The Recruit Trivia

1. What company is Clayton, Colin Farrell's character, trying to impress at the beginning of the movie?

From Quiz The Recruit

Answer: Dell

Clayton and his friends have developed software called Spartacus that allows them to control other devices from a distance. He demonstrates the software for a representative of Dell at a fair at MIT. After the demonstration the Dell representatvie asks if he can place Dell's logo on the Sony booth. Later on in the movie when Clayton thinks he has been dismissed from the CIA, he calls the recruiter while drunk.

From Quiz The Recruit

Answer: Zack

James went into the C.I.A. to hopefully get more information on his father from Walter Burke. Zack was one of the people who attended the Farm with James. James saw a man and Layla exchange information, and thought that the man in the coat, who turned out to be Zack, was an enemy.

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Answer: 1990

The board with the stars symbolized the people who had died in the Central Intelligence Agency. Burke told James that his father died in 1990, and there was one star next to that year. This told James that that one star symbolized his father's career in the force.

From Quiz The Recruit

Answer: The Farm

"The Farm" is the CIA training facility located in rural Virginia. In the movie the recruits are taken here to be trained in everything it takes to be a spy. Burke tells the recruits, "You have all just stepped through the looking glass. What you see, what you hear - nothing is what it seems." In reality the base is called Camp Peary and is referred to officially as the Armed Forces Experimental Training Activity. Although it has this designation it is believed to be the secret training facility for the CIA.

From Quiz The Recruit

Answer: Sp@rtacus & Spartacus

Sp@rtacus is a computer program that is used to broadcast an event in another place (such as a television or another computer). At the end of the movie, James was trying to use Sp@rtacus to try to frame Walter into telling the C.I.A. how he has been a double agent the whole time.

From Quiz The Recruit

Answer: Non-Official Cover Operative

There are two types of agents - Official Cover Operatives and Non-Official Cover Operatives. Official Cover Operatives get diplomatic immunity and work out of embassies or Langley. NOCs do not get any protection whatsoever. Burke says, "The NOC is the truest practitioner of espionage, always out there, always alone, unprotected."

From Quiz The Recruit

Answer: MIT

James graduated at the top of his class at MIT. This is one of the reasons that Burke wanted to recruit him.

From Quiz The Recruit

Answer: Cat's Cradle

According to Burke, "Cat's Cradle" is the story of the discovery of a molecule in a chip of ice that turns all water it touches immediately into ice. Since all the water of the world is interconnected, it freezes and the world dies. The molecule is called Ice 9 and it is the name Langley gave to a computer virus that works much the same way.

From Quiz The Recruit

Answer: talent

Walter Burke uses this saying multiple times during the film. This is actually one of the last things that he says before he gets shot by the many members of the C.I.A. who were waiting outside the warehouse. He really knew that he was a "scary judge of talent" at the end, because the man who he recruited actually tricked Walter into telling everyone his own plan.

From Quiz The Recruit

Answer: Ice 9

The program that Layla took out of Langely was fake. Walter had Layla do this to test the security at Langley. After he found out that the information could be taken, he changed the program to the real information and had Layla take it out like it was just another section of the fake program. James knew something was up, and later found out that Burke was a double agent who wanted the real program.

From Quiz The Recruit

Answer: Do not get caught

Several times in the movie Burke says his number one rule is don't get caught. One of the first tests is to enter a house and place bugs without getting caught. Only Clayton succeeds. Later on Clayton and Layla are captured while out on a surveillance mission. Clayton is taken and tortured until he reveals who his instructor is at "The Farm". He is released from the program after his failure.

From Quiz The Recruit

Answer: Himself

James told Burke that Sp@rtacus broadcasted him to the C.I.A., but the program did not load. The officers shone a flashlight in Walter's face to see who it was. It was then that Walter spilled his guts. The officers actually came for James, but Burke thought it was for him. The C.I.A. shot Burke after he revealed his plan.

From Quiz The Recruit

Answer: Walter Burke

After Burke wrote the letter, he told James that it was a fake. He told James that he was the NOC, which is a nonofficial agent. What really happened was that James got washed out of the farm, and Burke just wanted him to help the process of testing security at Langley.

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