Black Bag

The film's writer David Koepp said of this spy movie that he wrote: "All the spy craft stuff was very cool, but I learned more than I ever expected about the people." He added: "One woman told me that her job made it impossible for her to sustain a relationship. A line in the movie was inspired by his conversations with her. It was: "When you can lie about everything, how do you tell the truth about anything?". Koepp continued: "Think about it. If you want to have an affair, it couldn't be easier. You just say, 'I'll be gone for three days and you can't ask me where I'm going because you don't have clearance.' You can't trust people and people can't trust you. For George (Michael Fassbender) and Kathryn (Cate Blanchett), the confidential information they can't share goes into what they call their 'black bag'."

George is generally very punctilious, and appears to be an accomplished and precise chef. But when he chops garlic, his knife is not sharp enough to completely cut through the clove, something an excellent cook would not tolerate.

References The Thin Man (1934)