and tells her to run before collapsing on the ground.

[00:43:39] Trevor Long: That’s the timer. Okay, right, get out. Don’t go away again, please.

[00:43:51] Movie Audio: The truck is a bomb.

[00:43:54] Trevor Long: It’s going to blow up.

[00:43:56] Movie Audio: Go.

[00:43:59] Trevor Long: I’m right behind you, baby.

[00:44:02] Movie Audio: Go, don’t look back.

[00:44:08] Trevor Long: Good girl.

[00:44:11] Movie Audio: So he— she runs off. Timothy gets out of the river, picked up by a chopper. Caitlin has a change of heart, sees her mother on the ground, comes back, is begging for her to get up, and she’s pinned down by Timothy.

[00:44:22] Trevor Long: Those same words her mother used when she snapped back at the ice.

[00:44:26] Movie Audio: That is right.

[00:44:28] Trevor Long: Somebody help me! I got a kid here! I got my 8-year-old daughter! Do you hear me? Somebody get this motherfucker off me! Help me!

[00:44:47] Movie Audio: Negative, ma’am.

[00:44:48] Movie Audio: We understand your request, but— Meech is in the car! He’s alive. That’s right, you can’t kill me, motherfuckers. He’s back, baby.

[00:45:00] Trevor Long: He’s the star of this movie.

[00:45:02] Movie Audio: Oh man, he kills it. He drives out of the container truck. Remember, they had him in the same car as the dead, uh, framed. And, uh, after being left for dead— now here’s another flashback for you. In the early draft of the screenplay, Mitch dies of his bullet wounds. Was an early version of the—

[00:45:20] Movie Audio: of the—

[00:45:21] Trevor Long: they needed him to come back here.

[00:45:22] Movie Audio: Test audiences loved his character so much and his performance that the ending was reshot so that he lives.

[00:45:29] Trevor Long: So I can imagine reshooting all this.

[00:45:31] Movie Audio: They had to reshoot that. Well, that’s just that bit, right? Because the— you could get it because the— they had to refilm that bit and him picking them up in the car. Maybe he goes, ‘Sam!’ and they get in and off they go.

[00:45:41] Trevor Long: Put a truck down there. I think it’s pretty—

[00:45:43] Movie Audio: so they wanted to let him live to save the day and redeem himself. Picks up Charlie and Caitlin. She draws Timothy’s fire away from them. Now, do you remember there was a bloke who got caught up in the string of lights on the bridge? She cuts it loose, uses him as a counterweight, and she rises up above the truck and goes bang bang, shoots Timothy in the, in the chopper. So he’s, he’s gone. And, uh, Mitch, Caitlin, and Samantha speed into Canada just as the bomb goes off. That’s the bit you recognize, eh? Bomb going off on the bridge, destroying the bridge. And Tim, I think Timothy falls on the truck, and then boom, it goes off. So yeah, yeah, they’re all pretty full on. They’re all dead to rights. The explosions in this movie, oh, they’re massive. They’re massive.

[00:46:24] Trevor Long: They’re not at all realistic.

[00:46:26] Movie Audio: Yeah, they’re very— they’re over the top.

[00:46:28] Trevor Long: I think people who love action movies would be very disappointed by explosions in real life.

[00:46:33] Movie Audio: Yeah, OTT. Yeah. Well, okay, there’s an epilogue here. Charlie finds a way to reconcile her dark past and her genuine capacity. We learn that she can actually be have maternal love.

[00:46:45] Trevor Long: Yes.

[00:46:46] Movie Audio: Now, reverting to a quieter lifestyle on a remote farm with Hal and Caitlin, she receives a call from the White House.

[00:46:54] Movie Audio: Hello, Miss Kane.

[00:46:55] Movie Audio: Yes, Mr. President.

[00:46:57] Movie Audio: I owe you— the country owes you a debt of tremendous gratitude. I wonder, would I be out of line if I ask you to come back into government, work for State Department?

[00:47:09] Movie Audio: Out of the question. I’ve got a stack of papers to grade.

[00:47:12] Movie Audio: The monies involved would be substantial.

[00:47:16] Movie Audio: Oh, you’d be surprised how much a good teacher can earn.

[00:47:19] Movie Audio: Oh, gosh, I know. And I am working on it. But it’s for next term.

[00:47:25] Movie Audio: Before I go, sir, there is a small favor I’d like to ask.

[00:47:29] Trevor Long: Good evening. Welcome to Larry King Live. Tonight we seek closure in the matter of Leland Perkins, indicted on 6 counts of high treason. Joining us tonight is CIA section chief Walter Hodge. He’s in Langley, Virginia. And in our studios here tonight is Pittsburgh native Mitchell Hennessy, who at a surprise press conference was singled out by the President of the United States for his role in this affair. As the expression goes, that ate hay. Hello, Mitch, and thanks for coming.

[00:47:58] Movie Audio: Thank you, Mr. K, for having me.

[00:47:59] Trevor Long: Mitch, you have had one hell of a Christmas And we have heard from our reporter Carla Grebs on the scene in Niagara Falls that when she first heard this story, she didn’t believe it, right?

[00:48:09] Movie Audio: Well, what Carla failed to realize, Mr. King, is that I’m always frank and earnest with women. In New York, I’m frank. In Chicago, I’m earnest.

[00:48:20] Trevor Long: You are so easily pleased. That’s a great line.

[00:48:24] Movie Audio: I’m frank and earnest.

[00:48:25] Trevor Long: In Chicago, I’m frank and earnest. I love watching you. I love it.

[00:48:28] Movie Audio: It’s great. That’s a great way to end the movie. That’s it, mate. That was funny. That was laugh-out-loud funny for me.

[00:48:36] Trevor Long: I can tell.

[00:48:36] Trevor Long: Yeah.

[00:48:37] Movie Audio: All right, let’s get some light. And I might— I could have picked 50 lines. I’ve tried to narrow it down to this.

[00:48:42] Trevor Long: You are on a quota.

[00:48:43] Movie Audio: The first time we, uh, we meet, um, our man Brian Cox, Waldman, uh, he’s trying to eat his dinner.

[00:48:55] Trevor Long: Yeah. Alice, please. Your dog, Alice.

[00:48:56] Movie Audio: It and my appetite are mutually mutually exclusive.

[00:48:57] Movie Audio: Well, what’s wrong with the dog?

[00:48:59] Movie Audio: It’s simple. He’s been licking his asshole for the last 3 straight hours. I submit to you that there is nothing there worth more than an hour’s attention, and I should think that whatever he is attempting to dislodge is either gone for good or there to stay.

[00:49:14] Movie Audio: That’s gold.

[00:49:16] Trevor Long: It’s a strange, unusual line that has no context to the movie other than to set up him as a— yeah, as a dry wit human.

[00:49:25] Movie Audio: Yeah, and Here’s another two. The next two are, um, that’s right, kicked in the clackers.

[00:49:34] Movie Audio: We gotta talk to someone else. You think what I’m thinking?

[00:49:37] Movie Audio: I hope not, because I’m thinking how much my balls hurt.

[00:49:40] Movie Audio: That’s genius. But this other one, this one takes the cake.

[00:49:44] Trevor Long: This one here.

[00:49:45] Movie Audio: Oh, hang on, where— there it is. Here it’s, uh, do you remember when, uh, she’s in her bathrobe?

[00:49:50] Trevor Long: Yes, I’m well aware of this scene.

[00:49:52] Movie Audio: Yes, yes, I’m seeping.

[00:49:54] Movie Audio: Here, look at this.

[00:49:59] Trevor Long: Ah, that hurt like shit.

[00:50:03] Movie Audio: I know, that’s why I distracted you first.

[00:50:07] Trevor Long: What a distraction.

[00:50:07] Movie Audio: Same principle as deflowering virgins.

[00:50:10] Movie Audio: What?

[00:50:10] Trevor Long: What?

[00:50:11] Trevor Long: What?

[00:50:12] Movie Audio: I read it in this Harold Robbins book. Guy bites her on the ear, distracts from the pain.

[00:50:17] Trevor Long: Ever try that?

[00:50:18] Movie Audio: No, no, I sock them in the jaw and yo pop goes the weasel.

[00:50:22] Movie Audio: Who the fuck are you, mate? No one else but Sam Jackson could have done that.

[00:50:27] Trevor Long: That’s true.

[00:50:28] Movie Audio: That was his role. A genius move.

[00:50:31] Trevor Long: He put him in it.

[00:50:32] Movie Audio: Genius.

[00:50:32] Trevor Long: He’s the star of this movie.

[00:50:34] Movie Audio: Righto.

[00:50:34] Movie Audio: How did that happen? Some plot holes here, okay? Some plot holes. Well, we already— we already uncovered one. The weapons in the hidden compartment would have made that suitcase way heavier. Yeah, it would have felt like bricks in there.

[00:50:46] Trevor Long: Yes.

[00:50:47] Movie Audio: And how did you not notice that in years? Like, come on. On. Uh, also, uh, I think you even refer to this, the grenade in the station corridor.

[00:50:55] Trevor Long: Yeah, the grenade goes off. A grenade is shrapnel.

[00:50:58] Movie Audio: It’s a fragmentation grenade.

[00:50:59] Trevor Long: It Fenech explodes like a petrol tanker.

[00:51:02] Movie Audio: Fragmentation grenades do not—

[00:51:04] Trevor Long: pushing them out a window, for Christ’s sake—

[00:51:06] Movie Audio: do not produce rolling fireballs that would spread, uh, ahead of them. Yeah, yeah.

[00:51:10] Trevor Long: Although I did love that part of that scene. That’s cool though, is they’re coming out of a 3-story window and there was an earlier scene that said, you know, don’t It’s thin ice. It was just a single sign.

[00:51:21] Movie Audio: Yep.

[00:51:21] Trevor Long: But it was very, very subtle and very— but that’s why they— that’s an establishment.

[00:51:25] Movie Audio: Yeah.

[00:51:25] Trevor Long: That gives credibility to it so they can land through the incredible moment. Yeah.

[00:51:28] Movie Audio: Well, she still shoots down at the ice.

[00:51:30] Trevor Long: That’s right, to break it.

[00:51:31] Movie Audio: Yeah, just to break the 4K special edition of this.

[00:51:33] Trevor Long: Oh, this will be—

[00:51:34] Movie Audio: there’s a sticker in it that says a sign that says thin ice that you can— that was displayed at that station.

[00:51:39] Trevor Long: Why is there a sticker?

[00:51:40] Movie Audio: I don’t know, there’s just one of the part of the movie. Okay, right. Uh, the speaker workout. And I already told you, the subwoofer on overload. My mother-in-law Anne was kept up.

[00:51:50] Trevor Long: I can’t help with this because I have to admit I watched this on an iPad.

[00:51:53] Movie Audio: So yeah, yeah, this is, um, let me give you the great directional sound. Yeah, but I don’t think my subwoofers have worked harder than this one. Explosions, it was massive explosions.

[00:52:03] Trevor Long: Yeah, that makes sense.

[00:52:04] Movie Audio: Thank God I got a big screen. Lots of, uh, great action shots and explosions here. Very shots of the small town, um, the frozen lake was good. Yeah, the station shootout and explosion also pretty good, right? Um, the— if the movie was made today, um, what I think— more use of modern tech to track Charlie down, do you think?

[00:52:26] Trevor Long: Oh, for sure.

[00:52:27] Movie Audio: Would it have been— would it have been easier to locate her? Because you got to remember, the Bourne films were made early 2000s as well, so it wasn’t really— not a lot of tech around.

[00:52:35] Trevor Long: That’s true.

[00:52:35] Movie Audio: It’s hard to sort of disappear within this world of tech.

[00:52:38] Trevor Long: Very much so.

[00:52:39] Movie Audio: Yeah, as we know. Uh, every day is a school day. What is the theme or lesson here? I, I’ve got a couple, mate. My first—

[00:52:48] Trevor Long: how are we taking themes and lessons from a slapstick?

[00:52:51] Movie Audio: Well, yeah, kind of. Here’s what I’m taking out of it. Find out your true self. She found out her true self. She was truly a mother, not an assassin. Yes, in the end.

[00:53:00] Trevor Long: Yeah, that’s true.

[00:53:01] Movie Audio: Also, and again, the love—

[00:53:03] Trevor Long: believe the CIA—

[00:53:04] Movie Audio: the love of a mother, that’s the greatest force in the world. Oh, that’s another one, right? Oh, best use of the pause button. Did you notice here— remember the dead terrorist car that Mitch eventually drove out of the container? The license plate— if you pause it, you’ll see the license plate is RFK 575. Would you, would you, uh, believe me if I told you that’s also the license plate used in The Wolf of Wall Street? Jordan Belfort’s car, the Ferrari, has RFK 575.

[00:53:43] Movie Audio: Why?

[00:53:44] Movie Audio: I just think it’s like an in-joke. Also, Zoolander— Derek Zoolander’s roommate, uh, has it on his car, and it’s also on a car in the film Final Destination. So I think it might have been made by the same studios. Yeah, and it was like a prop. You know how you see the same prop appear in some, some movies? They share it it. I think this is one of those.

[00:54:07] Trevor Long: Gotcha.

[00:54:07] Movie Audio: Yeah.

[00:54:07] Movie Audio: Okay, now, according to another best use of the pause button, if you pause your button on the CIA personnel file shown during the opening credits—

[00:54:16] Trevor Long: oh, okay—

[00:54:17] Movie Audio: Charlene Elizabeth Baltimore was born on October 12, 1962, has blonde hair, brown eyes, 6 feet tall, and weighs 125 pounds, which in kilos would be what, 70?

[00:54:31] Trevor Long: How many, how many pounds?

[00:54:32] Movie Audio: 125 pounds.

[00:54:33] Trevor Long: 125 bucks.

[00:54:34] Movie Audio: That’s what it says on there written.

[00:54:35] Trevor Long: Yeah, right.

[00:54:36] Movie Audio: Okay, things you might not know on The Tonight Show, uh, Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show in 2014, uh, sorry, now in 2019, Samuel L. Jackson appeared and said his favorite role in a movie was Mitch in The Long Kiss Goodnight.

[00:54:54] Trevor Long: Wow, that’s huge.

[00:54:56] Movie Audio: Massive. So we’re not Pulp Fiction?

[00:54:58] Trevor Long: I was gonna say, how’s that not Pulp Fiction?

[00:55:00] Movie Audio: The Long Kiss Goodnight.

[00:55:02] Trevor Long: No.

[00:55:03] Movie Audio: Uh, another trademark things you might not know, uh, is Shane Black, who wrote the film, loves setting it at Christmas. Lethal Weapon, Christmas time.

[00:55:13] Trevor Long: So is Lonky’s Goodnight a Christmas movie?

[00:55:15] Movie Audio: Well, it’s at Christmas time.

[00:55:16] Trevor Long: Is it a Christmas movie?

[00:55:17] Movie Audio: I’d say not, because that is unbelievable.

[00:55:19] Trevor Long: The Christmas element is kind of central. Die Hard is that it’s set at Christmas time.

[00:55:24] Movie Audio: But the early in the movie, she’s in the Christmas parade and Christmas is over. It’s over. No, no, we’ve left Christmas behind at the start of the movie.

[00:55:32] Trevor Long: Whatever.

[00:55:33] Movie Audio: It’s Christmas the whole way through Die Hard.

[00:55:35] Trevor Long: Whatever.

[00:55:35] Movie Audio: Anyway, so Shane Black, Christmas. Lethal Weapon, Christmas. Iron Man 3, Christmas. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Christmas.

[00:55:43] Trevor Long: This place got problems.

[00:55:43] Movie Audio: The Nice Guys with Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling, this place got Santa issues. Christmas.

[00:55:49] Trevor Long: Yeah.

[00:55:49] Movie Audio: Also, and we’ve done this, The Last Boy Scout.

[00:55:53] Trevor Long: Have we done that?

[00:55:53] Movie Audio: Christmas.

[00:55:54] Trevor Long: Remind me what the movie’s about.

[00:55:55] Movie Audio: Bruce Willis.

[00:55:56] Trevor Long: Okay.

[00:55:57] Movie Audio: He plays like a disgraced detective. Okay.

[00:56:01] Trevor Long: Yeah.

[00:56:01] Movie Audio: Did you notice in the scene where they’re in the Dutch Cabins Motor Court, in their room there’s a movie playing in the background? It’s a classic noir, black and white film.

[00:56:16] Trevor Long: And you think I’m going to notice a classic?

[00:56:17] Movie Audio: Well, no, I’m just telling you, if you— you may not have noticed, but the film playing in the background, there’s Elliot Gould in it and he’s a private detective. The movie is called The Long Goodbye is the name of the movie in the background of The Long Kiss Goodnight.

[00:56:32] Trevor Long: I think these people spend too long making Easter eggs in movies.

[00:56:35] Movie Audio: That’s me, that’s what I noticed.

[00:56:37] Trevor Long: Yeah.

[00:56:38] Movie Audio: Now, did you also notice that Charlie’s memory trigger was often cold? There’s always cold stuff happens, so cold water. Remember she— when she flies out of the car, that was in the snow. Um, after that, she gets the memory flashes, the train says she jumps into the icy water. Water comes out, and then she’s tortured in the freezing water, which ultimately brings her memory back completely. So cold could be the trigger. So have you ever—

[00:57:04] Trevor Long: should I go take a cold plunge? Right, okay, cold plunge.

[00:57:07] Movie Audio: Jesus.

[00:57:08] Movie Audio: Right, what’s the meme? I mean, chefs do that. I reckon chefs do that.

[00:57:13] Movie Audio: Yeah.

[00:57:14] Movie Audio: And anything Mitch says— like, Mitch, we, we didn’t mention the, the— he loves singing. I’m gonna put out the garbage. That’d be a good meme. I like to— when he says to Baldy, he goes, we jumped out of a building. He goes, yeah, and tomorrow we go to the zoo.

[00:57:33] Trevor Long: That’s probably the best one because it’s great because it follows anything like something that you think is cool but no one else does. You say, yeah, tomorrow we’re going to the zoo.

[00:57:40] Movie Audio: Tomorrow we go to the zoo. By any other name?

[00:57:44] Trevor Long: It could be— it could go by a million other names, to be honest.

[00:57:46] Movie Audio: My one thought I had was just memory. Memory.

[00:57:50] Trevor Long: Yeah, but it’s too serious. Yeah, this is the long—

[00:57:53] Movie Audio: Kiss Goodnight. That’s kind of long name.

[00:57:56] Trevor Long: It’s a stupid name.

[00:57:56] Movie Audio: Yeah, but that’s what they came up with. I can’t think of anything more.

[00:57:59] Trevor Long: Kicked in the Balls. I don’t know, I’m trying to think.

[00:58:01] Movie Audio: My Balls Hurt. Yeah, the other one. Uh, The One Thing You Want. Going to the Zoo. Going to the Zoo. Now I jumped out of a building and tomorrow we go to the zoo. That’s a pretty long name.

[00:58:10] Trevor Long: Actually, you just call it Tomorrow We Go to the Zoo.

[00:58:12] Movie Audio: Yeah, that’s— yeah, that wouldn’t work, mate. Uh, The One Thing You Want I was quite taken with Mitch’s green jacket. Remember he’s wearing that? It looked like a master’s jacket.

[00:58:23] Trevor Long: It did, actually.

[00:58:24] Movie Audio: I’m thinking that jacket’s got to go on the wall. It’s not going to go in the wardrobe, if you know what I’m saying. Uh, Samantha’s guns, I’ll take them. The ice skates she’s wearing.

[00:58:32] Trevor Long: You know what, I just have the brooch with the key on it.

[00:58:35] Movie Audio: That one called Kirkland’s the Bear. The kitchen knife that she uses, uh, the chefs do that. And her old school mobile phone. Oh yeah, yeah, the old solid brick.

[00:58:45] Trevor Long: Had a couple of those in this movie.

[00:58:48] Movie Audio: Righto, 3 questions for Trev.

[00:58:49] Trevor Long: Hit me.

[00:58:51] Movie Audio: What happens to Samantha? Does she remain a family woman after this?

[00:58:56] Trevor Long: No, mate, she’s an assassin.

[00:58:58] Movie Audio: Well, no, well, she knocked back the president.

[00:58:59] Trevor Long: I’m just telling you, it’s in her blood.

[00:59:01] Movie Audio: Okay, so you reckon she eventually goes back? Yep. What about Mitch? Does Mitch reconcile with his family? Or is he going to be Frank and Ernest?

[00:59:09] Trevor Long: You idiot. He doesn’t reconcile, but the missus lets him bring the kids toys.

[00:59:13] Movie Audio: I think the missus was impressed. Yeah, yeah, good. He got a shout out for the president.

[00:59:18] Trevor Long: Yes, he’s a hero.

[00:59:20] Movie Audio: Yes.

[00:59:21] Movie Audio: Uh, question 3: sequel, prequel, or leave it alone?

[00:59:26] Trevor Long: I mean, I’m going to say leave it alone, but if you’re going to do something, do a sequel where you do explore those silly—

[00:59:30] Movie Audio: mate, I want to see— sequel all day, and starring Mitch. Yeah, Mitch and her go into business together.

[00:59:36] Trevor Long: Why not?

[00:59:37] Movie Audio: That’d be funny. That’d be a funny action movie.

[00:59:40] Trevor Long: It could still be done.

[00:59:41] Movie Audio: Yeah, I would watch that. I’d watch the hell out of that.

[00:59:44] Trevor Long: Yeah, yeah.

[00:59:45] Movie Audio: But you have to get Shane Black to write it. So the same writing has to be there.

[00:59:48] Trevor Long: It’s going to be a Christmas movie.

[00:59:49] Movie Audio: Great news. Righto, that is The Long Kiss Goodnight. Give us your wrap-up and rating.

[00:59:57] Trevor Long: I mean, it’s insane. Like, it’s a stupid movie, you know what I mean? Like, it’s a stupid movie. But funny.

[01:00:04] Trevor Long: Stupid.

[01:00:04] Movie Audio: Yeah, yeah, I’ll give you that.

[01:00:06] Movie Audio: That. But it’s still— I reckon it got some lines, it’s funny, got a bit of heart.

[01:00:10] Trevor Long: You know, without Samuel L— whatever rating you give this movie, Samuel L. Jackson is 90% of the points. He’s just so good.

[01:00:18] Movie Audio: Because you’ve got to remember, it’s an action comedy. There’s comedy in it.

[01:00:22] Trevor Long: That would have been good information to tell me last week.

[01:00:25] Movie Audio: Well, didn’t you recognize it was a— during the movie that, oh, there’s a bit of comedy?

[01:00:28] Trevor Long: See, I think you’ve got to know that before you sit down.

[01:00:30] Movie Audio: Okay.

[01:00:31] Movie Audio: And again, I’m sure the Told people maybe 20 years ago that was the case, but I think the only thing I told you ahead of this was a sort of like, you know, Jason Bourne style.

[01:00:40] Trevor Long: So I expect you thought it was serious.

[01:00:42] Movie Audio: You thought it was going to be serious.

[01:00:43] Trevor Long: Jason Bourne is not an action comedy.

[01:00:44] Movie Audio: No, no, it’s not.

[01:00:45] Trevor Long: So what are you doing?

[01:00:46] Movie Audio: Okay, Stephen, sorry, my bad.

[01:00:48] Trevor Long: Um, so leaving aside the disgraceful stunts that don’t make much sense, yeah, that’s a 7 for me.

[01:00:53] Movie Audio: 7. I gave it 8.5. I love this movie.

[01:00:55] Trevor Long: Well above me.

[01:00:56] Movie Audio: Love this movie. Now I’m hoping that next week movie lands as well.

[01:01:01] Trevor Long: Really?

[01:01:02] Movie Audio: It’s, uh Uh, it was released in 1999, directed by Doug Liman, who directed Swingers and went on to direct all kinds of movies— Bourne Identity. And actually, I’m giving away my, my, my million-dollar question, my millionaire question. But starring Sarah Polley, Jay Moore, Scott Wolf, uh, it’s called Go.

[01:01:23] Trevor Long: Go.

[01:01:24] Movie Audio: G-O. G-O.

[01:01:26] Trevor Long: G-G-O.

[01:01:27] Movie Audio: Now just to put you in the frame here, it’s it’s got a similar structure to Pulp Fiction in the fact that it’s got 3 stories. Oh great, that kind of overlap.

[01:01:38] Trevor Long: Okay.

[01:01:39] Movie Audio: And, and they’re all told separately and there’s bits of them that are common and then you see how they all intersect.

[01:01:45] Trevor Long: Okay.

[01:01:45] Movie Audio: So it’s such a ’90s movie, was it released in ’99? Some faces in there that you’ll recognize too. I’ll— that’ll be in the show next week. But, um, it was directed by Doug Liman, as I said, who’s directed some big movies. So which of these movies did Doug Liman not direct? I think I gave you one of them that he did not direct. Okay, A, Swingers, B, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, C, The Bourne Identity, or D, Office Space? Which did he not direct? We’ve done—

[01:02:22] Trevor Long: I’ll tell you, we’ve done the second one.

[01:02:23] Movie Audio: We’ve done all of these movies.

[01:02:25] Trevor Long: What was the second one?

[01:02:26] Movie Audio: Second one was Mr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Smith. He directed that. He didn’t direct Office Space. Office Space was like a comedy.

[01:02:32] Trevor Long: Yeah, I suck at this.

[01:02:36] Movie Audio: But now he’s, uh, he made Swingers, which we’ve done. Mr. and Mrs. Smith, remember, with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

[01:02:40] Trevor Long: I remember them.

[01:02:41] Movie Audio: And The Bourne Identity, which we spoke about.

[01:02:44] Trevor Long: Okay, fair enough.

[01:02:45] Movie Audio: As well. But not Office Space. Anyway, that’s next week. I hope you enjoy that one. Uh, but, uh, in the meantime, glad you’ve, uh, so you’ve watched Long Kiss Goodnight.

[01:02:54] Trevor Long: Yeah.

[01:02:54] Movie Audio: You could have, you could have given it a high score, but that’s okay. I’m not offended.

[01:02:57] Trevor Long: You are.

[01:02:57] Movie Audio: Anyway, good on you. We’ll talk to you next week for Go, but I’m glad you at least watched last.

[01:03:03] Trevor Long: All right, see you then.

[01:03:04] Movie Audio: See you, mate.