Armie Hammer credited as playing...
Clyde Tolson
- J. Edgar Hoover: It's time we at least have one thing the bad guys don't.
- Clyde Tolson: Decorating skills?
- J. Edgar Hoover: It's easy to be the expert if you're the only person in the world with any interest.
- Clyde Tolson: He does also claim he can tell as much from a cut of wood as a doctor can from an autopsy.
- J. Edgar Hoover: Ah.
- Clyde Tolson: He has, um, social difficulties.
- J. Edgar Hoover: He is mentally ill, isn't he?
- Clyde Tolson: He's only as mad as you are - sir.
- [J. Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson discuss over dinner about the first time they ever met]
- Clyde Tolson: Edgar... you can lie to everyone else, the whole world, for you own sake... and for the sake of the bureau, but you cannot lie to me.
- J. Edgar Hoover: I should've never given you your job, Clyde. You know that? You weren't even qualified. You remember the day you came in for your interview.
- Clyde Tolson: I do.
- J. Edgar Hoover: You walked into my office and you fixed my window, you picked up my handkerchief. You handed it to me. You remember why I was sweating, Clyde?
- Clyde Tolson: It's because you were exercising.
- J. Edgar Hoover: No, I was... I was sweating because I... I knew at that very moment...
- [Clyde hands Hoover his handkerchief from the dinner table]
- J. Edgar Hoover: ... I knew at that very moment that I... I needed you. And I've never needed anyone else in my entire life. Not like that. So I began to perspire.
- Clyde Tolson: I know.
- Clyde Tolson: [Edgar grabs for his stomach and gasps] Edgar, are you all right?
- J. Edgar Hoover: Yes, yes it's - it's just indigestion, Clyde. Let's go to dinner tomorrow night, shall we? Our old corner booth.
- Clyde Tolson: Perhaps if I feel better.
- J. Edgar Hoover: Yes. And you must - you must. We have a great many things to discuss. And now I can't trust anyone else at the bureau right now. I can only depend on you.
- Clyde Tolson: [Edgar walks up to Clyde and holds onto his hand, kissing is forehead] Thank you, Edgar.
- J. Edgar Hoover: [Edgar leaves the handkerchief in Clyde's hand] Good night, Clyde.
- Clyde Tolson: Good night, Edgar.
- [Edgar walks off and Clyde holds Edgar's handkerchief to his cheek]