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| “ | You can't unf-ck what's been f-cked. You know, a beautiful Italian girl once said to me, "David, you can't unf-ck what's been f-cked." Women are always getting in the way of progress, aren't they? | „ |
| ~ David Percival to Emmett Kurzfeld. |
| “ | There's only one question left to ask. Who won? And what was the f*cking game anyway? So, what have I learned after all this time? After all the sleepless nights, lying to friends, lovers, myself? Playing this crooked game in this crooked town filled with backstabbers and four-faced liars? I'll tell you what I've learned. One thing and one thing only. I f*cking love Berlin! | „ |
| ~ David Percival before being shot. |
David Percival (also known as Comrade Satchel) is the secondary antagonist of the 2017 thriller/action film Atomic Blonde.
He was portrayed by James McAvoy, who also played God Emperor Leto Atreides in the Dune miniseries, Wesley Gibson in Wanted, Bruce Robertson in Filth, and Kevin Wendell Crumb in Split and Glass.
Biography[]
Background[]
David Percival was an agent of MI6, who was stationed in Berlin during the height of the Cold War to keep an eye out for enemy spies. He was also friends with James Gasciogne, a fellow agent whom he also a close bond with as he felt personal in killing Yuri Bakhtin.
Atomic Blonde[]
Percival was eccentric agent who had lavish lifestyle in Berlin who had shady deals with Yuri Bakhtin and Aleksander Bremovych, who become escorts to MI6 agent, Lorraine Broughton who came Berlin who demand find out person who murdered James Gasciogne whom she had a relationship with before finding out about the list of Double agents who were selling secrets to government.
Percival met Spyglass, a former Eastern spy, who was defected to West, who feared his life. Aleksander Bremovych, KGB officer and arms dealer who intended to find the list. As Lorraine and French operative named Delphine Lasalle, who put a monitor on her, become lovers, after Percival killed Yuri, who intended to sell the list to a higher bender and he also murdered Spyglass while he escaped from Bremoych's wrath despite Lorraine's best efforts to save him. He then heads to Lasalle's apartment, after Lasalle got in touch with him after discovering his true intentions. Lasalle knew that Percival was associating with Gasciogne.
Percival sneaks into the apartment and tries to strangle Lasalle to death with a garrote. Lasalle tries to escape, but is strangled to death by him. When Lorraine arrives to the apartment too late and finds Delphine's body, she decides to go after Percival. Lorraine finally confronts Percival, after he burned down his safehouse, and then shoots him. Percival then declares his love for Berlin, followed by Lorraine shooting Percival, and telling him that he didn't have to kill Lasalle. After realizing he was played by Lorraine, he is then shot in the head. She then frames him as "Comrade Satchel" when really Lorraine is the double-agent working for the CIA all along.
Quote[]
| “ | Ironic. The news will tell them there will be no more secrets. But you and I, we both know that's not true. This world is run on secrets. | „ |
| ~ David Percival. |
| “ | Well played. | „ |
| ~ Percival's last words. |
Trivia[]
- Split and Atomic Blonde, both of which James McAvoy starred in, came out in 2017.