"There are over 550 million fire arms in the worldwide circulation" "That is one fire arm for every twelve people on the planet" "The only question is" "How do we arm the other eleven?" "You don't have to worry" "I'm not gonna tell you pack of lies to make you feel good" "I'm just gonna tell you what happened" "My name is Yuri Orlov" "When I was a boy, my family came to America" "But not all the way" "Like the most Ukrainians congregated in Brighton beach" "It reminded us of Black Sea" "I've soon realized, we just swapped one hell for another" "Even in hell angel sometimes makes an appearance" "I have worshiped Eva Fountain since I was ten years old" "Of course, she did not know I existed" "I've started to think she had a point" "But the first 25 years of my life," "Little Odessa was to me what it is to the q-train" "The end of the line" "Oh!" "I did lie about my name." "It's not really Yuri Orlov" "There have been few occassions in the 20th century when it has been an advantage to be a Jew" "But in 70s to escape the Soviet Union" "Our family pretended to be Jewish" "Little about my life has been Kosher ever since" "How is it going brother?" "That is Vitali." "My younger brother." "He was as lost as me." "He just did not know yet" "My father took his assumed identity to heart" "He was more Jewish than most Jews which drove Catholic mother crazy" "How many times?" "I can't eat shellfish." "It is thrift" "You are not Jewish" "I like it" "I like the hat to remind us there is something above us" "I like that" "I'm going to temple" "You are not going to temple." "You go to temple more than the Rabbi" "Get off my back woman" "God will you ever wise up?" "Yuri, don't forget to check the specials at the palace" "Growing up in Little Odessa, murder was in everyday part of life" "Russian mobsters had also migrated from Soviet Union and when they came to America, their baggage came with them" "There is always some gangster getting wacked in my neighborhood" "But,I have never seen with my own eyes" "I had the snack of showing up five minutes before something went down or, five minutes after." "Not that day" "It hit me." "It couldn't have hit me harder if I was the one who murdered and shot" "You are going to the restaruant business because people are always going to have to eat" "That was the day I realized my destiny laying for fulfilling another basic human need." "The next Sabbath I went to temple with my father" "However, it was not God I was trying to get close to" "My contact with Synagoge lended me first Israeli made Uzi submachine guns" "First time you sell a gun, is a lot like the first time you have sex" "You have absolutely no idea of what you are doing, but it is exciting and one way or another it is over way too fast" "Gentlemen!" "The new Uzi machine pistol." "Big fire in small package" "This little baby uses 9mm hole points 20-25 rounds of simple mags" "Preferable adjustable size." "Size come standart." "Excellent recovery action" "Muzzled jumper is 40%. 60% improved noise suppression" "You could pump a mag in a minute, right now" "Never wake the guy in next room" "Of course, that would eliminate your opportunity for pete business" "I did have a natural instinct for smuggling counter band" "Fortunately, back than the video camera was as big as bazooka" "Here, I have been running away from violence my whole life" "I should have been running towards it." "It's in our nature" "Earliest human skeletons had spearheads in their heads and ripcages" "Where have you been?" "What do we have the customer?" "God bless America" "Be aware of the dog?" "You don't have a dog" "You are trying to scare people." "No." "To scare me." "They are going to be aware of dog and me" "Dog wants to fuck everything that moves." "What is the fight and kill like dogs" "I guess it reminds me to be more human" "You envy the dog part or being human. whereas the best part is dog part." "But what if you have two legs .........." "like a dog" "You are gonna need to see somebody." "I have always wanted to do something big with my life." "I just did not know what." "Anyhow, I figured." "If I was going into the gun trade, I was going to aim high" "Hey, Vitali!" "Stop fucking around!" "I wanna talk to you" "You read newspaper Vit?" "Newspaper?" "It is always the same" "You are right!" "Everyday there is people shooting each other" "You know what I do when I see that?" "I look to see what guns they are using and I think to myself why not my guns" "What?" "You gonna open a gunshop?" "Orli!" "There more of those in America than McDonalds" "Even with all the gangsters around here, margins are too low" "You have worked out the margins" "Sure!" "Forget gang wars." "The real money is in actual wars between countries" "Yuri!" "What the fuck do you know about guns?" "I know which .... rather be on...." "I made the first sale." "We are already in business" "Ooh!" "We?" "I need a partner" "I don't know." "I don't know Yuri" "Vitali I tasted your boreshit." "You are no fucking chef" "I can eat in the restaruant for free, but I still don't eat there" "Fuck you!" "We were doing nothing with our lives." "I mean." "It's a shit." "It's a shit." "It is true." "May be doing nothing is better than doing this" "I need you." "Brothers in arms" "Brothers in arms" "BERLIN ARMS FAIR - 1983" "Sir!" "Sir!" "May I interest you in the shelter fire SA77" "They are all the Chinese models." "Not so effective against modern military aircraft." "But deadly." "If used against commercial airliner giving them away at 850." "It was the 80s." "Cold War was far from thought." "No ...... from government to government" "It was mostly a private club with a lifetime club president" "That is him!" "This is the big shot ?" "Simeon Weisz." "Angola, Mozambique, his excessive missiles in the Balkans ........afford to gunpowder" "We will be right back!" "Mr. Weisz!" "Mr. Weisz!" "It's OK." "They are talking" "May I help?" "Yes." "Mutual friend Ilay Curtsman from Brighton Beach Import Export said to contact you." "I have a business proposal." "I thought perhaps we could discuss" "I don't think you and I in the same business." "You think I just sell guns, don't you?" "I don't." "I take sides." "But in Iran-Iraq war you sold guns to both sides." "Did you ever consider that I wanted both sides to lose?" "Bullets change governments far shorter than votes." "You are in the wrong place my young friend." "There is no place for amateurs ..................... and ecstacy" "God..." "God." "Oh, God!" "You're beautiful." "What's your name again?" "The only option for Vitali and me was under-the-counter gun money" "I got my first break in Lebanon after the suicide bombing" "But I wasn't the only local kid making good" "When United States leaves a war zone they generally don't take the ammunitions." "It costs more to bring it back then to buy new stock" "So, you sell by the kilo?" "Second hand weapons but they are still OK" "How many kilos would you like?" "Five thousands" "I had a flirt for languages." "But I soon discovered that what talks best is dollars, dinars, drahmas, rubles, rupies and pounds fucking sterling army salaries were no better in the 80s than they are today" "and some of the brass like Litueanant Colonel Suddern needed to raise money for his private wars." "good to make your acquaintance this is bullshit money, Vi maybe" "This is small fucking potatoes" "What do you wanna do?" "No." "More illegal" "What I would give for a plate of cabbage and potatoes" "It is not our fight" "Vi, come on !" "Let's go !" "Come on !" "Selling guns are like selling vacuum cleaners." "It may cause pound of payment, take orders," "I was an equal opportunity merchant of death" "I supplied every army, but the salvation army." "I sold Israeli made Uzis to Muslims" "I sold Communist made bullets to Fascists" "I hope you are not thinking of selling these, Mr. Orlov." "Personal use" "There's a hundred thousand bullets here" "I'm kind of trigger happy" "Trigger happy?" "I even shipped cargo to Afghanistan when they were fighting my fellow Soviets" "I never sold Usama bin Laden." "Not on any moral grounds" "Back then there were always balance and checks." "By the mid 80s my weapons were represented in 8 of the world's top ten war zones" "There is no problem living double life" "It is the triple or quadruple lives get you in the end" "Back then I carried a French, British, Israeli and Ukranian passport and student visa for the U.S. but that is another story" "I also pack 6 different briefcases depending on who I was that day and region of the world I was visiting" "North of Cartagena, Colombia - 1989" "Without operations like mine, it would be impossible for certain countries to conduct a respectable war." "I was able to navigate around those inconvenient little arms embargos" "There are three basic types of arms deal." "White being legal, black being illegal and my personal favorite color, gray." "Sometimes I made the deal so commaluted it was hard for me to work out if they are on the level to keep authorities in the dark, I had often spoken code." "Rocket launchers were mothers, rockets children," "AK-47 assault rifle was the angel king" "It's Yuri." "Yeah." "Well." "Raul, Raul." "The angel king will arrive tomorrow." "The point is, if I had done my job right, an arms embargo should be practically impossible to enforce what?" "OK." "Just slow the fuck down!" "I can't understand you." "What do you mean tipped off?" "They know where we are?" "Where are they?" "How long have I got?" "Not long ?" "What does that mean?" "Do we try to lose them?" "On this?" "Yuri!" "We have to get off this thing." "No." "No one is going anywhere." "Slow !" "death slow." "Buy me time" "Yeah, it is Yuri." "Get that fucking flag down." "I need another handle for this prob." "Something in our weight class" "You!" "Over the side!" "We are changing the name." "Now!" "Yes!" "It's got to check out" "The way I looked at it, what is in there?" "Have you got a name?" "I often changed the registration of a ship or a plane." "But never in such short notice" "What?" "KONO?" "How do you spell that?" "KONO." "K-O-N-O" "What are we flying?" "Dutch?" "Got it" "Get me a Dutch flag, will you?" "Faster or I will save your ass in." "Yuri!" "I don't have Dutch" "What?" "I've got Belgium" "What the fuck use that is?" "Painted name in the register is fucking Netherlands" "I've got a French flag" "So?" "Turn the sideways, it is Dutch" "That is why you are my brother" "Alright!" "Good!" "Everybody look innocent now." "They say every man has price." "But not every man gets it." "Interpol agent Jack Valentine could not be bought." "At least, not with money." "For Jack, glory was the price." "It is KONO, not the Kristol" "KONO." "K-O-N-O" "It is clean, Sir!" "It is clean?" "It doesn't look clean" "I'm gonna go aboard" "Change the inner signs of Kristol to KONO" "Even I was up against an overzealous agent," "I had a number of methods for discurging a search." "I rutinely mislabeled my arm shipments as farm machinery and, I have yet to meet the lowly-paid customs official who will open a container marked "Radioactive Waste" to verify its contents" "But my personal favorite is the unique combination of week-old potatoes and, probable heat" "It smells." "Sir!" "Sign of Kristol, 2 North" "Most importantly I kept a number of intelligence people on the payroll to supply their colleagues with counter-intelligence." "Let's go!" "The second rule of gun running is always insure, you have a full proof way to get paid, preferably in advance, ideally to an off-shore account" "That is why I choose my customer so carefully." "Say what you like about warlords and dictators." "They tend to have highly developed sense of order" "They always pay their bills on time." "What is this?" "Six kilos of pure cocaine." "I can't hand this to my fucking bank teller at Chase Manhattan" "Listen, asshole, you should be thanking me" "Have you checked the street price today?" "With the seizures at the border last week, it's jumped thirty percent" "I sell guns." "I don't sell drugs." "Diversify" "I've got standards" "You don't pay, you don't play" "Fuck you!" "What the fuck are you doing?" "Fuck you!" "No, you don't fuck him." "We can work something out." "No, Vi!" "We have a deal." "The first and most important rule of gun running is never get shot with your own merchandise." "Okay." "So, what do we do now?" "We celebrate" "That narco guerilla had his fax right, after shipping at state side turned it to a healthy profit it would have been even better, except that one kilo never made it back" "Vitali!" "Vit!" "To this day, I don't what Vitali was running away from" "May be just from Vitali" "I found him twelve days, two thousand miles and 150 grams later in bulletin board meeting house" "Of course, my dreamgirl had gone there before me" "Vit!" "Come on!" "Yuri?" "It's my brother Yuri" "He is my big brother" "What the fuck is that?" "Ukraine." "I was young, but I remember." "Look." "I started in Odessa." "Right?" "I worked my way to Crimean ...." "You will be like fucking rich kid" "Come on!" "We are going home!" "You, fuck!" "Fucking fuck you" "Fucking fuck!" "What the fuck is your problem" "Come on Vi!" "JFK Airport, New York - 1989" "It is nice to be home" "We are gonna get you." "Come on!" "St. Francis Rehabilitation Center, Later That Day" "Get out of the car." "Vitali, I need you to get of the car." "Promised our parents." "Please!" "Vitali, you gonna have great time." "It is a top place" "Two models checked in last week and cute weather girl has been here since July" "Please, Yuri!" "You are a good brother" "You are a good brother, Yuri." "OK." "Alright." "Get out of the car." "OK." "Get out of the car" "From then on I was one-man operation." "I never understood what separated recreational drug user from habitual." "Before the grace of God, it could have been me snorting lines as long as Bell Parkway." "However, I wasn't entirely free with the grip of addiction myself" "There she was again." "Eva Fountain." "In my neigborhood they say "good get out"" "In our own ways, we both conquered the world" "ST." "BARTS FRENCH CARIBBEAN - 1989" "You can't force someone to fall in love with you but, you can definitely improve your odds" "It costed me 20 grand to book her for a fake photo shoot, another 12 to buy her at the hotel." "It is popular hotel, huh?" "Eva Fountain" "Yuri Orlov" "What brings you to St. Barts?" "Photo shoot." "At least that was the plan." "I guess the photographer got stuck in Miami." "Hurricane" "Though there is nothing on the news." "Those things can come out of nowhere." "So, the job has been cancelled and whence you know there is no flight back to New York untill Tuesday" "You can hit your ride with me if you like, I am leaving tomorrow" "Meanwhile, why don't I take your picture." "In my experience, some of the most successfull relationships are based on lies and deceit." "Since, that is where you end up anyway it is a logical place to start" "I nearly went broke trying to convince her anything but" "I knew Eva was not the kind of woman to be seduced by riding in the private jet unless, you own the jet." "This is your plane?" "That is my name" "Of course, I was lying." "Plane was a rental like the car standing there then" "At the last minute, I bribed the crew for the paint job." "Luckily, by the time we landed, Eva wasn't looking anywhere, but my eyes." "I had no idea." "I'm sorry I did not recognize you" "Don't apologize." "I put clothes on for living." "I guess you are taking them off." "I would be if the fotographers had their way" "How about you?" "I'm in transport." "International airfreight mostly." "Business is good." "Where are you from?" "I was born in Ukraine." "But, I grew up in Brooklyn." "No" "What ?" "You too?" "Williamsburg" "Well!" "Here is to our hurricane." "Without it, I would have never met you." "This is no accident, is it Yuri?" "It feels like fate" "I don't believe in fate" "What do you believe in?" "Is that a view!" "That is a view" "Thank you." "Thank you all." "Congratulations!" "Thanks." "Always remember son." "There is something above you." "Sure, dad!" "40,000 dollar chandellier" "Make yourselves at home." "Go!" "Go!" "I'm sorry." "That must be tough." "I would be nice to have a couple more guests from my side of family" "I am sure they are watching you right now." "Thank you." "But, you don't believe that Yuri." "Remember." "I know you, Yuri." "I know you are not everthing you seem." "Don't worry." "I won't ask a lot of questions." "I don't wanna hear you lying." "You take risks." "Just, you won't risk us." "That is the trouble falling in love with a dreamgirl." "They have an habit of becoming real." "I have never been so glad to see Vitali" "You fucking beautiful!" "Brother, brother!" "Thank you so much for giving me such a beautiful sister" "He was out of his rehab and out of his mind" "Dance, dance, dance!" "We have to dance." "It's wedding and celebration" "But, for once he rescued me." "NEW YORK" " DECEMBER 25, 1991" "I was still living way on my knees." "Mortgage to the hill." "Using one credit card to pay off another." "Anything to keep Eva in the style she had" "Thanks largely to me." "It's become a custom" "Eva!" "Eva!" "This is too much!" "And, suddenly, all my Christmas came at once" "Nicky, nicky!" "You did it!" "Good boy!" "Ha haaa!" "That is my grandson." "Yuri, don't you wanna know what your son is doing?" "Who ever said it is better to give than receive never got a Christmas present like the one I got in 1991 for Michael Gorbachev" "What the hell is the matter?" "It's over!" "It's over!" "What is over?" "Cold fuckingn war." "Soviet fucking Union." "Evil fucking Empire" "Michael says no Mos." "It is on the tel." "It's over." "Your son is walking." "That's incredible honey." "At least, there will be religious freedom." "Hmm!" "Let's hope so!" "I think I will go back for a visit." "Do you stay in touch with Uncle Dimitri?" "I'm not fool Yuri." "I don't think you go there just to sell Pepsi Cola" "Is this how you want to be remembered?" "I don't want to be remembered at all." "If I am being remembered, it means I am dead." "Merry fucking Christmas!" "Who is this Vitali?" "I am Angel." "Her name is really Angel.She is a fairy." "Let's put her over the Christmas three." "I love you." "I love you all." "Come on!" "Take this." "Going back to Ukraine." "I miss Odessa." "I miss you" "I miss you" "Be careful Yuri." "Those things you sell kill." "inside." "You're high." "That's true." "Hello, Christian!" "ODESSA, UKRAINE - 1992" "During the Cold War, Red Army stationed nearly one million troops in Ukraine because of its strategic military importance." "The day after the wall came down, paycheck stopped coming" "Your papers?" "There is nothing better for an arms dealer in the combination of disgruntled soldiers and warehouse full of weapons." "Welcome!" "I was hoping Major General Dimitri Volkov with a lot armory doors open with a lot of military bases." "For a start, he was family." "He was a highly decorated hero of the Red Army." "And, he was almost permanently shitfaced." "I can't just sell you government property Yuri" "I have to report." "Report to who?" "Moscow?" "As of last week, Moscow is a foreign country." "You flag new boss?" "There is no new boss yet." "They are all too busy squabbling who is gonna get the presidantial holiday home at the Black Sea" "It's beatiful." "Ones you know, don't care anymore." "Ones you care, don't know any more" "Show me you inventory." "Those 45 years of mutual hatred between the East and the West had generated the highest weapons build-up in the history." "The Soviets had guns coming out of deamon hole." "Huge stock piles and now no enemy." "How many Kalashnikovs do you have?" "40,000" "It's more like a one" "No, it is a four." "It is whatever we say it is, because no one else will know the difference 10,000 Kalashnikovs for battalion." "Your stocks dangerously depleted Dimitri." "You sure there are more in the factory." "Some will work it home....." "What happens then?" "We'll cut them in." "The end of the Cold War was beginning of the highest time in arms dealing" "Arms bizzare was in open" "Guided missiles." "Unguided missiles." "Mortars." "Mines." "Armored personnel carriers." "whole tank divisions." "I'll tell you what I do." "Buy isx, you get one free" "I even landed a squadron of helicopter gun ships." "The most sophisticated fighting machines." "Built for war with America that never happened." "Son, get off there before you get hurt" "I can take it apart with my eyes closed." "Thanks to me, it finally get to shoot in anger" "I have a feeling it wasn't what Comrade Lennin had in mind when he advocated the redistribution of wealth" "But, I wasn't the only one offering crash course in capitalism" "I had rivals." "Inform your commanding officer that Simeon Weisz is here to meet him" "You don't know who I am, do you?" "I don't give a fuck who you are" "You're late." "So it appears" "Thank you" "My pleasure." "You sell guns?" "May be you'd like to come to my room and I'll show you my... cannon" "You look a little lost Simeon." "Is the world changing too fast?" "I am here" "Not all of you, I think." "You have gotten so rich selling for the CIA you can't seem to get that ideology completely out of your head" "All the Cold War had its uses." "Got the tensions frozen." "Now it is harder to determine which side one is on." "Things have become more complicated" "No." "It has gotten simpler." "There is no place in gun running for politics anymore Simeon" "I saw the leftist and rightist." "I saw the pacifist, but they are not regular customers" "Of course, you are not true internationalist until you supply weapons to kill your own countrymen" "This current state of chaos won't last forever." "will have to be order." "Instead of cutting each other's throat may be beneficial if we work together" "What do you think?" "You know what I think?" "I think you are the amateur now" "I think you should go with your instincts, with your first instinct" "I am the same man who was not good enough for you before and I am just not good enough for you now" "The problem with gun runners going to war is that there is no shortage of ammunition" "This was the chaos that the old guard had always feared" "As far as they were concerned, I was giving arms dealers a bad name but they could hardly report me to the business bureau" "In Ukraine wasn't the only former state with unpaid army and stockpiles of guns." "There was Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Belaruss." "All there for the taking." "Of all the weapons in the vast Soviet arsenal nothing was more profitable than of the mark Kalashnikova model of 1947." "More commonly known as AK-47 or Kalashnikov" "It's the world's most popular assault rifle." "A weapon of fighters' love" "An elegantly simple 9 pound of algemation of forged steel and plywood" "It doesn't break, jam or overheat." "It will shoot whether it is covered in mud or filled with sand" "It's so easy." "Even a child can use it." "And, they do." "The Soviets put the gun on the calling." "Mozambique put it on their flag." "Since the end of the Cold War, the Kalashnikov has become the Russian people's greatest export." "After that comes vodtka, caviar, suicidal novelists" "One thing is for sure, no one was lining up to buy their cars." "What fucking documents?" "You listen to me, Lieutenant." "You keep them there." "For as long as you can!" "Fight to the death!" "Moscow is behind us!" "It's an order!" "I thought you were supposed to be watching out for those people" "How can I?" "You keep selling my helicopters." "You are too greedy Yuri" "I can't hold him forever" "I have got paperwork" "Not for the gunships." "You know the penalty for selling the military helicopter is a major violation" "Military helicopter?" "!" "It's not a military helicopter." "It's a rescue helicopter" "Get to work, son!" "No problem." "The laws are on our side" "OK." "I wanna see your papers" "No, no." "Put that away." "I see your papers" "Yuri Orlov." "Mr. Orlov." "Always in the wrong place in the right time." "What the fuck is this?" "We've met before." "Off the coast of Colombia" "What was the name of that freight." "I can't remember." "Was it KONO?" "or the Kristol?" "The crew called that vessel a lot of names." "None of them repeatable by my company" "Answer the question." "Ohh!" "New MP5." "Would you like silencer for that?" "I need to see your papers." "Get the fuck off me" "Dimitri." "End user certificate for this aircraft states Burkino Fassaou" "Nice.Very nice." "Did you type that by yourself?" "The helicopter is to be used in humanitarian missions" "Ohh?" "So you are humanitarian?" "Absolutely" "This is a military aircraft." "Not anymore." "Listen to the nephew." "What can they do with military hardware by converting to civilian" "Anyone wants dive with this baby now is food dropper to" "And this stuff over here?" "Is that going to Burcino Fassaou as well?" "Ahh!" "Two different client and two different address." "That is just a coincidence." "Is that it?" "You take me for complete fucking fool." "Not complete Sir." "Do I hesitate to tell you your job." "I must point out." "When shipped seperately, the weapons and the aircraft both comply with the current Interpol trade standarts and practices." "We both know that is an obscene bureaucratic loophole" "It's gonna be closed any Goddamn day." "But it's not closed." "While certain people might interpret this cargo suspicious." "Thank God, we are living in a world where suspicion alone does not constitute a crime." "And, where men like you respect the rule of law" "I was as guilty as sin, but Valentine couldn't prove it." "He was the rarest breed of law enforcement officer." "The type who knew I was breaking the law, but wouldn't break it himself to bust me" "TWO DAYS LATER" "Valentine wasn't the only one trying to put me out of business" "My Uncle had turned out a half dozen rival arms dealers" "Sometimes with offers better than mine." "But to the Dimitri" "You couldn't put a price on loyalty" "What was he doing here?" "He is hoping to bid your offer." "I told him to go and have intercourse with himself" "But, Yuri, you need to make more payoffs" "They are too many." "There are more VCRs, cigarettes." "I left them in your new car" "Yuri, even your enemy was admiring that car." "I am the luckiest man alive." "You are." "Hello?" "Eva" "Baby?" "You know what time it is?" "Sorry, I" "How is that?" "Your audition?" "Now going in another direction." "Direction that someone who can act" "They don't deserve you" "Where are you?" "Is everything OK?" "A rough day at the office" "Come home?" "Soon." "How is Nickie?" "Misses you." "We both do." "It's lonely without you here." "You know I don't like nights" "But, ever since my parents." "Yuri, what is that?" "A party." "I better go." "Just wanted to call and hear your voice" "Kiss Nickie for me." "I love you" "It's a ..... didn't die with my Uncle." "After the wall came down, 32 billion dollars worth of arms were stolen and resold from Ukraine alone" "One of the greatest hights of the 20th century" "MONROVA, LIBERIA - 1995" "Primary market was Africa." "11 major conflicts involving 32 countries in less than a decade." "A gun runner's wet dream." "At the time the West couldn't care less." "They had a white war on what was left of Yugoslavia" "I did the Balkan my business in Liberia" "Land of the free." "Originally established as a homeland for freed American slaves." "It has been enslaved by one dictator or another ever since." "The latest was American educated, self-declared President Andre Baptiste" "Mr. Yuri." "My father would like to meet you" "What an honor!" "Thank him." "But unfortunately I have other business" "It's a shame." "It's a very busy schedule." "It's not, how to say, option" "My father is easily offended." "My schedule just freed up." "President Baptiste was my best customer but I was in no hurry to meet him" "He got the reputation for rutinely hacking of the limbs those who opposed him" "His 7 years civil war has been described as relentless campaign of sadistic wanting violence" "That kind of sums up Andie for me" "The clock is interesting" "It is made of a palmer composite." "Many of my clients feel that they can go through airport security without seeing a lot of bells and whistles." "Personally, I do not recommend that." "On the other hand, if you are looking for traditional wheel gun there is no substitute for six inches of muzzle energy of 357 mag" "I mean, of course, it will never jam" "Why did you that?" "What did you say?" "Now, you gonna have to buy it." "It is a used gun" "How can I sell used gun?" "A used gun?" "A used gun?" "That's a good one." "You know?" "There is no discipline with the youth today." "I tried to set an example, but it is difficult huh?" "Personally, I blame MTV." "A used gun?" "I think you and I, we can do business" "If I thought I was scared of Andrei Senior, I knew I was scared of" "Andrei Junior." "Like father, like son!" "The guava doesn't fall far from the tree." "He was also a cannibal." "They say Andrei would give" "They give the super human strength." "Monrovia itself was like being on a new planet." "Planet Monrovia." "From the temprature, it was obviously planet close to the sun" "I rearyly saw another white man." "And, I never left town alone." "Outside town was hell of the edge of hell" "I didn't want anything in gazing there." "This is your hotel." "Two stucks" "Do you bring the gun of Rambo?" "Part one, two or three." "I've only seen part one." "The M60." "Would you like an armoured person bullets?" "Please." "My father left a welcoming present to you" "Enjoy." "My God!" "When I get to America I will not live in Printwood" "Second floor" "In the most AIDS infested region of the globe, one in four is infected" "Andrei's idea of" "He put a young Neeman and young Naomi in my bed" "And, no condomn within 100 miles" "Hi, Mr. Yuri." "Hi" "We will be happy to make you happy." "I can't." "I'd love to." "But I can't" "Yuri, You don't have anything" "Hey, no!" "Don't you really like it?" "What if I have AIDS?" "Don't you worry?" "You worry too much" "Why do you worry about something that can kill you in ten years" "We know so many things that can kill you today" "Now, how can we make you happy?" "By Levi" "These are my Kalashnikov kids, my boy bridgades" "I can see what you are thinking" "We need every man we can get" "Even if they are not man?" "A bullet from 14 year old just as effective as one from our 40 year old often more effective" "No one can stop bath of blood" "It's not bath of blood." "It's bloodbath" "Thank you" "But, I prefer it my way" "I am not going to pay your asked price" "Besides, market is already flooded with your Kalashnikovs" "Do you realize in some parts of my country you can get one for the price of a chicken" "But you can't just look at the unit price" "You forget auxilary costs, end user certificates that we forge the notary shell company setup, insurance purchase, piles of cruise hired." "not to mention the bribes" "You cannot get a nut and bolt out of Eastern bloc without a bribe" "There is one bribe for the nut another for the bolt." "Andy, Andy, listen to me." "This is an expensive proposition" "Andy?" "I'm going to pay you in timber or stone" "Well, I take the stones." "It's kind of hard to get a tree truck in my hand luggage" "I know you are planing a new offensive." "If you can delay a week" "I can get you armored personnel carriers" "It greatly reduce your casualties." "And, give you a significant strategic advantage" "You know, they call me the Lord of War." "But, perhaps, it is you." "It's not Lord of War." "It's Warlord" "Thank you." "But, I prefer it my way." "Conflict diamonds are common currency in West Africa" "Also referred to as blood diamonds" "Since bloodshed is with a generally financed." "By the late 1990s, my wealth caught up to my lies about my wealth." "Even surpassed my lies." "I could even afford to be patron of the arts" "I can't believe it." "Of course, it's wonderful." "I just." "I didn't expect it to happen so soon" "Yes, that would be great too, yeah." "It's wonderful." "Thank you so much." "Yuri, that was the dealer on the phone" "She sold my first painting." "That is fantastic!" "Well, who bought it?" "It's someone important." "They wanna remain anonymous" "So, wonderful" "How was your trip?" "You know same all same all." "Where is Nicky?" "Ohh!" "In bed." "I'm sorry." "He couldn't stay up." "Well, it is best." "My first painting" "I'm officially an artist." "This calls for a drink" "What doesn't?" "Hi!" "Yuri, this is ... uhh" "Candy" "Candy, of course" "Any friend of my brother is ... uhh a friend of my brother" "You have a beautiful everything" "Yes, he does" "Yes, I do" "I'm gonna kiss Nicky good night" "OK" "How are you brother?" "No." "You know." "Still the resident family fuckup." "Yeah." "Well." "I guess someone has to do it." "Well, good night" "Hey, Eva knows, right?" "I never wanna say anything, right?" "She doesn't have to know." "She understands." "She is a survivor." "Like me." "She may be a survivor." "But, she is not like you" "Really?" "She doesn't know how you pay all this." "We don't talk about it." "How many car salesman talk about their work.huh?" "How many cigarette saleman?" "Both their products kill more people every year than mine." "At least, mine has safety switch." "Those guys can live there work at the office" "So can I." "Goddam!" "You are good!" "You know who they are" "You almost have me convinced" "Could you... uh?" "Could you help me out?" "Why?" "Why?" "Why what?" "Why?" "Why?" "Why?" "I don't know." "Why what?" "Why you so fucked up all the time?" "Because I am." "I didn't know how much Eva really knew and how much she ignored." "She never questioned how I got in transport business could afford 18 qarat diamond earrings" "I guess she didn't really wanna hear the answer" "Mostly, she seemed content that I was a good provider and, as far as she was concerned loyal." "Despite the other women, I have always made love to Eva as if she was the only one." "I am not saying I didn't have set backs" "It's not called gun running for nothing" "You gotta be fast on your feet." "Some revolutions blow over before the guns even get there" "There is nothing more expensive for an arms dealer than peace" "Truce?" "What do you mean truce?" "Guns are already on their way." "Peace talks." "Alright." "Forget it!" "I'll re-route the shipment to the Balkans" "When they see they're gonna have a war, they keep their word" "Of course, new breed of gun runner requires new breed of cop." "Henry!" "Take Park Avenue" "Take him on a tour to New Jersey" "Yuri." "There are men going through our garbage cans" "It's probably some reporters looking for somebodyelse" "I have a feeling they don't work for tabloids." "Yuri." "Is there anything I should be worried about?" "No." "Nothing." "Nothing" "I love you." "I love you too" "Sir!" "I was now best merchant of death alive" "SOUTH OF KABALA, SIERRA LEONE - 2000" "I didn't own my own plane, I owned the fleet" "Running guns in Liberia, Sierra Leone or the Ivory Coast at least once a week" "Most trips I had phoney paperwork." "If the deadline was tight" "I had to cut corners, I had no paperwork at all." "But I wasn't overly concerned." "There was hardly any radar over most of Africa" "Even fewer people to watch it" "Charlie, Eco, India, Reroute to Kabala Airport on heading 029." "Comply immediately!" "Yuri." "What the fuck is going on?" "Colonel Suddern." "It's Yuri." "I'm sorry to call you in this number." "But I got Interpol all over my ass" "I can't help you right now." "It's not a good time." "Not a good time?" "Motherfucker!" "Charlie, Eco, India, Comply immediately!" "This is your last warning!" "When was the first fucking warning?" "Flap your wings if you intend to comply." "I'm putting us down." "You land, we are all going away." "I don't have paperwork" "We are flying fucking bomb." "They are firing bullets at out bullets" "I'm putting us down." "OK, OK !" "Fuck !" "This is Charlie-Eco-India." "Request re-route to Kabala Airport" "Bearin 029." "No." "Not the airport." "There." "The highway." "It is our only hope." "Are you fucking mad?" "A butthole will set us off" "You ..... yourself Alexi." "You are the best." "You are the shit Alexi." "You are the shit!" "You are the shit!" "You are the shit!" "Of course, Alexi wasn't the best." "He'd come 42nd out of 43 at" "Moscow Fligh School." "What is he doing?" "Is this guy nuts?" "I can't land there safe" "Kabal is only 15 minutes away." "He can't get far." "I want a truck and tar map" "We're gonna be OK." "Where are you going?" "As far from the evidence as we can get." "Wait!" "There is not gonna be an evidence." "Come here, come here!" "Don't be shy." "Free sample" "Help yourself OK!" "Free sample." "Tell your friends" "Come on !" "Help yourselves!" "No charge!" "Everything goes!" "Guys, guys!" "Come on!" "Move it!" "Guns!" "Grenades!" "Take them all!" "Everything goes for free!" "What a cargo crew Heathrow Airport does in a day took a bunch of malnursed Sierra Leonean locals ten minutes." "By the time Agent Valentine got there, you could find more guns on plane full of quakers." "Yuri Orlov." "Ouch!" "Fuck!" "Fuck!" "You run from us?" "No, NBC No!" "You can run with no legs" "Let me make him disappear Mr. Valentine" "Around here, people disappear all the time." "I can't do that." "Look where we are." "Who will know?" "We will." "He is gonna get what is coming to him" "I am not as certain" "What's the charge?" "What are you doing in Sierra Leon?" "I am on Safari" "Yeah?" "You are hunting wild beast with submachine gun" "Do you also work with the park service?" "Hunting without a license." "Is that the charge?" "Why are we playing games?" "You traffic arms" "Trade." "Trade." "Traffic." "You get rich by giving the poorest people on the planet the means to continue killing each other." "Do you know why I do what I do?" "There are more prestigous assignments." "Keeping track of nuclear arsenals" "You think that more critical to world security." "But, it's not." "No." "Nine out of ten, our victims today are killed with assault rifles and small arms." "Like yours." "Does nuclear missiles, they're sitting in their silos." "Your AK-47." "That is the real weapon of mass destruction" "I don't want people death, Agent Valentine." "I don't put a gun to anybody's head and make them shoot." "....." "But shooting was better for business." "But, I prefer people to fire my guns in mass." "Just as long as they are firing." "Can I go now?" "You got nothing on me." "Except cuffs" "Since you are so concerned with the law, you must know that" "I am legally permitted to hold you for 24 hours without charging you" "You might ask why I would do that." "I can assure you, it is not because I enjoy your company because I don't" "No." "The reason why I would delay you for every second of the permissible 24 hours is I am delaying your deadly trade in the deaths of your victims" "I don't think of it is taking a day from you." "But giving a day to them" "Some innocent men, women,or child is gonna have an extra day on this earth because you are not free" "So." "I will see you i 23 hours and 55 minutes" "Valentine knew he did not have to guard me." "There was nowhere to go." "May be he was hoping locals would tear me apart" "But they were too busy with plane" "Like parking your car in a certain neighborhood in the Bronx." "You just don't do it" "The way I looked at it, it is the way of Africa" "Maybe life." "Everything that comes from the earth eventually returns" "Even a 40-ton Antenov 12 cargo plane" "A gift." "For you." "You know, you've arrived just in time." "I am so affraid that he might die before you go to a chance to kill him" "This man came here hoping to take your place" "Is that not so?" "No." "I am not here to suppy Mr. Baptiste" "I am here to supply his enemies" "I fear it is a sale I shall never complete" "He killed your blood." "Your uncle" "Then he tried to kill you" "No." "You want us to let him go" "No." "No." "No." "I..." "You do want him dead." "You just don't want to it yourself" "So." "We will do this together." "This will be a bonding experience." "You know you can stop this anytime that you want" "But I don't think you do" "Just say the word" "Say it." "Stop" "Stop" "They will get you another room, my friend" "What a match nice of you" "He ordered you braun-braun" "What?" "Braun-braun" "What is it?" "Mix of cocaine and the gun powder" "They give it to the young boys before they go to battle" "They do anyting" "Some other time" "I suggest you try to .... once Mr. Yuri" "Why?" "Because it is your gunpowder" "Even before that I started doing a lot of cocaine in West Africa" "I never tried braun-braun before." "And, I never killed a man either." "Ooh!" "I didn't do anything, did I?" "I didn't do anything, did I?" "You didn't do much." "What?" "Are you sick?" "AIDS?" "Ask the white man." "He will know" "Sir!" "Will my hand grow back?" "Simeon" "Remember, Yuri!" "Take sides!" "Stop!" "He is unconscious" "Fuck Andre" "Yeah!" "Fuck Andre" "I'm sorry." "They don't usually do that." "Let me look at him." "Maybe I can fix it." "Let me see him" "It's the magazine." "Fuck you!" "I started to feel I have been cursed" "The curse of invincibilty" "Nicky, please go to your room" "I don't believe you" "Can you prove any of this" "Mr. Orlov goes to a lot of trouble to make his business look legitimate." "Even to you?" "Perhaps, especially to you" "I don't expect to find anything here today" "So, what do you want?" "I was hoping that you would help me" "I understand that your parents died tragically" "The illegal firearms used to murder your mother and father were taken from man like your husband" "I would like you to leave" "O.K. !" "Gentlemen!" "Eva?" "Eva, what is wrong?" "I can't wear the cloth." "I can't wear the jewellery" "I can't drive the car." "I can't live in this house" "Everything has got blood on it" "Blood on it?" "What is the matter with you?" "Don't be so melodramatic" "It is melodramatic" "I told you." "These people." "It's political." "They lie." "They are liars." "Look at me." "Look" "They lie to make themselves look good." "You can't trust them" "It's not just...mmm?" "Don't worry." "Jack didn't say anything" "They didn't have to" "I sell people means to defend themselves Eva." "That's all" "Yuri." "I see the news, I see those pictures." "..." "There is nothing illegal about what I do" "I don't care if it is legal" "It's wrong" "Please!" "Stop!" "It makes no difference if I stop" "Someone will take my place the next day" "Let them." "We have enough" "It's not about the money" "And, what is it?" "I am good at it" "I feel like all I have done my whole life is be pretty" "I mean, all I have done is be born" "....not much good as mother" "come to think of it that I am not that pretty anymore" "I have failed everything Yuri" "But, I won't fail as a human being" "My enemy has finally found the weapon that could hurt me" "For the next six months I stopped running guns" "I went legitimate" "This is an untapped market." "I am talking over 5 million cubic meters of timber first year alone." "Over 100 exploitable species." "Between you and me." "Oil." "Ten thousand barrels a month" "He must be lying." "He is talking." "Listen gas reserves of Ivory Coast that OPEC doesn't know about" "Phone numbers are all checked out." "It's all legal" "No wonder Valentine was confused" "Thank God." "There are still legal ways to exploit developing countries" "But the only problem with an honest buck is that they are so hard to make." "The margins are too low." "Too many people doing it" "Still." "I promised Eva" "Yuri." "President of Liberia is on his way up" "He is early." "I will be back in a minute" "OK" "What the fuck are you doing here, Andre?" "We are here for peace talks at the United Nations" "So, at the same time you thought to drop in your arms dealer" "I was beginning to wonder that was still your profession" "You know you are a hard man to get hold of all of a sudden" "It is a shame" "My son and I, we were hoping to do a little shopping." "While we are here in New York" "You know they are watching you" "Yes." "I know they blame me for everything those hypocrates." "Witch hunt" "Hostilities have escalated" "They are making it very difficult for me to re-supply" "That requires a man of your rare ingenuity" "I can't help you." "I'm sorry" "I understand." "But, you should know this." "Due to our present situation we are compelled to be unusually generous" "So, see you soon" "Lord of War" "You still haven't brought me the gun of Rambo" "At four and half months old, a human fetus has a reptile's tail" "A remenant of revolution" "Maybe that's what I couldn't escape." "You can fight a lot of enemies and survive" "Prep you fight your biology, you always lose" "You guys are waiting to say goodbye and I'm leaving for another ten minutes" "Sorry, Nicky is ......" "You know I'm kind of glad that you are going" "You've been here so long, you started to get on my nerves" "This whole concession should be wrapped by Thursday" "I'll be back for the weekend." "We'll go somewhere." "The sea." "That will be fine" "Hey, you trust me, right?" "She looked me directly in the eye, the way I've looked thousand customs officials, government bureaucrats, and law enforcement agents." "Yes." "I trust you" "And, she lied without flinching" "See you." "Bye papa" "She learned from the past" "That's him" "Where are we going mama?" "It's a game honey" "Like hide and seek?" "Yes." "Like hide and seek" "I can always sense when I am being tailed" "I know what to look for" "But, I've never been tailed by woman I love" "I can put myself in Eva'a place" "She might have understood if the combination was last four digits of my social security number, my birthday even her birthday." "But not Nicholai's" "My son's birthday unlocked with the government later described as a catalogue of carnage." "Nicky." "Stay right here." "Come on Nicky." "Come to see other helpless?" "I miss your bosh." "Mom and dad say you are clean" "Yeah." "You too" "You went legit huh?" "It's hard to believe" "That's because it is not true" "Only you know" "I'm leaving tonight on a job." "I want you to come" "I can't." "I got a girlfriend." "I think she might be the one" "Plus, I am thinking of opening my place." "Maybe this triple help." "It's good money" "Yuri." "I've given my word." "No one has to know" "We will tell them we are going for the law and order" "What do you need me for all of a sudden?" "I wanna stay because fucked up" "More than usual." "I can't trust anybody" "I need you to watch my back" "Brothers in arms" "MONROVA, LIBERIA - 2001" "Yuri." "Welcome back." "Welcome both of you" "Welcome to democracy" "Democracy?" "What have you been drinking, Andy?" "You have not seen the news." "You know they accuse me of rigging elections." "But after this." "With your Florida" "Your Supreme Court of Kangroos now." "The US will shut up forever." "How do you do this, Yuri?" "Huh?" "How do you do this when they are watching all over my airspace?" "Where there is a will, there is a weapon." "Come on." "Where is my fucking money?" "When it is delivered." "It is delivered" "This is not for me." "This is for my neighbors to the West" "The West?" "We are going to Sierra Leona?" "Ohh yes." "And, my son." "Baptiste Junior will go with you to make the proper introductions" "We have no trucks." "You will." "As soon as we get the food out of them." "Gun of Rambo." "Listen Yuri." "You are man of your word" "So, we are we going." "RUF." "Freedom fighters" "Every faction in Africa call themselves with these noble names" "Liberation This, Patriotic That, Democratic Republic of Something Rather" "I guess they can know now what they usually are" "Federation of World Suppressors in the Last Bunch of Oppressors" "Often the most barbaric atrocities occur when both call themselves freedom fighters." "Right." "Have 500 units." "Brand new." "Right out of box." "All as clear as this." "What have you got?" "God!" "Jesus!" "O Jesus!" "Yuri." "I need to talk to you" "Not now." "Now." "Excuse me." "What?" "We can't do this deal." "Fuck, we can." "What is the matter with you?" "Look!" "Look over there!" "As soon as we hand off the guns, these people are going to die" "It's not our business" "They killed the boy just now as young as Nicky." "What is the hold up?" "There is no hold up." "I'll be right there" "Vitali." "It is what we always know" "We can't control what they do." "No." "Not today that we can't." "We can." "They are right there" "What do you thing they will do to us if we back out?" "They'll kill us." "If we go ahead what do you think they will do to them" "We gotta do something" "Please, for fuck's sake" "It's not our fight" "Please." "Brothers in arms" "What is he saying?" "It's the deal." "My brother is not happy with the terms but we are working it out." "It's nothing" "Right?" "It's nothing" "Nothing" "You're right." "This is not our fight." "Right." "OK." "What's the deal?" "Three angel RPGs 500 assault rifles and 800 grenades" "I thought it was 1200 grenades" "I was so caught up in the deal, I never realized what was going on in Vitali's head" "I thought it was 1200 grenades" "Confused." "Come to think about it." "Maybe I never understood what was going in his head" "I beg your pardon" "May I see another stone?" "One thing I do understand for certain is that Vitali broke the cardinal rule of gun running" "Never pick up a gun enjoying the customers" "What are you doing?" "Something for Yuri" "Step away." "Slow." "No, Vit!" "Only half the guns were gone." "So, I was still entitled to have the diamonds." "If I took them I was lost." "If I left them I was lost" "They played out how Vitali predicted" "But, then, half dozen other massacres happened in Sierra Leon that week." "You can't stop them all." "In my experience, you can' stop any of them." "They say, evil prevails when good man failed to act" "What the odd says, evil prevails." "I now shared more in common with the leader of that country" "God seemed to have foresaken" "We saw something in each other neither one of us liked or, maybe we were just looking in the mirror" "JFK AIRPORT, NEW YORK - 2001" "I paid Monrovian doctor 20 remove bullets from Vitali's body" "and write a bogus death certificate." "I should have paid him more" "I smuggled millions of rounds of ammunition and the bullet that lends me in jail found under my dead brother's rib." "Yuri Orlov" "We are with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobbacco and Firearms." "Let me guess." "This is not about Alcohol and Tobacco" "Crimean Restaruant" "Papa?" "Both my sons are dead" "There are only two tragedies in life" "One is not getting what you want" "The other is getting it" "This is one of yours" "Jack Valentine finally had what he wanted" "Curiously." "Death certificate says he died of heart failure" "For supplying false death certificate." "It's not gonna hold me" "You are right." "As usual you are right" "Have you seen today's paper?" "MERCHANT OF DEATH IN CUSTODY" "Fake end user certificates." "Cut out companies meticilously catalogued." "They are as hardly warlord, dictator, despot anywhere in the world you are not on the first name basis with." "It was your wife, your trophy wife that led us to the prize" "It's not her fault." "She is just easier to follow than you are" "May I?" "Yeah." "Go ahead!" "Enjoy it!" "What?" "This." "Tell me I am everything you despised" "That I am the personification of evil." "That I am, what?" "responsible for the breakdown of the fabric of society and world order" "I am a one-man genocide." "Say everything you wanna say to me now" "Because you don't have more" "Are you paying attention?" "Or, are you dillusional?" "You have broken every arms embargo written." "There is enough evidence here to put you away for consecutive life sentences" "You are gonna spend the next 10 years of your life going from a cell to a courtroom before even start serving your time" "I don't think you fully appreciate the seriousness of your situation." "My family has disowed me." "My wife and son have left me." "My brother is dead" "Trust me." "I fully appreciate the seriousness of my situation" "But I promise you." "I won't spend a single second in courtroom" "You are dillusional" "I like you Jack." "Maybe not." "But I understand you" "Let me tell you what is gonna happen" "This way you can prepare yourself" "OK" "Soon there is gonna be a knock on that door and you will be called outside" "In the hall, there will be a man who outranks you" "First, he will complement you on the fine job you have done and you are making the world safer place that you are to receive commendation and a promotion and then, he is going to tell you that I am to be released" "You're gonna protest." "You'll probably threaten to resign" "But in the end, I will be released." "The reason I will be released is the same reason you think" "I'll be convicted." "I do rub shoulders some of the most vile sadistic man, calling themselves leaders today" "But some of those men, are the enemies of your enemies" "While the biggest arms dealer in the world is your boss" "The President of United States which ships more merchandise in a day than I do in a year sometimes it is embarassing to have his fingerprints on the guns sometimes he needs a freelancer like me to supply forces he can't be seen supplying." "So?" "You call me evil, but unfortunately for you" "I am a necessary evil." "I would tell you to go to hell." "But I think you are already there" "Pleasure doing business with you" "Most people are happy just to get out of jail" "I expect to paid to leave." "I am not a fool." "I know that they just needed me that day that they wouldn't make me a scapegoat the next." "But I was back doing what I do best." "Umbrellas to the Sahara?" "Sun umbrellas" "You know who is going to inherit the earth" "Arms dealers" "Because everyone else is too busy killing each other" "That is the secret to survival" "Never go to war." "Especially with yourself" "THIS FILM IS BASED ON ACTUAL EVENTS" "WHILE PRIVATE GUNRUNNERS CONTINUE TO THRIVE, THE WORLD'S BIGGEST" "ARMS SUPPLIERS ARE THE U.S., U.K., RUSSIA, FRANCE AND CHINA" "THEY ARE ALSO THE FIVE PERMANENT MEMBERS OF TEH U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL"