When he’s not playing spy, George Woodhouse (Michael Fassbender) likes to spend his free time fishing.
A little ways through “Black Bag,” Steven Soderbergh’s sleek, sexy spy thriller, George takes fellow British intelligence agent James Stokes (Regé-Jean Page) on one of his afternoon fishing trips. James may have information that George needs, so here “fishing” is really a stand-in for an impromptu interrogation of sorts. But James doesn’t appreciate the sport of the activity – he lacks the necessary patience, patience that George has in spades. When his line finally catches, James looks to George with slight panic: “What do I do?”
“Let him run for a minute,” George answers. You get the sense he’s not talking about the fish.
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