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Why did Roger quit the CIA?


I guess Roger Ferris resigned from the CIA, feeling he lost his way and what he was fighting for.

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the system screwed him over, and crowe was a ass as well.

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um cause he was almost beheaded on video, and his government turned his back on him...and realised that he cant trust anyone

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Ridiculous scenario. Decompression periods are built into that way of life. The effective performer who gets disgusted, weary, screams "I quit", and all other variations, is allowed to mull things over, take whatever time he needs, come back when he's ready, make a non-emotional decision etc.

The last chapter involving Crowe and DeCaprio was stupid beyond desciption, for this and multiple other reasons.

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"so far fetched...you can't even fetch it"
huh? That's the funny part?

Anyway the killing of the architect might have had something to do with it since they set him up. You might remember he had said he was out at that point. At any rate I don't think having him quit hurt the story in any way.

Focker, out.

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Yeah.

Ed was a total dickhead.

I would hate to work for someone like him.

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Because he was sick of the way the CIA uses and destroys people for its own agendas and he wanted no part in it anymore.

"The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor."
- Voltaire

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