Defuse it.
1 seconds sound clip from the Clear and Present Danger movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:24:56.003 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- We almost went into business together.
- Oh, man, the press is going to have a field day with this.
- No one outside of this room knows anything about it.
- Hmm.
- What?
- What?
- No. Well, actually, yes. Forgive me, but I would go in the other direction.
- If a reporter asked if you and Hardin were friends, I'd say, No. We were good friends.
- If they should ask if you were good friends, I'd say, No, no, we were lifelong friends.
- I would give them no place to go, nothing to report, no story.
- I mean, it's no sense defusing a bomb after it's already... It's already gone off.
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